Blaze Bayley Interview: At the End of the Day
Omega’s Apple talk to Blaze’s biographer, Lawrence Paterson about Blaze, his band and Maiden.
As a part of Iron Maiden, how do you feel Bayley’s vocal ability possibly matured?
Well, how could you join a band of Maiden’s stature and not improve as a musician? Blaze was totally immersed in the professional world of a top touring metal band doing more time on the road than he had ever had to deal with before. He was also following in the footsteps of one of metal’s finest vocalists who sang in a different range to that to which Blaze was accustomed. I’m sure that he learned fresh nuances of what his voice was – and wasn’t – capable of, and how to care for it after months on tour. He also worked alongside renowned composers and so would have been exposed to fresh ideas about song structure, as related to the vocals and to the song as a whole. It would have been a steep learning curve, but I don’t see Blaze as the kind of person to shy away from a heavy work load.
Iron Maiden Announce New Studio Album 'The Final Frontier' and North American Tour
The official site reports:IRON MAIDEN are pleased to announce that their forthcoming new studio album will be called ‘THE FINAL FRONTIER’, and is expected be released late summer of this year.
The announcement comes with news of a North American Tour with Very Special Guests Dream Theater to open in Dallas, Texas, on 9th June and finish in Washington D.C. on 20th July, making it Maiden’s most extensive North American tour in many years.
Following these shows in USA and Canada The Final Frontier World Tour will travel back to Europe for a few selected major festival and stadium shows with the band planning to continue to many other countries in 2011 (full currently confirmed dates below)…
Maiden Nominated for Juno Award
BW&BK reports:“The list of 2010 Juno Award nominees (the Canadian equivalent of the US Grammy Awards) were announced this morning and RUSH and IRON MAIDEN were nominated in the Music DVD Of The Year category. The listings credits read as follows:
Snakes & Arrows Live
Pierre & Francois Lamoureaux, Allan Weinrib, Pegi Cecconi, Ray Daniels, Rush
Anthem/Universal
Iron Maiden Flight 666
Sam Dunn, Scott McFadyen Ron Smallwood, Stefan Demetriou, Andy Taylor, Iron Maiden
EMI
Check out all the nominees at this location.”
Future of Bruce's Radio Show Uncertain
BW&BK reports:“According to John Plunkett from Guardian.co.uk, the BBC will close its national digital radio stations BBC 6 Music and Asian Network and rebrand its archive comedy and drama station BBC Radio 7 as “Radio 4 Extra”, under proposals published today…”
Flight 666 to Air on BBC4
The official site reports:BBC4 will be screening the Award-winning Flight 666 documentary on Thursday March 4th at 23.00 (GMT), a very suitable starting point for their Heavy Metal Britannia weekend!
And a special one hour edit of the spectacular Maiden Live Concert (from the bonus disc in the Flight 666 DVD release) can be seen the following night, Friday March 5th at 23.00 (GMT). The concert will be shown after two BBC Metal programmes: the first is Heavy Metal Britannia (21.00 GMT) which charts the origins and history of British Heavy Metal and includes interviews with such legendary performers as Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, Judas Priest’s Rob Halford, Motorhead’s Lemmy and Maiden’s very own Bruce Dickinson. The second is Heavy Metal At The BBC (22.30 GMT) and is a 30 minute compilation of performances by various metal bands recorded over the years. Both these BBC Programmes will be repeated on BBC4 on Sunday Mar 7th at 21.00 and 22.30 respectively, with the Iron Maiden Live concert repeated at 01.30am (GMT) the following morning.
Find out about Metal Britannia by visiting http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r600m which will be updated throughout the week.
BBC Four is a BBC Television Channel available to UK digital television viewers (Freeview, IPTV, satellite and cable) http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/
Heaven & Hell to Support Maiden in Norway
BW&BK reports:Heaven & Hell have been announced as the support act to Iron Maiden, on August 11th at Bergenhus Festning-Koengen in Bergen, Norway. Tickets are available at this location.
Older News…
- Nicko McBrain to Appear at Guitar Nation
- Iron Maiden Completes Recording New Album
- Charity Auction Update
- Interviews with Blaze's Band Available
- Nicko Talks Rock 'n' Roll Ribs
- Rod Smallwood's Charity Bike Ride
- Video Interview with Blaze Bayley
- New Clip from the Upcoming Blaze Bayley Album Posted
- Nicko Talks About His New Restaurant