Stakkattakktwo was voted the Best Album of 2011, both by Grande-Rock.com journalists and in the website’s Readers’ Poll.
Plans for the band to record original material were scrapped and Over the Rainbow was formally disbanded in 2011.
When the second record Tough Love was released in 2011 the band then went out to play a headline tour in the UK and Europe to support the record from February to April which included a sold-out show in London at the Electric Ballroom . Later in 2012 the band…
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The album has also been successful commercially. In its first week of release, the album debuted at number one in the United Kingdom, selling over 82,000 units. Overall, the album sold 333,000 units. NME named the album cover, an artwork-free cream monochrome after the styling of the Beatles’ White Album…
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The band played at Uproar Festival 2011 , after which they began writing material for a fourth studio album.
In November 2010 it was announced that the Different Class line-up (Cocker, Banks, Doyle, Mackey, Senior and Webber) would be playing at the Wireless festival in London’s Hyde Park and a Saturday slot at the Isle of Wight Festival in 2011. In a message sent to the band’s official mailing…
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In mid-2011, the band released another one-off single called ” Quelle Surprise ” before releasing the first single, ” Sssnakepit ” and ” Gandhi Mate, Gandhi ” in September and December, respectively, off their third album.
Deep Purple did concert tours in 48 countries in 2011.
The band announced a Christmas tour for 2011 – celebrating the 15 years since the release of A Maximum High . The tour, entitled ‘The Maximum Hits Tour’ focused on their output during the A Maximum High era, and included a brass section on tour for the first time.
The band presented five new songs at festivals during the summer of 2011, ” Charlie Brown “, ” Hurts Like Heaven “, “Us Against the World”, “Princess of China” and ” Major Minus “.