Our first Big 5 rehearsal today is from 🇩🇪 Germany's Lord of The Lost. They’re a genre-fluid rock band with a big following in Germany, and when they leave Liverpool they’re off to support Iron Maiden on tour. As claims to fame go, that’s pretty impressive - we're in the arena and ready for blood, glitter, and presumably a metric tonne of pyro 🔥
FUN FACT: Lead singer Chris has given us our favourite answer to our question about his worst fashion or hair disaster. “Never had one. If my hair looks shit, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” 👏
However you feel about this kind of rock music (and what's not to love, frankly), Blood and Glitter is a stand-out performance from a band who are absolute masters of the big stage. The band are raised up on a metal scaffold in a triangle formation, with red and black LEDS and a flashing light show that never lets up for the full three minutes. The costumes are also spectacular - you can see lead singer Chris in the backstage photo below, and we'll post a full gallery later. If there's pyro (and if there isn't pyro, why are we even here?), it will appear in the third run-through, so we'll update shortly.
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