BEAST MUDE
Huge.’ ‘Sensational.’ ‘As good a show as you’re gonna get in any genre of music.’ ‘Show of the year.’ All sorts of stuff.”
Iron Maiden manager Rod Smallwood is reeling off press quotes in response to Hammer asking how the band’s much-hyped Legacy Of The Beast tour is doing in North America. “No one’s used to seeing a show quite like this,” he continues. “People backstage try to get out front to catch a glimpse, just from hearing that it’s pretty spectacular.”
We’re speaking to Rod down a phone-line from Vancouver as the tour enters its final leg, just over a year after Maiden wrapped up the European equivalent. The Legacy Of The Beast concept was designed to put together the biggest show of the band’s career, with more pyro, more stage props, more costume changes (hi, Bruce) and more deep cuts from Maiden’s back catalogue than ever before. It was perhaps inevitable, then, that they’d look to repeat the trick across the pond, but a quick look at the stats shows that this has been far more than a brief bonus
