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Advance reviews and phenomenal media and fan reaction from private screenings of the first ever full length feature film from Brit award winners IRON MAIDEN have prompted Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) to rush release the film and soundtrack for home-viewing enjoyment. FLIGHT 666 will be released on extended Blu-ray and DVD formats, alongside a double-CD soundtrack album and limited edition double-vinyl picture disc which will be available Tuesday, June 9, via Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) in the USA. Filmed digitally in Hi Def to provide pristine picture quality, FLIGHT 666 was directed by Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen with the award-winning Banger Productions team (”Metal; A Headbanger’s Story” and “Global Metal”) who take you right inside the Maiden family with almost total access to the band, something which Maiden has never allowed before. The stunning 5.1 soundtrack was specially mixed by Maiden producer Kevin Shirley to complement the picture quality as an ultimate attack on your senses. FLIGHT 666 documents the first leg of Maiden’s legendary SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME WORLD TOUR which took them 50,000 miles round the planet playing 23 concerts on five continents in just 45 days. One of the stars of the movie is the band’s customized Boeing 757, Ed Force One, which carried the band, all their crew and 12 tons of stage equipment and was piloted by Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson, a fully qualified and active Airline Captain with Astraeus Airlines. Taking you on a visual global tour from Mumbai to Sydney, Tokyo to L.A., Mexico City to Costa Rica, Bogota to Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires and Santiago to New York and Toronto and places in-between, you travel with the band and crew on the plane, to and from shows, in the bar and during leisure time, while experiencing the exhaustion and fan pandemonium that comes with such a mission. FLIGHT 666 (named after the official airways flight call) reveals how the idea for this unique tour actually came about and how complex planning turned it into a reality. The documentary also contains some of the most spectacular live footage yet seen of the band, filmed in all of those locations and beyond. If you have ever wanted to see the inside story of a truly unique and worldwide tour, taking you to places you never imagined, Maiden fan or not, this is your opportunity. To recognize the global phenomenon of Maiden, the Blu-ray/DVD are also subtitled in Hindi, Japanese, Dutch, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish. Comments band manager Rod Smallwood; “It’s been a mammoth undertaking. From the first twinkle in Bruce’s eye it’s taken about three years to put band, crew and equipment in a giant flying ’splitter bus’, to go through all the long and tiresome prep and safety regulations and planning, to the actual filming and of the tour itself, through to post production and right up to putting together all these items in the very best quality possible for our fans.” “It’s great that with MAIDEN DAY on Tuesday, April 21, we can give our fans the opportunity of seeing this digitally on big screen in Hi Def with full-on 5.1 sound experience with other fans around them. It was also very rewarding that it has won the prestigious SXSW Film Festival Award for Best Music Documentary.” “The ‘Somewhere Back in Time Tour’ reached almost 2 million fans in 39 countries and, if there is one thing I know from managing Maiden all these years, it’s that our fans are not happy to wait too long, so we are delighted that UMe is rush-releasing the DVD. This closes the chapter on an absolutely brilliant experience delving into the past for the band, myself and my team, the crew and hopefully all of you fans out there. After the summer and some deserved time off, we will concentrate on the ‘new’ with the band starting to put together material for a brand new studio album due sometime later in 2010. And, of course, after that we will look forward to seeing all our fans again!!”

The film FLIGHT 666 is being released in the following manner:

Long-play Blu-ray with FLIGHT 666: THE FILM and FLIGHT 666: The Concert (215 minutes)*

Double DVD
Disc One: FLIGHT 666 : THE FILM (112 minutes)
Disc Two: FLIGHT 666 : The Concert (104 minutes)*

Plus Limited Edition Deluxe Double DVD of the above with special packaging and 30 page booklet

FLIGHT 666: The Original Soundtrack album - Double CD*

FLIGHT 666: The Original Soundtrack album - Limited Edition Double Vinyl Picture Disc

FULL TRACK LISTING
for the bonus *concert footage on DVD and Blu-ray, plus the double Live Soundtrack CD

(CD 1)
ACES HIGH
Bandra Kurla Complex/Mumbai, India
February 1, 2025

2 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
Rod Laver Arena/Melbourne, Australia
February 7, 2025

REVELATIONS
Acer Arena/Sydney, Australia
February 9, 2025

THE TROOPER
Makuhari Messe/Tokyo, Japan
February 16, 2025

WASTED YEARS
Arena Monterrey/Monterrey, Mexico
February 22, 2025

THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST
The Forum/Los Angeles, USA
February 19, 2025

CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS
Foro Sol/Mexico City, Mexico
February 24, 2025

RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
Izod Center/New Jersey, USA
March 14, 2025

(CD 2)
POWERSLAVE
Saprissa Stadium/San Jose, Costa Rica
February 26, 2025

HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Palmeiras Stadium/Sao Paulo, Brazil
March 2, 2025

RUN TO THE HILLS
Simon Bolivar Park/Bogota, Colombia
February 28, 2025

FEAR OF THE DARK
Ferrocarril Oeste Stadium/Buenos Aires, Argentina
March 7, 2025

IRON MAIDEN
Pista Atletica/Santiago, Chile
March 9, 2025

MOONCHILD
Coliseo de Puerto Rico/San Juan, Puerto Rico
March 12, 2025

THE CLAIRVOYANT
Pedreira Paulo Leminski/Curitiba, Brazil
March 4, 2025

HALLOWED BE THY NAME
Air Canada Centre/Toronto, Canada
March 16, 2025
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Muse is a alternative rock band from Teignmouth, England, United Kingdom. The band consists of Matthew Bellamy on lead vocals, piano, keyboard and guitar, Chris Wolstenholme on backing vocals and bass guitar, and Dominic Howard on drums and percussion.

They have been friends since their formation in early 1990 and changed band names a number of times (such as Gothic Plague, Fixed Penalty, and Rocket Baby Dolls) before adopting the name Muse. Since the release of their fourth album, Morgan Nicholls has also appeared with the band at live performances to provide keyboards, samples/synth, and backing vocals.

Their sound is a blend of alternative rock, classical music, electronica, metal, spanish guitars, and progressive rock. Usually they use the bass line as the driving force, often with the guitar providing only an extra layer to the song rather than carrying the melody, the bass has distortion and other effects applied to it to achieve a greater weight, allowing the guitar to digress from the main tune and play higher notes. Another peculiarity is Muse´s piano style in many of their songs; their music has been inspired by the works of Romantic pianist-composers such as Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Liszt, and has thus resulted in a fusion of Romantic style with modern rock.

The band is known for their energetic live performances and front man Matthew Bellamy’s eccentric and avid interests in global conspiracy, extraterrestrial life, theology and the apocalypse (as much as in Space and theoretical physics). Their lyrical themes involve madcap conspiracy theory, revolutionary rabble-rousing, weird stuff about aliens (or Zetas, if you please), religions and other such classic Muse concerns.

Already for 53 years, the Eurovision Song Contest is Europe’s favorite TV show. After more than five decades featuring some 1,100 songs, the contest has become a modern classic, strongly embedded into Europe’s collective mind. Read on to find out how it all started over half a century ago…
After 53 years, the database with Eurovision Song Contest facts and figures, stories and anecdotes is huge! A true, die-hard fan knows how many points Luxembourg got in 1980 (56), who came last in 1972 (Malta, with 48 points) and how many times the Netherlands got 12 points in 1996 (once, from Austria). Because no one can expect you to become a living Eurovision Song Contest encyclopedia, Eurovision.tv takes you through the contest’s history in fast forward. It’s all you need to know before you dive into the rich history of the Eurovision Song Contest…

How it all begun
Did you know that not only stars like ABBA, Celine Dion, Cliff Richard and Julio Iglesias took part, but also dance act Riverdance thanks its fame to the Eurovision Song Contest? The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) was formed on 12th February 1950 by 23 broadcasting organisations from Europe and the Mediterranean at a conference in Devon, United Kingdom. It was on the 6th of June, 1954, that Montreux became the venue for the first transmission by the EBU’s Eurovision Network of the Narcissus Festival and its flower-bedecked procession floats. The first Eurovision viewers eagerly watched on four million television sets in homes, bars, and shop windows in Germany, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

Ambitious project
In 1955, the EBU came up with the idea of an international song contest whereby countries, represeted by their respective public broadcasters, would participate in one television show, to be transmitted simultaneously in all represented nations. This was conceived during a meeting in Monaco in 1955 by Marcel Bezençon, a Frenchman working for the EBU. The competition was based upon the Italian Festival di Sanremo, held for the first time in 1951, and was also seen as a technological experiment in live television: In those days, it was a very ambitious project to join many countries together in a wide-area international network. Satellite television did not exist yet at that time, and the Eurovision Network comprised a terrestrial microwave network. Le Grand-Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne was born!

The successes
Without interruption, the Eurovision Song Contest has been broadcast every year since 1956, which makes it one of the longest-running television programmes in the world. In 2003, the first ever Junior Eurovision Song Contest took place, while the Eurovision Song Contest celebrated her 50th anniversity 2005. Viewers picked ABBA’s Waterloo as best ever Eurovision Song Contest song. In 2007, Europe could see the first ever Eurovision Dance Contest.

The 2008 running saw a record of 43 represented countries, as Azerbaijan and San Marino joined the family. The competition has been broadcast throughout Europe, but also in Australia, Canada, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Jordan, Korea, New Zealand and the United States, even though these countries do not participate. In 2009, an Asian version of the Eurovision Song Contest is expected to be launched.

London Rockers release first single from the acclaimed debut album ‘Enjoy the time you waste’ on Pebble Beach/Pinnacle. Drugdealer Cheerleader will be on tour throughout the UK in July / August in support of the single ‘Gimme Some Love’ released on 11th August on Pebble Beach Music via Pinnacle. Taken from the acclaimed debut album ‘Enjoy the time you waste’ and re-worked and recorded as a single version, the B-side, also from the album is ‘Britain’s Great’. Available through major record stores and online.

In an increasingly over-polished, contrived and self-referential British music scene, it seems everyone is chasing their tails to find the Next Big Thing.

How about a band that are unashamedly flying the flag for joyful, pogotastic, balls-out rock and roll? One with the soul of Guns N Roses, the spirit of Motley Crue with the glam of The New York Dolls? But all rolled into a new kind of good-time rock for the 21st Century? Yes? Look no further then and welcome, in a very real sense, to Drugdealer Cheerleader.

This London-based four piece have already been built up a strong fan base through hard gigging with an incendiary live show have been showered with praise from the likes of Classic Rock, as you can see above from their May 2006 issue, as well as Xfm, Heat and Kerrang!.

Flamboyant Yorkshire frontman Hilda and hard-hitting West Midlands sticksman Ringo first met at university and went on to form Waterbratz and Glitterbug respectively. Both bands sank without much of a trace, and Hilda and Ringo ended up selling their souls but paying the bills playing in a covers band. It was then that they stumbled across genius guitar player Jay. As Hilda explains: “I was scared of him at first. He seemed really cool and unapproachable. That probably explains his lack of luck with women actually.”

After Spinal Tap drummer-type problems with a never-ending stream of vanishing bassists, the trio finally found their match in Londoner Hudson who emailed them out of the blue and told them he was the man for the job. So at the start of this year and with a brand new plank-spanker, the furious four set about defining exactly what their band should be about.

Over to Ringo: “We wanted to take the influence from music that we’d always liked and without sounding corny, to give it our own sound, a sound of today rather than a retro thing. And we wanted to be a gang. We’re tight knit as a unit. If you have a go at my mate, you’re going to have another four of us having a go back at you.”

More importantly, the band just want to play music they love. They don’t want to be a part of any current trends and don’t give a flying Fender about being fashionable. As a result, they can be a bit of a Marmite band, but live, it’s hard to ignore their mix of melody, energy and maximum power, as Hilda testifies: “I defy any other band to play a live show that’s as entertaining as us. Anyone who comes to see us, whether they’re into pop music, metal, jazz whatever, they’ll enjoy our show. But again, if they give the music a chance, they might like that too.”

The bands influences range from the likes of The Stooges, T-Rex, the hair-metal pop riffs of the Eighties, through to U2 and the more unlikely Manic Street Preachers or the grunge bands of the Nineties. As Hilda elaborates: “We take something from each era of music and add all the ingredients together and make some kind of smashing pie.” The fans - The Cheerleaders - certainly agree, as Hilda explains: “They do tend to throw themselves at us at every opportunity which is a real handicap. We can’t get to the bar.”

Their debut single I Don’t Wanna Go To School is a great introduction to the band, musically as well as taken as a mission statement. This is high-octane good-time rock with a grin on its face, a pair of ridiculous trousers and a bottle of Jack Daniels in its hand. It sure as hell ain’t The Arctic Monkeys or The Kaiser Chiefs.

As Hilda explains: “I don’t want to grow up, that’s why I want to be a rock star. ‘School’ here can mean your job, a workplace, it doesn’t have to be your teacher telling you off, your fucking boss tells you off. School and work are exactly the same. You’re going to listen to this song and you’re going to jump up and down and go crazy at it.”

With a European tour in the pipeline and a clutch of festival appearances coming up, it looks like you’ll soon get your chance to get your own hit of Drugdealer Cheerleader. The party starts here, as Ringo and Hilda explain. Ringo: “It’s just the start of a crazy rollercoaster ride. Or maybe a waltzer.” Hilda: “Or maybe the Pirate Ship! We’re just a huge fairground attraction. Come to our show, and we’ll give you every ride available. But the fishing for ducks, we’ll leave that to Coldplay.”

Led Zeppelin’s immortal song ‘Dazed and Confused’ might well have been a clinical observation on the state of their audience’s brains, say Australian researchers who have found over-enthusiastic head-banging can cause mild brain injury.

In a study published in the British Medical Journal this week, two University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers concluded that head-banging to a typical heavy metal tempo could cause mild traumatic brain injury or concussion, and neck injury, particularly as the tempo of the music and angle of movement increased.

“Clearly it’s a serious issue,” says Associate Professor Andrew McIntosh, co-author and professor of biomechanics at UNSW.

“If you observe people after concerts they clearly look dazed, confused and incoherent, so something must be going on and we wanted to look into it.”

Beats per minute

After careful observation of the behaviour of heavy metal concert-goers, McIntosh and honours student Declan Patton constructed a theoretical head-banging model to better understand the mechanics of the practice.

They also spoke to a focus group of local musicians to identify ten popular songs to head-bang to.

“These songs had an average tempo of 146 beats per minute, and at this tempo we predict that head banging can cause headaches and dizziness if the range of movement of the head and neck is greater than 75°,” the researchers wrote.

Several songs were selected as controls against which to compare the risk of heavy metal head-banging, including Whitney Houston’s ‘I Will Always Love You’.

But McIntosh says attempts to find control cases of head-banging at alternative venues, such as Andre Rieu concerts, were unsuccessful.

Risky observations

Unfortunately for McIntosh, who confesses to not being a heavy metal fan, the research involved attending several heavy metal concerts of bands including Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne and Motorhead to identify the most popular head-banging techniques and better understand the biomechanics of the movement.

Despite being an observational study only, McIntosh says there were considerable occupational health and safety issues involved for researchers, including the risk of hearing damage, and the potential adverse outcomes of dealing with excited patrons who may have been “under the influence of things”.

Professor McIntosh, whose research focuses on the biomechanics of head injury and concussion, says this type of temporary, mild brain injury was generally poorly understood, but was unlikely to lead to any more serious symptoms than headaches and dizziness.