[kj] OT: Iron Maiden

[Brendan]

He did go on a bit at the start of Rime (Rhyme?) of the Ancient Mariner
about an old bit of dusty Epic Poetry but I zoned out...

Some words should never be prefixed by the word epic. Poetry is one of them.


> I'm really enjoying these gig reports, and hope that people keep taking

> the

> trouble to post them. Thanks to everyone who has.

>

> Did he do a reading from Lord Iffy Boatrace?

>

> Darren

> Hungerford, UK

>

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> Subject: [kj] OT: Iron Maiden

>

> That little fella has a lot of energy. Dickenson runs around like a Cirque

> de Soleil performer, all over the stage, belting out Maiden tracks

> effortlessly. Incredible energy, he was always moving and his vox were top

> notch on top of it.

>

> a 9-foot tall Eddie robot thing with a space pistol and not enough skin

> covering his flesh came out half way through and danced spasmodically for

> a bit then stood there staring at me accusingly over a speaker stack, fuck

> man, I had a couple of joints, so?! Is it cos I didn't buy any albums...?!

> Arrgh. Then he shuffled off, probably so as not to crush any of the band.

> Fucking thing was huge, and looked totally independent (I mean no wires or

> any of that).

>

> We got most of the early classics, I missed Bring Your Daughter to the

> Slaughter but that's later model stuff so fair enough. 12 000 at the gig,

> in the last week or so they sold off a lot of the extra tix really cheap,

> which was a good move (I figured it made them an extra quarter million at

> least) audience went off, fucking good vibe between the band and fans.

>

> Good shit.

>

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