RWEI.

It's been 6 years since Iron Maiden released their 16th studio album The Book of Souls.  So for me, it's been just about 6 years of longing for something new from my all time favourite band.  If you've been reading any of my work on this blog for a little while, then you may be aware about just how much I adore these wonderful bastards. I even gave my thoughts on all 16 studio albums with a ranking of each one (starting from the link here !).  To say my anticipation is high would be an understatement, but I'll be as unbiased as I possibly can be.  Now it's been considered for many years that the 1980s was Maiden's golden period with 7 fantastic studio albums and an all-time classic live album in 1985's Live After Death . For years, the period starting from 2000's brilliant comeback album  Brave New World up to 2015's The Book of Souls has continued to grow on me and has aged like a fine wine.  I'm now at the point now where I'm near despe...

 with: InTechnicolour  and Greater The Divide After being to the Vasa  gig at Bloc+ (shameless plug to the review of that show over here ), I was quite happy to see that there was another rather mathy rock gig coming up a few weeks later at the Hug and Pint.  Consider my intrigue further enhanced when I later saw that InTechnicolour  would be the main support for this show. Nestled snuggly in between two math-rock bands, I had to check a few times that this was the same band I knew who had released the killer deserty stoner rock album Big Sleeper  last year.  Once I was sure this was definitely the same band, I knew I had to go to this show. I couldn't possible miss out on the opportunity to see this band play some of my favourite new tunes from last year for the first time alongside some other cool bands in a venue I'd never been to before. ______________ For first time visit, I had plenty of time to get familiar with the cosy wee basement venue, as I...