Mrs BLACKMORE the Fourth

BLACKMORE TIES THE KNOT*

 
After nineteen years together Ritchie Blackmore is finally going to tie the knot with his partner Candice Night. As reported elsewhere on the Internet they will wed in October in New York State.  
 
This will be Blackmore's fourth marriage, but he still has some way to go to out do the medieval theme set by King Henry VIII, who incidentally, apparently wrote one of Blackmore's favourite tunes Greensleeves!

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT

SECRET VOYAGE TOUR 2008

  











  
© Mike Garrett

Blackmore's Night will not be touring this year after Sept 15 2008.

CONVENTION

 
Wymer UK is pleased to announce a Deep Purple convention to take place at Esquires, Bedford on 3rd May 2008 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the inception of Deep Purple.  
 
The all day event will feature Glenn Hughes,  
Nick Simper and Burn. 
 (check out the review of Glenn & Paicey at childline  
and view footage from the soundcheck)
There will also be a raffle during the day with prizes of two VIP Packages to the Deep Purple show in London on July 30th. The 'Purple Envy' packages have been kindly donated by www.deeppurple.com and include early entry to the venue, an exclusive merchandise package, a backstage tour, and a meet & greet with band members. For more info click here. 
Thanks to Planet Rock for advertising the event on its website.

GUITAR FOR SALE

Barry Waller, (aka Baron St James) former bassist with Blackmore's Night is selling the Taylor acoustic guitar he used on Blackmore's Night's 2007 tour.  
For further info check the details on Barry's site.

RECORD FAIR

 
Wymer UK will have a stall at the forthcoming record fair at Bedford's Civic Theatre on 22nd March 2008 

If you are in the area feel free to pop along and say hello to us!

MAGAZINE NEWS

 
ISSUE 35 COMING SOON! 
Issue 35 will feature an exclusive interview with Jon Lord about his superb Durham Concerto, and many other parts of his career, including Jon's  thoughts on Ritchie Blackmore and potential future Deep Purple activity! Also included will be the most comprehensive look at Deep Purple's BBC sessions yet published, an interview with former Deep Purple roadie Ian Hansford and a look that goes beyond the myth of Deep Purple's explosive performance at the 1970 Plumpton Festival.  
Expected late March 2008.

ORDER NOW! 

SMOKE ON THE WATER

 
Check here to hear Smoke On The Water  
like you have never heard it before!  
 
Thanks to Neil Dunnachie for the information.

VOTE FOR DURHAM CONCERTO!

Classic FM is running a poll to establish listeners favourite classical piece for Classic FM's 2008 Hall Of Fame. You need to vote for three pieces, so be prepared to pick to other pieces as well. Click here for Classic FM's voting page. 

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT

TV APPEARANCE

  











  
© Mike Garrett

Blackmore's Night will be on German MDR TV show "Weihnachten bei uns" at 11.00 local time on 25th December 2007.

Thanks to Rainer Klos for the news.

JAPANESE & GERMAN EDITIONS

The Japanese translated version of Black Knight the unauthorised biography written by Jerry Bloom was published on 30th November in Japan by Shinko. 

Fans in Germany, Austria and Switzerland will be pleased to read that Black Knight is available in German. It can be ordered from Amazon.de
 

INTERVIEW BOOK

We are pleased to announce a new 180 page publication, The More Black than Purple Interviews, which collects together some of the best interviews published within the magazine over the past ten years, alongside some previously unpublished ones.  
 
In addition to the interviews, there is background information behind them and a selection of photos, many previously unpublished. 
 
More details can be found at the MBTP store. 

PLANET ROCK

LED ZEP OR PURPLE?

Planet Rock is currently running a poll to see what fans think Led Zep should play as opener, middle of the set song and encore number at the forthcoming over-hyped Zeppelin reunion gig.  
 
Many Purple fans fail to see why Zep are so highly praised by both Planet Rock and Classic Rock and for a laugh we have already had some Purple fans cast votes for Highway Star, Child In Time and Speed King! If you want to join in the fun why not vote for the same three choices. We reckon it would be hilarious trying to see Page and Plant tackle those songs! Just follow the link here

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT

SHOWS CANCELLED!

The two shows in Michigan and Ohio on 12th and 14th October due to Ritchie being ill. We have no further information with regards to the nature of Ritchie's illness but as the rest of the tour appears to be going ahead we can only assume it is minor.

BLACKMORE

SMOKE ON THE WATER ON CNN 

Ritchie recently spoke to CNN about that most famous of riffs. 

Follow the link here then click on Smoke On The Water.

IMALCOLM ARNOLD FESTIVAL

Jon Lord will be performing the 'Concerto For Group & Orchestra' on 7th October with the RPO at the Derngate Theatre in Northampton. 

The concert is part of a weekend of events celebrating the life and work of Sir Malcolm Arnold. According to the venue's website, the Concerto will also feature Roger Glover, percussionist Ray Cooper and Conductor Paul Mann.

For more information check the Derngate website. 

Jon Lord is also premiering a new work at Durham Cathedral on 20th October. Tickets are only available from the Box Office at the Tourist Information Centre, Millennium Place, Durham DH1 1WA. 0191 384 7641. touristinfo@durhamcity.gov.uk  (credit cards are accepted). 

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT

NEW DVD COMING SOON!

Blackmore's Night New DVD 'Paris Moon' is set for release in Germany on 2nd November 5th November for the rest of Europe
and 6th November in the USA.

The show was filmed at Olympia, Paris on 20th September 2006.
More details about track list and artwork as soon as possible. 
 
Check out all the other new and forthcoming releases at the MBTP Store

TV DOCUMENTARY

 
Arena's 'Strange World Of Joe Meek' documentary made in 1991 is to be screened on BBC Four Wednesday evening at 10.20pm.

Thanks to Graeme Irwin for the info. 

SECOND SERIES!

 
The first episode of the second series of Steve Coogan's comedy Saxondale has several mentions of Deep Purple, and one specific one about a new four-piece band put together by Jon Lord! Coogan plays the character Tommy Saxondale, a former roadie who now works for a pest control company. Hillarious stuff, especially for anyone in the business! Essential viewing!  
 
Clearly Coogan is a huge fan of seventies rock. If MBTP can get an interview with him, the news will be posted here first!

MEMORIAL NIGHT

A memorial night for Ritchie's former sixties band mate, Tony Dangerfield is being held on 1st September at the Scout Hut in Hendon.  
 
It is hoped the proceeds will fund a commemorative stone in the local church and perhaps a bench dedicated to Tony.  
 
Musicians are welcome and Mick Richardson who played with Tony in Black August and Nick Simper in Dynamite is organising the itinerary. Mick's telephone number appears on the poster.
    

GERMAN TOUR ENDS WITH DEPARTURE

Hot off the press comes the news that backing vocalists Sisters Of The Moon have quit the band at the end of the current German Tour. Allegedly due to some dispute over their own CDs being sold with the merchandise. Evidently this has had a knock on effect with regard to the forthcoming DVD release, which has now been put back to October, because they plan on making some new promo videos to accompany it. Apparently new backing singer or singers have already been lined-up.

R - I - P

Ritchie's former sixties band mate, Tony Dangerfield was found dead at his home on Saturday (21st July). Tony was one of the many faces I interviewed for the book and we kept in touch ever since. His new album has recently been released and was reviewed in MBTP 33.  
 
Called 'The Rebel's Got Soul' it perfectly summed Tony up. He had just been barred from his local pub where he has been going for decades, because he refused to take any notice of the new smoking bans!  

A rebel to the end, he will be missed by all those who knew him.   
 
Tony's funeral takes place at Hendon Cemetery and Crematorium, Holders Hill Road, London NW7 1NB, Tuesday 31st July. All friends and associates are welcome. It starts at 3.15 although people should arrive by 3.00pm.
    

POSTAL STRIKE

Following the one day strike on 29th June, the nice British Postal workers had another one day strike on Friday 13th July. If you ordered anything over the past few days, you could expect a delay in receiving your delivery. Overseas customers could expect their orders to take even longer. Needless to say this is beyond our control, and any frustrations should be vented towards the strikers and not us!     
 

MK I DVD RELEASE

The entire broadcast of Deep Purple MKI on Hugh Hefner's Playboy After Dark is now, for the first time, officially released on DVD, titled Playboy After Dark, Collection Two. Rami Mähkä recently got this and says, "While some other artists had two tracks (artists usually did two numbers in a show), DP only had one: Hush. I was afraid of the worst! But I just hit Hush, and then, fingers crossed, rewinded... and it was all there! It's thrilling, it's brilliant! The band do a short version of And the Address (check out Rod's dance moves!), then a nervous RB gives Hugh (Hefner) a guitar lesson, and the latter then does a short interview with a notably cool Lordy. The band then do (the previously released) Hush. The coolest DP archive clip for a long, long time!"  
 
It's worth pointing out that this is a box set with 6 hours of stuff from the show, and Purple's bit is only a few minutes long. I'm sure it will appear on a proper Purple compilation in the future, so unless you need this now, it might be worth to wait a while. 

Thanks to Rami Mähkä for the info.

UK RADIO APPEARANCE

Candice did an interview for UK radio with Paul Franks on 11th June 2007. Check it out here: http://www.past-tense.co.uk/  
 
Thanks to Mike Garrett for the info.

DEEP PURPLE

ON THE BEEB!

MAGAZINE NEWS

Issue 33 - Available now! 
 
Includes:  

* Winter Carols - Is it a classic? 
* Gillan & Paice talk about Ritchie & BN 
* Gordon Giltrap's Blackmore story  

* Andy Powell's Blackmore story

* Black Knight biography - readers feedback 
* Interviews with Candice, Stuart Smith & Walter Giardino 
* Slaves & Masters (slight return)   
* New release information  
* CD & DVD reviews 
* Archive fun and much more!    

NOT TO BE MISSED! SUBSCRIBE NOW!  

MICK CERVINO

VIOLENT STORM 2007 TOUR DATES

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GRAHAM BONNET UK TOUR

DEEP PURPLE

CD WITHDRAWN

NICK SIMPER

THE GOOD OLD BOYS

FILM SHOWING & RADIO SHOW

In commemoration of 40 years since Meek died (3rd Feb 1967), there is a special night at the National Film Theatre in London on Friday 9th February 6.20PM NFT2
 
The Flipside: Live It Up The Flipside is a new initiative at the NFT. Its mission: to seek out film and TV that is weird, wonderful, offbeat, unseen, outrageous and downright unlikely - from the trashy to the terrific - combining main features with way-out extras in search of strange new worlds of cinematic experience. Groovy pop musical with David Hemmings and Steve Marriott. Fab sounds from Heinz, The Outlaws, Jennifer Moss, Gene Vincent and many more.  
 
Plus Joe Meek speaks, live footage of the Honeycombs and a big screen showing of the 1991 Meek BBC documentary at 8 20! 
 

Plus rare colour film of Screaming Lord Sutch in his blood-drenched heyday, and The Tornados dressed as robots! Afterwards, in the NFT Café Bar (free admission): DJ Big Beat Kris spins far-out Meekian waxings until midnight! Joint ticket available with Arena: The Strange Story of Joe Meek £12.50, concessions £9.25 Book tickets online http://www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film/7175 
 

TUESDAYS starting 6th February 21:30 Holloway Dreams: Joe Meek Story 
1/3. The story of a true original, record producer and sonic innovator Joe Meek. Born Robert George Meek on 5 April 1929 in Newent, Gloucestershire, Joe became Britain's premier independent record producer in the early sixties, as renowned for his pioneering recording techniques and eccentric personality as for the futuristic sounds he created.

Thanks to Mark Jones, at BBC Radio Gloucestershire for the info

DOUGIE WHITE

CORNERSTONE TOUR DATES

DEEP PURPLE 

TICKET MUSEUM OPENING!

The World's first online Deep Purple ticket museum is being opened in January 2007. It is the brainchild of life-long fan Tonny Steenhagen who has collected hundreds of tickets from Deep Purple's first four line-ups between 1968-1976. 
 
The ticket museum can be found at www.deep-purple-ticketmuseum.co.uk 

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT 

UK GIG

It has just come to our attention that Blackmore's Night will no longer be performing at the 3 Wishes Faery Fest on Sat 23rd June 2007 at Colliford Lake Park, Bolventor, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, UK.

No doubt some of Ritchie's fans will be relieved, while others who had already ordered tickets will be disappointed. The reasons have not been explained but one fan who enquired about tickets was told by the festival organiser Karen Kay; "I have literally just been informed by Carole Stevens, the manager of Blackmore's Night that they will no longer be performing at the festival, which is very disappointing indeed." Maybe the thought of possibly wearing faery wings on stage was too much for Mr. B!  
 
We understand that other UK dates will be announced soon.

Thanks to Pete Lewis for the info. 

DAVID COVERDALE 

MKIII? NOT QUITE YET!

Recently on Nicky Horne's show on Planet Rock Radio, David Coverdale played down the possibilities of a reunion of the Deep Purple MKIII line-up. He suggested the rumours were spread by fans, partly as a result on Coverdale recently signing to the same label as Ritchie. He said he is happy with his career as it is, and thought Ritchie felt the same way. 
   
 

ON THE ROAD

Glenn Hughes starts his European tour on 28th October.  
Check out the full tour dates at www.glennhughes.com  
   
 

TOP TEN FAVOURITE GUITAR SOLOS

 
With Planet Rock having run a poll to find the listeners favourite top 40 guitar solos (Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb came top), MBTP has been running its own poll.  
The results have all been counted and the top ten will appear in issue 33.  
 

The full results will be published here shortly after issue 33 is published.
 

STORE NOW OPEN!

 
Our new on-line secure ordering store is now open. The new on-line shopping carts should be particularly good news for our overseas customers especially in view of the recent publication of Black Knight, the first ever full Ritchie Blackmore biography. Hopefully all the links on the website are pointing to the right places but if you experience any false links please let us know.  
 
The MBTP store
  

BLACKMORE MENTIONED IN NEW TV COMEDY!

 
In Steve Coogan's new comedy series Saxondale on BBC 2, Ritchie got mentioned a few times. Coogan plays the character Tommy Saxondale, a former roadie. In the episode broadcast on Monday 10th July in one scene Saxondale gives a gift of a sculptured leopard to his daughter's boyfriend telling him that he got it from Ritchie Blackmore the Deep Purple guitarist before explaining that Ritchie gave it to him on the Rainbow Rising tour! 

OFFICIAL UK WEBSITE

The official UK website of Ritchie's favourite band is now on line.  
Follow the link here to see it. 

UNAUTHORISED BLACKMORE BIOGRAPHY

Apart from Black Knight the unauthorised biography written by Jerry Bloom published by Omnibus Press on 4th September, former Deep Purple and Rainbow tour manager Colin Hart has written a book and is currently negotiating publishing deals. There is also supposed to be at least one other book on Blackmore being written.  

It has also recently been announced that Ritchie is participating with "Doc Calvinson" on a book. An official statement from Minstrel Hall music said: "Candice and Ritchie have authorized Doc Calvinson to write their stories. It will be The musical history of Ritchie Blackmore-past and present - as well as their own biographical account of Blackmore's Night. This book will be accurate as they are participating in the authoring. If you want to read the true story this will be the one to read." Make of that what you will! Whether or not it is Ritchie's response to the other books currently in the pipeline is at this stage unclear.

NIGHT OF HONOUR Sunday 26th March

The night of honour at Clarendon Hall, York House, Twickenham to celebrate the life of the late Carlo Little who passed away last August was a great success. All proceeds from this event were donated to the South Tyneside Hospital, Ward 10 for terminally ill patients where Carlo spent his last weeks.
 
And a fair amount of money was raised. During the auction one guy paid £950 for a fully signed Rolling Stones 2006 tour T-shirt! I pulled out of the bidding at £900 when I realised it wasn't my size!

MARCH ISSUE

Ritchie featured on the front cover of the March issue of Classic Rock, published on 8th February. It is part of a 'where are they now' feature but if you are expecting a highly complimentary article think again! Bear in mind the front cover says "From Deep Purple to Rainbow to folk playing pixie."  
 
Are daggers drawn? Read what Pete Makowski has to say about Blackmore's Night. MBTP31 will look at the response to the article with Makowski's response to the criticism as well.
  
Classic Rock & Metal Hammer's Rock 'Decades: 1980' had a four page Deep Purple article.

HENLEY FESTIVAL

Jon Lord will be performing the 'Concerto For Group & Orchestra' on 7th July at this years Henley Festival. It will feature the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mark Forkgen and an all-star rock band including Jon on organ. Other musicians to be announced. 

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OTHER NEWS

  MBTP is currently working on a project with former IGB guitarist Ray Fenwick, and we are seeking quality live photos of the Ian Gillan Band taken between April '76 and June '78. If you have any photos or can point us in the direction of someone who might, please email us at; mail@moreblackthanpurple.co.uk