[SPOILER] Nicko's Tour Diary Posted
The first tour diary by Nicko McBrain from the on-going Eddie Rips Up the World tour has been posted at Iron Maiden.com. Posted below is an excerpt describing the tour itself, leaving out a piece that can be found on the official site.Well, as you have gathered I started to write this here diary on the plane flying out to our fist show, but not before we had a bunch of rehearsals.
On board we have Steve, ‘they better ‘kin win’ Harris, Dave, ‘I’ll have a pint’ Murray, Adrian, ‘It weighed 2 pounds honest’ Smith,
Jan, ‘Hartlepool rule’ Gers, Bruce, ‘I’ll be home tomorrow’ Dickinson, Rod, ‘make mine a pint as well’ Smallwood, Ian, ‘that will cost ya a fiver’ Day, Steve, ‘we’ll make the game,honest’ Gadd, and me good self.
We arrived into Prague at around 5 o’clock local and went straight to the hotel. I had a wee rest before heading out to the gig at 7:30. When we arrived at the venue you could feel the excitement and nerves from everyone, more so from me self. I was feeling great but had an awful case of nerves and of coarse Boomer was out in fine form. Oh well better to have than have not AAAAHHHHEEEE!!!!!!!
I went up on stage to check me tubs out. Charlie had done a great job setting them up. Everything was where it was supposed to be. Oh yes I have a new kit for the tour. It’s a beautiful Premier series set. Same sizes as all my other tubs but a special artwork on the shells. You will see it when you come to a show won’t you boys and girls??????????
So 20 minuets before show time we’re all getting ready for the show. The vibe was great in the dressing room. We all felt a wee bit of nerves but as I said before you have to have them or else you could easily lose your edge.
We hit the stage at 8:30 in front of a capacity crowd of 15.000 total Maiden fans. You guys were FANTASTIC I can tell you. The gig went great, although I made a ‘Kin massive mistake right on the first song. ’Kin marvellous!!!! I went to come out of the second solo in ‘Murders’ a whole bar to soon and made the guys work to keep it together, but after that it all settled down and we blazed through the rest of the set with renewed passion.
It really was great to be back on stage with me mates, rocking with some of the best classic tunes from our past. The set worked fairly well in its running order, but as usually is the case, we’re fine tuning that as we go. We find that we will have to change a song, or where it is in the set, just to make things flow a wee bit more. Well, after the show we headed back to the hotel and then met in the bar. We all felt that the crowd made the night for us as we all had a few problems through the evening. Nothing to severe but just a wee bit below par so to speak. Well, it was our first gig!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you to all you crazy Billies out there in Prague.
You made our night!!!!!!!!!!
Well, I’m in me hotel room in Graz at this present time.
(7:30pm 30th May)
I did however write a wee bit of the diary on the plane from Katowice in Poland.
We played there last night and man was it fantastic. A brilliant evening was had and delivered. We had made a change to the running order of the set but it still needs a wee tune up so to speak. We hit the stage at 9:30 and had a great night. We played a lot tighter than the night before and were very happy with the way we all played. The crowd were absolutely nuts. At one time towards the end of the evening they were chanting out something SSSOOO load, for so long that it sent a goose bump up me back. We later found out that it meant THANK YOU!!!!!!
What a buzz I can tell you!!!!
27000 Polish fans singing with us and chanting things, it was truly a momentous evening. After the show we went back to the hotel and met in the bar for a wee nightcap. Dragonforce joined us; they had opened the show for us. Nice bunch of chaps they are as well!!! After a couple of glasses of Ducru I went to me bed.
Thank you to all of our friends in Poland for making us so welcome as usual. You are very special to Maiden.
THANK YOU ALL so much.
~Nicko~
To read the full diary of Nicko talking about his London time for the Guitar Show and a game the boys watched together after the show, head here !
3 Comments
Dragonforce are a nice bunch of lads 
Seems as though Nicko is enjoying. Suprising they still nervous after all of these years.
he is having the time of his life!!!its so cool to hear a band member talk about the shows!!
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