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Deep Purple

Deep Purple is not a conformist group. There never was, nor ever will be, any fawning to trends. Once ordained the loudest rock band by the Guinness Book of World Records. In the sixties and early seventies they were described as 'Progressive' or 'Underground', when they made a conscious decision to depart from the 'Hush' era in order to record the seminal album 'Deep Purple in Rock'. 'Fireball', 'Machine Head', 'Made in Japan' and 'Who Do We Think We Are' quickly followed, and they were then tagged (along with Zeppelin and Sabbath) as leaders of the 'Hard Rock' explosion. At this point began the gradual disintegration of the famous MK 2 line-up, (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) and some long overdue individual R & R. Since their eighties re-union as 'Perfect Strangers', Deep Purple's music has evolved organically into an expressive maturity, and the sell-out shows at the cities mentioned above are testament enough to the massive fan commitment. Now touring with a line up consisting of Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Don Airey and Steve Morse, Deep Purple stop off at Cork's Live at The Marquee festival on June 30th.

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