"They hit their stride on the home straight, thundering through the likes of Space Truckin’, Highway Star and (on the DVD only) Black Night with multiple solos - some stirring, some stilted - and plenty of good-natured muscle. Preceding  Smoke on the Water, Paice and Airey even do a piano-and-brushes swing-jazz intro that’s cheeky, cheery and slightly baffling, before Steve Morse brings in the dumb, brilliant riff that launched a thousand rip-offs. ’It was only just down the road,’ mutters Gillan, almost poignantly, as rock history celebrates itself."

5/10
Chris Roberts
Classic Rock

"The Deep Purple release sees the band revisiting the Swiss town that inspired their legendary track Smoke on the Water, giving an inspired performance that includes Strange Kind of Woman, Highway Star and, what else, Smoke on the Water."

Choice Magazine

"With a nod to the nature of the festival where they’re appearing, there’s a brilliant ’cocktail jazz’ preamble to Smoke on the Water, of all things. The lyrics of the song immortalised the festival’s supremo Funky Claude - who’s among the guests taking the stage towards the end of Purple’s set."

Russell Newmark
The Beat