Three songs from the new album, no other changes compared to the last touring cycle.
What’s the point in buying a ticket for a new tour if the setlist never changes?
To see the guys, enjoy the show not knowing if it’s the last time. I don’t care what they play, they could play MK1 songs (not MK 3/4 or MK Joleene though).
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Were you there, or are you relying in the Setlist FM details I suspect are wrong? IF I’m right, I suspect it was 5 new tracks (including Guinnesis). Black Night missing from the version of the set I saw is why I think the list is incomplete.
But as to your other point - I like seeing them play live, as simple as that. I saw 12 shows in 1998, where the set was mostly the same each night - if it varied, it was by one song. No one seemed to mind back then.
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Hi Daniel,
I go to every tour because I always think “maybe the last time” and as we see with Glenn’s announcement yesterday it’s a grace to be able to see these guys still touring. This time I felt like you, the setlist and performance was too close to last tour. I guess it’s a purple tradition. When Deep Purple toured “Who do we Think We Are” they played almost the same songs the same way as on the former tour. When they toured “The House of Blue Light” they played 3-4 songs from the new album, the remainder was more or less the setlist from the Perfect Strangers tour.
I go to every gig they play here in my country Austria since 1985 when i was a youngster…way back when the World was young…it belongs to me…the setlist is not that important…a few new songs are ok…some old gems have to be played…sadly they don’t do Strange Kind of W, anymore, loved to sing along
Well, I will just love to see them! As Jan is saying: they can play whatever they want… 
Looks like they did indeed drop Black Night. I wonder if that was a timing issue? I mean - it is a song I’m happy to lose, and I think Hush will work as the set closer, but it drops the set down to 80 mins (if reports of 9pm start/10:20 end are true). I guess we’ll know after the next couple of nights.
Hard Lovin’ Man also dropped, so it’s good they did that but kept in two =1 tracks.
Yep, setlist.fm my source. Three new songs compared to the last touring cycle: AB, Diablo and SG (I am not counting Guinessesis…).
With such a rich back catalogue, surely they can afford to make more changes than this from one tour to another? Regardless if it’s the last time out or not.
The casual fans hardly know who’s in the band, so it’s not like they would be able to tell the difference from Into the Fire to No One Came or Any Fule Kno That.
I get that the band chooses songs they enjoy playing but there must be other songs they enjoy playing too, surely?
The whole 80s and 90s are overlooked, vital eras for the band commercially and creatively.
If the 1st night is the format for the tour, it’s pretty much a 50/50 split between 60s/70s and the current line-up. That’s not bad, as despite everything, the 60s/70s material is still the most popular with the general audience. I’ve asked my kid to check their most popular tracks on Spotify to help confirm this.
From 84-95, we got a set largely based on MiJ with PS, KAYBD, Difficult to Cure and 4 or 5 tracks from whatever album. From 96 until about 2002, the band really mined the back catalogue and created a pool of songs that would then come and go over multiple tours until I suppose, Covid. Even since then, the Whoosh!, =1 and Splat! tours have totalled 32 or so tracks from a 16 or so song set (excluding solos).
The US tour is also slightly more packed that the recent European shows - they’re back to playing three shows in a row at one or two points. I’m hopeful that the return to Europe will make a couple of changes, but accept that this may be it for the year. Still - I get to catch up with friends in the bar before/after each show, and that’s almost as important as the gig itself
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Also, the U.S. leg of the tour is sort of a “package” with 3 “name” bands (Kansas and Jefferson Whatever have had quite a few hits), hence perhaps a time constraint.
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I checked out the setlist of the shows I’ve seen, and of the ten gigs over the past 28 years, only one song has been played every time - SOTW. Still, it’s increasingly just Machine Head sessions + current songs (with just two from anywhere else remaining), and I can only agree with the sentiment that with a back catalogue like this, it is a shame. But I also agree with the idea that you never know which show will be the last and gratefully accept that you got one more show, whether it be the same setlist or not.
In addition, the fact that they are doing six current songs (or five, however you count it) with a back catalogue like this, is a show of strength and belief in what they are doing right now. While us older fans would definitely want to be reminded of the times we saw them the first time with new material, this is where they are at - luckily for them. And whatever recent converts they have, those people can rejoice that they are not just a nostalgia act, even if it is otherwise somewhat inevitable for a band like that, at this point in time.
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Going back to my earlier comment about streaming, here’s Purple’s Top Ten on Spotify. 6 of the 7 Mk II tracks, plus Hush, are currently in the set. We may not like it, but that is what people are listening to.
If strictly following the Spotify top ten, they wouldn’t be playing any new stuff. Bring back KAYBD, Bad Attitude and Unwritten Law, even if it requires IP changing his drum kit to get the right effect 
I don’t follow.
None of those songs are in the Top Ten. They play the old stuff people are listening to plus some new stuff.
Simplest, as the annoying meerkat says
The new stuff is not what people are listening to, yet they perform it. Therefore, they could perform songs from PS and HOBL as well, even though they are not in the Spotify top ten. Hope you follow
Well, no - they are promoting a new album, so they play new material. Until they switched in PS, we had that near 50/50 split between current line-up and the most popular old stuff. Now we’re closer to 60/40, but the added-in older track is also Top Ten.
I’ve widened by search to all Purple songs on Spotify.
https://kworb.net/spotify/artist/568ZhdwyaiCyOGJRtNYhWf_songs.html
The Top 30 is all 60s/70s except for
Perfect Strangers
KAYBD
Wasted Sunsets
Gipsy’s Kiss
Love Conquers All
SIFLS
Throw My Bones
Looking at the top 30 list Doug linked to above, I draw the following conclusions:
Drop all the =1 songs, ITF, HLM, guitar + keyboard solos and bring back SKOW, KAYBD, Fireball, Wasted Sunsets, Speed King (guitar and keyboard solo integrated here instead) and A Gypsy’s Kiss. Should amount to the same show length.
Would make things exciting again.
This leg of the tour has 3 bands in it, so it seems like it is an issue of timing, and due to curfew demands Black Night was dropped of the set.
I understand Daniel’s point and you all can say what you feel or what you want - but the set did get unadventurous again. They feel comfortable in the stone set scheme worked out many years ago and I blame it on the four of the five men being more less 80 YO. They just need their comfort zone to work and appeal the running business. They tweaked few things early on in Europe, tried some bits once or twice and we’re back at the usual hoopla. So be it. I’d be bored with it to death and actually it’s so boring that I feel bored to mention it anymore. It’s just what is there. Justice to the legacy lies elsewhere, not in presentation of the cross section of the sonic history.
All that matters is that you guys and gals with no expectations whatsoever enjoy the show. Toronto is today I think, I hope Mike tells us all about it in a day or two, as a direct witness of the proceedings.
Except some of those songs are one’s Gillan feels he can’t sing every night, and the solos are there to give him a chance to rest his voice
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