It's been over half a century since Deep Purple's 1972 hit "Smoke on the Water" gifted the world with one of the most iconic guitar riffs in rock history...but it's not too late to see the band play the tune live.
As announced in a new Instagram post, Deep Purple will be hitting the road with fellow beloved '70s rockers Kansas this year, kicking off a string of North American dates on Aug. 4 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The run will go on to include stops in cities including Detroit, Indianapolis and Calgary before wrapping up in Sparks, Nevada, on Sept. 12. A number of those shows will also include Jefferson Starship on the bill.
Presale tickets will be available starting Tuesday, March 31, with the code DPBAND, while general sales open up on Friday morning at 10 a.m. local time.
View this post on InstagramDeep Purple has a new album in the works
More good news for Deep Purple fans:
As frontman Ian Gillan told Ultimate Classic Rock, Deep Purple is putting the finishing touches on a new album, due out in June.
"It's basically very optimistic," Gillan said. "Let's say there's a general theme. It's a fairly loose conceptual idea of the end of humanity, but not as grim as it sounds. In fact, it's very optimistic. It's about the metamorphosis of humanity into a metaphysical state, our next incarnation."Bassist Roger Glover hinted at the forthcoming album during a 2025 pause in touring, explaining, "We've not been idle."
"We've been working on and there'll probably be an album [in 2026]," he said at the time. "This has been a welcome break, because we've been hard at it for several years. I think it was good to actually take a break. We did one concert in Brazil, a festival in June or something. And I think [there 's] three in Eastern Europe at the end of the year. But that's it for touring. So [2026]I will [also] be a touring year."
Turns out Glover was right about both the tour and the album.
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