The Iron Maidens

    The Assembly, Leamington Spa 27/10/2017

    I'm told that these days there are two different classifications for bands who focus on music written and made famous by others - covers bands and tribute bands. The covers bands are those you can find in numerous pubs the length and breadth of the country on any night of the week, stumbling their way through standards like The Boys Are Back In Town, Sweet Child O' Mine and Mustang Sally. Tribute bands on the other hand are a completely different proposition - they devote their act to a single band and go to great efforts to reproduce that band's music, and sometimes appearance, in perfect detail. The Iron Maidens definitely fall into the latter camp (not the bit about emulating appearance), but are a tribute band with a difference in that they're all the opposite gender of the band they're paying tribute to.


    They also have awesome stage names: Bruce Chickinson (real name Kirsten Rosenberg), Adriana Smith (Courtney Cox), Davina Murray (Nikki Stringfield), Steph Harris (Wanda Ortiz) and Nikki McBurrain (Linda McDonald). Despite the humorous monikers, it's clear that they take the music very seriously indeed. From set opener Aces High onwards, almost every detail of the original songs (and even some between song stage patter) is totally accurate. Kirsten Rosenberg hits high notes like prime-era Bruce Dickinson with apparent ease. Nikki Stringfield and Courtney Cox have the Murray/Smith guitar interplay down perfectly, trading solos and harmonising on classics like Powerslave and the never-played-by-actual-Iron-Maiden guitar centrepiece The Duellists.
    You can find The Iron Maidens' official website here.

    They are also on Facebook and Twitter. 
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