Comedy poet Steve McLean recounts the true story of five musicians who pretended to be the rock band Deep Purple and ended up playing the first ever stadium rock concert in Mexico.
Steve McLean brings 28-06-1980 (Deep Purple, Riots & Mexico City) to Dram! on Sunday 21 March, as part of the Glasgow International Comedy Festival. The show is built around a true story: five musicians who pretended to be the rock band Deep Purple and, in the chaos that followed, ended up playing the first ever stadium rock concert in Mexico. It's the same tale that inspired his book, Stealing Deep Purple.
McLean is a comedy poet who describes himself as a former 'angry young man' of the Scottish stage. These days his act blends stand-up with songs, so you'll get the storytelling side of things alongside the musical side. The whole thing sits within the Glasgow International Comedy Festival, which bills itself as the largest comedy festival of its kind in Europe and has become a fixture of the city's cultural calendar, programming stand-up stars, television names and home-grown Scottish talent across various Glasgow venues.
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If you're not familiar with the story, the title gives it away: 28 June 1980. That's the date the fake Deep Purple took the stage in Mexico City, and the show follows how five musicians managed to pull it off and what happened when the whole thing went south. It's a true story, so it's less about the punchline and more about how something this absurd actually happened. The show runs at Dram! in the West End on Sunday 21 March.
