DEEP PURPLE launch first music with new guitarist Simon McBride

30 April 2024

DEEP PURPLE have launch their first new material since new guitarist Simon McBride joined the band.

The propulsive Portable Door is on streaming platforms now and comes from the band's upcoming album =1.

A video for the new song will premiere on YouTube at 6pm BG time.

Portable Door was produced by Bob Ezrin, who receives a writing credit on the song alongside band members Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Don Airey and McBride. It may remind some fans of Pictures Of Home, from PURPLE's classic Machine Head album, but with Ian Gillan's more to the fore as he sings, "You gotta be jokin' man / What are you smokin'? / Blow it out through my portable door."

DEEP PURPLE's first show of 2024 takes place tomorrow night (May 1) at the Fort Canning Park in Singapore, before the One More Time tour begins proper at Parque Tierno Galván in Madrid, Spain, on June 13.

Image credit: Jim Rakete