The Sunflower Jam 2009 will take place on Thursday 24th September at the Porchester Halls, London. Last year they had Deep Purple, this year they have Ian Paice and Don Airey (who was added to the line-up on June 17th) plus guests including Bruce Dickinson, Micky Moody (listed as from Whitesnake, but I'm sure he left a while ago!), Nick Fyffe (ex-Jamiroquai), Murray Gould (Elton John), Margo Buchanan (Pink Floyd), Gary Brooker (Procol Harum) and Jerry Brown (Tina Turner).

You can find details of ticket prices at: www.thesunflowerjam.com

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Ian Paice has apparently confirmed that he will be playing alongside Italian Deep Purple covers band Machine Head on August 6th 2009 at the former Stadio Comunale in Fermignano. The band are planning a two hour show including Deep Purple tracks from 1970-2000. Entrance is free.

For more info visit www.machineheadlive.com.

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As previously reported Ian Paice played a short European Tour with Deep Purple tribute act Purpendicular in December 2008. The Innsbruck show was preceded by a drum workshop including Ian's regular question & answer section. The set list for the concert part of the evening contained a fair few surprises in its first half:

Highway Star / Bad Attitude / Emmaretta / Child in Time / Never Before / Loosen My Strings / The Mule / I´m Not Your Lover Now / Mistreated / Stormbringer / Perfect Strangers / Black Night / Smoke on the Water / Lazy / Hush.

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Ian Paice is due to play a short European Tour with Deep Purple tribute act Purpendicular in December 2008. The first of the confirmed dates is in Innsbrück, Austria on December 18th, to be preceded by a drum clinic. The band part of the show will apparently feature "a large amount of obscure Purple tracks."

Another German date has been confirmed by Artefix Music for December 19th 2008 at Bahnhof-Fischbach, in Friedrichshafen, Germany (near the Swiss border). More details to follow.

Dates confirmed so far are:

Dec 17th, Colus Saal, Aschaffenberg - Germany
Dec 18th, Hafen - Innsbrück - Austria
Dec 19th, Bahnhof-Fischbach, Friedrichshafen - Germany
Dec 20th, Orpheum - Graz - Austria

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(with thanks to Chris Grüber and Robby Walsh).

The Ian Paice DVD On The Drums went out of print in 2007. It is now reappearing on a new label, due out in October 2008. The contents appear to be the same, though the cover may change. We assume most Paicey fans will have snapped up this two hour drum fest years ago, which is actually very watchable (even if you don't know one side of a drum skin from another) but if not it's available via dpas mailorder.

Thanks to Pinnacle Vision.

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DPAS DVD Review: Ian Paice - On The Drums

Two years after it was first scheduled, "Tony Ashton & Friends - Endangered Species Live At Abbey Road" is now in production, albeit having moved to a German label. Ian Paice and Jon Lord appeared as part of a reunited Whitesnake and PAL, at the special show staged in EMI's Abbey Road studio back in 2000, along with Bernie Marsden and many more.

Full track listing at dpas mailorder where pre-orders can be placed. SR#jl700226

The Childline Rocks show in London on March 13th featured Ian Paice and Glenn Hughes appearing together on stage for the first time in 32 years. Joined by members of Thunder, plus keyboardist Anders Olinder from Glenn's band, the pair played 'Mistreated' and 'Might Just Take Your Life'. Ian Paice was then in the backing band for 'Since You Been Gone' (sung by its writer Russ Ballard). For the show's finale Paice and Hughes also took part in 'With A Little Help From My Friends".

"The show was much better than I expected. Initially it looked like a very small gathering. Things picked up as the evening went on but it didn't sell out. Audience a mix between fans of various people on the bill and people linked to Childline.

It was worth it to see Glenn and paicey on stage together for the first time in 32 years - practically to the day in fact. Glenn was announced as having just flown in from LA and he did indeed look very ... LA. They kicked off with Mistreated which Glenn finished off with several minutes of over the top vocal histrionics which was stunning. Classic Hughes. Initially Ian's face had a look of how the hell does he do that about it but by the end he was slumped over his drum kit (presumably his jet lag!). Might Just Take Your Life followed and then Glenn left the stage. Well worth the effort Paice did another couple of numbers, most bizarrely Since You Been Gone with Russ ballard on guitar and vocals.

They both came back on for the encore of With A Little help From My Friends where Glenn out sung everyone." Andy Hardman     TS #7002191

Ian Paice and ex-Whitesnake guitarist Bernie Marsden have made guest appearances on the debut album by Italian singer RANFA (Andrea Ranfagni): 'Little Hard Blues', which was released in December 2007.

Paice plays on one track: 'Forget My Boogie'. 'Marsden plays on ' Everybody Knows', 'May Day', 'New Baby', and 'Easy Woman'.

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Thanks to Francesco - Deep Purple Italia - www.deep-purple.it)

The Paice Ashton Lord DVD includes the ten track Sight & Sound In Concert show from March 1977 (including a never before screened bonus track), along with the 50 minute Lifespan documentary, which tracked PAL during auditions, rehearsals, and back-stage. It includes further live footage from the UK tour. None of the material has ever been issued officially before. The title is now shipping from dpas online.

LIMITED EDITION: dpas online are handling a very limited edition which contains (along with the regular 4 page booklet) a DVD sized exact reproduction of the rare UK tour programme. All pre-orders will automatically get this edition.

FIRST THOUGHTS : We've had sight of a test copy and can report that it's a pretty good release all round. The BBC show is much less worrying than I recall. It's well filmed (in a slow deliberate BBC style) and Ashton's nerves don't seem nearly so obvious now, though he's clearly feeling tense (and loses his way in "Remember The Good Times"!). They run through pretty much the whole album, and there's great stuff from both keyboardists and the drummer in particular. The Lifespan documentary is way better than any of the dodgy pirate copies I've seen in the past. It's such a thorough piece of work we'll find ourselves cursing that not all Purple related projects were covered in such detail. There's half an hour of film shot in rehearsals, the studio and auditions, followed by half a dozen full songs on stage at Birmingham. As far as I know this is all the film of PAL ever made, so full marks to T2 for getting it together.

The DVD is trailed on the T2 site, T2 are doing some promotional shirts to mark the release and dpas online will have some of these available for a short time. There are photos from the release in our DPAS Photo Gallery. The DVD looks set to appear in Japan via TAMT

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Ian Paice is doing a rare one off UK drum clinic on Friday March 2, 2007 at Tom's Music Venue, Treforest, Wales, UK, in support of the University of Glamorgan’s new Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries – dubbed the Atrium. Also on the bill will be former Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable, Mick Chiplin from the Lost Prophets and Bob Richards of Man for a ‘percussion workshop’. In addition this unique event will see a preview screening of Ian Gillan: Highway Star – A Journey In Rock.

DPAS LIve Review: Ian Paice : Treforest, Mar 2nd 2007 new

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