182 replies to this topic

[garethslee]

because apparently "It's all yurts and people being far too polite."
What a dick !!!

http://www.contactmu...tonbury_1161650

[Zacko]

Shame really, you'd think they wouldn't wanna rule it out completely because well...why the f**k would you rule it out? It's a great gig to do (presumably)

[eFestivals]

garethslee, on 25 August 2010 - 11:31 AM, said:

because apparently "It's all yurts and people being far too polite."
What a dick !!!

http://www.contactmu...tonbury_1161650

yeah, much too soft for hard-rockin' Bruce, who's mostly sober cos of flying and sports.

[ampersand]

odd, cos i thought sonisphere was kind of polite. until the twatty kids came out to play on sunday night.

[tonyblair]

Bruce Dickinson is a twat..??

shock horror

who'd have thought it

[TheSeventhOne]

Shame, but they were never going to play regardless.

[crimsonking]

They were never really ruled in to rule themselves out if you know what I mean.  

Thinking about it, I'm officially ruling myself out of ever running for the Presidency of the USA, so Barak you can relax now  

What are you officially ruling yourself out of Bruce style??

Edited by crimsonking, 26 August 2010 - 07:57 AM.

[swede]

What a nob, funny interview though, love how he says Glastonbury is too polite but then goes onto say....

The 'Run to the Hills' singer admitted the legendary rockers don't make extravagant demands and amaze their friends with their simple backstage requests.

He explained: "We got rid of most of our rider. We just have three loaves of white bread, some butter, a tin of tuna fish and some beers.

"People come backstage looking for the spread and we say 'Go make yourself a sandwich.'

Go make yourself a sandwich......how rock and roll and un pc !!! Long live the metal  

[Alcatraz]

Cheers Bruce, I'll try to be more a prick at Glastonbury just so I can see your shit band in 2013

[swede]

Alcatraz, on 26 August 2010 - 09:07 AM, said:

Cheers Bruce, I'll try to be more a prick at Glastonbury just so I can see your shit band in 2013

Yeah, not enough piss throwing and tent burning at Glasto for Bruces liking  

[Wanderlei]

He's the sort of guy who'd throw a hissy-fit if anything happened to him during a gig.

[Zacko]

Shame really, I'd love to see Maiden at Glasto - with the right setlist it could be pretty fantastic.

[Arctic Junkee]

i'd say someones a twat if they insult glasto but the fact that he was already a twat makes me hate him even more!
"no extravagant demands", oh yeah they've only got themselves this http://upload.wikime...rce_one_757.jpg

[sifi]

Arctic Junkee, on 26 August 2010 - 11:37 AM, said:

"no extravagant demands", oh yeah they've only got themselves this http://upload.wikime...rce_one_757.jpg

They hired it so they could play some places that they wouldn't otherwise play, the costs being too prohibitive.   Bruce flew it himself.

Wanderlei, on 26 August 2010 - 10:34 AM, said:

He's the sort of guy who'd throw a hissy-fit if anything happened to him during a gig.

Unlikely, given he is the sort of guy who flew troops into Afghanistan in a Hercules transport carrier.  Or flew into a war zone to rescue British citizens when Israel were f**king over the Lebanon.

This quote aside, I love Bruce.  He's great.  Great musician with a brilliant live band, he's written two best selling books, directed films and would have been in the 1988 Olympic team if it wasn't for the Seventh Son tour.

Edited by sifimaster, 26 August 2010 - 11:50 AM.

[eFestivals]

sifimaster, on 26 August 2010 - 11:45 AM, said:

They hired it so they could play some places that they wouldn't otherwise play, the costs being to prohibitive.   Bruce flew it himself.

yep, he did. Which meant he was sober for the whole tour. That's real hard rockin'.

And given the rest of the article, it appears that it's Maiden that are too polite for rock n roll, and not Glastonbury that's too polite for them.

[sifi]

eFestivals, on 26 August 2010 - 11:50 AM, said:

And given the rest of the article, it appears that it's Maiden that are too polite for rock n roll, and not Glastonbury that's too polite for them.

I think it's that they are a band that incredibly orientated towards their fans.  Always have been.  I don't think they are bothered about playing to people that they don't see as "their" people.  Same with AC/DC.  I can't see either bands ever playing anything other than a metal / rock festival in the UK, or at least a rock / metal styled day at a festival.

Edited by sifimaster, 26 August 2010 - 11:59 AM.

[Guitargeek4]

I saw him at clapham on sunday. He looked thoroughly disgusted to be surrounded by us commoners.

[Ed209]

swede, on 26 August 2010 - 08:30 AM, said:

What a nob, funny interview though, love how he says Glastonbury is too polite but then goes onto say....

The 'Run to the Hills' singer admitted the legendary rockers don't make extravagant demands and amaze their friends with their simple backstage requests.

He explained: "We got rid of most of our rider. We just have three loaves of white bread, some butter, a tin of tuna fish and some beers.

"People come backstage looking for the spread and we say 'Go make yourself a sandwich.'

Go make yourself a sandwich......how rock and roll and un pc !!! Long live the metal  

Not really related at all, or the same thing. Just reminded me of this clip and has given me an excuse to post it

[worthyraver]

I always liked Bruce I have some early Iron Maiden albums, I read a story about him over on the Roskilde forums somewhere:

forum

I can not find it, but to paraphrase:

Just found it

Quote

I think my best moment at Roskilde had to be being bitched at by Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden in front of 100,000 people on Orange Stage. I was standing in an open spot in the crowd by one of the speaker stands, with my at-that-time fancy japanese phone that could record sound (!). I was holding it up in the air, not exactly being discrete, and in between songs Bruce looks straight at me and says something along the lines of:

"Are you recording our music?! [don't remember what he said here] ... Well I'll tell you what, we're gonna play a song from our new album, and if you're gonna record it and send it out to allll your friends on the internet.... It's OK!"

Later on he told us to download the new album and buy it if it's good, and trash it if it's shit.

Massive respect for Bruce.

Link to thread

[Pogues Mcgogues]

Glastonbury gets this type of comment from the more heavier listening community and quite frankly deserves it a bit. If a festival claiming to have everything excludes a type of collective music genres like Glasto does (and it does with the heavier stuff) then it's going to get this type of hostility. There's no reason they couldn't welcome some more heavier bands. I think Coheed and Cambria are the only semi-heavy band I could think of this year.