Blaze Bayley
Ex-Iron Maiden frontman serves it up for the faithful.
★ It’s more than 30 years since singer Blaze Bayley exploded out of Tamworth in a fireball of attitude and chest hair, but his defiance remains undimmed. “They said I could not sing,” he says tonight, introducing Pull Yourself Up, an anthem of self-empowerment from his latest solo album The War Within. “So sing with me.” Naturally the floorful of fellow heavy metal lifers in front of him oblige.