Holy Moses

as you've read here maybe before, I usually tend to come late pretty often, and miss supportbands as a result. But this time I have to confess that I missed the two supportacts on purpose. To get it right, I was there by time, but after aprox. 5 minutes I fled out again and went for a glas of wine or two with some friends, 'till the headliner will be on. I'm not mentioning any names now to be not that brutal, and start this review by about 10 p.m. when the show of Paul Di'Anno also named the Beast is started with some jinglebells. Yeah well, from the visual aspect, for me, he rather seems like uncle Ernie from next door to me. Not even all those frightning tattoos and piercings can change that impression and make him look more dangerous. But that's what we call imagecare for doing old fashion Heavy Metal. But as he says so: "I hate to play all that old stuff the original way. Either I give it a modern update or I leave it and make something completely new."

That's why we get here mostly music from Paul's solocarriere and his band inbetweenies. Paul Andrews a.k.a. Paul Di'Anno is 50 years old now. And this man has gonne through quite a few depths in his life. After his time in Iron Maiden from 1977 - 1981, where he was fired because of drug abuse, he celebrated some success with his band Battlezone and 2 albums. Most of all it was the second longplayer 'Children Of Madness' which went quite well down at the fans. His next project 'Killers' had their name from the same titled Maiden album. At some point Paul wrote his autobiography.
Fact is, that Di'Anno nowadays is seen as a so called lost talent. He never could repeat the success, he had with Maiden. And nowadays, you never know how the next show goes down according to his daily mood. Sometimes he's ripped into pieces by critics, and sometimes he gets real good reviews.
I for my part think, tonight is a good night for him. By the way, his manager is non other than Lea Hart, former singer of Fastway. To be honest, it takes me a while to recognize. But then I'm really delighted.
Back to the moment and Paul accompanied by his german background band. It's a fact, that he tends always to use a band of the country where he plays. He expects discipline, high knowledge and much work and beeing good in drinking.... (just kiddin') - but just a lot of heart for the matter and music."
And yes, you've gotta give 'em that much (not the drinking :-))) those guys, who could be almost Pauls kiddies.

Yeah well, -almost. Uncle Ernie.... no sorry Mr. Di'Anno of course keeps the few fans here moving in a quick step rhythm with his impressing voice. The only thing I personally don't like (once again) is this talking politics on stage. Please - do leave politics in politic, and leave purely the music on stage.
However, after many Di'Anno highlights (view setlist) including a cover of the Alex Harvey classics 'Faith Healer', a nice parody of 'Blitzkrieg Bop' from the Ramones is on, one of his fave bands, as he announces..... (god bless 'em)

Last but not least we get a bit of a different version of Iron Maiden's 'Sanctuary'.
What shall I say about the show. It's nothing, what puts me outta my shoes, but it has not been bad either. And yes, he himself has had a good night.
To get it straight: it's been quite okay.....

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