Sonisphere: Iron Maiden

This Sonisphere’s headliners came with a tag line that fit the festival’s theme: The Final Frontier. In true 80ies manner, the stage was a complex thing of what appeared to be a lunar or general space station – complete with rockets and a star-filled dark sky. Which you couldn’t say of the surroundings of the stage – in July, the sun sets like never here. And it hurts my eyes when I get up in the morning, so July is evil. Except it’s warmer than the darned weather we have right now, and it was actually quite pleasantly warm even at that time of the night. Which probably couldn’t be said about the moon or wherever the Iron Maiden spaceship was supposedly standing (I heard it’s a bit chilly out in space).

Main front settler Bruce Dickinson was aptly dressed up to the waist in some sort of soldier-ish stuff, and then a shirt that said “Psych Ward”. Now whether that was referring to his band, the audience, or some other experience I can’t say, but I sure found it hard to figure out what the heck it had to do with the Final Frontier.

The rest of the band (as far as they were visible to us photographers – the stage was about twice as tall as I am) settled for true 80ies hair metal clothes which I’m still debating whether I like it or not. It definitely goes well with the whole colorfully lit space station thing on stage – why do I have the strange urge to go watch 80ies videoclips now?