Pictures of Nick and Nasty Habits at their gigs in Germany and Austria during 2011, courtesy of Peter Brkusic. Click on the picture to see the whole set.
Peter has also given us a translation of an article from the ECLIPSED Magazine from Germany 11/2010:
After his leaving from D.P., Nick Simper recorded 2 great albums with “WARHORSE” and later on some mainstream projects. Together with the Austrian Band “NASTY HABITS”, Simper worked on important songs from the 1st DEEP PURPLE Lineup and brought it with the Youngsters on stage.
The result is amazing, cause they performed the old songs with a lot of feeling, joy of playing and power. “Emmaretta” is steaming, “Chasing Shadows” is played with drive and a 60´s atmosphere, “Lalena” is beautifully through the lyric phrases- and “Hush” they played also of course. Believe it or not- this lineup sounds more authentic then the actual lineup from DEEP PURPLE.
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NICK SIMPER & NASTY HABITS Live at Szene, VIENNA
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On 8th March 2011 playing to a sold out audience at Vienna’s legendary Rock Club “Szene” NICK SIMPER (founder member DEEP PURPLE) performed with NASTY HABITS (Austria’s finest Classic Rock band) original tracks from Nick’s period in Deep Purple (Mk 1).
With Deep Purple today only having just one original member from their MK 1 days it is highly unlikely that the band will perform these now neglected classic songs in concert.
The mantle is therefore passed to Nick and Nasty Habits to bring some long forgotten classics back to life and bring them back to life they do. They performed eleven tracks from the first three Deep Purple albums plus one new track “Slinky” from the forthcoming new album.
This release is both a CD version and an actual DVD of the concert at The Scene, Vienna.
Artist: NICK SIMPER & NASTY HABITS
Title: Live at Szene, VIENNA
2 disc set CD and DVD (Sound & Vision)
DVD5- NTSC all regions
Cat No: SJPCD386
TRACKLISTING
1. And The Address
2. The Painter
3. Mandrake Root
4. Emmaretta
5. Chasing Shadows
6. Lalena
7. Wring That Neck
8. Bird Has flown
9. Why Didn’t Rosemary
10. Slinky
11. Roadhouse Blues
12. Kentucky Women
13. Hush
MUSICIANS:NICK SIMPER, CHRISTIAN SCHMID,HELMUT PUSCHACHER,CHRISTIAN HEISSENBERGER,PETER BRKUSIC
To coincide with the release of The Deep Purple MKI Songbook a single featuring a storming version of The Doors’ Roadhouse Blues is also being released.
It also includes an alternative version of Hush unavailable elsewhere plus The Painter.
Together with the Nasty Habits, I had a very enjoyable gig in Budapest recently. I would like to thank the guys in the band Cry Free, who made sure that we received the best hospitality possible. It was a great pleasure to work with them. Their sound is the closest I’ve heard to the original Deep Purple – quite amazing! Check them out if you get the chance.
Last week, together with the Nasty Habits, I performed a concert at Plock in Poland. This was our first visit and we were all absolutely knocked out by the warmth of our reception and the great hospitality shown to us.
I would like to take this opportunity to say once more, thank you to the Nasty Habits for a great performance and thank you to promoter Roland Bury along with Witek, Marcin and Tomasz for all their kindness and support, making it a superb evening.
Na koniec stukrotnie dziÄ™kujÄ™ wszystkim, którzy przyszli na nasz concert i stworzyli niezapomniana noc.
Nick 15th October 2009
Tomasz Slaby has posted some great photos of the day. Click here
Many thanks to Nasty Habits, Christian Schoen and all our friends in Vienna, who made the Good Old Boys’ third visit to the Reigen so enjoyable last week, and special thanks to Wolfgang Jaafar and Wolfgang Gonaus for their great photos and support.
Many thanks to all the Deep Purple fans who attended my recent gigs with the Nasty Habits in Austria. It was tremendous fun to revive the Mark I act, and the enthusiasm of the audience proved that the original Purple songs still sound good, even after 40 years! The Nasty Habits were excellent, as usual. They really deserve to be recognized as one of Austria’s most original bands, writing and performing great songs. Thanks to them, I was able to play the old numbers once more, in front of some lovely people. I hope that we can do it again in the near future and I will look forward to meeting you all once more. Thanks again, and all good wishes.
Nick April 2009
Here is an e-mail I received from Ralph Grille shortly after the Vienna gig:
Nick Simper & Nasty Habits Live at Reigen/ Vienna 2009
The Reigen Club in Vienna is a well known location for people who have an interest in highbrow music. It is permanent venue of the Blues Spring and the Jazz Festival Vienna and a lot of famous musicians like Al Di Meola or Brian Auger for example performed there.
It was Mr. Simper’s third concert there and the Nasty Habits were once again much more than faithful accompanists. Together they celebrated the beloved, but seldom to hear live Deep Purple hits from the early years.
The Nasty Habits are a powerful Viennese rock band, specialized to support rock stars in Austria. The first part of the show contained a couple of usual Nasty Habits songs to warm up. For the second part, Nick Simper came on stage to make true a dream.
I met fans from all over Europe – Poland, Croatia, UK, Germany, Switzerland and of course, from the high mountains of Austria.
Needless to say, it was a unforgettable show, powerful, rousing, I wish they could do it one more time.
Set list: And The Address / The Painter / Mandrake Root / Emmaretta / Chasing Shadows / Lalena / Wring That Neck / Why Didn’t Rosemary / Roadhouse Blues / Kentucky Woman / Hush / Gimme Some Lovin’
Thanks to Ralph and Christian for some fantastic photos of the Vienna gig – sorry it’s taken so long to get them posted! You can see them all here.
More YouTube video from Peter Brkusic: “The Deep Purple Mark 1 Songbook”, performed by Nick and “Nasty Habits”. Here is the official promo DVD for the show, including an interview with Nick. Click here for another clip, this time of Nick and boys playing “Mandrake Root”.
