Joe Lynn Turner will be in Brazil in early 2011with Big Noize, including the return of ex Black Sabbath and Heaven & Hell drummer Vinny Appice. The band will be playing on a "Motorcycle Rock Cruise"  which will be taking place between January 31 and February 2. Other artists appearing include Jeff Scott Soto, Hail( with Tim 'Ripper' Owens) and Sepultura.

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Over The Rainbow are due to play their first live dates since July 2010 when they head to Finland for three shows in October.

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Swedish Radio station P4 recently broadcast half an hour of Over The Rainbow's show at the "Sweden Rock Festival", Sölvesborg, Norje Havsbad from June 4th 2009.The tracks aired were: Man On The Silver Mountain / Street Of Dreams / I Surrender / Long Live Rock And Roll / Since You Been Gone.

You can catch the show at sverigesradio.se. Scroll down the page, and click on the link "P4 Live med Bullit". The Over The Rainbow segement starts around 27 minutes into the programme.

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Joe Lynn Turner, Graham Bonnet and Doogie White are touring Japan in September as the 'The Voices Of Rainbow'. Turner will be playing with Japanese guitarist Akira Kajiyama's band, and Bonnet with his latest incarnation of Alcatrazz . White is listed as 'guest vocal' for the shows.

There is a Japanese 'Voices Of Rainbow' page at www.zak.co.jp/artest/2010/rainbow/

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Joe Lynn Turner is lining up a Brazilian tour for May 2010, slotting neatly between two European jaunts with Over The Rainbow. The dates are below

The very Purple-centric set-list for Joe's Moscow show in February 2010 was: Death Alley Driver / I Surrender / Stone Cold / Unfinished Business / Street Of Dreams / Can't Let You Go / Jealous Lover / All Night Long / Can't Happen Here / Power / Spotlight Kid / Highway Star / Stargazer / Long Live Rock'n'Roll / Black Night / Lazy / Smoke On The Water / Burn

The set list for Joe's May 28th performance at the Blackmore Rock Bar in São Paulo, Brazil was: Death Alley Driver / Perfect Strangers / I Surrender / Street of Dreams / Man on the Silver Mountain / King of Dreams / Endleslly / Jealous Lover / Can´t Let You Go / Blood Red Sky / Stone Cold / Can´t Happen Here / Stargazer / Highway Star / Spotlight Kid /Long Live Rock´n ´ Roll( including Lazy and Black Night). Encore: Gates of Babylon / Smoke on the Water / Burn.

His band was : Joe Lynn Turner – Vocals / Andy Robbins – Bass / Garry King – Drums / Betovani – Guitar /Bruno Sá - Keyboards.

While in Brazil Joe also appeared on the TV char show "Todo Seu" ( Glenn Hughes appeared on it last year) where he was interviewed, and also performed live acoustic versions of Stone Cold and Street of Dreams. The show can be found on YouTube: first part, second part.

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Over The Rainbow have lined up some European shows for 2010, including three Scandinavian festival dates in July.

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Thanks to www.joelynnturner.com and Albertino Viveiros

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Joe Lynn Turner is due to play some Brazilian concert dates in July / August 2009. Garnoe Productions have set up a website for this tour with more details about the venue locations, and where to purchase tickets. Updated tour list:

The Goiania set list was: Highway Star / I Surrender / King of Dreams / Blood Red Sky / Street of Dreams / Divided / Stone Cold / Jealous Lover / Love Conquers All / Death Alley Driver / Love's Gone Wrong / Burn / Hush / Smoke on the Water / Perfect Strangers.

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Tony Carey has left the Rainbow tribute act Over The Rainbow which will disappoint a lot of people interested to hear him live again. There has been a press statement onwww.melodicrock.com : "Carey wishes to make it clear that there were no personality issues or clashes involving any other members. Carey is and was dissatisfied with the management, and feels that too many errors were made; unfortunately, the management came with the package, being Joe Lynn Turner's people, and took over from the beginning. 'I wish the lads all the success in the world', says Carey." Only David Stone can save them now!

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Over The Rainbow have lined up a Swedish festival date in June. Latterday Rainbow keyboardist Paul Morris will deputise for Tony Carey, who will miss the show after developing a gastrointestinal disorder that requires immediate treatment. Doctors have recommended that he refrain from touring and traveling for a short period of time. Thanks to Lisa Walker for the news.

Over The Rainbow are lining up a string of American shows to take place during July. If you want more info scoot over to the Joe Lynn Turner site. Thanks to Lisa Walker for the news

Joe Lynn Turner has announced the release for the second SUNSTORM album, House of Dreams, due out late April 2009. The first SUNSTORM album came out in 2006, and saw JLT blow the dust off a number of strong AOR songs. This follow up works along very similar lines, sticking very much to the melodic rock genre.

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Big Noize, featuring Joe Lynn Turner, Carlos Cavazo, Vinnie Appice and Phil Soussan, have new song 'Battlefields' available as streaming audio from their site at www.myspace.com/abignoize. The song was performed during their recent shows in the Middle East.

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Rainbow tribute act Over The Rainbow have begun a tour of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. As previously reported, the band consists of former Rainbow members Joe Lynn Turner, Tony Carey, Bobby Rondinelli and Greg Smith, along with Ritchie Blackmore's son Jurgen on guitar. The dates are:

DPAS reviews: Over The Rainbow on tour, 2009

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Over The Rainbow, consisting of former Rainbow musicians Joe Lynn Turner, Tony Carey, Bobby Rondinelli and Greg Smith, along with Blackmore's lad Jurgen, have announced three Japanese shows for April / May 2009.

Former Rainbow musicians Joe Lynn Turner, Tony Carey, Bobby Rondinelli and Greg Smith have teamed up with Blackmore's lad Jurgen to form a new tribute band Over The Rainbow, and are due to begin touring in Russia in early 2009 (see dates above). Although it was known that something of this nature was on the cards, it is still quite a surprise to learn who the guitarist is. It'll be interesting to see how this develops.

Over The Rainbow now have a MySpace page at www.myspace.com/overtherainbowrocks

Big Noize (featuring Joe Lynn Turner) are due play a UK show in 2009. They have been announced as part of the line-up for Z Records' "Z Rock 2009' festival at JB's in Dudley on May 30th. Other acts listed for the two day event include John Waite. A one day ticket costs £30.

For more info visit www.myspace.com/zrockfest

Joe Lynn Turner is due to play shows in Kuwait (September 5) and Iraq (September 7,8,10 and 11) as part of the Big Noize project, alongside bassist Phil Soussan (ex Ozzy Osbourne band), guitarist Carlos Cavazo (Quiet Riot) and drummer Simon Wright (AC/DC). The Big Noize drum stool was originally to be occupied by Vinnie Appice.

Joe is quoted as saying : "I have wanted to go to Iraq and perform for the troops for a long time. Rainbow and Deep Purple have always had a lot of fans in the military. I tried to go via the USO as a volunteer musician and was turned down!"

The tour is part of the Multi National Corps Iraq programme headquartered at Al Faw Palace in Baghdad, to bring entertainment to the Multi National forces stationed in Iraq and Kuwait.

Apparently Joe Lynn Turner, Bobby Rondinelli and Tony Carey have got their heads together and decided to go out on the road as Purple Rainbow (with Dio's Craig Goldy completing the line-up). This is the latest in a long line of all-star projects JLT has been involved in of late, but the first time Carey has broken cover in a long time.

Seventeen years after Joe Lynn Turner toured the USSR with Yngwie Malmsteen, the two were recently invited back to Moscow by the Russian Prime Minister to perform for an audience of 75 (made up of his cabinet and staff) on Independence Day. JLT and Yngwie each did separate sets then finished the night off by getting together to jam a couple of Deep Purple songs and selections from Malmsteen's 1989 'Odyssey' album.

Joe Lynn Turner toured with Turkish guitar player Cem Koksal in spring 2006, and from those shows a live DVD and CD have been released. The DVD is from a gig in Bursa, Turkey, played in front of an audience of 35,000.

The DVD features Turkish guitar player Cem Köksal with Joe Lynn Turner on vocals singing Cem's material. The gig in Bursa was recorded with 14 cameras and lasts an hour. The DVD also contains over an hour of special features with interviews, behind the scene footage, etc. and comes in deluxe Digipak with slipcase. It is also issued on CD. This title is only issued in Turkey, but you can order it from Guray Topac at guraytopac@gmail.com

Small print - We are passing this address on in good faith but can accept no responsibility for goods not purchased through dpas mail order.

Material written for a projected follow up to his "Rescue You" album on Elektra was issued in late September 2006 as "Sunstorm", on Frontiers Records. Joe has dusted off the demos, and is re-recording the material with a new crew for the album. It is now in stock at dpas mail order.

"Just viewed the press release about JLT's "Sunstorm" project. Having spoken with Joe about a week or so ago, I can tell you that only three songs from his unreleased follow up to "Rescue You" are on the Sunstorm Project. Everyone seems to be under the impression that all of the songs are going to be on Sunstorm (not true). Hope this helps. Frank Beltran."