Iron Maiden Sells Half of Their Catalog, Name And Likeness Rights to Pophouse Entertainment

[Flaming Blimp Crash]

Another thought, wonder if Nicko's change of status on certain things Maiden had to do with this?

 

[The_7th_one]

Pophouse: we need to sell a lot of t-shirts, posters, anything with Eddie. Maybe a calendar. One day/ One Eddie.
Rod: ok Herve is all yours now

 

[Cat Milk Supreme]

Another thought, wonder if Nicko's change of status on certain things Maiden had to do with this?

You paint a grim, corporate, sickeningly commercial picture in previous posts and yah, it all makes sense and if it were any other band I'd probably agree wholeheartedly. But I dunno, it's Maiden. I'm sure they love coin as much as the next band but I honestly can't see Pophouse telling them what to do in any way in terms of tour themes. I just can't see it. Surely that's part of the deal.

Pophouse will get their cut from all the merchandising nonsense and the Eddie spin offs but as long as the band is still together I can't see anyone other than Rod, Bruce and Steve making the big calls in regards to tours/albums.

I expect maybe we'll see more Maiden in films and adverts maybe. I wonder if Beast being played during England's World Cup halftime coverage was part of this whole thing.

I can live with that. I can ignore it all, it doesn't effect me.

That's my hope and I'm sticking to it!

Also, what changes from Nicko? Not nitpicking, just can't think. Although I did see an interview with Nicko about his new snare line, 666 pieces and he said was saying that they had to work stuff out for using Eddie on the drums and he said "they were very good about it." The use of 'they' stood out. Plus, what the fuck, it's 666 drums for Nicko, I hope by being "good" he means that he didn't have to pay for the use of Eddie.

 

[Yax]

Yes, I don't think anybody needs to be afraid Steve Harris and Rod Smallwood are going to allow themselves to be pushed around. This is going to be a good thing, and hopefully Maiden will get a much needed kick in the behind regarding releasing archive stuff and get around to it. The Metallica box sets have been unreal, for instance.

Their involvement in the upcoming concert film can only be positive, considering Maiden's track record with this being rather uneven.