Sound Went Out at the Iron Maiden Show in NYC,
the band played soccer on stage to entertain the crowd
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What happens when an error hits in a heavy metal concert? Like the sound goes out. The band and the crowd breaks everything into small pieces and start a fight with the guards? Not in an Iron Maiden concert. They play football (soccer) on stage to entertain the crowd. Look what happened in NYC 2 das ago. We have two videos.
Here is the special report of the Blabbermouth.net, make sure to read the whole report overthere!
Video footage has surfaced of the power outage that occurred during IRON MAIDEN’s performance last night (Sunday, June 15) at Madison Square Garden in New York City. According to one BLABBERMOUTH.NET user who attended the concert, "halfway through the song ‘Powerslave’, the power died to the sound system, and MAIDEN were onstage with full lights, shrugging their shoulders. [See clip at this location; power dies around the 5:48 mark.] I was right behind the soundboard, and there was never any problem at that end. In fact, [cycling star] Lance Armstrong and [actress] Kate Hudson were standing beside the mixing board making out, which made the whole situation even weirder.
Sound Goes Out
Anyway, obviously this was a high point of their set, and within a minute after the stalls the band produced a soccer ball on stage and began kicking it around to entertain the fans while the technical nightmare continued. After about ten minutes of silence, Bruce Dickinson picked up one of the Egyptian sarcophagi and began using it as a shield to play soccer. He was pretty good with it, too! This entire time, the lights were fine, and the soundboard was perfectly okay and didn’t appear to be reset. There was definitely no panic at the board. Suddenly and happily, Steve Harris’s galloping bass reappeared in the monitors, and the band regrouped and moved onto the next song.
Soccer live on stage



















Hehe…how funny is this…but I’ll hope this won’t happening this year at the Wacken Open Air!!! ;-)