DEEP PURPLE To Tour Russia, Ukraine In October?

February 27, 2008

According to a posting on the DEEP PURPLE fan site The Highway Star, the band's recent visit to Moscow was not all glitz, glamor and rubbing shoulders with rich and powerful. Russian promoters SAV Entertainment and Russkij Show Center have announced that they have "reached an agreement" with PURPLE for another massive tour of Russia and Ukraine this October. The dates are very preliminary and the itinerary is very much subject to change:

Oct. 06 - Kiev, Ukraine
Oct. 07 - Odessa, Ukraine
Oct. 09 - Rostov-na-Donu, Russia
Oct. 10 - Volgograd, Russia
Oct. 12 - Voronezh, Russia
Oct. 14 - Kazan, Russia
Oct. 15 - Yekaterinburg, Russia
Oct. 17 - Novokuznetsk, Russia
Oct. 18 - Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Oct. 20 - Vladivostok, Russia
Oct. 21 - Khabarovsk, Russia
Oct. 23 - Irkutsk, Russia
Oct. 25 - Novosibirsk, Russia
Oct. 27 - Moscow, Russia
Oct. 29 - St.Petersburg, Russia

DEEP PURPLE played a gig on February 11 in Moscow as a farewell gift to Dmitry Medvedev, the chairman of gas giant Gazprom and almost certainly Russia's next president.

The group performed at a show Gazprom put on at the Kremlin to mark the 15th anniversary of the firm's creation.

"This is simply surreal," Medvedev said on NTV television after the concert. "I started listening to DEEP PURPLE when I was 13. At that time their music was banned. I never would have imagined meeting the famous group in the Kremlin Palace."

Footage of the PURPLE classic "Smoke On The Water", filmed at the February 11 concert, can be viewed below.

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