Maiden Central

The one thing that has always confused me in my study of Iron Maiden’s history – ok, ONE of the things that has always confused me – is the band’s continual ignoring of their second album Killers except for two songs (namely ‘Wrathchild’ and ‘Killers’).

(Listen to this album on Spotify: Iron Maiden – Killers.) Read the rest of this entry →

From Community Newswire:

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson, broadcaster Sir Trevor McDonald and actress Helen Baxendale urged companies to sponsor one of the phone lines run by a missing people’s charity, at an event last night.

Missing People, which works to find and safeguard missing people and support their loved ones, wants firms to show their support by sponsoring a phone for £10,000. It has 12 lines available for sponsorship.

Blaze Bayley, the band and man himself, has stepped in at the last minute to perform at Hellfire II after Evile dropped out.

Hellfire II is on at the Birmingham NEC on November 6-8. Check out their site for ticket information.

(Moshing Monday is a weekly celebration of Iron Maiden live)

This week’s Moshing Monday is from Sweden, with Maiden performing Phantom of the Opera. Includes a nice introduction from Bruce.

(Friday Fave is a weekly series of my personal favourite Maiden tracks)

This, the first Friday Fave, has to be my favourite Maiden track. Written by my favourite member (Adrian Smith, natch), and from my favourite album (Somewhere In Time). It is (as you’d have noticed by now), ‘Wasted Years’.

This is certainly interesting; I’m probably behind the times in not knowing about this, but oh well. If you own it, let me know what it’s like by commenting!

Maiden tribute act Higher-On Maiden (formerly Hi-On Maiden) will be appearing at the 10th anniversary Music Live show in Birmingham, on November 8, where they will be recreating Maiden’s 1988 Donnington Monsters Of Rock set.

Official site: www.higher-on-maiden.co.uk

Recently posted to YouTube:

This is beyond tentative, and a mere rumour based on a tip from a website, but Virtual Festival believes that Sonisphere – which returns to Knebworth next year – will be headlined by Iron Maiden and Guns N’ Roses.

In 2010 the festival will be in the UK on July 31 and August 1. Metallica headlined the second night of this year’s UK festival.

It’ll be interesting to see how this pans out.

This is fantastic: a great collection of images featuring Maiden and Eddie, culled from Flickr.