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Things are pretty crazy at Maiden HQ at the moment, with lots of emails flying around saying 'ooh this is cool' or 'post this'. So here are a few bits and bobs that have landed in the IM.com inbox today...
Eddie in Times Square! That is one big-ass screen.
<åp(if you can't read it, the top screen says 'Iron Maiden Announce Full Details of Live After Deah )/p>
from LA's 'Pick Of The Week', a pretty cool preview for Tuesday...
n Maiden at the Forum
Iron Maiden emerged from East London in the mid-1970s, and their defiantly metal middle finger to that city's punk explosion was, intentionally or otherwise, punk as fuck. Main-man/bassist Steve Harris had a vision of something timeless; 20-plus arena-filling years later, it seems he had a point. Sidestepping the obvious head-bangin' influences of their era -- Led Zeppelin's blues-based swagger and Black Sabbath's lurching doom -- Maiden instead took cues from Thin Lizzy and UFO, developing an almost militaristic, galloping twin-guitar (now triple-guitar) trademark capped with Bruce Dickinson's alternately street-level/quasi-operatic vocals and lyrics that were more War and Peace than sex and sleaze. Iron Maiden are debatably the biggest cult band in America -- they've never enjoyed substantial airplay or an "MTV heyday" here -- this kinda-sorta-comeback tour promises to focus on the band's '80s classics ("Run to the Hills," "2 Minutes to Midnight," etc.) amid a stage set based on their epic 1984-'85 Powerslave trek: Think middle-aged hesher guitarists scampering about the Luxor Hotel -- with a giant robotic zombie. (Paul Rogers)
members can view pictures of Rod dressed entirely in rubber in his latest diaries. I'm not sure if that tempts you to join or not... But we are planning pre-sales again and those are a very good reason to become a fanclub member. Laz has been working like a demon getting packs out to everyone who's joined and we've had a few meetings in the office (ok, pub) about shop and fanclub development type things. All very exciting!
Taken from www.ironmaiden.com.
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