Iron Maiden In Tokyo - Bruce's Kebab Comment

Here's a little update between gigs for y'all, about Iron Maiden. Well, why not??

I didn't know about the following youtube clip until Thee H sent me this YouTube link:



Check out the clip (if you are so inclined) and at the 3 minute mark Bruce Dickinson says "Oi you at the back there, with the donner kebab! Pay attention!". When he said this I was stood way at the back of the room, by the kebab stall, with a kebab in my hand.



He said that and I thought "haha Bruce has got good eye-sight!" and then I took a few photos for some reason.

Here's a few more photos that I took during that day in Chiba at the Makuhara Messe convention centre. It was a great gig and a great day out too. Can't wait for Twickenham.










The second-to-last pic is of a cooler-than-cool Jap metaller who I spotted in the crowd, he wearing a Maiden flag as a cape and also a pair of Freddie Mercury style spandex pants. You don't get many of them at gigs here in England, I wonder why! The last of the photos here is of the Japanese Maiden fans all leaving the hall (Manowar style), in a very orderly fashion.

New Vinyl

Totally stoked about this. Just bought - from a second hand record store that is just 2 minutes walk from my hotel here in Ikebukuro - a Misfits 12" picture disc of "Horror Business Sessions 77-81, Volume 2" . The cover art says it has 14 tracks in total and the disc was pressed in Poland. And it is a "limited edition" of 666 copies.



Not a bad find, considering that the record shop in question specialises in jazz! They also had a ton of other stuff, mainly punk, some Eyehategod vinyl too... I only had enough cash spare for the one purchase though and I have never seen this particular Misfits record before. Sure I could get extra cash from the bank I guess but, knowing my luck, the vinyl will be damaged on the flight home or something.

Iron Maiden @ Makuhari Messe, Tokyo

The Maiden gig in Tokyo today was really good. It was filled to the brim with Japanese metallers of all kinds, but also there were lots of non-metal fans there too. They really go wild at concerts!

One thing I noticed is that, when Maiden played the song "2 Minutes To Midnight", everyone in the crowd made the peace-sign when they shouted along with the chorus.


I guess they meant *2* minutes to midnight, but its really weird how they all did it in unison here but I have never seen or heard of it being done anywhere else. Perhaps it actually is done everywhere, but I have been to drunk or too busy headbanging to ever notice it before.

That's it - no more gigs here in Japan for now.

Shinjuku Disc Union

I was in a branch of Disc Union in Shinjuku Tokyo earlier on today and came across a floor dedicated to Avant Garde and Noise bands. Here's a photo to make you jealous!