Don Airey has a new solo album A Light In The Sky out in February. "In my youth I was very interested in astronomy," explained Airey. "These days I live in the Cambridge astronomer belt. I have a telescope and know my way around the sky. I must own nearly 60 books about the creation of the universe, birth of stars, planetary systems, etc, so in some ways I'm musing about what we're doing here on Earth. What I had in mind was making something that sounded like a cross between RAINBOW, THE MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA and JEAN-MICHEL JARRE."

Don is hoping he can arrange a tie-in tour in April, depending on the musicians being available.dpas mail order will be stocking the CD.  MR#700211. Photo: Martin Ashberry, aka 'Dad'

GARY MOORE : The Definitive Montreux Collection : Eagle Vision

Gary Moore has dipped in an out of the Blues for a fair wee while now, dating back to his “Still Got The Blues” album in 1990. It was a move that revitalised a career that had become moribund since his hard rock heyday with Thin Lizzy and his early solo career. He first took his Midnight Blues Band to the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1990 to promote that album, and that’s the first segment to appear on the double DVD release. Now the more eagle eyed amongst you will have spotted the fact that this show has already been released on DVD, as recently as 2004. You may also find it annoying that they’ve just chopped 7 tracks from that DVD and dropped it into this one, something that renders the word ‘Definitive’ defunct. On the plus side they’ve had the sense to retain ‘Cold Cold Feeling’ with Albert Collins. It was a fabulous show, with Moore at the peak of his Blues guitar playing, and the Midnight Blues Band were simply superb, especially the playing of Deep Purple keyboard man, Don Airey. The two DVDs take in segments of five shows from 1990, 1995, 1997, 1999 and 2001, lasting over 4 hours.  Fortunately only one version of 'Parisienne Walkways'!

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Australian blues player Gwyn Ashton has a new cd Prohibition out now with Don Airey guesting (alongside Chris Glenn and Ted McKenna, from Alex Harvey Band) on Riverside Records. It can be ordered from dpas mail order.

Gwyn has been in touch to say Don plays on two tracks, piano on "Castaway" and organ on "Are You Lonely".

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Thanks to Marcus Meyer-Meiners for the information

The Don Airey Band played a gig in Austria on 15th June 2007 at VAZ Manglburg, Grieskirchen. The band line-up was listed beforehand as: Don Airey on keys / Carl Sentance ( Krokus) - vocals / Chris Childs ( Thunder) - bass / Kaitner Z Doka -guitar / and Bernhard Welz - drums.

DPAS Live Review: Don Airey Band : Grieskirchen, June 15th 2007 new

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Don Airey plays keyboards on the new Gary Moore CD "Old New Ballads Blues", out now on Eagle. Don also helped with the brass arrangements on two tracks as well.

The CD will be issued in America in May and Japan in June.
Order via dpas mail order.

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