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On The Road With IRON MAIDEN

June 20, 2008

Justin Quirk of UK's The Guardian reports: IRON MAIDEN are two songs from the end of a show to 14,000 people in Seattle, in a vast shed in the middle of a Native American reservation. The only signs of life for miles around the venue are rundown casinos and stalls selling dangerously large fireworks tended by men with a cavalier attitude towards smoking near combustible materials.

It's only at this late point in the set that IRON MAIDEN's seventh member finally graces the crowd with his presence. I bellow his name and he looks down at me, shaking loose a bandage from his arm. He waggles his hands as I try to get his attention and it's only then I notice the green worms that are creeping from his mouth. He's not in a good way. The noise around me is reaching fever pitch, as he swivels his head and sprays two jets of flaming sparks out of his eyes. On IRON MAIDEN's current record-breaking world tour, it's clear who the star of the show still is: Eddie The Head, heavy metal's most enduring mascot.

Read the entire article from The Guardian.

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