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." Dates confirmed so far are:

Dec 18th, Hafen - Innsbrück - Austria
Dec 19th, Orpheum - Graz - Austria

MK #700224 (with thanks to Chris Grüber and Robby Walsh). Photo: Birgir Kofoed

Ian Paice is due to perform another of his regular drum clinics in Italy. The date for this one is August 29th 2008, at the MARINA dei CESARI (Yachting Marina) in Fano - (PU). The clinic is scheduled for 9.30pm, to be followed at 10pm by Ian performing a show with Deep Purple tribute band MACHINE HEAD. Tickets are 10 Euros.

DB #700223 (with thanks to Moreno Brook) Click the pic to see the full poster.

Matteo Filippini's first Moonstone Project album Time To Take A Stand was released in mid 2006, and reunited Ian Paice and Glenn Hughes on disc for the first time since 1975. The pair played together on two numbers, Rose In Hell and Where Do You Hide (The Blues You've Got), with Paice doing a third. This album has now been reissued, with a new cover and revised track list. The new tracks include Can't Get Enough (live w. Ian Paice), Silent Hunter (Ian Paice on drums - a bonus track on the 2006 Japanese edition of the first album), plus a new acoustic mix of Where Do You Hide (The Blues You've Got). dpas mailorder has the new digipak edition in stock, as well as a few copies of the now deleted original version Time To Take A Stand. Review Issue 59 DTB.

Thanks to Matt Filippini and Stuart Hamilton for details. By the way, Matt still has a few of the 2005 tour t-shirts with Ian Paice's name on for sale. visit - www.moonstone.it - and tell him who sent you!   SR #7001402

Ian Paice is one of the many guests at Pearl Day 2008, taking place on Sunday June 1 at the East Midlands Conference Centre, University of Nottingham. It runs from 10am to 7pm; we don't know when IP is scheduled to be there.

Tickets priced £18 (and further details) can be found at http://www.pearldrum.com/

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(photo: Tim Clark)

Ian Paice will be a special guest at the Rock Legends Adventures concert in Cologne on May 24. It features a number of musicians, including Pete York and Miller Anderson. There will be a band, and the guests will appear in turn and jam. Our thanks to Tim Sinzenich for the news. . SR #700221

Ian Paice has scheduled an Italian clinic and concert for April 5th. The clinic will be at Sala Veneziana in Montagnana (Padova). The starting time is at 18.00, tickets are 5 Euros.

The concert will be at Stonehenge, Via Macia, Arcole with Italian DP tribute band Terzo Capitolo (click the flyer on the left to enlarge) . The starting time is 23.00, tickets are 20 Euros. For more info see Deep Purple Italia (www.deep-purple.it).

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(thanks to Francescco)

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

"As he could not appear personally at 'Rock of Ages' on 28th February at Rivermead in Reading, Ian Paice has kindly donated a drumming masterclass with himself to raise funds for a new Music Industry Association charity called 'Music For All'. This is being auctioned on ebay through the DrumWright shop - go to www.stores.ebay.co.uk/DrumWright-Ltd. A chance for an drummer fan to get to meet him!" Chris Wright, MD DrumWright and MIA Director

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The charity Childline is staging a special concert called Childline Rocks at London's indigO2 on March 13th 2008. Artists apparently confirmed to appear include: Ian Paice, Thunder, Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent, Russ Ballard, Glenn Hughes, Fish and others still to be announced. The event will be compered by 'Whispering' Bob Harris, and tickets are on sale now. For further details, go to www.childlinerocks.co.uk/

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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)

Ian Paice is the cover star on the January 2008 edition of French drumming magazine 'Batterie' (issue 42). There is also a six page interview with him inside.

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(thanks to Didier Venard)

Ian Paice was hoping to do another slot for Drumwright (the first was reviewed in DTB 58). The evening is titled Rock Of Ages, and takes place on Feb 28. 2008 at the Rivermead Leisure Centre, Reading. Tickets are £15 or £10 for students in full-time education (does any student do full-time education?!). The Purple Project have just told us that Paice will not be able to make the charity concert as DP are now touring at the time. Otherwise, confirmed for the event are a slew of sixties stars including Clem Cattini, Bob Henrit and Bobby Orr.

You can call the organisers on 0118 944 1418 (tell them where you saw the news). There's also an autographed Ian Pace drum kit up for grabs on the night. My thanks to Paul at The Purple Project for the information.

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Ian Paice did a rare UK drum clinic in Liverpool on Wednesday 17 October 2007, The Zanzibar Club, 43 Seel Street,  Liverpool, L1 4AZ.

DPAS Review: Ian Paice, Liverpool, 17 October 2007

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(Thanks to Lesley Worrall and Ian Dunbar). Photo: Martin Ashberry

Preparations are under way for this annual show in aid of the Complementary Therapy Team working within cancer services across the UK, which usually manages to tempt one or two Deep Purple related musicians along. Confirmed guests include Status Quo, Beverley Knight, Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Gary Moore, Roger Glover, Linda Lewis, Paul Wickens, Nick Fyffe, Margo Buchanan, Steve Balsamo and Aitch McRobbie. The show is organised by Ian's wife Jacky Paice.

A press notice about the show has just been issued and gives the venue as The Porchester Halls, London, Thursday 20th September 2007. However this is a BY INVITATION only event with tickets limited to around 350.

For more information see www.thesunflowerjam.com.

SR#700212 (our thanks to Mr. B for the heads up)

According to Classic Rock Magazine, Ian Paice is "one of seven revered British drummers confirmed to participate at a tribute show for Buddy Rich at the Garrick Theatre in Lichfield on the September 29th 2007. This date would have been Rich's 90th birthday."

Tickets are on sale for the "World's Greatest Drummer Show" from Lichfield Garrick box office. The phone number is 01543 412121. Tickets are £20, £18.50, £16.50.

NY#7002101 photo: Tim (Moth) Clark

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

SR#7002101   (thanks to Craig Hooper for details. Photo: Kev Roberts)

Ian Paice fans can track down a FOURTH drumming DVD featuring the man; Modern Drummer Festival 2005. This is a 3-DVD set featuring over 7 hours of audio and video from the Modern Drummer Festival last year that included Ian Paice and Chad Smith among many others. Obviously their section forms a small part of the event, but it's very well filmed. The pair do a drum duet, filmed from lots of different angles, and then do a presentation to the audience with tips and hints. It's not a cheap DVD but it is in stock at dpas mailorder.

MA#700165 (Thanks to Chris Andersen. Photo: Peter Rossen)

Ian Paice fronted 'Ian Paice and Friends', a unique performance for charity at the Reading Rivermead Leisure Centre on Friday 13th January 2006. Ian performed for free, with the aim of raising money for deprived children in Northern India.

DPAS Review: Ian Paice and Friends / Reading Rivermead Centre, Jan 13th 2006 plus, the promoter's reaction to the night

The Reading Drum DVD will not now be available via the DPAS. You can only order it direct from the shop Drum Wright. The contact number from the UK is 0118 9441418. Mention the DPAS. Any profits on the sale of this are going to charity.

SR#7001634 (Thanks to Chris Wright (DrumWright) and Nigel Young.)

The Ian Paice drum clinic in Croydon last year is due out shortly on DVD. It features sets by Paice and Chad Smith (Chili Peppers and Glenn Hughes drummer), filmed on stage before an enthusiastic crowd of fans and drummers. dpas mailorder online are stocking the DVD.

There are reviews and pictures of the gig in the new issue of DARKER THAN BLUE

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