Our man Rob McAuslan is a bit of an Iron Maiden fan. He travelled to another country to see them play live in Paris. We know some people who get the hump when they have to get the bus to go to a gig. Rob’s got dedication.
6 things we learned watching Iron Maiden in Paris…
Download Festival have confirmed the identity of their first 2013 headliner – Iron Maiden. The titans of British metal – and indisputably one of the biggest metal bands both a) of today, and b) of all time – will mark Iron Maiden’s first appearance at Donington Park since their 2007 headline spot.
With Iron Maiden set to release their latest live album, En Vivo!, tomorrow, and with it being ten years to the day since the release of their Rock In Rio live album, we figured this week’s Slaylist was the perfect opportunity to showcase the very best of the best live recordings that Iron Maiden – arguably the best in the business when it comes to live albums – have ever released.
The airline for which Bruce Dickinson, is Marketing Director and a pilot for has gone into administration. The Iron Maiden frontman has said that he has already started on plans to resurrect Crawley-based Astraeus, or at least “create a new business with new jobs for my friends and former colleagues”. What a dude.
On Board Flight 666 is the perfect pictorial accompaniment for any Iron Maiden fan’s coffee table. We got our grubby mitts on this wonderful book a couple of weeks ago and had a chat with the photographer, John McMurtrie about his journey with The Irons. You will be gutted if/when you spill coffee on it.
It’s not rocket science, is it? Enter Shikari are playing a teeny weeny show to around 400 very lucky people in Camden. We’d been promised a shiny green lightshow as well so obviously we went down there, somehow still carrying a bit of Download Festival hangover, and got really, really sweaty.
Funeral For a Friend are one of those British bands that as mid-to-late 20-somethings, we’ve seen regularly over the past decade. What’s one more time? An absolute pleasure. That’s what. Well, seeing as they were playing a low-key date at London’s Highbury Garage
Yes, we’ll take any excuse to re-use the worst bit of photoshopping we’ve done all year – Iron Maiden have released the video to ‘The Final Frontier’, the first “single” and title-track from their forthcoming 15th studio album.
Over the Bank Holiday weekend, we kept ourselves entertained thanks to a heads up from MetalSucks.net that the entire of Penelope Spheeris’ classic documentary on 80s metal, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, was streaming in its entirety. Its US-centric viewpoint got us thinking – surely there must be some more UK-centric metal documentaries out there? Little did we know that the results of just a little bite of searching would be crammed so full of awesomeness.
