The return of the little people. Iron Maiden Concert Show Review / Day

I wonder if the world’s film industry factories still continue to produce entertaining big-budget war movies in built-in decorations with explosions, burning and ruined homes, imitations of torn members? Make-up artists work side by side with the set designers, and their task is to smear the “killed” actors with a blood-like liquid, while in the news and on social networks, today’s reality appears here in Eastern Europe, which the above-mentioned experts try to portray as close to reality as possible. Perhaps even the bravest specialists in the field of cinema and war computer games should be sent on an educational mission to a real war zone in order to work even better in the future?

Probably in the early 80’s when the British started heavy metal new wave and groups Iron Maiden the road to fame, war had not taken place in Europe for so long that people simply lacked a fierce sense. But on June 2, 2022 in Riga, when a real war is taking place right next door, an inflatable model of a war plane swings above the stage Iron Maiden At the end of the concert, unfortunately, spoiled the feelings of an otherwise high – level and much – anticipated concert show.

Ordinary blue – yellow

“It will be all in Riga too – a fighter plane is promised above the stage Spitfire, flamethrowers, etc., which will take on extra significance in the current real war conditions, “I wrote myself before the concert, imagining the band making these usual elements of the show, making small adjustments to the script (because the concert is not a cinema), Maybe musicians avoid something like that Iron Maiden would not stop listening to Russia and at the end of the war there would still be invited to concerts? We have had to deal with cases where artists try to take a neutral position for this reason, at least at the beginning of the war, until reprimands are received, and then it is decided to correct quickly.

Others saw Iron Maiden expressing an attitude with a hall illuminated in the colors of the Ukrainian flag while singing a song The Chansman, which is about the struggles for freedom. In a concert in Germany in 2018, Bruce Dickinson (the song was written during the time of his deputy Blaise Bailey) announced it, reminding that part of this country was once part of the Eastern Bloc, so the Germans already know that this song is about it, but in Riga he did nothing the same was not said, although the occupation of Latvia has left much more lasting consequences and Ukraine is also here. But this song is so famous that Iron Maiden it would play in any case, while blue and yellow lights are most often used by artists in concerts.

Generation par Iron Maiden older rock classics – groups Pink Floyd – Drummer Nick Mason, who also recently gave an excellent concert at the club Palladium Riga, taking the listeners on a wonderful journey to the early Pink Floyd soon after the start of the war, for the first time in 28 years, teamed up with former fellow guitarist David Gilmore to record a protest song Hey Hey, Rise Up! together with Ukrainian singer Andrei Hlivnuk.

Iron Maiden I play my music brilliantly, but in everything around it, there are still more than sixty children in it who live in their own built world, where nothing really happens. It is not for nothing that their music has been used in computer games, and the monster Eddie, who appears on the stage, slashing the members of the group with a sword, just looks dangerous, because in reality it is just a fun monster.

Strength still in the bones

At the entrance In the arena Rigawhen there had already begun to play Iron Maiden heating group Lord of the Lost from Germany, the feelings were quite surreal, because somehow in two years will forget, as it is – to watch the little people in front of a huge crowd. And these little people have no idea, it doesn’t matter if you listen carefully and are excited or make critical remarks about what’s going on around you.

There is something in the heavy metal genre not only in acting, where you have to be able to not react to what is happening downstairs, but also in sports – musicians have to keep themselves in great physical shape, and today Bruce Dickinson sings no worse than in the 80s and definitely better than twenty years ago when I saw it Iron Maiden At the Roskilde Festival, which was an event if only because the singer had just returned to the band. Bruce Dickinson may not have found the most suitable and healthy cocktail of vitamins at the time, which prevents the body, which is also part of the vocal cords, from becoming stiff and helps to get energy without taking it in the near future, as all chemical stimulants can accidentally do. also overdose. Tight leather or imitation trousers, half-length hair tied at the tail, which is released at the end. You can also admire drummer Niko McBrein, who, three days before his 70th birthday, played as God would have played if he had been a drummer. And being a drummer in the heavy metal genre is not an easy job at all – not in vain is our own association Skyforger The drummers have changed several times, not because of some disagreement, but because the current one can no longer hold such a load.

All three guitarists also work perfectly, the main songwriter and founder of the band is bassist Steve Harris, who is dressed in the same shorts as Angus Young from AC / DC, maintains the rhythm of howling horses. At the beginning, newer songs are played, but then a trump card is thrown on the table, the audience looks forward to each old hit with a stormy applause. Concert experience – unforgettable, but the tongues of flame, whose heat hits the cheeks far from the stage, today can not delight.

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