Kevin Should Produce DVD, Halfin Comments on Tour
In their usual blogs, both Kevin Shirley, the current Iron Maiden album producer, and Ross Halfin, the legendary rock photographer, had comments about the latest Maiden gigs.Kevin hints about a meeting production for the Ullevi gig, maybe poiting out to the DVD which Bruce mentionned in an interview:
Just checked into the hotel, which has throngs of Iron Maiden fans waiting outside with all manner of Eddie paraphenalia. Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith's wife and kids were on the flight, as was Barry Drinkwater - so we swapped a few stories and am now headed into a Maiden production meeting with regards to the big show and TV broadcast tomorrow! Fill you in later..
Ross is happy to see different fans at the Finland show:
Here for Iron Maiden at the Hartwell Arena... Haven't been here since 1997 with Aerosmith...
Mastodon are the opening band. A bit like a thrash version of Rush... Meet the bass player. Tell him I know his urban photographer Jimmy Hubbard... Mike Patton is here. Haven't seen him since Poland with Faith No More.
Nico is not feeling his best, after changing his hotel room five times he's feeling rather slow. "Must be the four bottles of wine I had last night." He tells me... Good show, sold out tonight and tomorrow. The audience were quite young, makes a change from the usual bunch of balding old geezers with tattoos.
Went for a wander after the show as it was still light. Tried to take some pictures of the night sky, it doesn't really get dark here at this time of year... really wierd... And hard to sleep. Finally end up in the hotel bar with the band and spend the early hours discussing the perils of flying to Africa with Bruce. He has invited me to go with him on a trip to West Africa when the tour ends in September. His other job is first officer with an airline that flies out of Gatwick to several dubious destinations on the dark continent...
Sources: Kevin Diary, Ross Diary