Recent content by Orlando Monk

What I like about this is that it will allow Steve to mark Maiden's 50th anniversary by playing London Stadium, West Ham's ground. You can imagine how much that will mean to him. And he deserves it too - he came from nothing, worked, stayed true, and built this phenomenal thing for us all, he's...

Could the Japanese building be a hint at Sun and Steel? I've always assumed that was a song about Samauris

This stream is up

Also, there was no merch at all

I went, there was no new info. Senjutsu wasn't even mentioned. The audience-questions second half seemed a bit suss, unless that theatre-full of folk in Maiden shirts really were keen at to ask questions that lead nicely into aviation anecdotes. Still, it was great to see him looking well...

The thing with co-opting culture or cultural appropriation etc being a problem is that it's a question of power - when a rich powerful culture takes from or profits off a smaller or endangered culture that causes people to kick off. But Japan is secure enough in itself that I can't see this...

Fantastic. I wonder what 'Man or Beast', 'Heaven or Hell' and 'Live Forever' were referring to?

I'm sure I'm being stupid here but to my eyes the four biker Eddies of the Apocalypse seem to be five Eddies. First, there's Killers Eddie with his axe, then Reaper Eddie, Cyborg Eddie and Powerslave Eddie. These seem to be the four horsemen written around the goat - Powerslave Eddie unleashes...

I can't find that on Amazon but it is also here https://shop.season-of-mist.com/iron-maiden-box-the-broadcast-archives-6cd-digisleeve Is that cover... finished artwork?

If this is intended to be the final Maiden album, a concept album about the fall of Babylon would be a pretty metal way to mark the end of their recording career

Bruce has talked about how he has identified with Nebuchanezzar at times, eg at William Blake's grave () so if there is a 'fall of Babylon' concept, it does seem likely that it came from him (and no doubt unrelated, but Frank Turner is another Blakean and has written songs like I Believe You...

Eddie would certainly make a great Green Man, that wild pagan spirit of the woods

Swamp Thing Eddie, perhaps?

Yeah, in the ebook version there's a postscript where the journalist talks about the next time he saw Nicko, and Nicko pushed him up against the wall and he thought he was going to get a kicking, but of course it was just Nicko mucking about and they went off and drink ensued. Lots of booze...

He says a lot more in a 1993 Kerrang interview with Jason Arnopp (which is part of an ebook of Arnopp's metal interviews on Amazon called From the Frontlines of Rock - well worth a read). It starts with Nicko talking about Bruce, "He's going his way, we're going ours. Fuck 'im - let's get a new...