Review Metal idols troop their own colours, 50 years on

It takes four songs for Bruce Dickinson to shout what everyone knows he is going to shout: "Scream for me, Birmingham!" For their 50th anniversary tour, Iron Maiden are not reinventing the wheel - they are, as ever, playing fast and intricate heavy metal.

- Michael Hann

As ever, Dickinson spends much of the set on top of the backline, acting out characters, Steve Harris machine-guns the audience with his bass while playing his "galloping" lines, and Janick Gers, when not swinging his guitar around, sticks his left leg in the air and rests it on the stage side speakers. No idea why. But he always does it. And, of course, the song subjects are the contents of a 12-year-old's head: the Battle of Britain (Aces High); crazy mental powers (The Clairvoyant); Satan (Th