Due
to a slight mishap with some tickets, I missed
cheap tricks set, but they sounded pretty good,
and I heard them play a cover of magical mystery
tour which is a Beatles cover to the uneducated,
as well as their classic surrender, Dream Police
and gonna raise hell, from the 3 songs I saw,
on top of the world California man and I want
you with me, they were performing pretty tightly,
they looked relaxed and having lots of fun with
smiles for all the crowd.
Deep purple are a band that I'm still surprised
are still going I last saw them in 2006 they were
pretty decent then and seeing them this time with
a 38 piece orchestra is a treat, they open with
an instrumental version of highway star before
the band join in and rock it out, the orchestra
doesn't sound out of place at all, it works really
well. The band have still got it all of the songs
sound as they should but what's off is Ian Gillian's
voice, it's not bad or out of tune, it's just
lacking power can't quite hit the high notes as
he once did, but I fully expected this.
 After highway star they continue with hard loving
man, maybe I'm a Leo, strange kind of woman, at
this point it seems like the orchestra has always
been there, just sounds so very natural, at times
the orchestra stops and lets the band run away
with the songs and extreme them out, at times
there is a bit too much self indulgent instrument
wanking from the band, a sure sign of a band from
the 70s, some of the songs are then overly long
and you really at times lose Interest, it would
be so bad if some of the solos were really interesting.
But on the most part no, but that's a minor grumble.
 They
continue with their set with the likes of woman
from Tokyo, contact lost, when a blind man cries,
the well dressed guitar, lazy no one came, this
really is a best of set list, so many good songs
but they save the best for last, space trucking
and smoke on the water close on the set, SOTW,
gets the entire crowd on their feet, finally as
they look like they were seated zombies with a
few bobbing heads but this song gets them up and
singing!
After the short break they continue on with Hush
and close out the night with the superb black
knight. This performance tonight was better than
last time, I thoroughly enjoyed it and would very
much like to see them again, maybe this time without
the orchestra backing them up.
5/5
Review By Robert Lawrence
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