DEEP PURPLE Drummer To Tour With Tribute Band

According to a posting on the Deep Purple Appreciation Society web site, DEEP PURPLE drummer Ian Paice will take part in a short European tour with PURPLE tribute act PURPENDICULAR in December 2008. The first of the confirmed dates is in Innsbrück, Austria on December 18, to be preceded by a drum clinic. The band part of the show will apparently feature "a large amount of obscure PURPLE tracks."

Confirmed dates so far are as follows:

Dec. 17 - Colus Saal - Aschaffenberg, Germany
Dec. 18 - Hafen - Innsbrück, Austria
Dec. 20 - Orpheum - Graz, Austria