IRON MAIDEN Manager Checks In From Perth

February 11, 2008

IRON MAIDEN manager Rod Smallwood has checked in from the Perth, Australia stop of the band's Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008. An excerpt from his online posting follows:

"The guys from RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE all came down prior to flying off to Japan — they had a very successful show at Big Day Out here the day before, chatted for quite a while with Brad who was a very nice bloke. They are all big MAIDEN fans and came on the desk with me to watch the show until they had to leave for the airport. Good to meet them. Apparently one of them even did an interview for our documentary!

"The show was fantastic. We had 10,000 in a 14,000 arena but it was curtained off at the top level so looked packed. I am very pleased with this as we have never been here before, it's not really known as a metal market and the big BDO fest was, as I said, the day before.

"And for just a second show it went amazing. The band generally played really well despite all the bugs imported with us (except that is for a couple of major howlers, one in 'Rime' — but its early days and its not an easy song). The lights looked amazing, the new pyro guy Clint did a great job with the cues and it all looked great, the sound was good, our crew got the drapes right and with the new improved lighting they all looked better than ever. All in all a terrific second show and the audience was on top form too, joining in everything with great LOUD gusto. Thank you, Perth."

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