IRON MAIDEN Manager's Diary From India Posted Online
March 23, 2007IRON MAIDEN's official web site has been updated with a tour diary entry from the group's manager, Rod Smallwood, covering the group's recent gig in Bangalore, India. An excerpt follows:
"Flight to Bangalore on Thursday [March] 15th took about nine and a half hours. Usually l just read and cat nap on a long flight, usually newspapers and Private Eye, but this time l thought l would check out a movie and watched the 'History Boys', which is based on a play by that brilliant Yorkshire born writer and playwright Alan Bennett. It's clever in parts with some good lines as one would expect from Bennett but l found it rather disappointing and dated. Even though it's a recent movie it hadn't been at all updated and l think stuck rigidly to the script. Good but not his best work to me.
"On the plane met up with Ed from the Observer and Val Potter who is doing a piece for Metal Hammer and some other rock press. Ed is actually a war correspondent but as a change in pace he is doing a five-page piece for the Observer Music Monthly magazine. He and Bruce [Dickinson, IRON MAIDEN vocalist] had a long chat and a fair few drinks on the plane, but l bet they weren't talking MAIDEN or India or music, they were talking war and flying stories! Anyway, Ed turned out to be a smart and very interesting guy who, like us, likes a beer or three and everyone got on very well with him. Such a good change from the usual daily press cynics very occasionally run into. Of course Val has done lots with us over the years and is always fun to have around."
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