Recent content by Manic Gers

I must be terribly out of touch with 'celebrity' as I had to google Javier Bardem and I'm still none the wiser. And the less I see and hear of Gene Simmons and Lars Ulrich the better. I'm cautiously excited about the film but I'd much rather hear from people who have worked behind the scenes...

What I would add to this is that *Nicko himself* had a session musician type profile before joining Maiden. His studio session work is fairly undocumented but he seems by his own admission to have done at least some anonymous session stuff earlier in his career. And even with e.g. Pat Travers...

This is fun - hope it hasn't been posted already. It's an audio recording of the Tommy Vance BBC rock show which went out just before Donington 1988. Nice bit of nostalgia for me as I listened to it at the time. Anyway, Bruce pops up at around the 19 minute mark...

I agree about Charlotte (and would add 22 Acacia Avenue, among others) - one of the worst lyrics by any band ever. Now I'm no longer 13 years old, it absolutely makes me cringe. I'm not trying to make a case for Maiden being great poets, they've always had bad lyrics scattered through their...

I suspect the problem isn't a case of 'judge the music' as much as 'judge the lyrics'. By the time FOTD rolled around, Maiden fans had a clear idea of what they liked about Maiden and surely that must have included the lyrics. 'Wasting Love' exemplifies the album's lyrics generally - I've just...

Nice appearance from Bruce on tonight's edition of BBC Radio 4's 'Museum Of Curiosity'. Just finished, but should be available to 'listen again' for UK listeners. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011l16

Bruce isn't a big fan of Mr Ling, either, after his review of Tattooed Millionaire. I think this was detailed in the 'Run To The Hills' book (but might be misremembering). The 'Branston Pickle Boy' incident? Back on topic: I was very sad to hear about Malcolm Dome's passing. His writing was a...

Bruce popped up for a brief interview snippet on this programme last Saturday. Should be available online to UK viewers - not sure about availability for rest-of-the-worlders. Bruce bit starts at about the 22:30 mark...

That's the one - I knew I'd seen the name and thought it was a different set-up to Phantom Management.

I'd also considered this in light of Bruce's comments and I think he has a valid point of view. However: surely with the current state of the world being as it is, BOTH bands should have clarified this before contracts were signed. Not blaming either camp here, but surely all this should have...

Nothing specific regarding Steve, but I did run across his Twitter feed a while ago and he's not very keen on vaccination. In fact, he doesn't seem very keen on anything (except KK Downing and Donald Trump). I've just looked him up, he's @TonyyNewton if you want to see for yourself.

Isn't Steve good mates with Tony Newton? Because there's an example of a touring musician with some very strange (to me) ideas about all this. Not saying that he has any influence over British Lion, but if that's the company Steve keeps.....

This is exactly what I thought when I saw that title. Quite often, Maiden lyrics are only as good as the last thing that the writer read (or watched). Unfortunately, when the last thing Steve read is the latest edition of the Daily Mail, that process can result in some pretty bad lyrics. I...

My guess is that it'll be a 'Blu Ray Audio' of the album. (Maybe with the new single cartoon video added on?)

I wonder what Kevin Shirley's productions are like for other bands. Does he always make drummers sound like they're hammering old dustbins with baseball bats? Absolutely headache inducing, time after time. Maiden should credit him as Kevin "Bin Man" Shirley on the album sleeve.