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i must tell you.. this was one helluva show that Ive ever seen.. for that matter no one in India would have seen such a show! yes! i was there when iron maiden performed! they were simply mind blowing!
maiden is one band that any one in India recognizes and always craved to watch them play! and here they came a rocked the stage!
i went with my friends nipun and tushar and his frens from bangalore..i took the train from chennai on 16th night and reached b'lore on 17th mornin and guess what we did! all of us went straight to the palace grounds where the show was about to take place.it was 7.30 in the mornin when we went there and the gates were closed! hmph! we had to sit out with few sri lankan maiden fans.. we were some 20 in number most of them smoking and few others eatin breakfast! lol..
and then .. we were let in around 9am and the security near the stage checked out tickets and let us into the stage venue! shit! we were hardly 30 and we we stunned to see the stage settings! we were so so so happy to go in first for all we wanted is to stand right in the front row and admire the maidens! but.. unfortunately one big,fat ass security guys came and shooed us off! and so we had to go outta the stage ground and sit out were one line was suppused to be formed.
slowly ppl started comin n and formed on huge crowd. but still tushar dint wanna back ut and never let ppl cme in front of him and so did we stand with him.
mann.. you should have seen the maiden fans sit under the sizzling hot sun, carefree.. jus waitin to see the godz!
at one point of time.. the crowd started gettin restless.. at around 1pm..few ppl from the crowd started moving towards the entry area and guess what our die hard fans did!!!! they thought the entry was open and everyone started runnin towards the entry and rushing to get the first place to stand! mann i was literally pushed down and got nicely hit by one idiot's helmet! phew..
but.. omg.the security ppl were stuck up and dint let us in and instead asked us to form a line outside the entry.
like good kids we also paid heed and formed lines..and it extended to some two kilometers i guess! lol..
but it was like 2.30pm and we were still waitin like fools outside the entry area. so we started banging the walls and throwing bottles and even the security's cap! lol.. was real fun!
then it became 3 and we were completely restless and so we started pushing in front(thank god there wasn't any stampede!)
we also started playing cards! lol
and then finally after slogging for two whole hours they decided to let us in. but the other entrance which no one knew were let in first and so they occupied the first few rows!:( but yeah.. if i would ve stood in the front rows i would have died of suffocation.even tushar came off!
the first band to perform was called FTN who won the campus rock idols(wish public issue played). FTN was real bad mann.. they could n control the crowd!! the crowed pulled them off the stage!
next on stage was a band called PARIKRAMA! the kicked ass! seriously they were mind blowing(my kinda music!) the band as a whole was amazing.too good music and they were extremely lively! the violinist kicked ass!(yeah.. they had a violinist and a tabla player!kick ass no?)
next band tht played was//umm// yuck! i just couldn stand! it was stve harris' daughter's band..lauren harris! shit! we jus couldn stand her! she jus went on and on.. she couldn jus sing! the mob was yellin at her to get off the stage! lol.. i seriously hated her! lol..
finally!! phew! it was maiden!!!!!!!!!they appeared with a bang! mann bruce dickenson! shit! i jus couldn believe i was actually there to witness them perform!it was truely a very nice feeling to be there u know? i just forgot everything!
ppl were drunk..doped..high..headbanging..excited to see their godz..jumping..pushing/. yelling//! what a sight! 50,000 fans.. phew!
once the started .. the crowd went crazy! number after number the crowd fell on their feet! i heard one guy say " mann.. i don want anything more in my lif.. i shall die now" and another girl " i ve seen my godz.. i ve attained salvation.. kill me!!!" hahahaha
everthing was soooper! but.. huh the event managing company..DNA NETWORKS! i tell ya! they sucked big time.. it was poorly organised! no water!no proper food. they dint let us take anythin into the venue! for 50000 ppl. they had one food stall and one drinks stall where they gave "mirinda sorbet" lol!!!
but.. i must say.. after all this slogging and struggle..i dint seriously feel the pain.. we were standing all day and still we were ready to take anything for the performance!
ummm.. i felt nice writing this post! was like a recap to what i saw there! :)