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Latest revision as of 14:22, 3 August 2024

Deep Purple European Tour
Tour by Deep Purple
Associated albumDeep Purple, In Rock
Start date10 July 1969
End date21 June 1970
Legs11
No. of shows138 (143 scheduled)
Deep Purple concert chronology
  • The Book of Taliesyn Tour
  • Deep Purple European Tour
  • In Rock World Tour

The Deep Purple European Tour was a year-long successful concert tour by English hard rock band Deep Purple, lasting from July 1969 until June 1970. The band played mostly United Kingdom shows, also covering West Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium. It was the first tour to feature the classic Deep Purple line-up: Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord and Ian Paice.[1] It is considered to be the pre-tour for the In Rock album, as the band mostly played songs from the upcoming album.

Tour pre-history

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In 1969, cofounders Ritchie Blackmore and Jon Lord decided to replace vocalist Rod Evans with Ian Gillan. Gillan declined to join Purple without his former bandmate Roger Glover. Lord and Blackmore accepted and, in 1969, Gillan and Glover, replaced Evans and bassist Nick Simper. This new line-up, known as MKII, immediately went on tour throughout Europe and the United Kingdom.[2]

"I remember back in 1969 when Roger and I did our first show with Purple at the Speakeasy," recalled Gillan. "There were only twelve people there; well, twenty if you counted Keith Moon. But I looked at Roger and said, 'Oh man, this is it.' It was the kind of band we had both been dreaming of."[3]

Tour dates

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Date City Country Venue
10 July 1969 London England Speakeasy Club
18 July 1969 Redcar Redcar Jazz Club
20 July 1969 Erdington Mothers
26 July 1969 London Klooks Kleek
13 August 1969 Revolution Club
15 August 1969 Newcastle Mayfair Ballroom
16 August 1969 Birmingham Rebeccas
20 August 1969 London Revolution Club
22 August 1969 Bilzen Belgium Jazz Festival
23 August 1969 Amsterdam Netherlands Paradiso
24 August 1969
26 August 1969 London England Klooks Kleek
29 August 1969 Lyceum Ballroom
30 August 1969 Gravesend Kent Pop Festival
3 September 1969 Gothenburg Sweden Que Club
5 September 1969 Lund Store Salen
7 September 1969 Copenhagen Denmark Club 6
9 September 1969 London England Marquee Club
12 September 1969 Barnstaple Queen's Theatre
13 September 1969 Narberth Wales Queens Hall
20 September 1969 Malvern England Winter Gardens
21 September 1969 Redcar Redcar Jazz Club
24 September 1969 London Royal Albert Hall
27 September 1969 Nottingham Nottingham College
28 September 1969 London The Roundhouse
4 October 1969 Montreux Switzerland Montreux Casino
9 October 1969 Augsburg West Germany Pfarrsaal
10 October 1969 Stuttgart
11 October 1969 Essen Grugahalle
12 October 1969 Amsterdam Netherlands Amsterdam Concert Hall
14 October 1969 Hamburg West Germany Musikhalle Hamburg
22 October 1969 Ipswich England Baths Hall
24 October 1969 London Lyceum Ballroom
25 October 1969 Weston-super-Mare Winter Gardens
30 October 1969 Leeds University of Leeds Refectory
1 November 1969 Bristol Mayfair Ballroom
2 November 1969 London Lyceum Ballroom
3 November 1969 The Roundhouse
7 November 1969 Romford King's Head
8 November 1969 Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall
10 November 1969 Bath Bath Pavilion
13 November 1969 Newport Regency Theatre
14 November 1969 Birmingham Aston View
15 November 1969 Leeds University of Leeds Refectory
16 November 1969 Glasgow Scotland Kinema
17 November 1969
21 November 1969 Eltham England Avery Hill
22 November 1969 Bradford University of Bradford
23 November 1969 Epping Groovesville
24 November 1969 Birmingham Bennett Concert Hall
28 November 1969 Guildford Guildford Civic Hall
29 November 1969 London Imperial College
30 November 1969 Roundhouse
4 December 1969 Worthing Worthing Assembly Hall
5 December 1969 Sunderland Polytechnic
6 December 1969 Manchester University of Manchester
7 December 1969 Bradford St George's Hall
9 December 1969 Stafford Keele University
10 December 1969 London University College London
11 December 1969 Bournemouth Rye Ballroom
12 December 1969 Hereford The Flamingo
15 December 1969 Carlisle The Cosmopolitan
18 December 1969 Redruth The Flamingo
19 December 1969 Plymouth Van Dyke Club
20 December 1969 Dagenham Dagenham Roundhouse
21 December 1969 Birmingham Mothers Club
28 December 1969 Croydon Greyhound
5 January 1970 Paris France Anciennes
6 January 1970 Worthing England Assembly Hall
10 January 1970 Reading University of Reading
19 January 1970 Dunstable Dunstable Civic Hall
21 January 1970 Newcastle Newcastle Music Hall
23 January 1970 Lancaster University of Lancaster
24 January 1970 Hatfield Curzon Cinema
30 January 1970 London Royal Albert Hall
31 January 1970 Cottenham Lawns Centre
6 February 1970 Waltham Forest Technical College
7 February 1970 Leicester Union Hall
8 February 1970 Erdington Mothers
13 February 1970 Cardiff Wales Cardiff University
14 February 1970 Manchester England Free Trade Hall
15 February 1970 Nottingham Boat Club
16 February 1970 Romford Kings Head
19 February 1970 London Paris Theater
20 February 1970 Preston Preston Civic Hall
21 February 1970 Twickenham St. Mary's University College
22 February 1970 Croydon Greyhound
24 February 1970 London Imperial College London
25 February 1970 Bristol University of Bristol
27 February 1970 Leeds Polytechnic
28 February 1970 Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
4 March 1970 Zürich Switzerland Volkshaus
6 March 1970 Bern Tanzdiele Matte
7 March 1970 Lucerne Verkehrshaus
13 March 1970 Blackpool England Winter Gardens
14 March 1970 Weston-super-Mare Winter Gardens
15 March 1970 Epping Wake Arms
17 March 1970 Exeter University of Exeter
20 March 1970 Edinburgh Scotland Odeon
21 March 1970 Dundee Caird Hall
22 March 1970 Dunfermline Kinema Ballroom
23 March 1970 Aberdeen Music Hall Aberdeen
24 March 1970 Glasgow Electric Garden
25 March 1970 Hamilton Hamilton Townhouse
28 March 1970 Dagenham England Dagenham Roundhouse
29 March 1970 Hamburg West Germany Ernst-Merck Hall
30 March 1970 West Berlin Berlin Sportpalast
4 April 1970 Cologne Mulheim Sporthalle
6 April 1970 Vienna Austria Konzerthaus
11 April 1970 Chatham England Central Hall
18 April 1970 Ewell Technical College
24 April 1970 Stoke King's Hall
25 April 1970 Bath
1 May 1970 Art College
9 May 1970 Dagenham Roundhouse Dagenham
11 May 1970 Leicester De Montfort Hall
15 May 1970 Chelmsford
16 May 1970 Birmingham Birmingham Town Hall
17 May 1970 Bristol Colston Hall
18 May 1970 Dunstable Dunstable Civic Hall
22 May 1970 Brighton Brighton Dome
25 May 1970 London Queen Elizabeth Hall
28 May 1970 Kiel West Germany Ostseehalle
29 May 1970 West Berlin Neue Welt
31 May 1970 Mannheim Rosengarten
1 June 1970 Düsseldorf Rheinhalle
2 June 1970 Hamburg Musikhalle
4 June 1970 Bedford England Bedford Town FC
6 June 1970 Cologne West Germany Sartory-Saal
7 June 1970 Munich Eisstadion
8 June 1970 Basel Switzerland St Jakob Sportalle
9 June 1970 Offenbach West Germany Stadthalle
10 June 1970 Hanover Niedersachsenhalle
12 June 1970 Twickenham England Eel Pie Island
14 June 1970 Croydon Fairfield Halls
16 June 1970 Cambridge Jesus College
19 June 1970 Manchester John Dalton College
20 June 1970 Oxford University College
21 June 1970 Frankfurt West Germany Radstadion

Setlist

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During the tour, half of the setlist included MKI hits with the other half consisting of new MKII songs. "Speed King", "Child in Time" and "Into the Fire" were premiered on the tour, before being released on the In Rock album.[4]

  1. "And the Address" {opening bars only}
  2. "Kneel and Pray" (early version of "Speed King" with different lyrics)
  3. "Into the Fire"
  4. "Kentucky Woman" (only occasionally)
  5. "Child in Time"
  6. "Mandrake Root"
  7. "Wring That Neck" aka "Hard Road"
  8. "Ritchie's Blues"
  9. "Paint It Black", instrumental (The Rolling Stones cover)
  10. ~Drum solo

Tour diary and notable live dates

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Deep Purple MKII kicked off their first tour at the London Speakeasy Club. In a recent interview, Ian Gillan named this show to be favourite live performance of his career, as it was his first show with Deep Purple.[5]

After a few United Kingdom dates, the band headed to Belgium, where they headlined Jazz Bilzen, and then again returned to the United Kingdom.

On 24 September, the band played at London's Royal Albert Hall, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Arnold. This was one of the earliest examples of a rock band collaborating with an orchestra. The show was called Concerto for Group and Orchestra and was later officially released. The Concerto and album itself was influential, with many rock bands following in Deep Purple's steps and playing with orchestras. Rock band Metallica made their orchestral debut in 2000 and named Purple's 1969 show as the main influence.[6] The orchestral parts were written by Jon Lord and included three movements.

  • Opening set – first part (without Orchestra):
  1. Hush"
  2. "Wring That Neck"
  3. ~"Jingle Bells" instrumental
  4. "Child In Time"
  • Concerto For Group And Orchestra (second part)
  1. First Movement – Allegro moderato
  2. Second Movement – Andante
  3. Third Movement – Vivace presto
  4. ~Drum solo
  • Encore:
  1. Third Movement (2nd half)
  2. ~Drum solo

In April 1969, Deep Purple headlined the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland as well as the Pop & Blues festival in West Germany. Other festival acts included Pink Floyd and The Nice. Ritchie Blackmore jammed with The Nice's Keith Emerson

On 19 February, they performed at the BBC's Studios, with the show later being released on CD. They then returned to West Germany, Switzerland and Austria, before again returning to the UK. The tour ended at Frankfurt's Radstadion on 21 June 1970.

Live albums and DVDs

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Several live albums from the tour were later released.

  1. Concerto for Group and Orchestra CD/DVD
  2. Gemini Suite Live CD
  3. Kneel & Pray CD
  4. Live in Montreux 69 CD
  5. Scandinavian Nights CD/DVD
  6. Deep Purple in Concert CD/DVD
  7. Live in Stockholm CD/DVD
  8. Space Vol 1 & 2
  9. Doing Their Thing DVD
  10. Heavy Metal Pioneers (Tour documentary)

Line up

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References

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  1. ^ "Home". Deeppurpleliveindex.com.
  2. ^ "Deep Purple Mark 2 History". Deep-purple.net.
  3. ^ Rees, Paul (April 2017). "To Infinity… and Beyond?". Classic Rock #234. p. 36.
  4. ^ "Set Lists 1968 to 1976". Thehighwaystar.com.
  5. ^ "Ian Gillan: Morocco' Could Be My Naughty Weekend Away' | Interviews". Ultimate-guitar.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2009.
  6. ^ "Chaz Reviews #16: Deep Purple: Concerto for Group and Orchestra". Dustbury.com.
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