Free Blackmore Fanzine Available Online 27.04.08*

"Hello Blackmore fans. Our idea is to produce a free Ritchie Blackmore fanzine, which involves putting the resultant JPEG fanzine pages onto certain fan forum boards, so that fans can read them and /or copy the pages to their own computers and thus print out the pages at home. We thus present to you, a trial issue to see if the idea works.

Thank you so much, to the fans that have contributed to this project already and also especially, to Candice Night who gave us some brilliant and comprehensive interview answers! Lots of thanks also, to Carole Stevens for all her help and encouragement! So far, we have put the fanzine pages on two different types of web page:
Myspace   http://www.myspace.com/cartouche_blackmore_fanz
Photobucket   http://s289.photobucket.com/albums/ll219/CARTOUCHE01/  (2 pages of JPEGs)

• How do you print out the fanzine pages?
Right-click on each jpeg (fanzine page), click on SAVE PICTURE AS; then save it to MY PICTURES; then print out the fanzine pages (using BEST PHOTO setting), from those saved files, from your home computer printers.

• Let us know what you think!
Mike Garrett  cartouche-fanzine@hotmail.co.uk Kevin Dixon  haydncorelli@hotmail.com

Mike Garrett #900238

It looks as if Blackmore's partner Candice Night is set to star in an American Horror genre film soon, called HOUSE OF ETERNITY. The film is to be produced by Fires At Midnight Films. They will also be doing the music.

The film featuring Blackmore's Night music - House Of Eternity - has launched an official website, as has the production company, so you can read more and see the poster, etc.

Production Website: www.firesatmidnightfilms.com
Film Website: www.houseofeternity.com

MM #9002361

Blackmore's Night are setting out to tour Europe in their "The Secret Voyage Tour 2008". Beginning with a free show in Plock, Poland, the band then visit Sweden and Finland for two shows apiece, before taking in central and eastern Europe. (see our family tour dates page) A second batch of dates (still to be announced) will take place from the end of August through to September 15th Europe. As ever "Blackmore's Night appreciates all of our fans that join in the spirit of the performance by dressing in Renaissance / medieval or traditional garb."

For more details keep an eye on the official Blackmore's Night website.
MK #900237 (with thanks to Haydn Corelli)

The distributors have sent us details of the last of three shows from RAINBOW's September 1976 tour of Germany (Dusseldorf and Cologne are already available), newly mixed from the multi-tracks, and issued to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band's first world tour. It comes with an 8 page colour booklet of notes and pictures. As before the 2xCD set features the regular set-list from that tour:

Kill The King / Mistreated / Sixteenth Century Greensleeves / Catch The Rainbow / Man On The Silver Mountain / Stargazer / Still I'm Sad / Do You Close Your Eyes.

Rainbow Live At Nurnberg is shipping now. It can be ordered from dpas mail order.

DPAS Jukebox: Rainbow Live In Nurnberg 1976

SR #9002333  (Thanks to Steve at Soulfood)

French / German arts channel ARTE will be featuring a 50 documentary centred around Ritchie Blackmore on 2nd October (Monday night / Tuesday morning) at 1.40am CET. The show is part of a music documentary series called "Tracks" which covers heavy metal. It includes an interview with Ritchie shot in Schloss Regensburg, accompanied by well-known archive footage (Cal Jam-DVD, Munich 1977, Doing Their Thing, Beat Club) and a very short clip of The Outlaws in the Live It Up movie.

The episode is available online for a short time at www.arte.tv/de (just click on VOD-Streaming - Windows Media ) SR# 900235 (with thanks to Tim Sinzenich). photo: Rob Ellis

Blackmore's Night's upcoming DVD is now titled Paris Moon and due out in Europe and America in early November. It was filmed at the Paris Olympia, September 20. 2006.

The track listing and sleeve (see left) have made it to the UK at last.

DVD - Introduction / Past Times With Good Company / Rainbow Blues / Play Minstrel Play / World Of Stone / Under A Violet Moon / Soldier Of Fortune / Durch Den Wald Zum Bachaus / Diamonds & Rust / Minstrel Hall / Home Again / Streets Of London / Renaissance Faire / Keyboard Solo / Ariel / Loreley / The Clock Ticks On / Fires At Midnight / St. Theresa / The Village Lanterne

CD Live - Past Times With Good Company/Rainbow Blues / Play Minstrel Play / World Of Stone / Under A Violet Moon / Minstrel Hall / Home Again / Ariel / The Clock Ticks On / Fires At Midnight. CD Bonus Tracks - The Village Lanterne (studio version) / All Because of You (radio edit) / The Village Lanterne (enhanced video track)

It can be preordered at dpas mail order. Initial copies will be in a special package with CD and DVD versions combined. DB #9002341

CNN have an video interview available online, in which Ritchie Blackmore discusses 'Smoke On The Water' with Richard Quest. Entertaining stuff, with Ritchie demonstrating how to (and not to) play the riff (or 'rift' as he first missheard the word). Backwards Beethoven?

CNN Video link: Smoke On The Water

DB #900234 (with thanks to Peter van Ophoven)

Blackmore's Night and Candice Night appear to have written and performed some exclusive tracks for an online game / theme park called Magiquest. The accompanying 'Music Of Magiquest' CD features previously released tracks such as Queen for the Day (Parts One and Two), as well as The Way To Magiquest, Magic Wand Tree, and Written in the Stars.

The game also features Candice Night as an interactive video screen princess.

You can find out more by visiting http://www.magiquest.com. JR #900230

An advance copy of the Dusseldorf show has reached us and sounds good. It's astonishing to hear the crowd chanting Ritchie onto the stage football terrace style - and he doesn't disappoint (except there's no encore - but after a set like this I'm not sure what more they could have given!). Very little of this show has ever appeared officially before - Live In Germany only used one song - but Stargazer and especially the first chunk of Still I'm Sad are simply excellent; hard rock was rarely harder than this. Ronnie Dio is in very strong form, confident enough to be taking liberties with the phrasing, whilst keeping on top of it all. Exhausting listening - but in the best possible way.

dpas mail order tell us they have Dusseldorf in stock, and this will ship from 27th November onwards. It will be available at retail level in January.    MR#9002271

Universal are finally getting around to issuing RAINBOW - LIVE BETWEEN THE EYES on DVD. This was filmed at the San Antonio Stadium, Texas, in August 1982 during the Straight Between The Eyes tour. The show was issued on video in 1983 and has been out on laser disc in Japan, but this is the first DVD release in Europe. The video had 10 songs, I assume the DVD will be the same. The DVD also contains as a bonus the video release FINAL CUT (first issued in 1987), which has eight of the later Rainbow promo videos, plus two songs from the Japanese tour of 1984 (sadly the rest of this show has yet to appear officially in Europe). Clearly it's one for fans of latter day Joe Lynn Turner era Rainbow, anyone else will be able to fast-forward to the guitar solos. Release is expected in October 2006. This can be pre-ordered via dpas mail order.

As well as this title, some sites are pushing a DVD of the Rainbow / Tokyo 1984 show due any time. Research on the web has failed to produce a site for the label concerned and we fear this may be another pirate release. If we find otherwise we'll let you know.

MM#9002251 (Thanks to John Derry). Photos: Alan Perry

I have to say on first quick viewing that this is a storming release, and it's so good to have it officially available after years languishing in varying quality pirate formats. The image quality is very good, and I feared for the speakers on my TV during Cozy's solo (what a great way to remember him at his peak) such is the volume. Dio is also at his peak, and you can even start to appreciate the work of Daisley and Stone more properly. I was critical of latter day Rainbow and of Blackmore in the reformed Purple at times, but hopefully watching this you can begin to understand why. No dodging the issue here. The man just rules the stage. He's in control, taking the performance where he wants, driving the set. It was on performances like this that his reputation, built up over the six or seven years in Purple, was capped; solid playing, underpining the tracks, then bursting out with loud riffy runs, gentle laid back solos, pushing rock guitar at the edges. Bliss. And to see the glorious stage rainbow in full flight just brings back so many memories of the 76 and 77 tours. Frankly, no Blackmore or Rainbow fan should hesitate for a second. SR

SR#900223