The Rapture of the Deep tour was a worldwide

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by English

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band

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. It took place in support of their 2005

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'' Rapture of the Deep''. It is supposed to be one of the most successful and long-lasting tours the band has ever done. In 2007, it was voted #6 tour of the year by listeners of the Planet Rock radio station.

Overview

In 2005, Deep Purple released the Rapture of the Deep studio album which enjoyed a modest success, especially in Europe where it charted Top 20 in several countries. In support of their new studio album, Deep Purple embarked in a world tour during which they covered five continents and played in more than 50 countries. They did over 28 legs in Europe, UK, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Australia, playing almost 500 shows in six years. Venue sizes varied from big concert halls to the world's largest arenas and stadiums. During the tour, Deep Purple headlined several of the world's biggest festivals, including: *

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(UK) (40,000 attended), *

Montreux Jazz Festival The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. It is the second-largest annu ...

(Switzerland) (80,000 attended), *

Fête de l'Humanité The Fête de l'Humanité (; ''English: Festival of Humanity'') is an event organised annually by French daily newspaper ''L'Humanité'' in order to fund itself. It is the largest popular gathering in France. L'Humanité was created in 1904 by Fr ...

(France) (100,000 attended), *

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(Sweden) (50,000 attended), *

(Spain) (30,000 attended), *

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(

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) (100,000 attended), *

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(Russia) (200,000 attended), the biggest crowd in Deep Purple history together with rock music festival

California Jam California Jam (also known as Cal Jam) was a rock music festival co-headlined by Deep Purple and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California, on April 6, 1974. It was produced by ABC Entertainment, Sandy Fe ...

of 1974. Although some fans called the 2010 leg simply "World Tour" (since at that time only one song from ''Rapture of the Deep'' – the title track – remained in the set list),

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, the band's keyboardist, said it's still the Rapture of the Deep tour.

Tour history

2006

The Rapture of the Deep tour kicked off with an intimate sold-out show at London's Astoria hall, and quickly moved on to a sold-out European tour, booked in the continent's biggest arenas. After two sold-out shows at

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, the band played one festival date in

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

and after a one-month break they moved straight to Australia. The 10 dates on the Australian leg proved to be extremely successful; tickets sold out very quickly and promoters had to add more dates. The band sold over 50,000 tickets for the Australian leg and moved to Japan with 5 concerts. A second huge European leg followed in summer. Deep Purple kicked it off with the extremely successful gig at

, in front of over 50,000 people. Besides the single shows, they played many festival dates as headliners, such as

(attendance: 50,000) and

. The Montreux show was recorded professionally and later released on CD/DVD called They All Came Down to Montreux. The European leg lasted over 6 months and they played Europe's biggest arenas, all sold-out. On 17 December 2006, Deep Purple played a gig at Cathedral School Grounds,

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, India. Deep Purple ended the 2006 tour with a successful South American leg, 11 arena + stadium dates.

2007

2007 began with a huge European tour again. After visiting Italy and France, they moved to the full UK arena tour, playing at sold-out

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, LG Arena and Windsor Hall, overall 10 dates in the UK. However, singer

Ian Gillan Ian Gillan (born 19 August 1945) is an English singer who is best known as the lead singer and lyricist for the rock band Deep Purple. He is known for his powerful and wide-ranging singing voice. Initially influenced by Elvis Presley, Gillan ...

announced at a Wembley show that it was the last time they would play at the arena, because of the rudeness of security guards, who beat several fans during the show. Summer 2007 saw Deep Purple overseas, on a full North American tour. 27 dates in USA and 3 in Canada. In the USA they mostly played at big arenas and amphitheaters, plus several theaters and two sold out dates at the

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. After playing at

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in front of 10,000 people, they moved to New York to play in the

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. The North American leg ended with a sold-out intimate show at

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's House of Blues 2007's last leg was Europe again. Deep Purple kicked it off at

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and the tour lasted over one month. At the end of year Deep Purple received a special award in France, for selling 150,000 concert tickets in the country in one year. Officials said Deep Purple sold more tickets than any music artist has ever done in one year in France.

2008

2008 began with a second full South American leg, with 13 dates in 6 countries. Tickets for the show at

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sold out quickly, prompting promoters to announce a second date at the same stadium. A European festival tour followed in the summer. The first gig was

in Spain. Deep Purple was due to headline the festival's first day (the second day to be headlined by

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). Unfortunately, a severe rainstorm washed out tens of thousands people and damaged the stage. So, promoters had to cancel the whole festival. After two sold-out shows at Teatro Smeraldo in

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, Deep Purple headlined

for the second time on the Rapture Tour. Festival dates also included Deep Purple as a headliner at: "British Motorshow & Music Festival", UK, "Festival de la cite de Carcassonne", "Les Nuits de la Guitare", France "Zweite Classic

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", "Magic Night of Rock" Germany and "Steinkjer Rock" Norway. The

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fall tour proved to be phenomenally successful for the band. Deep Purple's last gig in the country was in 1991, when the band was led by

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. This time, led by

promoters announced one show at Caesarea Amphitheatre. The first gig was sold out in three days, so promoters added a second one, which sold-out in one week. That prompted promoters to add a third gig at the same arena, and one at Tel Aviv. Israeli press called Deep Purple's tour a "phenomenal success", and the band sold the most tickets in the country that have ever sold in the same year. After the 4 sold-out shows, the press called it the "event of the year" The 2008 tour ended with a Russia/Ukraine/Germany Arena tour, in 10,000-15,000 capacity arenas, all sold-out.

2009

2009's first gig saw Deep Purple as a headliner band on the World Ski Championship. After this one-off show they quickly moved to South America. Although

caught a flu and was extremely ill, with the 11 dates in South America Deep Purple sold over 250,000 tickets (including 150 000 tickets at

festival, 50,000 at

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's velodrome, 20,000 tickets at two sold-out shows at

and 15,000 tickets at two sold-out shows at

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's Via Funchall hall). Ian Gillan released a special video message about his illness, as fans were worried by his vocal conditions caused by the flu. After headlining the "Dubai Bike Week 2009" in front of some 30,000 people, Deep Purple moved to their second Japanese tour during the Rapture Tour with guitarist

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as a support act. Spring/summer saw the band at a huge European arena tour again. Deep Purple made a one show at

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's Kurucesme Arena. This was particular show, as 500 fans (out of the 20,000) had travelled from

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and Ian Gillan made a very special meet and greet with Georgian fans. Later in an interview Gillan called it one of the most wonderful days on the tour, as he has very special memories from Georgia, as it the place where he married his wife Bron Gillan, in 1990. After playing their own festival dates, suddenly Deep Purple were called by the promoter of Rock am See and

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. The festival was supposed to be headlined by

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, they were not sure what was going to happen, as Oasis plays different kind of music and most of the ticket holders were fans of different music than Deep Purple plays. The promoter later announced that The band saved a festival. 90% of Oasis' fans watched Deep Purple's concert and after the show, they were posting on the forum that they were overwhelmed by the gig.

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's leader was watching the show from backstage and later said that it was the greatest concert he has ever seen. At the end of the leg Deep Purple played at a notorious French political gig

in Paris, France. The concert was attended by 110,000 people. In late 2009 the band went on a small UK Tour, visiting several theaters (including two sold-out gigs at the

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, + one big show at LG Arena. 20 dates European leg followed and the 2009 tour ended at

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. The show was broadcast live on Italian RAI radio1 and was quickly heavily bootlegged.

2010

Deep Purple played 79 dates: Mexico, South East Asia, Australia, South Africa & Europe.

2011

After a 4-date tour in Mexico in February, Deep Purple has planned to play the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eastern Europe & Israel in spring (14 dates). During the Greece leg of the tour Roger Glover announced his absence from the band due a shoulder injury, and was temporarily replaced by the current The Temperance Movement bassist

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for a series of shows during May of that year.

Tour dates

Notable live dates

In June 2006 Deep Purple headlined the

festival at

(UK), in front of more than 30,000 people. Two weeks later the band played at the prestigious

(40th anniversary). A year after that, this show was released as a Live CD and DVD, called: '' They All Came Down To Montreux''. The Montreux 2006 show included a

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with

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, several jazz/funky artists and a jazz version of Deep Purple's world hit

Smoke on the Water "Smoke on the Water" is a song by English rock band Deep Purple, released on their 1972 studio album '' Machine Head''. The song's lyrics are based on true events, chronicling the 1971 fire at Montreux Casino in Montreux, Switzerland. It is ...

. In 2006, during the North American tour, the band played in

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Cadott, Wisconsin USA; and also participated in

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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania USA, with John Kay and Steppenwolf. In July 2008, Deep Purple headlined the Montreux Jazz Festival for the second time during the Rapture of the Deep tour, the band also participated in 3 Rock Festivals in Germany.
Tickets for the band's first

i dates in over a decade sold out within a few days and resulted in the addition of two more dates. During the entire Rapture of the Deep tour, Deep Purple headlined more than 30 world-known music festivals, including headlining the Monsters of Rock and the

twice each.

Musicians

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– vocals *

Steve Morse Steve J. Morse (born July 28, 1954) is an American guitarist and songwriter. A seven-time Grammy nominee, he is best known as the founder of the Dixie Dregs and as the longest serving guitarist for Deep Purple. Morse also enjoyed a successful ...

– guitars *

Roger Glover Roger David Glover (born 30 November 1945) is a Welsh bassist, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as a member of the hard rock bands Deep Purple and Rainbow. As a member of Deep Purple, Glover was inducted into the Rock and Roll ...

– bass *

Ian Paice Ian Anderson Paice (born 29 June 1948) is an English musician who is the drummer and last remaining original member of the rock band Deep Purple. He remains the only member of Deep Purple who has served in every line-up since the band's incep ...

– drums *

– keyboards In 2011, Roger Glover had to leave the band for a few weeks for personal reasons. During the shows in Cyprus, Greece, Israel and Turkey the bass parts were played by bassist

Typical set-lists

During the tour, the band played 7 songs from the new album '' Rapture of the Deep'': "Wrong Man", "Rapture of the Deep", "Back to Back", "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye", "Junkyard Blues", "Before Time Began" and "Things I Never Said". "The Well-Dressed Guitar", which has been release on the " Tour Edition" is an outtake from the ''

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'' sessions and has been played live since 2001. Several old songs never played live before were also included in the setlists during the tour, such as "Hard Lovin' Man", "Living Wreck", "Loosen My Strings", "Not Responsible" and "Wasted Sunsets".

Opening acts

* The Answer (

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, 17 January 2006) *

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and

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(British tour April/May 2007) *

Edgar Winter Edgar Holland Winter (born December 28, 1946) is an American multi-instrumentalist, working as a vocalist along with playing keyboards, saxophone, and percussion. His success peaked in the 1970s with his band the Edgar Winter Group and their pop ...

(North American tour) * Steppenwolf (North American tour) *

Blue Öyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult ( ; sometimes abbreviated BÖC or BOC) is an American rock band formed on Long Island, New York, in the hamlet of Stony Brook, in 1967. They have sold 25 million records worldwide, including 7 million in the United States. ...

(North American tour) *

Hamadryad In Greek mythology, a Hamadryad or Hamadryas (; ) is a tree nymph. They are born bonded to a certain tree on which their life depends. Some maintain that a Hamadryad is the tree itself, with a normal dryad being simply the indwelling entity, or ...

(Montreal City, 28 July 2007) *

Alice Cooper Vincent Damon Furnier (born February 4, 1948), known by his stage name Alice Cooper, is an American rock singer and songwriter whose career spans sixty years. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusion ...

(German tour dates) *

Krypteria And Then She Came is a rock band from Aachen, Germany. The band was formed as Krypteria, a gothic metal band. Originating from a 2001 "pop musical theatre studio project" of the same name, the idea was to use different vocalists, though German-K ...

(German tour dates) * La Carga (

, 24 March 2006) *

Japan tour dates April 2009 * Galeej Gurus (

. December 2006) *

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(Australian tour) * Uriah Heep (Iceland, German tour dates, South Africa 2010) * Stella Maris (Israel Caesarea Amphitheatre tour dates) * Peter Ron (

, 28 February 2008) *

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(Sweden, 14–15 July 2009) *

D-A-D D-A-D (formerly stylized as D:A:D) is a Danish rock band. They were originally named Disneyland After Dark, but changed their name to avoid a lawsuit from The Walt Disney Company. History In the early 1980s in Copenhagen, D-A-D started play ...

(Gothenburg, 15 July 2009) *

The Milestones The Milestones () were a Pakistani pop rock band that formed in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, in 1990. The group was formed by lead guitarist, Ziyyad Gulzar and bassist, Ali Tim, who were soon joined by female lead vocalist, Candy Pereira. The Mil ...

(Finland, 17 & 18 July 2008) *

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(

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, Poland, 24 February 2006, and

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, Poland, 9 October 2006) * The Crave – UK tour, November 2009 *

Electric Mary Electric Mary is a rock and classic rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Their debut single "Sail On" reached #76 on the ARIA Singles chart. Synopsis The band formed in 2003 and named themselves after Rusty Brown met Mary Culum Campbell, the m ...

– Australian tour dates, April/May 2010 *

Marillion Marillion are a British neo-prog band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1979. They emerged from the post-punk music scene in Britain and existed as a bridge between the styles of punk rock and classic progressive rock, becoming the mo ...

– German tour dates, November 2010 *

Philip Sayce Philip Sayce is a Welsh-born American and Canadian guitarist, singer, songwriter, performer, and producer. Early life Sayce was born in Aberystwyth on June 3, 1976, his family moved to Canada when he was two years old, and he grew up in Toron ...

Puggy Puggy is a Belgian band formed in 2004, when French bassist Romain Descampe and English vocalist Matthew Irons met Swedish drummer Egil "Ziggy" Franzén at a jazz school in Brussels.Hertogs, Bert (2011)Puggy, Ancienne Belgique Brussel, concertne ...

– France tour dates, December 2010

References

External links

Tour dates

Live At Budapest 6.XI.07 Review in Romanian Language

Deep Purple Tour Page
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