New Bruce Interview

He drinks loads of coffee. He hates cold water and doesn’t drink it. He’s had an attack of gout. He sang Nessun Dorma in his shower. He’s also set to sing the U.S. national anthem on some date. (I didn’t finish watching the whole interview.)

He’s also pretty conscious about his health—he drinks healthy smoothies and takes supplements (lion’s mane, maca etc.)

In all seriousness, I completely understand his dislike of air conditioning and smoking at concerts. Both interfere with his ability to sing, and that must be genuinely frustrating for him.
 
In such a long interview, it's more likely that you might accidentally let something slip that could give clues about plans, e.g., a new Maiden album.
Unfortunately, I don't have much time at the moment.
Does he say anything about science? I'm still curious about the answers given in his comics on these topics, but to be honest, I don't feel like reading them.
 
My notes: I watched all but the final 10 minutes yesterday. First 40 minutes are essentially the cancer thing and the two of them getting into the interview comfort zone. Talk about how he's an enemy of all things sugar in his diet, and how he hates drinking cold water (which is also bad for the singing voice)

Around 45 minutes, they start to talk about his warm-up routines.
48 mins in, Bruce sings a bit of Trumpet of Jericho but in chest range

Says he usually does Trumpets of Jericho for his warm-ups because it covers so much of his singing style, vowels, range shifts etc. They talk quite a bit in the interview about vocal technique, resonance placement and how Bruce used to do a lot of front teeth placement etcetera and piercing head-voice whereas he nowadays prefers to put some "body" into his singing, as he now has more of a low end. He talked about how Tony Platt helped him push his range and find his singing style in the early pre-Maiden years, but that he had to find proper technique to sing high-ranged stuff live.

He also references that they (Maiden) try to get youtube to take down all their live vids (he tells her to go and find a Rime video; they talk about body stance while singing and he talks about how you need that sound stance to do all that head-voice stuff).

Looks like Bruce has been paying attention to the tour reception. He talked about Aces High and how he read that people accurately pointed out he was struggling in the early tour (more than he does now), and he's like, yep, always struggled with it, still am.

He is going into the studio with his solo band in January to record the new album.

He cannot cope with in-ears. He hates them. He needs to feel the voice in his body and head, so he uses ear-plugs to isolate himself, and gets the top end from the wedges.

He is going to do the U.S. national anthem soon at a sports game.

He talks a bit about how he has worked with a physio-therapist following his hip replacements and how he has learned tons of stuff about how to take care of his body.

Says that Fear of the Dark is a good song to sing towards the end of the set, as you get to use cool props and it isn't too hard on his voice as you get tired towards the end of the set.
 
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He also said Ozzy and Sabbath were one of his main inspiration alongside Ian and Purple.

He wanted to be drummer and in his first band he played bongos. Now we know why he is playing bonogs on solo tour.

He is behind his Instagram account. Maybe alongside his wife, but he said he is following what is going on on Instagram.

He demostrate crazy memory by naming all dates and cities for US tour :D
 
I don't think he let anything slip about future plans. The only thing he said is that he'll record his next studio album in January 2026 or so. We already knew that though. He didn't really talk about Maiden. The only thing he said is that in the reunion era he feels better in the band.
Oh he said that he struggles with Aces High, too.
 
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