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Blackmore recently appeared on Rich Davenport’s Rock Show with his wife and Blackmore’s Night bandmate, Candice Night, and though the duo are promoting a new album, talk eventually turned to his highly anticipated “return to rock” after nearly 20 years spent focusing on traditional music. Even though Blackmore made it clear this is just a temporary revival for good times’ sake, he also hinted at the possibility of further Rainbow shows.

“Blackmore’s Night will go on, and this is just a brief intermission of playing some good old rock, but with some good friends and some good musicians,” said Blackmore. “And hopefully everybody’s there for the same reason, which is it’s good music and it’s nostalgia, and hopefully everything goes well. If it works, we’ll do, obviously, more dates. We’re only doing three this first time. But, like I said, if it works, we’ll do more later on.” You can listen to the interview Mixcloud.

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This is how it went down at Birmingham...

O.K…...... this is how it went….

Catch The Rainbow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HotXP1KcLZU
Difficult To Cure - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqy4WrTilLY
Child In Time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKcKSAKSjuE
Mistreated - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDrDYn0a3tk
Stargazer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9bJ143LF2s

Ronnie Romero has some voice.......

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BansheeUK wrote:

This is how it went down at Birmingham...

O.K…...... this is how it went….

Catch The Rainbow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HotXP1KcLZU
Difficult To Cure - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqy4WrTilLY
Child In Time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKcKSAKSjuE
Mistreated - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDrDYn0a3tk
Stargazer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9bJ143LF2s

Ronnie Romero has some voice.......

He certainly does.

I enjoyed the show, but thought Ritchie was playing well within himself.
I'll let him off though, being as I was half expecting the show to be a car crash.

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My post on another forum after the show ...


It's almost exactly 40 years since I first saw Ritchie, Ronnie and Cozy at the De Montford Hall in Leicester - 1st September 1976 !!

Last night, we were in Birmingham for probably the last ever Rainbow performance.

We were in the middle, 7th row from the front and everyone stood up for the whole show. There were a few signs of lack of rehearsals, and it did take Ritchie a while to get going, but guess what? We had a blast. The crowd was brilliant and it was all about the songs.

Catch the Rainbow was outstanding and I cried tears of happiness. Soldier of fortune was emotional too. Stargazer was epic !!!

Special words for Romero whose vocals were astonishing. He made every song sound like one of his own. I was very impressed.

There were little niggles and issues, but in the end they were irrelevant. I've just seen some of the greatest rock songs ever written, played, by the greatest rock guitarist I've ever seen with a crowd that sang every word to every song and I ferking loved every single second.

I haven't been to bed and my voice has gone and my tinnitus is screaming like a fire alarm, but I don't care !!

Thank You to Ritchie for doing this and to the English fans for making it a great night.

Long live rock and roll and Long Live the Man in Black !!!

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Hints and murmuring that there may be more shows to come, sometime in 2017.......

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Guess what!?!    Blackmore is bringing Rainbow round the UK again next June.  No word to indicate that it won't be the same line-up as this year (there's a novelty, Rainbow touring the same line-up 2 years running....).

Jun 17 2017 Stone Free Festival 2017 London    The O2 (SE10 0DX)
Jun 22 2017 Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow Manchester    Manchester Arena (M3 1AR)
Jun 25 2017 Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow Glasgow    The SSE Hydro (G3 8WY)
Jun 28 2017 Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow Birmingham    Genting Arena (B40 1NT)

Tickets on sale (Via ENTS24) from Thursday 8th Dec, 10:00am.

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Planet Rock pre sale tomorrow at 10.00 am

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1st new track from Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow in 20 years:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKtPlcugqF0

Memories In Rock II, from last year's tour CD/DVD & Vinyl to be released 6th April.

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