Music – Page 24

Iron Maiden performs in Bangalore today (sigh, hardly anyone comes to Delhi), so I thought I’d give some Iron Maiden trivia to suit the mood. It’s one of my fave bands after all! And no Rach, Iron Maiden isn’t a really tough woman.

‘Iron maiden’ is the name of a medieval torture device. Yup, the one shown above – it’s got nails and the poor chap who needs to be killed is pushed inside, where he might die due to bleeding, or lack of oxygen. Rach may be interested in this now – Tim Burton apparently loves iron maidens; he’s shown those in a few films of his like Sleepy Hollow.
The ghost-like figure featured on Iron Maiden albums is called Eddie. He even has an official video game Ed Hunter (it’s an FPS) with . Even this tour is a part of ‘Eddfest’.
I was wondering how DNA Networks gets to organize all the major concerts. Seriously, they’ve pretty much bagged everyone that came to India.

Whenever in a movie review you praise the music, you praise the composer, and not in minions. Point in case: in your review for 300, you praised the music by saying that the orchestrations of Timothy Williams IV were good, and the electronic score programmer, Wolfgang Matthes, was good, and so, the score was good. But pray tell me, what would these people have done without Tyler Bates, the man who composed the music?
In praising the music of Da Vinci Code, I wouldn’t say that Nick Glennie-Smith conducted the choir well, and so the score’s amazing. I’d say that Hans Zimmer’s music was brilliant and he was well supported by Nick Glennie-Smith’s conduction. Sure these people have done a good job, but who gave them the tunes to be conducted? They might as well be conducting thin air, without the composer.
And anyway, I think you meant that the tunes were good and the orchestrations of those tunes gelled in well with the movie. So you see, YOU HAVE TO PRAISE THE COMPOSER TOO!!!

This post not brought to you by Tyler Bates.

(Have to add though, Bates’ score really is awe-inspiring and powerful).