DID you hear the one about the rock band who risked life and limb to put on a free gig during the longest siege in modern military history?
Iron Maiden fans will know it, particularly the ones who've read What Does This Button Do?, the recently published memoirs of singer Bruce Dickinson: the Maiden frontman's hair-raising account of his solo band Skunkworks' perilous journey across war-torn Sarajevo in 1994 forms one of the book's most memorable sections.
"We weren't protected, there was no plan and the bullets were real – but f*** it, we went anyway," he writes of their determination to play in Bosnia.
"The gig was immense, intense and probably the biggest show in the world at that moment for the audience and for us... it changed the way I viewed life, death and other human beings."
Now, new documentary Scream For Me Sarajevo chronicles Bruce and co's journey into the depths of a bloody civil war. The Tarik Hodzic-directed film features footage from the historic gig at the Bosnian Cultural Centre on December 14 1994, along with the recollections of Bruce, his bandmates and others who were there.
Scream For Me Sarajevo is getting a limited cinema release on Tuesday April 17, paired with a 45-minute Q&A session with Bruce Dickinson that will be recorded live at a special London screening on April 11.
You can catch the doc on various screens throughout Ireland, with Belfast's Odeon cinema the only place to see it in the north.
:: Tickets and full information at Screamformesarjaveo.com
