- Deep Purple: The Songs That Built Rock Tour
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Deep Purple: The Songs That Built Rock Tour
Official tour bannerConcert tour by Deep Purple Location North America, Europe, UK Start date 3 June 2011 End date Ongoing Legs 5 Shows 75
16 in South America
16 in North America
42 in EuropeDeep Purple tour chronology Rapture of the Deep World Tour (2006–2011) Deep Purple: The Songs That Built Rock Tour
(2011)Deep Purple: The Songs That Built Rock Tour is a current world tour by British hard rock band Deep Purple. Along with the band, it will feature a 38-piece orchestra. It will be the first time Deep Purple will tour North America in four years. It is planned to take place at the world's largest arenas, such as the O2 Arena in London and Arena di Verona in Verona, Italy, with several theater shows already confirmed. The official management's press-release says the show will include Deep Purple's biggest hits, such as "Smoke on the Water", Highway Star", "Woman from Tokyo" etc, covering the 42-year history of the band.[1][2]
Contents
Tour history
Announcements
- The first few European dates of the orchestral tour were announced in January 2011, including shows in Germany and the Arena di Verona, Italy. It was billed as just "Orchestral Tour".
- Billed as "Deep Purple: The Songs That Built Rock", the tour was officially announced at the end of February 2011, with North American dates being first, followed by European ones. The North American tour includes three show in Canada and three shows in the New York City area. (New York area concerts combine 20,000 tickets for sale.)
- At the beginning of April, Jacky Paice, the wife of Deep Purple's drummer Ian Paice, announced the 2011 edition of The Sunflower Jam, the annual charity event hosted by the actor Jeremy Irons. This year's edition includes Deep Purple appearing at London's Royal Albert Hall among some of the biggest names in the history of rock, such as Jon Lord, Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson, Joe Bonamassa, Neuton Faulkner and members of the rock band Thunder. (with more names to be confirmed, as promised).[3] The Sunflower Jam has been criticised in the British Medical Journal for fundraising in support of The College of Medicine, an alternative medicine lobby group in the UK linked to Prince Charles.[4]
- 12 April saw the band announcing four UK arena dates, including their first ever show at London's O2 Arena.[5]
Ticket sales
- According to Ticketmaster, on 16 April Deep Purple reached #2 in the list of week's biggest ticket-selling artists in the UK. (Download Festival being #1). The band sold nearly 70,000 tickets in two days. The fourth day of ticket sales saw them as the #1 bestseller artists of the week in the UK.[6]
- The LG Arena show in Birmingham sold out after one week of ticket sales.
Tour dates
Date City Country Venue North America 3 June 2011 Orillia, Ontario Canada Casino Rama 4 June 2011 Quebec City, Quebec Agora 6 June 2011 Montreal, Quebec Place Des Arts 7 June 2011 Boston, Massachusetts United States Wang Centre 8 June 2011 Hartford, Connecticut Mortensen Hall at The Bushnell 10 June 2011 Holmdel, New Jersey PNC Bank Arts Center 11 June 2011 Atlantic City, New Jersey Tropicana Casino & Resort Atlantic City 12 June 2011 Bethel, New York Bethel Performing Arts Centre 14 June 2011 New York City, New York Beacon Theatre 15 June 2011 17 June 2011 Detroit, Michigan Fox Theatre 18 June 2011 Highland Park, Illinois Ravinia 19 June 2011 Minneapolis, Minnesota Orpheum 23 June 2011 Paradise, Nevada Palms Casino Resort 24 June 2011 Los Angeles, California Greek Theatre 25 June 2011 Concord, California Concord Pavilion Europe 8 July 2011 London United Kingdom Sunflower SuperJam, Royal Albert Hall 15 July 2011 Mainz Germany Nordmole am Zollhafen 16 July 2011 Montreux Switzerland Montreux Jazz Festival, Stravinski Hall 18 July 2011 Verona Italy Verona Arena 20 July 2011 Gelsenkirchen Germany Amphitheatre 22 July 2011 Kunzelsau Schlosspark 23 July 2011 Dresden Elbufer 24 July 2011 Slupsk Poland Dolina Charlotty 27 July 2011 Vienne France Theatre Antique 29 July 2011 Tienen Belgium Suikerock Festival South America 4 October 2011 Belém Brazil Cidade Folia 7 October 2011 Fortaleza Siara 8 October 2011 Nova Odessa Expo America 10 October 2011 São Paulo Via Funchal 11 October 2011 Belo Horizonte Chevrolet Hall 12 October 2011 Curitiba Teatro Positivo 14 October 2011 Rosario Argentina Metropolitano 15 October 2011 Buenos Aires Luna Park 16 October 2011 18 October 2011 Cordoba Orfeo Superdomo 19 October 2011 Mendoza Auditorio Angel Bustelo 21 October 2011 Santiago Chile Movistar Arena 22 October 2011 Viña del Mar Quinta Vergana 23 October 2011 Temuco Gimnasio Olimpico UFRO 25 October 2011 Conception Coliseo Monumental La Tortuga 28 October 2011 Quito Ecuador Agora Europe 26 November 2011 Glasgow United Kingdom SECC 27 November 2011 Birmingham LG Arena 29 November 2011 Manchester MEN Arena 30 November 2011 London O2 Arena 2 December 2011 Arnhem Netherlands Gelredome 3 December 2011 Halle Germany Gerry Weber Stadion 4 December 2011 Schwerin Sport- und Kongresshalle 7 December 2011 Helsinki Finland Hartwall Areena 9 December 2011 Stockholm Sweden Hovet 10 December 2011 Gothenburg Scandinavium 13 December 2011 Oslo Norway Oslo Spektrum 15 December 2011 Horsens Denmark Forum Horsens Europe 8 November 2012 Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg Rockhal 9 November 2012 Grenoble France Palais des Sports 11 November 2012 Nantes Zenith 12 November 2012 Caen Zenith 13 November 2012 Paris Zenith 15 November 2012 Cologne Germany Lanxess Arena 16 November 2012 Bremen Halle 7 17 November 2012 Hanover AWD Hall 20 November 2012 Kiel Sparkassen-Arena 22 November 2012 Frankfurt Festhalle 23 November 2012 Oberhausen Konigspilsner Arena 24 November 2012 Hamburg O2 World 26 November 2012 Leipzig Arena 27 November 2012 Berlin O2 World 29 November 2012 Augsburg Schwabenhalle 30 November 2012 Munich Olympiahalle 1 December 2012 Stuttgart Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle 3 December 2012 Brussels Belgium Forest National 4 December 2012 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome 5 December 2012 Clermont-Ferrand France Zenith 6 December 2012 Toulouse Zenith Songs performed
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- "Orchestral Intro" performed by the orchestra (listed as "Deep Purple Overture" on the Live at Montreux 2011 cover)
- "Highway Star" (From Machine Head)
- "Hard Lovin' Man" (From Deep Purple in Rock)
- "Maybe I'm a Leo" (From Machine Head) / "Silver Tongue" (From Bananas) (Quebec City concert)
- "Strange Kind of Woman" (From Fireball)
- "Rapture of the Deep" (From Rapture of the Deep)
- "Woman from Tokyo" (From Who Do We Think We Are) or "Mary Long" (From Who Do We Think We Are)
- "Contact Lost" (From Bananas)
- Steve Morse Guitar Solo
- "When a Blind Man Cries" (From Machine Head) or "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" (From Purpendicular)
- "The Well-Dressed Guitar" (From Rapture of the Deep - Tour Edition)
- "Knocking at Your Back Door" (From Perfect Strangers) or "Mary Long" (From Who Do We Think We Are)
- "Lazy" (From Machine Head)
- "No One Came" (From Fireball)
- Don Airey Keyboard Solo
- "Perfect Strangers" (From Perfect Strangers)
- "Space Truckin'" (From Machine Head)
- "Smoke on the Water" (From Machine Head)
Encore :
- "Green Onions" (Booker T. & the M.G.s cover) / "Going Down" (Don Nix cover) all these titles intro to "Hush"
- "Hush" (Billy Joe Royal cover) (From Shades of Deep Purple)
- Roger Glover Bass Solo
- "Black Night" (From Deep Purple in Rock)
Line-up
- Deep Purple: Ian Gillan (vocals), Roger Glover (bass), Ian Paice (drums), Steve Morse (guitar), Don Airey (keyboards)
- The 38-piece Orchestra, Europe tour: Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt
- The Sunflower Superjam 2011 line up includes Jon Lord, Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson, Joe Bonamassa, Newton Faulkner, alongside with Deep Purple
Note
- Concord, California concert on 25th June is withouth the Orchestra, Supported by Joe Satriani
- Montreux, Switzerland concert on 16th July has been recorded and was released on DVD and CD as Live at Montreux 2011 on 7th November 2011
- The South American concerts are without the Orchestra
References
- ^ http://www.deep-purple.com/latest/thesongsthabuiltrock.php
- ^ http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=156028
- ^ http://www.thesunflowerjam.com/
- ^ Jane Cassidy (15 June 2011). "Lobby Watch: The College of Medicine". British Medical Journal 343. doi:10.1136/bmj.d3712. http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d3712.full.
- ^ http://www.theo2.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=122&eventId=1693
- ^ http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/section/concerts?tm_link=tm_homeA_moremusic
- ^ http://www.deep-purple.net/tourdates2001/Tourdates2011.html
- ^ http://www.deep-purple.com/tour-dates-2/
- ^ http://www.thehighwaystar.com/tourdates/
- ^ http://www.deeppurple.com/index.cfm/pk/content/pid/430562
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