2023-07-23 12:26:55
If there’s one thing Iron Maiden can boast about, it’s their convening power. Anyone has been able to verify it this Saturday in Bilbao and in Barakaldo. And very easily, because the fans of the British band who are very easy to distinguish by their t-shirts, decorated with the characteristic logo of the group and with the very varied incarnations of their monster-mascot, Eddie, were seen almost from early in the morning. Some, recently arrived, dragging their luggage to their lodgings; others looking for where to have a drink or eat before going to the BEC. There were already people lining up at the doors of the Bizkaia Arena at 11 in the morning, ten hours before the scheduled start of the concert by the historic British band, with all the tickets sold. [lee aquí la crónica del concierto, por Josu Olarte]
Gonzalo and Sandra, who came from Valladolid “to see the Maidens, go to bed, get up early and come back, because we have a family meal at home” walked along the Alameda de Urquijo with their suitcases and on their way to the hotel, as he explained, wearing a T-shirt with the cover of the single ‘The Trooper’ –probably the most viewed yesterday–. She was wearing one of ‘Senjutsu’, the band’s latest album. It was hardly necessary to ask about the preferences of each one: “I am going against the current, but I like the latest albums more than the first ones,” she defended. “No way,” he replied. «I hope they play the mythical songs, the usual ones». In fact, the ones that came out “when I was a kid, ‘The number of the beast’ and all the classics.”
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By mid-afternoon, fans filled the surroundings of the BEC, especially Aragón street and its bars. The followers of Iron Maiden – the iron maiden – are very given to talk shows about the group, its music and its history. It was enough to approach any huddle at the door of a bar, on the street or get into the subway in the direction of Ansio, which was crowded, to join a discussion about the band’s repertoire, its current line-up – the most purists seem to have plenty of their third guitarist, Janick Gers – or the covers of their albums.
The abundance of families with children was striking. “My dad took me to my first Maiden concert in Donosti in 1989,” said Alberto, who came from Vitoria, with his 12-year-old daughter Alba. “The music is good, and then it has all that component of fantasy, of history that makes it possible for parents to share it with the kids,” he explained. Alba nodded. Her favorite record turns out to be a classic: “‘Somewhere in time’, from 1986. I like the sci-fi vibe to it and the way it sounds,” she explained. She was lucky, because the repertoire of this tour, ‘The Future Past Tour’, incorporates several songs from this album, the publication of which she commemorates.
‘Somewhere In Time’ is also Alejandra Sandra’s favorite album, who came from Ibiza with her partner, Isma. «We could go to Murcia, Barcelona or here to see the Maiden. There was no discussion: we have come here, it is addictive, “he explained, a fan of the British band” hooked “by her. “I have dragged him, I have been listening to her records since I was 10 years old,” explained the young woman. Yesterday was her third concert from her group. «Great concert. Because with the Maidens that is guaranteed.
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