Deep Purple Bring the Splat! Tour to Hard Rock Live with a Career-Spanning 16-Song Set

Deep Purple came to South Florida on August 9 and delivered a performance that the room won't forget quickly.

Deep Purple brought their Splat! Tour to Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida on August 9, 2026, delivering a 16-song set that moved from orchestral grandeur to hard rock thunder and back again — a reminder that few bands in rock history have maintained this level of command across six decades. The night opened not with a guitar riff but with Gustav Holst: the ominous, building tension of "Mars, the Bringer of War" filled the room before the band took the stage, setting an appropriately epic tone. When "Highway Star" finally detonated, the crowd was already primed. The early stretch moved through "A Bit on the Side" and the vintage menace of "Into the Fire," before a Guitar Solo gave Steve Morse the room to demonstrate exactly why he has held this chair for over thirty years. The mid-set was where the evening found its most interesting textures. "Arrogant Boy" and "Lazy Sod" gave way to the sprawling, hypnotic groove of "Lazy," one of the band's most enduring live vehicles. The mood shifted entirely with "When a Blind Man Cries," a ballad that Ian Gillan delivered with genuine weight, and "Diablo" brought the intensity back up before Don Airey's Keyboard Solo — a set piece that is equal parts concert and spectacle — held the room in its own orbit. "Scriblin' Gib'rish" and the cosmic churn of "Space Truckin'" built toward the inevitable: "Smoke on the Water," the riff that launched a thousand garage bands, still lands with the force of something genuinely elemental when played by the people who wrote it. The encore opened with "Guinnesis" before closing on a cover of Joe South's "Hush" — the song that first put Deep Purple on the map in 1968. Gillan capped it with an unscripted a cappella passage from Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene," a spontaneous, disarming moment that sent the crowd out into the Florida night with something they did not expect: a lullaby from a hard rock legend. For more upcoming events across South Florida, visit the Premier Guide Miami Events Calendar .