I went to see Maiden at Glasgow SECC on 15th December and what a complete fackin BORE OF HELL IT WAS!!!
As some of you may know I wasn't really looking forward to seeing Maiden cos they were playing the entire album but in the run-up to the concert I was getting quite excited about it and I really thought they would have been brillinat live - but nothing could be further from the truth!!!!
As everyone knows, they played the whole of A Matter of Life and Death(by Boredom), the first song Different World was excellent, as was Out of the Shadows and Breeg was also really good live but the rest of the album was a complete yawn, and in fact yawn I did quite a few times that night -
AT LEAST 6 TIMES!!!! And it wasn't just me who thought like that, I was standing about 8 rows from the front, and there was no heading banging going on, no moshing, no singing along, no clapping etc., no-one rockin out etc., no crowd surfin. There was absolutely zero atmosphere there, it was unreal. And in fact about half way through the concert, this is the God's honest truth, there was about 5 guys standing right behind me and they shouted out for SAXON about 3 times
!!!!! And then someone else started shouting out for UFO!!!!!
"Scream for me Glasgow" Dickinson kept shouting - aye scream I did "Someone get me out of here", it was really that crap, I actually couldn't wait to get out of the SECC it was that bad. When they eventually did the classics, first of all Fear of the Dark, that got the crowd rockin a bit but I think it was too little too late cos by the time they'd played the whole of the new album, I reckon most of the crowd were bloody comatosed by that time. They also did Iron Maiden, The Evil that Men Do, 2 Minutes to Midnight and Hallowed be they Name, they were good but apart from Evil lthat Men Do, I'd have preferred to hear other classics like Wrathchild, Runing Free,Phantom and The Trooper etc.,
And I don't know what the hell happened to be "spectacular stage show" - I reckon they must have left it at the concert the night before, cos we got naff all until nearly the end of the concert when we got one tank coming on the stage and Eddie popping his heid out the hatch, which looked quite cool, but it was only on stage for about a minute and then a giant Eddie came onto the stage from the left and walked over to the right and then walked back off again. Dickinson came over to us on the left and shone some big spotlight thing into the crowd and then did the same over on the right - AND THAT WAS IT!!!!! I was expecting loads of tanks and loads of Eddies and tons of smoke, explosiions, fireworks blah blah blah, but it was a complete and utter letdown. That was my first time seeing Maiden in 20 years and hopefully it will be at least another 20 years before I see them again.
Best song of the night - UFO'S DOCTOR DOCTOR - which got played just prior to Maiden taking the stage .
But I suppose if you love the album then you would have loved the concert but it was a big mistake Maiden playing the whole album, loads of folk were just standing for the most part just watching them, whereas go to a Saxon concert or Blitzkreig concert the whole damn place is rockin out at full blast, and there's never anyone just standing there looked peeved off.
Rating : 1 out of 10
