A combined CD / DVD package of Nick Simper & Nasty Habits live at Szene, Vienna, 8th May 2011 is being lined up - with the release date to be confirmed. The set list is And The Address / The Painter / Mandrake Root / Emmaretta / Chasing Shadows / Lalena / Wring That Neck / The Bird Has Flown / Why Didn´t Rosmary / Slinky / Roadhouse Blues / Kentucky Woman / Hush.

Nick Simper & Nasty Habits have two more shows planned for Austria in May 2012.

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Nick Simper and Nasty Habits have a show lined up for Vienna on 8 May 2011, as part of a double header along with The Pretty Things. An Austrian festival appearance has been set up for 22 July. This will be alongside the likes of Joe Cocker, Robbie Krieger & Ray Manzarek and Canned Heat. Nick Simper and Nasty Habits are also set to play at "Open Air in der Herzogburg" in September, one day after Jon Lord's Blues Project appearance at the same event.

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Nick Simper & Nasty Habits played two more "Deep Purple Mk1 Songbook" shows in August and September.

Ralph Grille caught the 12th September "Blues-Event" in Vienna, where Nick played on a bill also featuring Miller Anderson, Chris Farlowe and Clem Clempson.

"They put on a rousing show to finish the night at the Gasometer. The idea behind was not to simply to reproduce Deep Purple Mk1's somgs, but to give them s a completely new face. The show was very impressive. The set-list was: And The Address / The Painter / Mandrake Root / Emmaretta / Chasing Shadows / Lalena / Wring That Neck / The Bird Has Flown / Hush / Roadhouse Blues."

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Nick Simper was recently interviewed by the Rockpages website, before a show in Hungary. Regardng Deep Purple Mk1 he says:

"Three albums in a year, it doesn’t happen today, is it? We did that and we made them on very very small budgets. A lot of the tracks were done almost live, because we ran such tight budgets, we spent all this time working, working, working, touring, there was no chance to really try and develop as writers or even as a proper unit and in the end, after six months of touring in America, everybody’s getting a bit sick of it. We all had different points of view of how the band should go and how the band should be run, what agents we should have and sadly the whole thing imploded."

Read the full interview at Rockpages.gr.

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Nick Simper and ex Rainbow vocalist Doogie White are due to play a show in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 16th October 2010. According to Doogie's website the show will feature " five solos songs, ten Deep Purple Mk1 songs and three Dio songs."

DPAS poster gallery: Nick Simper & Doogie White : Brazil 2010

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Nick Simper and Austrian tribute band Nasty Habits will be releasing an official live recording in mid August 2010. Together they whip through 11 Deep Purple Mk 1 oldies. The full track list is : And The Address / The Painter / Mandrake Root / Emmaretta / Chasing Shadows / Lalena / Wring That Neck / The Bird Has Flown / Why Didn’t Rosemary / Kentucky Woman / Hush.

The first 1,000 copies have a bonus filmed interview with Nick and some live footage.

The upcoming Nick Simper live CD has now gone to a third sleeve design (come on guys!), but at least this time it's for the best! A decent live shot. They are also releasing one of the non-album cuts as a CD single, a track called Roadhouse Blues (a track by The Doors originally) backed by two off the album. (Read more on the DPAS blog)

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The performance of Nick Simper's band Good Old Boys at Jerry Bloom's convention in 2008 is due out on CD in July. 14 tracks with a booklet of pictures and notes. It includes a number of rock and roll standards as well as a cover of Hush.

This can be ordered at DPASMailorder.

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Thanks to Jerry Bloom.

Looks like Nick Simper is working on his autobiography. No publication date known yet, but we'll keep you informed of any progress.

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The setlist for Nick Simper and Nasty Habits' Mk1 tribute show in Vienna on March 14th 2009 was:

And The Address / The Painter / Mandrake Root / Emmaretta (ending with a bass solo and drum solo) / Chasing Shadows / Lalena / Wring That Neck (including an organ solo) / Why Didn't Rosemary / Roadhouse Blues (The Doors) / Kentucky Woman. Encores: Hush / Gimme Some Lovin' (The Spencer Davis Group)

DPAS live review (with photos): Nick SImper & Nasty Habits, live in Vienna, March 14th 2009

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Nick Simper was due to play three Mk1 tribute shows in Austria and Germany during November with Austrian rock band Nasty Habits. Sadly all three had to be cancelled, but with the hope of trying again in the new year. Nasty Habits drummer Peter Brkusic has now brought us the good news that two Austrian shows have been rescheduled for the Orpheum, Graz on March 11th 2009, and Reige, Vienna on March 14th. The set list will be comprised entirely of Mk1 tracks

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Thanks to Peter Brkusic.

'The Carlo Little Night of Honour' tribute show played at York House, Richmond on 26th March 2006 has been released as a double DVD set. The musicians include Nick Simper with the Good Old Boys, as well as Dick Taylor & Phil May (The Pretty Things), Wee Willie Harris, Mick Avory (The Kinks), and the late Art Wood. For more information, and to order, visit www.nicksimper.com, who report that "all profits are to go to South Tyneside Hospital, Ward 10, where Carlo spent his last weeks."

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