The Milos Pavlik YouTube channel has uploaded HD video of DEEP PURPLE‘s July 22 live performance at Amfiteáter in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. Try the clips under.

Final yr, DEEP PURPLE keyboardist Don Airey instructed Rolling Stone journal that there is no such thing as a concrete plan for him and his bandmates to cease enjoying dwell reveals.

“We began the farewell tour in 2017. It was as a consequence of finish in 2019,” he famous. “However the factor is, if you’re a musician in a band, you suppose you are answerable for it, however you are not. The enterprise is working you.

“In fact, there was a lot demand for the band to proceed from the promoters and brokers that we mentioned, ‘Okay, we’ll do another yr.'”

Relating to when he thinks DEEP PURPLE will lastly name it quits, Don mentioned: “The phrases of T.S. Eliot [the greatest English-language poet of his generation] come to thoughts: ‘That is the way in which the band ends. Not with a bang, however with a whimper.’ I believe we can’t know it is the final gig. We can’t have a clue that this one goes to be the final one. That is how it should finish. It’ll be no huge situation.

“I like what Buddy Man mentioned. He mentioned, ‘Musicians do not retire. They drop.’ You do have ideas about being within the backyard and bouncing the grandchildren in your knee, nevertheless it’s a part of your blood system, enjoying and touring. It is an dependancy. I hope I preserve enjoying for some time but.”

In a latest interview with Brazil’s A Rádio Rock, DEEP PURPLE bassist Roger Glover spoke in regards to the band’s plans for the approaching months. He mentioned: “Effectively, we have simply undergone an enormous change, as a result of our guitarist Steve Morse needed to retire from the band as a result of he was taking care of his very unwell spouse. And so we now have a brand new guitarist within the band known as Simon McBride. And it is an entire expertise; I imply, it is a completely different band.”

He continued: “In a method, we now have to embrace change. You’ll be able to’t do the identical factor again and again, and we have had a number of adjustments, in fact, over time. And this one is especially thrilling. ‘Trigger we have been engaged on a brand new album; we should always have a brand new album out by subsequent yr. And we won’t cease writing. That is what we do.”

In July 2022, Morse formally left PURPLE to take care of his spouse, Janine, who’s battling most cancers.

Morse‘s announcement got here 4 months after the guitarist mentioned that he can be taking a hiatus from the band, within the hope of rejoining his bandmates as soon as his spouse’s well being improved. He was then changed on the highway by McBride.

Morse successfully took over Ritchie Blackmore‘s DEEP PURPLE slot in 1994 and had since been within the group longer than Ritchie.

McBride, who’s guitar participant, singer, songwriter and a band chief multi functional, hails from Belfast in Northern Eire — a spot that resonates of the very best music traditions like Gary Moore and Rory Gallagher, in addition to bands similar to THIN LIZZY, STIFF LITTLE FINGERS and clearly U2. His biography tells many tales — from his band touring with no sound engineer, driver, or roadie, enjoying 30 reveals in 35 days, to him usually sharing levels with Gillan and Airey.

DEEP PURPLE‘s newest album, “Turning To Crime”, got here out in November 2021 through earMUSIC. The LP incorporates DEEP PURPLE‘s variations of nice rock classics and musical jewels — together with songs initially recorded by Bob Dylan, FLEETWOOD MAC, Bob Seger, CREAM and THE YARDBIRDS — fastidiously chosen by every member of the band.