Photos by: Kevin Graft Photography (ROKFOTO)
Review by: Josh Pierson
When you’re Bruce Dickinson, I suppose you can do just about anything you want at a rock festival. Him and his band showed up, played mid day and got away with only playing one Iron Maiden song (Flash of the Blade), while making the smart decision to not talk much and let the solo album music do the talking for them.
Review by: Josh Pierson
When you’re Bruce Dickinson, I suppose you can do just about anything you want at a rock festival. Him and his band showed up, played mid day and got away with only playing one Iron Maiden song (Flash of the Blade), while making the smart decision to not talk much and let the solo album music do the talking for them.
I had no expectations and to be completely honest leading up to his set, I didn’t even know a solo Dickinson album existed, let alone several of them, so going into this fresh was the best thing I could have done.
This set was mostly made up of songs from the latest solo album titled “The Mandrake Project” which he made clear was based on a comic book. Not surprising to anyone, his solo stuff is eerily similar to Iron Maiden in structure and tone, slightly more straight forward, but very similar and worked well with his voice and the way he structures vocals. They powered through 7 songs in a pretty raw looking set with all the other bands backlines behind them, so felt very much like a smaller act, which I enjoyed immensely.
I would say that anyone that enjoys that power’y metal sound mixed with just straight hard rock should definitely check out the color album!
