Maiden's Win at Hammer Awards to be Broadcast
Metal Hammer officially announces the Awards results, where, as Maidenfans.com already announced, Iron Maiden won 'Best United Kingdom Act'.There are some hints about Bruce and Rod (bold added), information about Hammer's next issue where a full backstage report will be included and the announcement of a broadcast of the awards on ITV (a call to UK Maiden fans, please transcript that!)
08 Jun 2004 Last night Metal Hammer levelled East London with the second annual Golden God Awards, here's the catalogue of carnage!
The second annual Metal Hammer Golden God awards took place last night at London's Ocean and by all accounts it was a resounding excess! The awards bash was as far removed from a stuffy black tie event as you could get. 1500 fans crowded in downstairs to watch all the action unfold that saw Finland's finest HIM headlining the night, preceded by Killswitch Engage, Akercocke, Young Heart Attack and Silvertide. Upstairs in the VIP bar bands such as Slayer, Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson, Nikki Sixx and his Brides Of Destruction, Machine Head, Damageplan, Soil, Drowning Pool, Funeral For A Friend, Mortiis, Chimaira, God Forbid, and Shadows Fall all vied for space at the bar.
Some notable incidents included:
• Slivertide being as rock as fuck
• Damageplan's Dimebag Darrell arriving drunk out of his skull.
• Nikki Sixx and Tracii having a dead arm fight at the bar.
• Killswitch Engage's Adam D wearing the most disturbingly small pair of cut off denim shorts that you've ever seen.
• Drowning Pool's Jason Jones buying us champagne.
• Funeral For A Friend being the happiest people of the night.
• Video messages from Metallica and The Darkness.
• Drinking with Rod Smallwood and Rick Sales.
• Mortiis being rushed backstage by paramedics after having an adverse reaction to his prosthetic make-up
• Akercocke arriving in an olde worlde horse drawn Victorian hearse.
• Head-On being huge and as hard as fuck!
• Bruce Dickinson loving the Metal Hammer posters and generally being a bloody nice chap.
• Machine Head drummer Dave McClain trying Absinthe for the first time ever - gee, we think he liked it!
• Dimebag Darrell collecting his award for Best Guitarist by sitting on the drum riser, swigging from a bottle of Jack Daniel's and getting Tracii Guns to take his shoes off. He then through his award into the crowd and stumbled from the stage back to the bar.
• Slayer guitarist Kerry King carrying around a huge inverted golden cross all night.
• Soil frontman Ryan McCombs going from hardly ever drinking to being more wasted than he'd ever been before in his life.
• God Forbid singer Byron Davis pretending to be a doorman.
• Drowning Pool shooting tequila at the bar all night.
• Silvertide playing a blinding set at the aftershow.
• Machine Head guitarist Phil Demmel exclaiming: "you'd never get anything like this happening in America!"
• HIM frontman Ville Valo and drummer Gas staying up drinking until 9am the following morning.
The show was filmed for ITV and will be broadcast some point over the next week or so. Now go look at some pictures (here and here) and watch out for next month's Metal Hammer for the full backstage goss!
Source:Metal Hammer.co.uk