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Helmuth Von Moltke said:
I was at both these shows at Shep Bush January 2001 (still a teenager, easy trip from my mum's place nearby in London...!). You are right they played rarities from BNW but it was Fallen Angel and Silent Planet. I have such foggy, delirious memories of those two sweet gigs... Bruce wearing his grey Lonsdale jogging shorts again that he wore in the 1993 era... walk on Eddie being too big to walk onto the stage!... and the sweet encore of these two BNW songs.

In my mind, those shows were so unreal that its almost like they never happened. I don't feel that about he Hammersmith and Brixton shows from 2005 and 2002 respectively because the venues are actually respectably big. But Shep Bush was like a club gig for them!
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Any pictures of that? I didnt kneew that.oh i just founded. Yed like 1993
 

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Helmuth Von Moltke said:
I was at both these shows at Shep Bush January 2001 (still a teenager, easy trip from my mum's place nearby in London...!). You are right they played rarities from BNW but it was Fallen Angel and Silent Planet. I have such foggy, delirious memories of those two sweet gigs... Bruce wearing his grey Lonsdale jogging shorts again that he wore in the 1993 era... walk on Eddie being too big to walk onto the stage!... and the sweet encore of these two BNW songs.

In my mind, those shows were so unreal that its almost like they never happened. I don't feel that about he Hammersmith and Brixton shows from 2005 and 2002 respectively because the venues are actually respectably big. But Shep Bush was like a club gig for them!
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Was Children Of The Damned played during those? I know that they played it at Brixton...

Edit: I see it wasn't.
 
AncientMariner_Essex said:
After seeing them at Earl’s Court it was a surreal experience watching them in such a small venue. Like you said it was more like a club gig.

My first experience of the band live was with blaze on the x-factor and VXI tours at the Brixton academy but when Bruce came back I was lucky enough to see 2 dates on the ed hunter tour, Paris and Rotterdam with the FC and then Earl’s Court so the venues got bigger then to be I. A tiny place like Shepherd’s Bush empire was great.

Brilliant times back then. The buzz about the band was awesome. Bruce and Adrian back, the wicker man was a brilliant first single. The ed hunter tour metal 2000, the FC convention and getting to meet the band and then Shepherd’s Bush empire.
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Another thing they stopped doing for the fans. Conventions with meet and greets.
 
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AncientMariner_Essex said:
After seeing them at Earl’s Court it was a surreal experience watching them in such a small venue. Like you said it was more like a club gig.

My first experience of the band live was with blaze on the x-factor and VXI tours at the Brixton academy but when Bruce came back I was lucky enough to see 2 dates on the ed hunter tour, Paris and Rotterdam with the FC and then Earl’s Court so the venues got bigger then to be I. A tiny place like Shepherd’s Bush empire was great.

Brilliant times back then. The buzz about the band was awesome. Bruce and Adrian back, the wicker man was a brilliant first single. The ed hunter tour metal 2000, the FC convention and getting to meet the band and then Shepherd’s Bush empire.
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Almost snap! My first show was VXII at Portsmouth (I was too young to be allowed to Brixton in 1995).

Then I went to Paris on the FC coach trip (not on to Rotterdam, I went home after Paris). Then Earl's Court. Then NEC later in 2000.

Brilliant buzz around then, dreams coming true for a fan like me who thought the band was done and becoming a laughing stock for others. Almost like watching an underground band you follow break big...
 
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Will they be including stories about the recording of The Number of the Beast? If that is the case, I bet we will be getting the same stories that have been told a thousand times before.

Can we play the game of naming them all? I'll start:

- Martin Birch's crash with the nuns and a £666 repair bill (told by Steve).
- Bruce's extended microphone to make sure Steve tripped over whenever he went close to the front of the stage (told by Bruce).
- Steve wanting to fire Bruce after a massive argument during the tour and Rod telling him that it wasn't possible (told by Bruce).
- The pressure of recording an album writing new material from scratch (told by Steve), including taking some stuff from Beckett without giving credit where credit is due (that last bit is mine).
- The pressure of changing frontmen at that time of the band's career (told by Steve).
- Learning the album had got to number 1 in the UK while pushing their tour bus in mainland Europe to jump start it after it got a flat battery (told by Bruce).
- Rod Smallwood's call to Patrick McGoohan (told by Bruce).
 
GhostofCain said:
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Will they be including stories about the recording of The Number of the Beast? If that is the case, I bet we will be getting the same stories that have been told a thousand times before.

Can we play the game of naming them all? I'll start:

- Martin Birch's crash with the nuns and a £666 repair bill (told by Steve).
- Bruce's extended microphone to make sure Steve tripped over whenever he went close to the front of the stage (told by Bruce).
- Steve wanting to fire Bruce after a massive argument during the tour and Rod telling him that it wasn't possible (told by Bruce).
- The pressure of recording an album writing new material from scratch (told by Steve), including taking some stuff from Beckett without giving credit where credit is due (that last bit is mine).
- The pressure of changing frontmen at that time of the band's career (told by Steve).
- Learning the album had got to number 1 in the UK while pushing their tour bus in mainland Europe to jump start it after it got a flat battery (told by Bruce).
- Rod Smallwood's call to Patrick McGoohan (told by Bruce).
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I don't know but I bought this yesterday and will let you know when I get round to reading it.1000031465.jpg
 
GhostofCain said:
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Will they be including stories about the recording of The Number of the Beast? If that is the case, I bet we will be getting the same stories that have been told a thousand times before.

Can we play the game of naming them all? I'll start:

- Martin Birch's crash with the nuns and a £666 repair bill (told by Steve).
- Bruce's extended microphone to make sure Steve tripped over whenever he went close to the front of the stage (told by Bruce).
- Steve wanting to fire Bruce after a massive argument during the tour and Rod telling him that it wasn't possible (told by Bruce).
- The pressure of recording an album writing new material from scratch (told by Steve), including taking some stuff from Beckett without giving credit where credit is due (that last bit is mine).
- The pressure of changing frontmen at that time of the band's career (told by Steve).
- Learning the album had got to number 1 in the UK while pushing their tour bus in mainland Europe to jump start it after it got a flat battery (told by Bruce).
- Rod Smallwood's call to Patrick McGoohan (told by Bruce).
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Oh we are cynical

True though
 
GhostofCain said:
Can we play the game of naming them all? I'll start:

- Martin Birch's crash with the nuns and a £666 repair bill (told by Steve).
- Bruce's extended microphone to make sure Steve tripped over whenever he went close to the front of the stage (told by Bruce).
- Steve wanting to fire Bruce after a massive argument during the tour and Rod telling him that it wasn't possible (told by Bruce).
- The pressure of recording an album writing new material from scratch (told by Steve), including taking some stuff from Beckett without giving credit where credit is due (that last bit is mine).
- The pressure of changing frontmen at that time of the band's career (told by Steve).
- Learning the album had got to number 1 in the UK while pushing their tour bus in mainland Europe to jump start it after it got a flat battery (told by Bruce).
- Rod Smallwood's call to Patrick McGoohan (told by Bruce).
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Poto said:
Regretting putting Gangland on the album instead of Total Eclipse
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I think the story about how Martin Birch pushed Bruce to the limit (throwing chairs and whatever, if I remember correctly) in order to get the infamous scream out of him for the title track also has a fair chance, but I think the ones listed above are definitely more likely contenders.
 
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