Just as we announced before (Parikrama - Iron Maiden and Beyond), here is the complete confirmed list of Parikrama’s appearances in UK:

June 9th - Rios, Leeds, UK
June 10th- The Download Festival, Donington Park, UK
June 15th- The Underground, Camden, UK
June 19th - Charlotte Leicester, UK
June 20th - Civic, Wolverhampton, UK
June 22nd - Kingston, UK

The biggest attraction will be The Download festival in Donington Park, UK. But all in all the band will be going around in the British territories. With this Parikrama will become the first official Indian band to ever get such International exposure. This is what Rod Smallwood, Iron Maiden’s Manager has to say about the band:

“We were completely blown away by the intensity and passion of the India crowd and also by the quality of PARIKRAMA. I just didn’t realise there were metal/rock bands of this quality in India. I was so impressed by their playing and attitude and professionalism and all of the Iron Maiden band and crew watched and listened to their entire set backstage. So I asked the Download promoters Live Nation to add them to the bill opening our Maiden day, the Sunday, on the main stage.”

What’s the band’s reaction to all this sudden crash of exposure?

“They said we can’t believe that bands like this existed in India, give your CD’s and contacts. Four days later they send us a mail saying the whole band loved your music and phantom records told us we want you to play at the download festival,” - Subir, -Keyboard

“Honestly we don’t know. It can be a kickass performance with the audience enthralled or just go the other way. Lets be real, anything can happen,” - Nitin, -Vocals

“A musician there earns enough to buy that five million dollar mansion. I just want enough to afford a DDA flat” - Dilip -Drums

Parikrama hasn’t forgotten their loyal fan base in India either. Noticeably, they will be performing their all original sets in UK at all the gigs and for their Indian fans they did the same set at their gig in DV8, Connaught Place on May 25th and there will be the same gig tonight at CTC, Gurgaon at 8:00 pm.

No matter what the new age rockers have to say, no matter if they never came out with an album, no matter if the extra sensory metal heads of the contemporary times find it hard to identify with their sound, Parikrama has struggled real hard for more then a decade, and they had created a name and they have talent enough to win over the Iron Maiden A&R teams. It is time that Indian make an impact in the International arena. Godspeed..!!

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• Zooper Says:
  June 22nd, 2007 at 4:59 pm

  Click here to download PARIKRAMA’s historic DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL performance.

  http://www.sendspace.com/file/dgxa7x

  Note: There is no audio during the 1st song. But it rocks after that..Enjoy!!!