Bruce Dickinson is in the midst of preparing for solo shows for his upcoming album The Mandrake Project. But, he’s also been talking about Iron Maiden and their upcoming 2024 leg of The Future Past Tour. He talked to Brazil’s 92.5 Kiss FM radio station about Maiden and Power Trip festival of all things. He gave a very Bruce Dickinson answer on how the show went.
“Power Trip was a slightly strange experience for us. And we did a good show, and actually at Power Trip, we did a MAIDEN show. We didn’t do the, ‘Oh, ’cause it’s Power Trip, we have to suddenly do greatest hits.’ No — we did the MAIDEN show with all the stuff we’re doing on the ‘Somewhere Back In Time’ tour; ‘Death Of The Celts’, everything else like that. And it was a little bit strange because people had been standing out in the heat all day. There was no support band. Completely cold, go on stage. Well, cold as in no warm-up. But, no, I think we sounded pretty good. But it was an unusual situation.
I think what was a little bit strange for us was that the people who should be down the front of the stage, because the tickets for the festival were so expensive, they were at the back, and the people who were at the front were just like rich people that wanted to film everything on their phone. But the kids who you wanted to play to were at the back. And that sucks, actually. It wasn’t our festival; it wasn’t our organization. We’re going into America next year and we’re doing our own tour. And the people who are down the front are gonna be the people who deserve to be down the front. They’re gonna be the real fans, which is gonna be great.”
On The Future Past Tour, Iron Maiden have been mainly playing songs from their albums Somewhere In Time and Senjutsu with other classics mixed in. I was at Power Trip for Iron Maiden’s festival performance on Friday, I can corroborate that the people in the very back of the venue were going wild for all the bands on the bill.
Power Trip was headlined by Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Tool, and Metallica. Here’s what Bruce finally had to say when he mentioned Brazilian and other South American fans at the festival:
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s, like, yeah. Go take a look at some real rock and roll fans — not a bunch of posers who wanna go down the front. ‘I paid 3,000 dollars for my ticket. Look at me.’ Fuck off.”
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