Royal Mail today reveals images of 12 new Special Stamps celebrating one of the most legendary rock bands of all time, Iron Maiden. The main stamp set celebrates Iron Maiden’s live performances, featuring a selection of photos from their world-wide tours across the years, internationally and at home - and feature all current of … Continue reading Iron Maiden honoured with range of Royal Mail stamps

Iron Maiden will be bringing a new tour to Europe in the Summer of 2023 including arena shows in the UK & Ireland. The Future Past Tour will feature previously unperformed songs from the band’s most recent studio album, Senjutsu, along with a focus on 1986’s iconic Somewhere In Time record, plus other classic cuts. … Continue reading Iron Maiden announce IRE/UK 2023 dates – tickets on sale Oct 14th

After a pandemic-induced break of 2 years it was great to get back to Oslo for Tons of Rock festival. This was my sixth year photographing the festival and it was lovely to see all my photographer friends again. Tons of Rock is an 80,000-capacity festival that has a very similar feel to Bloodstock - … Continue reading Festival Review: Tons of Rock 2022 – Day 1

There’s now just 8 weeks to go 'til Bloodstock 2022! HQ is in a frenzy getting the infrastructure together and locking in the last of the slots. There's still another batch of Metal 2 The Masses bands to come and plenty more info about this year’s event to reveal, but first off, Bloodstock has all … Continue reading Bloodstock ’22 to feature Iron Maiden exhibition, Venom Inc added to list of performers

The Andean folk prog-metallers Flor de Loto, from Lima, Peru, have just released their latest single. This time it's a very Peruvian version of the Iron Maiden classic "Afraid To Shoot Strangers". You can listen by scrolling down, or find it on all digital platforms now. Flor de Loto is what would have happened if … Continue reading Classic Cover: Flor de Loto – “Afraid To Shoot Strangers” (original by Iron Maiden)

Usually, I wouldn't have waited, and at midnight had my first listen but I've had this on pre-order from the moment the first single was released so I wanted to hold back and go back to how I anticipated Maiden albums waiting until I had a physical copy which is something that started  32 years … Continue reading Album Review: Iron Maiden – Senjutsu