A few days late, but on Tuesday night I headed to Iron Maiden with my brother, Mudos and Dan from work. I was pretty excited because well, it was Iron Maiden We rocked up at about 7.30 and shuffled into the merch line for some shirts. Eventually a band started, so Dan left to go watch Laura Harris. I really wanted to see her as she's pretty hot, the daughter of Steve Harris (Iron Maiden's bassist) and I was just generally more interested in her then the other support (Behind Crimson Eyes). I decided I'd stay in line though, grab myself and my brother a shirt. By the time we got our merch, dropped it in the car and headed back inside, Laura had finished!

I was a bit annoyed, but realised their was no point to leaving the mosh now... oh, that's right, I had managed to score the best tickets in the house for the gig, Gold GA! The show pretty much sold out within the day so I was pretty stoked to get those tickets! Behind Crimson Eyes were terrible, they slaughtered Motorhead with their cover of Ace of Spades and their music was just generally terrible. I give them some props for managing to ignore the mass of people continually booing and giving them the finger though, no matter how funny and deserving it was

The lights finally went down and Maiden's set started with a blast with Aces High. It was seriously the best concert I've ever been too. There was fireworks, flames, flares, smoke machines, a mechanical Eddie and just an awesome stage presence. Bruce, no matter the age, is incredibly fit and showed it by jumping and dancing around the stage. His voice was amazing, although towards the end of the set it seems the mix got a little unbalanced with a bit too much rhythm guitar and not enough vocals. The entire time I was no more then 5 from the front of Steve Harris and Janick Gers. They were amazing musicians firstly and then entertainers. Swinging their guitars around, dancing, acting and just playing along with the crowd!

Top notch show, really. I have plenty of photos and posted them all to here. Here's one of my favourite ones

That's about it for now. I'll post again soon

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As the title suggests, I'm only typing what I can for the next five minutes, meaning that at 3.43pm, 17 minutes before I walk into the doors of Brodies, I'll press submit and whatever is written will be yours to read.

I done bits and pieces since the last time I posted, and rather then write a fantastic chapter on each one, I'll just list them:

• Attended a Forklift Course, all paid for by 1st Choice, although I'm yet to go back and get the actual ticket
• Attended a Beer Course, all paid for by 1st Choice again, although I'm not sure I passed the test
• Worked fairly consistent 30 hour weeks
• Stayed on track at uni, sorta, from the grades I've recieved I'm on two High Distinctions
• Got my first speeding fine, 71 in a 60 zone, $100 and 1 point thank you very much
• Got my second parking fine, $60
• Managed to catch another cold, in the third week of Spring..
• Started the coast trip tradition again, although I'm missing a trip right now
• Got absolutely smashed at Benji's 19th
• Scored myself some work experience next Monday, should be interesting
• Found a killer guitar website so that I can actually progress
• Got tickets for Linkin Park, Gigantour and Black Crusade and plan to get Maiden tickets next week