Update: IRON MAIDEN Gear Up For Flight 666 Film Showing at SXSW Film Festival In Texas; More Screening Details Revealed
March 10, 2009, 15 years ago
IRON MAIDEN report:
Flight 666 is showing as part of the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas on Wednesday March 18th. Film-makers Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn will also be appearing to introduce the film and take part in a Q & A session afterwards.
Public tickets are strictly first-come first-served and can only be bought from the cinema on the day. The address is The Paramount Theater, 713 Congress Avenue, Austin.
Flight 666 starts at 7 PM with the doors opening to the public 30 minutes before, at 6:30 PM.
For more information on SXSW, check out the website.
Yesterday (Monday, March 9th), Iron Maiden manager Rod Smallwood issued the following statement regarding the band's Bogotá, Columbia show on Saturday, March 7th where it was reported that fans had caused a riot, clashing with police forces and breaking into private areas.
"The news from Bogota is wildly exaggerated," says Smallwood. "We are now in beautiful Quito for a show tomorrow. Everyone is just fine. The 'riots' were basically a lot of kids trying to break into the Simon Bolivar Park to see the show and the park has a big perimeter to protect. There is a large military presence for all concerts in Bogota as can be seen in our forthcoming movie Flight 666. However in the last 13 months we have played 2 fantastic concerts there to over 75,000 passionate fans at this same venue, Simon Bolivar Park. Neither performance was at all affected by the incidents of people outside trying to break in. None of the enjoyment of the show or safety of the band or our audiences was at all compromised.We abhor the inane behaviour of a small minority of people outside. They do Iron Maiden, Metal and the real Colombian fans a disservice and sadly just provide a reason for the military to feel they need to be there.
Our fans are there for the MUSIC. We definitely intend to return to Colombia and trust the authorities will not be swayed to banning Maiden and Metal because of a minority of trouble makers spoiling it for the huge majority of true Iron Maiden fans."
Watch a Columbian TV report below:
