1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,120 RADIO CHATTER: 'Five star 666 clear to land runway 04, 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:07,320 'surface end 1007 knots.' 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:09,080 'Five star 666.' 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:11,800 'I have a check list.' 5 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:45,360 It was my idea, basically. 6 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:47,240 It went back to something I did 7 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,320 for an album called Skunkworks, 8 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,560 one of my solo albums, 9 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,240 when we actually took a very much smaller aeroplane 10 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,200 with little propellers on it, little piston engines on it, 11 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:01,720 and we went and bashed our way around the US, 12 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,280 and I thought, "Wow, why couldn't you do this on a bigger scale?" 13 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,720 And I think his real purpose in coming up with the idea 14 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:12,920 is so he got two wages, one to be a singer and one to be a pilot. 15 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:48,240 We were asked to go to Australia in '08 16 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:50,480 and we hadn't been there for a long time. 17 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,840 We also wanted to go to South America. 18 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,120 So if you think about doing Australia 19 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:56,920 and maybe somewhere on the way, 20 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:00,400 and then around South America by scheduled airlines nowadays, 21 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:02,800 with all the security precautions and everything else, 22 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,000 and the way it's very hard to link up the freight 23 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,000 and the flights efficiently, 24 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,920 then it just seemed to be a good idea 25 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:13,600 to see if there's some way of doing it. 26 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,160 So I offered up this idea of an aeroplane, and I thought, 27 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:34,160 "Can we get enough gear in the holds to make it viable?" 28 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,200 And it became pretty clear that we couldn't. 29 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,800 I said, "OK, why can't we use the back end of the aeroplane?" 30 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:43,080 "Take the seats out and put a big cargo net in?" 31 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:47,040 The idea of the splitted bus in the air just seemed to be ideal 32 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,360 if it could be done, and so we went to quite immense 33 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:54,760 logistics and bureaucracy to get it done. 34 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,840 The main thing that has completely changed 35 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:10,000 the dynamic of our regular touring with Iron Maiden is the fact 36 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,320 that we're flying everywhere on Ed Force One. 37 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:16,640 Working out the logistics of once we get to the country, 38 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:19,920 how we get into the venues, how we get into the hotels, 39 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:22,600 and all of that is all planned in advance, as well, 40 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:23,920 which Steve Gadd does for me. 41 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:27,000 From the minute we land, you get away from the airport 42 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,280 where there's up to 1,000 people there watching the plane coming in, 43 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,280 and you think you're out of dodge, but you're not, 44 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:35,440 because you get to the hotel and there's 500 people 45 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:36,920 camped out for a couple of days. 46 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,240 Iron Maiden! Iron Maiden! 47 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,840 I think the thing that keeps everybody awake at night 48 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,040 is thinking of what you haven't done, 49 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:47,160 because the band have been around for so long, but also because of 50 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,880 the changes in the industry, there's a phenomenal amount of detail. 51 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,080 We're obviously covering some territories we've never been to, 52 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,280 so there's been interesting challenges in terms of 53 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,600 going to Korea and those Pacific Rim countries 54 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,160 that we've never been to before. 55 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:05,040 Everything around the plane is complicated. 56 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:08,760 You don't actually just get a 757 and put your gear on and fly off. 57 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,040 It's all advance work. 58 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:16,800 The plane dictates what you can take, nothing else dictates it. 59 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:23,960 Well, here we are on Ed Force One. 60 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:27,000 In what would normally be 60 passengers 61 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,760 sitting in this compartment space. 62 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,680 The only restriction we have, really, is that everything 63 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,320 has to be able to fit through the main doors. 64 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,600 As long as it'll go through here, it'll go on board the aircraft. 65 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:45,040 We'll probably get a heads up of maybe a year, nine months, 66 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,920 something like that, as to the tour's happening, 67 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:51,200 and then we'll go and have a meeting with Rod and he'll give us 68 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,760 maybe an album name or just a gem of an idea which we'll then 69 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,800 go away with and come up with some designs for the set. 70 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:02,440 Hangman will send us initial drawings of what it's going to look like, 71 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,320 we'll move that on a bit until we're all happy, then they'll do 72 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:09,640 a model, and then we'll sign it off and we'll start building it. 73 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:12,320 The rest of it looks great, 74 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,200 but it just needs to really stand out when he does it. He's very flat. 75 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:16,400 It's very flat lighting... 76 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,160 It's always the same, I don't know why, but no matter how much time 77 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,440 you have on these things, it always seems to end up 78 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:23,360 that we haven't got any time at the end of it! 79 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:25,200 MUSIC: "Brave New World" by Iron Maiden 80 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:27,000 81 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,880 82 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:34,760 83 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:36,760 We're in Paris, in a rehearsal room, 84 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,200 and we've just finished rehearsal for the day. 85 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,520 We've got one more rehearsal before we head off on the Final Frontier. 86 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,280 We circulate a copy of the set between us 87 00:05:48,280 --> 00:05:51,280 a couple of weeks before we actually get to the rehearsal. 88 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:54,160 You know you're going to be playing Hallowed Be Thy Name, 89 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,000 you know you're going to be playing Iron Maiden, 90 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,720 so it was just working in a couple of the new songs, really. 91 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:06,040 Yeah, been rehearsing for 92 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,680 just over a week and a half now, 93 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:12,160 and we've got one more tomorrow, one more run through, 94 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:16,280 and the new songs we're doing off the new album sounded really good. 95 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:20,520 And yeah, we're all excited to be... Off we go, you know. 96 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,960 We're feeling pretty confident, a little tentative on a few little bits here and there, 97 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,800 but, I mean, that's always the way, and I think, really, it'll take 98 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,480 a couple of gigs before we really settle down. 99 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:32,120 The first one will be nervy, as usual. 100 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,600 We can rehearse till the cows come home, 101 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:36,960 but it's only when you get on stage, that first night, 102 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:40,040 and then everything falls into place. 103 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,600 You find once you get out there, it's good fun, and, you know, 104 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,520 you get in front of the audience and connect with the audience again 105 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:47,600 and you realise why you do it. 106 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,680 But when you're rehearsing in an empty room 107 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:51,240 you sometimes wonder why you do it! 108 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,240 Because this band just feeds off an audience, 109 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:58,000 and it's, you know, that's where it comes alive. 110 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:27,400 Right. 111 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:30,720 Morning. 112 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:31,880 Dreadful, isn't it? 113 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:41,240 Well, here we are, on the Embankment on our way to Stansted. 114 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:46,200 We're in civvies at the moment. 115 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:50,640 Uniform's in the back, so I shall be finding a phone booth 116 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:54,320 and having a convenient change of clothes. 117 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:55,960 You'll believe a man can fly. 118 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:01,040 So we'll be on our way to Moscow shortly, 119 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:04,280 which I expect will be cold. 120 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:10,200 Normally marked to go in the front hold. 121 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:13,240 As and when I start packing it. It's a bit of a Tardis. 122 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,960 This is such a unique aircraft 123 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:19,680 and it's such a unique way of touring around the world. 124 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:23,080 Loading it, on average, anywhere between four to five hours. 125 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,280 I have worked with lots of other bands, and A list bands, 126 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:31,960 and I don't know of another act who would take this risk 127 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,240 and would downsize their equipment to such a level. 128 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,680 It's a high risk strategy in terms of the people, 129 00:08:36,680 --> 00:08:38,320 the aircraft, the crew, you know, 130 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:42,400 everything has to slot into place, and it's a big wheel. 131 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,320 I'm just one small cog of that. 132 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:51,320 In terms of flying, the most stressful things about flying 133 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,320 on this particular tour are actually really not to do 134 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,320 with the actual flying bits of it, 135 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:00,720 they're to do with the administrative bits of it. 136 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:05,160 Because so much of planning a tour like this 137 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:10,240 is down to the advent of it. There's no real slack in any of it. 138 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:13,200 It's not like, "Oh, we can come back tomorrow and get it to work." 139 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,680 It's got to happen exactly on those days, 140 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:17,800 and it's got to happen like clockwork. 141 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,520 MUSIC: "The Final Frontier" by Iron Maiden 142 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:22,680 143 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:25,000 144 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,760 145 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,960 146 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,840 147 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,960 148 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,480 149 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:47,280 150 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:12,400 AEROPLANE INSTRUMENTS: 50, 40, 30, 20, ten. 151 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:21,800 We're in Moscow, and it's snowing, and it's cold. 152 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:26,120 It's snowing and it's getting colder. 153 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,880 Tomorrow will be much colder, unfortunately. 154 00:10:30,680 --> 00:10:33,000 You'll never guess where I am. 155 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,520 Three degrees difference, 15, 18 degrees who cares? 156 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:39,240 It's bloody freezing! But look at this, what an amazing place. 157 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,640 The first place on the tour. What can I say? 158 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:43,920 Nastravya! 159 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,280 How far did you come? How many miles? 160 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,480 Oh it's eight, nine hours, especially for this concert, 161 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:02,320 especially to meet him and special for Iron Maiden, 162 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:03,720 Iron Maiden are the best. 163 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,160 CHEERING 164 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:12,720 The fans have been brilliant. They've been waiting outside in the cold, God knows how they do it. 165 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:15,400 We're standing here since nine o'clock in the morning. 166 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:25,760 This is it, it's the old Olympic arena, which is a massive building. 167 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:29,080 Absolutely freezing outside, minus 20 degrees, 168 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:32,200 so the doors have just opened out there 169 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,280 and some rather cold fans will start coming into here, 170 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:36,680 but I'm sure we'll warm them up! 171 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:40,120 It's good to get these tours rolling, you know? 172 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:43,120 We've been planning it for months and months and months, of course, 173 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,720 and it's great to finally get everyone out on the road. 174 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,320 So, as you just saw, we had a little run through, 175 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:55,960 a little demo version of the intro, 176 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,280 going through a few ideas with Steve and Bruce 177 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:00,240 and the rest of the guys there. 178 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,720 I think we've got a little concept. Now we're going to put those ideas 179 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:05,720 into some kind of comprehensive queue stack, 180 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:08,000 so I'm not spinning plates tomorrow night. 181 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,880 We've got about 80-odd moving lights, 182 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:14,600 sort of split evenly between washes and spots. 183 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:18,160 We've also got some of these great big wash lights with the LED rings. 184 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:19,920 They're show beams, they're really... 185 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:22,240 Got two and half K bulb in them, they're pretty punchy. 186 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,160 We've got nice little LED strips around the chevrons that highlight 187 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:28,840 the shapes of the truss, and we've got a good few hundred PAR cans 188 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:31,840 thrown in just for good measure, just to beef up the whole thing. 189 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,640 Not to mention all our audience crowd blinders and follow spots. 190 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:38,440 We don't bring anything, we just bring a lighting desk, that's it. 191 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:41,120 All I've got is my lighting desk and these truss borders, 192 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:44,920 Every single nut, bolt, bulb, cable, is all supplied locally. 193 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:46,480 I have to advance all this stuff, 194 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,000 you know, a series of diagrams and equipment lists and everything, 195 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:54,160 3D renderings and everything else you can think of, with about 30 individual lighting companies, 196 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:57,760 who all then kind of give me their interpretation of what I've asked, 197 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:01,400 and then we have to fine tune it and end up with something resembling this every day. 198 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:03,680 MUSIC: "Two Minutes To Midnight" by Iron Maiden 199 00:13:03,680 --> 00:13:06,880 200 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:08,800 201 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:11,040 One of the hardest things is no matter how much effort 202 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:13,920 we put into all this and all the care and attention we put in, 203 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:17,080 a big part of the show is a follow spot, and we're putting it 204 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:18,960 in the hands of people I've never met before 205 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:20,560 who don't really speak English, 206 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:22,920 they definitely haven't seen Iron Maiden before. 207 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:26,160 Upstairs. 208 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,760 I can do it in French, Portuguese, Spanish and German 209 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:34,040 which has helped a hell of a lot, 210 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:37,080 but my Russian and South Korean left a little to be..! 211 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,720 This has become a pretty busy part of the show now, right? 212 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,280 Jesus. Getting stressed. 213 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,200 Getting stressed, Nick! 214 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:52,480 MUSIC: "El Dorado" by Iron Maiden 215 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:53,880 216 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:56,080 217 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,520 218 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:03,920 219 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,000 220 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:10,800 221 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:18,080 Get the promoter to come and tell these three security guys 222 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,160 that we've got to open these doors to get our stuff out. 223 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,440 One of the most important things to remember 224 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:27,200 whenever you're doing a load out, 225 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:30,000 especially somewhere like Moscow, at one o'clock in the morning 226 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,440 at about minus 18, is to make sure you're wearing some long trousers. 227 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:38,400 What I do want to do is make sure that the gear, 228 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,720 that everyone's responsible to their gear, 229 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,040 so if each department dedicates one person that, 230 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:47,160 until that gear's locked up in the back of the truck... 231 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:49,000 I mean, putting it to the dark 232 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,760 or handing it off to Bill the stage hand isn't good enough. 233 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:53,760 I want eyes on that gear till it's locked, 234 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,400 because, as you know, like the last tour... 235 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:58,440 Needs to go down town, boys. 236 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,520 And what else am I worried about? 237 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:03,280 Jakarta, Jakarta's going to be... 238 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:05,920 Is probably, as you're all fully aware, 239 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:08,680 is the show that we're having the most trouble with at the moment, 240 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:10,920 and that's because at the moment, we don't have a show. 241 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,240 MUSIC: "Mother Russia" by Iron Maiden 242 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:15,600 243 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,480 244 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:20,160 245 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:22,360 246 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:36,240 So, here we have show two on the Iron Maiden Around The World Tour. 247 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:39,840 Last night at nine o'clock, they tore down Eric Clapton 248 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:41,480 and began to build our show. 249 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,640 And I came down a few months ago and did a site visit, 250 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:48,640 had a quick look around the venue, met the sound company, 251 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:51,560 went through all the monitor rig with them, 252 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:54,480 because they were offering me something I hadn't used before, 253 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:56,040 so I wanted to listen to it. 254 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:58,560 So I came down, had a day out here which is nice, 255 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:00,800 and had a listen to the gear, which was fine. 256 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:04,960 Basically, carry Bruce's wedges, and we carry the drum fill, 257 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,480 we carry the desks, and everything that connects the desks together, 258 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,880 and then the local companies supply us the stacks, basically, 259 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:14,040 amplifiers and speakers, 260 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:17,160 and we have a list of what we like to use, we send that out, 261 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:20,840 they send us a list back saying, "We don't have this, 262 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,040 "We have that system, we don't have that system", 263 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,000 and this just goes backwards and forwards and backwards and forwards 264 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,120 till we get to a point where everybody's happy. 265 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,360 Then we turn up on the day and hopefully they turn up 266 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:33,200 with the same gear they've told us they're going to bring us. 267 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:35,440 So we're going into a venue every day 268 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:38,800 using a completely different system, and we've just got to make it work 269 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,880 and make it work so the band are happy on stage. 270 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:53,360 Well with any luck, if we get all this right, you know, 271 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,760 plugged on a daily basis, turns on and fires up, no problems, 272 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:58,560 but that's the importance of the prep. 273 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:00,120 Most of it's all about the prep work. 274 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:05,240 We supply the sound equipment that Iron Maiden use 275 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:06,760 when they go on tour. 276 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:10,840 There are discussions as to what's logistically possible 277 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:14,160 as far as sound is concerned, moving the systems. 278 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,760 Usually, once we've done all this in the warehouse, it works, 279 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:19,840 and it's very rare we have to mess with anything. 280 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:25,160 Obviously, we do get things go down, mics go off, mic cables go down, 281 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,960 channels on the multi-pins pack up, and you just deal with it. 282 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:32,520 Basically, I look after the whole stage end of the show, 283 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:35,680 so if anything goes down, it's down to me to be able to fix it. 284 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:38,200 This is my world and everybody else keeps out of it. 285 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,680 MUSIC: "Fear Of The Dark" by Iron Maiden 286 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:42,280 287 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:44,640 288 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,440 289 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:49,760 290 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:51,640 291 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:54,360 292 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:57,160 293 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,320 After today, we're going to fly to Indonesia, Jakarta, 294 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:04,880 and, in fact, probably the first time 295 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,080 that a production of this size and a band of this size 296 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:09,080 have actually played there in a long time, 297 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:11,440 and that has been a challenging show, 298 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,600 and we're going to have to make the show work. 299 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:15,080 Bali's a small venue. 300 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,560 At the moment, they don't have enough PA on the island 301 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:21,720 to actually fulfil our requirements. 302 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:24,800 So at the moment, they're looking for more PA, 303 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:27,120 and we really won't know how good that PA is 304 00:18:27,120 --> 00:18:29,840 until we actually get there, plug it in 305 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:31,480 and make some noise through it. 306 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:34,800 We've had a lot of problems up front. 307 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:36,480 I didn't actually decide finally 308 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,840 until about two days before we were due to arrive there 309 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:39,960 that we were going to go. 310 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:43,480 Dickie had to go out from Moscow early to try to put a crew together. 311 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:46,440 He had to get a new production manager, almost start from scratch. 312 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,120 I mean, I had a sleepless night about three nights before, 313 00:18:49,120 --> 00:18:51,680 wondering, "Are we going to do this or not?" 314 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,520 Iron Maiden, welcome to Jakarta, yeah! 315 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,480 We're from Indonesia. We love you! Up the Iron! 316 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:14,160 FANS SHOUT AND CHANT 317 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:18,000 We're waiting for Iron Maiden to come here almost 20 years! 318 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:31,360 All my friends in Indonesia, they come from every single city, 319 00:19:31,360 --> 00:19:32,760 from different directions. 320 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,760 They finally found their idol here. 321 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:39,520 They forget their religion, they forget their skin, 322 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:40,920 they forget everything, 323 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,720 they just want to hear and sing Iron Maiden songs. 324 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,800 You wouldn't call this our normal stage. 325 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:50,000 This is the show we've had a lot of trouble getting together. 326 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,640 Really nice people who haven't done many shows here. 327 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:57,160 This stage is made up of all sorts of different steel, 328 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:01,040 towers and trusses, and there's, like, loads of it back here, 329 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,480 that's all rusty, it's all a little bit bent. 330 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:06,000 This stage has got a hell of a slope on it! 331 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:09,280 We spent two months asking them 332 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:13,560 if there's any layer scaffolding available, they told me there wasn't. 333 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:17,360 This is the first thing I found when I walked into the building! 334 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:18,560 Loads of it. 335 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:20,800 That's the show power right there, the whole lot. 336 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,120 Don't fall into that, that's all live. 337 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:31,640 That whole thing is live, you know? 338 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:36,400 Obviously, what we're used to is a door that's closed, when you open it, 339 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,400 it disconnects everything and makes it safe. 340 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,080 This is completely live. The whole lot. 341 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:45,480 And if it rains, it's going to be getting wet. 342 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:47,800 Standard procedure, there's a bomb dog. 343 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,680 We're going to go ahead and check the production office for bombs, 344 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:52,520 and we're doing it all over the venue. 345 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,200 And it's serious, you know, it's a serious threat. 346 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,000 So there we go, the dressing rooms are safe 347 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,040 and we didn't find any bombs in there. 348 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:06,760 Which is nice to know! 349 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:11,400 Some tours go dead easy, some go a little bit awry, 350 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:16,160 and as you know, in Indonesia, there were a few hiccups there. 351 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,160 What have you got in here? 352 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:19,720 Oh, my God. 353 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:23,400 This isn't the same as the photograph that we sent you. 354 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,640 What was very heartening for me was, I talked to Dickie, 355 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,720 and a couple of days before, he's getting all very defensive 356 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:31,640 about the production crew there, saying 357 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:33,480 "Well, they're really nice people, 358 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:37,520 "the most wonderful people, and they're trying really hard." 359 00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:43,440 From, really, this nightmare scenario three days before, 360 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,240 then it ended out to be a pretty cracking show. 361 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:47,720 Is it safe? 362 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:49,360 It's nice, Jakarta is. 363 00:21:49,360 --> 00:21:51,640 I haven't been out much, due to the fact someone said 364 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:53,440 I might get kidnapped! 365 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,480 MUSIC: 2 Minutes To Midnight by Iron Maiden 366 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,040 367 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:04,440 368 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:10,440 369 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,360 Playing in Bali was absolutely tremendous, 370 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:21,440 and the feeling that they generated, 371 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:26,000 they're a beautiful culture, beautiful nation of people there. 372 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,320 So it really had a, kind of, spiritual feel about that show. 373 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:33,160 It's definitely unusual here, we don't usually play quarries, 374 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,680 but as you can see, we've got really high walls here, 375 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,520 so it's actually like playing in a cardboard box without 376 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:42,080 a roof on top of it, so what we've tried to do is aim the PA 377 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:44,720 so that it doesn't bounce off the walls to much, because as 378 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,400 you can see, what's going to happen, the sound hits that wall, 379 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,240 it hits that wall, then it hits that wall, and then comes back at us. 380 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,680 I've mixed the audio for Iron Maiden since December '79, 381 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,360 For the public, I mix the out-front. 382 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:00,440 They call it the front of house sound. 383 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,920 I mix for what the audience hears. 384 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,720 From here, I can make it sound real good, 385 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,440 but I can't see what's happening up in that corner of the room 386 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,240 or that part of the ballpark or whatever, 387 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,680 so it's Mike's job to make sure that what I'm doing here 388 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,320 gets to all the people. 389 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,880 Expectations for sound these days are a lot higher. 390 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,840 The sound systems are much, much better, 391 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:20,280 and I think the audience, 392 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,120 they listen to the sound all the time now on CDs. 393 00:23:23,120 --> 00:23:25,440 Ten, 15 years ago it was a different story. 394 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,440 If you were sat at the back of one of these places, 395 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,600 you didn't really expect to hear it quite so well. 396 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,720 So here we have the actual main PA system. 397 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,720 We have two hangs per side for this system, 398 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:38,720 one covers the main front part of the audience, another hang 399 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,000 exactly the same size covers the outer part of the audience. 400 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,960 So we have four delay speakers. Now, where we're standing here, 401 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,680 we're probably something like 80 to 90 metres from the PA. 402 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,920 If you were seeing the band in a normal big arena, sports arena, 403 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,520 you'd be at the very back at this position. 404 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,280 If you look up to the back, here, 405 00:23:56,280 --> 00:24:00,280 we've probably got another 100 metres of throw to the very back. 406 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,640 So what we do is we put in another set of speakers, 407 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:07,720 we have two sets here that cover the very back of the arena, 408 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:09,680 and then we have speakers at the side 409 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,360 that will cover the very top sides of the arena. 410 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,680 MUSIC: "Hallowed Be Thy Name" 411 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,880 Seven shows in Australia, it's like a mini-tour. 412 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:31,960 We've taken on an Aussie crew, got our own lighting crew, 413 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:33,960 got our own sound crew, 414 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,960 we've got our own trucks for the next seven shows, which is going to be really nice. 415 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,800 It's going to be more like the regular touring 416 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,760 that we do in the US and Europe. 417 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,840 You know, we'll still be using the plane, 418 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,760 the crew will be travelling on the plane, 419 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:48,880 but all our equipment will be in the trucks. 420 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,080 I'll tell you the biggest problem I have right now, 421 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,400 is we're not putting equipment in the plane, 422 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,120 so that means we all have to sit in the back of the plane 423 00:24:57,120 --> 00:24:59,240 for take off because there's not enough weight. 424 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,640 That's my biggest logistical problem. 425 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,480 I've got three 48-foot trucks, 426 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,000 we carry our set in one and a half of them, 427 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,520 we carry extra lighting in the other half, 428 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,520 and then we carry our back line of monitors 429 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,200 and front of house in the third one. 430 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,880 It's pretty much a breeze to load in and out. 431 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:27,400 We flew over our set, our rolling set, 432 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:32,200 because we need to get out of the way on a festival situation, 433 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,000 so other bands can play in front of us. 434 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,520 As you can see we're having fun with our own stage set, 435 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,560 for when we were back in Norfolk all those months ago, 436 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,960 loading the sea container with the stage set. 437 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,960 Well, this is it in Australia, 438 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,800 and we're using this throughout this leg, 439 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,600 and it saves people building one for us, which is very nice. 440 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:55,240 It's so much easier. It has wheels, for a start! 441 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,120 And all the back line can live in it, 442 00:25:58,120 --> 00:26:00,880 all the cabs and all the decorations, 443 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,000 everything can all live in there. 444 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:09,120 Getting in here early so we can get the set here 445 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:12,480 and work out how it's all going to fit in with everyone else. 446 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,520 We've got Sydney Festival tomorrow, 447 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,080 we don't get there till two o'clock in the afternoon, 448 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,320 the doors are already open, the show's already started, 449 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:24,160 so we need to build our set behind a black drop, and it's just Bill's job 450 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,920 and the local stage manager, Dougal's, to keep it organised, 451 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:33,280 because really, really quickly it could turn into a complete cluster. 452 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,680 A festival's a festival at the end of the day, 453 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,200 it's one of those days where you do so much 454 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,480 and you have to wait for all the bands to get off stage 455 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,040 and then you hope that everything's working fine, 456 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,400 because you haven't had that much time during the day 457 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,440 because obviously you haven't had the stage. 458 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,240 Because everybody else will be on there. 459 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,080 You just hope that everything's working. 460 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,440 We're trying to make some noise by six, so I've only got 461 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,920 about an hour and ten minutes to get it all going for Doug. 462 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,360 This whole aspect of the tour's been pretty elastic, 463 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:04,400 doing, say, festivals, for example, you do a back-to-back festival, 464 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,440 we might not get there until, I don't know, 465 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,800 10:30, 11 in the morning, and the doors are at two. 466 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,280 So it's like, panic, "What comes off the truck first? 467 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,760 "Whatever it is, go ahead and set that up." 468 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,400 It's not just about ourselves, there's a lot of other bands on, 469 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,640 so it's going to be a real tough one, 470 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,600 we could probably be here overnight tonight, 471 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,840 just to get this stuff built, it's what we have to do. 472 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,520 473 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:32,040 Just waiting for these lights to go up and then we'll bring the carts in 474 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,040 and try to get the set built and as much as we can tonight. 475 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,480 And now this is the fun part of festivals 476 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,240 where we have to take certain bits of it apart 477 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,840 and move it for the other bands to get on and off. 478 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:48,080 Luckily, on this one, we're hoping we can leave the riser 479 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,760 and the two back-line carts. 480 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,160 The next problem is created because of this, 481 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,200 because normally when we would roll these carts on, we'd have room here, 482 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,800 but, obviously, today we haven't because of the structure, 483 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,560 so where the guitar amps would live here, 484 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,760 Sean Brady, as well, looks after Adrian Smith, 485 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,240 that cart would come crashing straight through it. 486 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,920 So we've got to make sure that we let everybody know, because 487 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,920 they're going to build all their kit tomorrow while we're not here. 488 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:13,520 That's the thing we do in festivals. 489 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,120 Every day we have to change the plot, 490 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:17,000 every day there's a new problem. 491 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,240 Here we are at Soundwave, the first day, Brisbane, 47,500, 492 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,280 sold out a while ago. 493 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,400 A lot of great bands, we're going to play to a whole load of people 494 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,120 we haven't played to before. 495 00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:31,800 We've only played Brisbane once in the last 20-odd years, 496 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,960 that was last time, we did about 12,000 people, 497 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,520 so there's got to be a big amount of travellers. 498 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,200 30,000 haven't seen us before, 499 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,480 so it's going to be interesting, it's going to be fun. 500 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,960 It's always good to play to a new audience, 501 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,600 because it makes them work hard to get them into the family. I'm expecting a good day. 502 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,800 Always love playing Australia, the Soundwave festivals were fantastic. 503 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:53,920 Back stage was really nice, 504 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,600 and we had, you know, that guy turn up with the weird animals, 505 00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,120 and seeing other bands - its nice to do gigs with other bands, 506 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,680 because we're normally quite isolated, we do our shows, 507 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,720 we get our audience, which is great, but it's nice to get the energy. 508 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,480 There's a different energy at those festivals. 509 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,280 510 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:14,760 Thank you very much. 511 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,640 512 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:21,000 You're doing this just for the cameras, aren't you?! 513 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,840 514 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:24,040 Woods! 515 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,120 I've still got it mate, I've still got it! 516 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,040 MUSIC: "Hallowed Be Thy Name" 517 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:29,160 518 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:30,800 519 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,320 520 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,920 521 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,120 522 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,120 We're going to have a late loading, 523 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,120 so it's going to be a rush for us tomorrow, 524 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:49,840 we just land straight for the gig 525 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,360 and then if the trucks are there, load it in straight away. 526 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:56,160 We're looking at about one o'clock, I believe. 527 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:57,920 Come down. 528 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,440 The chain hook has come out the top of the piece, 529 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:01,920 there's no way of lifting this up, 530 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,720 and we have to lift this up to dismantle it. 531 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:09,240 Robin, put yourself in there, right? I'm going to send you up a rope. 532 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,160 There's no physical structure down there, 533 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,240 it's just the actual curtain side of the stage, 534 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,920 and obviously working up there in the dark with no safety rails 535 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,200 and stuff they've gotta stay clipped on to at least two points. 536 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,000 If one of them guys falls... No rock and roll show's worth that, 537 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,120 so it literally is that classic story of safety first, you know? 538 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,600 Andy's just putting a rope across it now 539 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,720 just so that we can keep the weight of the tower. 540 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,360 The danger is with the chain that's on 541 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,320 it could swing about 20 foot across the stage, 542 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,840 hit some lights and bring the lights down on everybody, 543 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,680 so it's slowly, slowly, catchy, monkey on this one, I'm afraid. 544 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,600 Nobody got hurt, mate, most important thing, 545 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,000 nothing else really matters today, Andy. 546 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,440 Yeah, a serious pack up, this time. 547 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,480 We have to trim down back to our fighting weight of 12 tons, 548 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:01,360 so that means our rolling set has to be packed into a sea container 549 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,760 to go forth to England for the summer tour, 550 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:06,840 and then there's the normal stuff 551 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,040 that goes into the back of Ed Force One, 552 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,720 so it'll be a little bit longer load out and more breaking apart of things 553 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:16,200 that normally we'd just throw right in the truck, use it the next day. 554 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,560 My boys did an hour and 15 minute load out the last show, 555 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:19,840 it was really, really good. 556 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,520 Thank you and goodnight, Australia! 557 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,760 February 9th we started this part of the tour, 558 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,960 and today we're in Adelaide, it's the 6th March, 559 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,880 and so far it's 18,000 shots. 560 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,880 I'm averaging about 1,000 pictures per show, 561 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,000 and then you've got all the shots that come outside of that 562 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,640 with the plane, with the loadings and hotels and things like that. 563 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,560 But at the moment it's 18,000. 564 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,800 My job is to edit them down to the cream of the crop 565 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,680 and they're the ones that go out. 566 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,360 We're just about to take some nice portraits of the band 567 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,080 in front of the plane, and you would think 568 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,760 this sort of thing would be simple, but it isn't. 569 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,600 It involves many people clearing runways and taxi ways, 570 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,040 getting special permission to park the plane here 571 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,280 so we haven't got a load of clutter behind it. 572 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,280 And also we're getting the wind moved, 573 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,360 so it's blowing in the other direction, 574 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,360 so it'll be better for the pictures(!) 575 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,160 If only that was true! 576 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:48,880 We then headed to Japan, which was a really exciting time for us. 577 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,080 We were going to do two shows in Tokyo, 578 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,200 everyone was looking forward to the show so much, 579 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,440 and certainly, from the advance point of view, 580 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,680 everything had gone very smoothly 581 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,040 and everything was in place for the two Tokyo shows. 582 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:09,000 We were up in the air, about ten minutes away 583 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,360 from landing at Tokyo, when they had a massive earthquake. 584 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:16,200 BRUCE: 'We haven't any further details on the quake 585 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,920 'at the moment, simply that obviously it's fairly serious, 586 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,960 'the whole of the airports in the region are closed 587 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,520 'and there is no determination 588 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,440 'as to when they will be able to accept aircraft.' 589 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,880 'Air traffic control, as you can imagine, 590 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,920 'is under quite some stress at the moment.' 591 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:40,480 'We have made a decision early to go to Nagoya, 592 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,400 'where we will get on the ground and find out what the situation is, 593 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,720 'put some more petrol on the aeroplane 594 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:50,160 'and then see how we can resolve the situation.' 595 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:54,000 We've landed now in Nagoya, a lot of airplanes are all diverting, 596 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:59,560 it sounds very serious, there's an 8.8 magnitude quake, 597 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,520 just north of Narita. 598 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,040 We can't get hold of anyone in Tokyo, 599 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,400 all the phone lines are down, all the cell... 600 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:08,760 I got through to a landline 601 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,800 but there was a recorded message in Japanese 602 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,600 which, of course, I don't understand. 603 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,800 If there's going to be a show, I think the sensible thing 604 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,040 at the moment, for us, would probably be to leave the aeroplane here, 605 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,520 truck the equipment in and out, if there's going to be a show. 606 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:26,920 By the sounds of it, that's sounding increasingly unlikely. 607 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,160 The show must go on, 608 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,400 but we really don't know what's happening there at the moment. 609 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,800 So it's a question of do we stay here? 610 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,320 The airports are still closed, both airports are closed in Tokyo, 611 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,840 so that means there's something relatively serious, 612 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,000 and we'll figure it out. 613 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,400 There's a rumour that there's a 20-metre tsunami. 614 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,960 Now, how... As we said, we just don't know at the moment. 615 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,040 So here we are, you know, it's the morning after, 616 00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:01,000 we're still having shakes and quakes and stuff going on, aftershocks, 617 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,560 but we're in Nagoya, you know, safe. 618 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,120 We're about to get back on our buses, 619 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:06,920 we're going to head back to the aeroplane 620 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:08,720 now that we have a game plan and a decision, 621 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:13,320 and we're going to fly onto Mexico via Hawaii. 622 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,560 - Griffin? - Hello. - Thank you. 623 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,480 That morning, the first show was cancelled. 624 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,560 It seemed fairly obvious as the news unfolded 625 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,640 that the second show would be cancelled. 626 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,400 In light of everything else, that's all pretty secondary. 627 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,560 We just send our love and best wishes 628 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,000 to all Japanese fans and Japanese people. 629 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,960 CROWD: Maiden, Maiden, Maiden! 630 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:44,160 Right, so here I am, just collecting the washing 631 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:48,520 that I don't want to put in the dryer, just stuff that's air dried. 632 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:53,680 This is my wardrobe room today, it's a bit dark and a bit messy. 633 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:58,320 I just basically look after the band, as in stage clothes-wise, 634 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,800 but if they ever need anything, 635 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,640 I'm usually the one to run and fetch things if they need it. 636 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,480 I'd describe this job as balancing six plates. 637 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,480 So this is the lounge area. 638 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,000 They've done a pretty good job today, 639 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,200 it's always different every show. 640 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,000 These are the drum heads, so I have a stash 641 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,520 and put out three every show for Nicko to sign 642 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:22,560 so that he can throw them at the end of the show. 643 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,400 MUSIC: "Fear Of The Dark" 644 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,000 645 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,800 646 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,400 647 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,600 648 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,560 649 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:46,680 650 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,280 651 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,080 652 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:57,280 It's a digital desk, it's got the capabilities of 120 inputs, 653 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:01,920 30 outputs. We actually use 22 of those. 654 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,560 There's actually 20 mixes, 655 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:08,560 everything's different, totally, totally different. 656 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,200 If the band want to hear certain things, if they can't hear 657 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,040 a certain thing on the side of the stage, 658 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,040 if they want to listen to that. 659 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,320 We actually go around and make sure that everything's 660 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:22,760 working properly so it's all blending, hopefully, together. 661 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,240 Then we get the guys to actually make some noise. 662 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:27,360 HE PLAYS A HEAVY TUNE 663 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:32,080 We can't bring a lot of our cases, trunks and things, 664 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,680 so all the guitars, keyboards, have to travel separately. 665 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,040 I had to clear out about a third of my workbox 666 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,840 to make space for other people and to get the weight down. 667 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,560 I think the best way to talk about things with Steve 668 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:46,920 is there is very little to say, 669 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,440 which is how he prefers it, and I've been with him a long time 670 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,760 and pretty much anticipate what he might be wanting. 671 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,800 He knows more about my gear than I do and I'm lost without him. 672 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:57,560 He also plays keyboards, as people know. 673 00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,880 I don't actually consider myself to be a keyboard player as such, 674 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,480 but I can do the stuff that Maiden requires, 675 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,000 and some of it's not simple. 676 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:20,760 Here's the rig. 677 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,560 We've got all sorts of things in there, you've got wireless, 678 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,400 he uses wireless on a couple of songs, 679 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,480 songs like Iron Maiden, where they like to do 680 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,080 a swinging guitar around his head. 681 00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:32,280 This is a Pete Cornish unit, it's got pedals built into it, 682 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,960 and I control the pedals from here. 683 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:38,520 Justin Garrick, the man who looks after all my gear, 684 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,240 does a fantastic job. 685 00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:42,240 He presses all the buttons for me, 686 00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:44,760 gets everything together that I need, fixes the guitars, 687 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,000 fixes the amps, and there's a lot of fixing to be done. 688 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,560 So on tour we have to bring spares for everything, 689 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:54,000 I mean, even on this tour I have changed a pick up on this tour, 690 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,800 volume pots, things like this go when, you know, 691 00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,480 you spin them around or throw them, sweat gets in them, 692 00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,840 so all these things get changed out so we have spares. 693 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,280 It's not a daily thing, 694 00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:06,360 but it's things that may happen once on a tour. 695 00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:08,880 And he's a very, very competent guy, and not only that, 696 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,360 he's worked with Ronnie Wood, he's worked with Razorlight. 697 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,880 He's a tremendous asset to Iron Maiden 698 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,480 and I'm really thankful that we've found him. 699 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,000 Well, my world, my name is Sean Brady, 700 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,920 and I'm Adrian Smith's butler. 701 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:28,040 I rely on Sean a lot, because my set-up is not very high-tech, 702 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,960 so, you know, if I'm taking a solo, for example, 703 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,840 Sean usually punches my effects in. 704 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,840 It's also a question of, you know, 705 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,600 the less wiring you have on stage, the better the sound. 706 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:44,720 It's a 100-watt amplifier, of course, not a 50 and not even 101, 707 00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:49,000 because we don't go to 11 here. As you can see, we only go to ten. 708 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,520 We've looked into 11 709 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:54,440 but it has been patented by a certain other English rock act. 710 00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:58,320 Yeah, Sean puts up with my moods now and again, you know, 711 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,520 when things aren't going well, and calms me down a bit, 712 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:05,040 and we have a good rapport, you know? 713 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,960 Usually I have masses of gear, you never know what you're going 714 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,400 to need, but you know, we work it out down to pretty much 715 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:20,080 the nearest amount of strings we're going to need. 716 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,720 Colin, my guitar tech, has been absolutely tremendous, 717 00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:27,160 he's been with me now for a few years 718 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,240 and there's a great working relationship. 719 00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:31,560 He always kind of knows what sound I'm looking for. 720 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:35,440 Everybody keeps coming along and making notes of all these dials 721 00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,360 to get that perfect Davey tone, 722 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,720 and I just keep doing that, because none of them work! 723 00:40:39,720 --> 00:40:43,000 We're out there to do a job and to play, 724 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,760 but then at the same time, you know, we have a laugh. 725 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,640 The difference is I have six flight cases when we do a normal tour 726 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,520 with trucks in Europe and America. 727 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,960 On this, I've got... I think it's 26 pieces. 728 00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,840 Charlie's been with me now for, I can't remember, eight years, 729 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:02,520 something like that, maybe nine. 730 00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,760 He's a fantastic drum tech, he's the only drum tech I've ever had 731 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,920 that I allow to tune my drums for me. I'd showed him 732 00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:12,080 how I tuned them and tone wise, the difference between each drum. 733 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:17,280 The tuning's got to be bang on, and when you've got nine toms, 734 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,800 it's quite difficult. 735 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,840 And the cymbals. Everything, just the angles of everything, 736 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,160 he notices everything and he'll sit there sometimes 737 00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,520 and just close his eyes and just do this with the stick. 738 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:31,080 And he'll straight away, and you're talking a couple of millimetres. 739 00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:33,000 But it really is very essential, 740 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,800 because it's like a precision instrument, my drum kit, 741 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:39,800 if one part of it's out, the whole thing's completely... 742 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,320 I'll sit there and if one thing is out on this side of the drums, 743 00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,880 by the time you get up here it's way out of position. 744 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:47,320 But Charlie is very, very good. 745 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,280 MUSIC: "2 Minutes To Midnight" 746 00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,200 747 00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,720 748 00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:01,800 CHEERING 749 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,400 Oh, yeah! 750 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,040 - BLEEP - great audience, phenomenal! 751 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,960 This is for the people in Japan tonight. 752 00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,160 MUSIC: "The Talisman" 753 00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:22,480 754 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:24,760 755 00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:27,480 We're in Monterrey, Mexico, 756 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,880 it's really early o'clock in the morning, 757 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,320 we basically got out of bed at four o'clock, three thirty, 758 00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:36,800 after a great show last night, and by the time we'd loaded 759 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:40,880 and got to bed, it was one o'clock in the morning. So you do the math. 760 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:44,680 that's about three hours sleep for some, if we're lucky. 761 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,880 You know, it's tough because you're doing lots of flights, 762 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,280 the crew sleep less than probably we do, but you know, 763 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,480 they're just trying to cram in a bit of sleep here and there. 764 00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,280 You find odd guys lying across flight cases and things like that, 765 00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,200 just trying to grab a couple of hours' sleep, 766 00:42:58,200 --> 00:42:59,480 because it's tough on them. 767 00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,400 So we arrived here yesterday, 768 00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,880 we arrived late last night from Lima, Peru on Ed Force One. 769 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:20,040 Came in early this morning, we've got gear coming from all over, 770 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,920 we've got the Big Eddie's coming on the sea container from the UK, 771 00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:26,280 we have towers that we flew airfreight over from Australia, 772 00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,560 we have the goat that's back out, and we have other bits and pieces, 773 00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:34,040 so it's a full-production Maiden show, hence the extra day. 774 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:37,120 We also have our moving motors which is... 775 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:41,600 We have parts of the lighting rig move and give it a spaceship effect. 776 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,400 You know, we don't have the luxury of using that everywhere we go, 777 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,520 basically because the technology that you need to use it 778 00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,800 is not available everywhere, you just can't get it, 779 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:51,760 and it's quite costly to fly it around. 780 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:53,360 But we do have it for these big shows. 781 00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:57,720 We've been going through this tour with basic set and six drapes, 782 00:43:57,720 --> 00:44:00,480 but there's four shows here - 783 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:05,200 Sao Paulo, Rio, Chile and Argentina - which we'll put a full show in, 784 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,800 which includes two other drapes. 785 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:12,080 We've got the devil goat and, of course, the Big Eddie at the back. 786 00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:14,280 Big Eddie is in those two carts. 787 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,520 Big Eddie, he's a one off, bespoke. 788 00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,200 He's a great big fibreglass and metal structure. 789 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:24,240 It comes together in the two biggest boxes you've ever seen in your life. 790 00:44:46,240 --> 00:44:50,080 We're going to places that on a normal, routine tour 791 00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:52,840 you would never, ever go to, you'd fly over, 792 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:56,920 and so we find ourselves in places like Belem in North Brazil, 793 00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,360 just on the edge of the rainforest, and my goodness, did it rain! 794 00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,800 They don't call it the rainforest for nothing, I suppose. 795 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,280 This is the second day of torrential rain we've had, 796 00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:10,080 pretty typical for this area. 797 00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,720 Well, a little stronger than normal, we've been told. 798 00:45:13,720 --> 00:45:16,400 You know, it builds up, all the heat comes out the jungle, 799 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:20,600 moisture comes into the air, and then about 2:30 in the afternoon 800 00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,920 it all falls out again, and today it's falling on top of us. 801 00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:27,240 So anyway, loads of plastic, loads of sweeping, 802 00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:28,960 trying to keep the equipment dry, 803 00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:33,360 lots of mosquitoes, dengue fever, torrential rains, 804 00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:37,040 but, yeah, definitely beats a nine to five job, I can tell you that much! 805 00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:41,680 CROWD: Maiden, Maiden! 806 00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,320 It's our Amazonian angel, Eddie. 807 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:54,960 Maiden! 808 00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,480 We're about three and a half hours away from doors, 809 00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:02,760 and there's some more thunder, and it'll be another great show tonight, 810 00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,920 you know, it's going to be packed out, really excited Brazilian fans, 811 00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,080 have not seen Maiden yet in this area. 812 00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:10,880 In fact, very few bands have actually been up this way, 813 00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:14,640 so that adds some extra excitement for some life-long Maiden fans 814 00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,040 that are going to get to see them for the first time 815 00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:20,120 up here in the Amazon Basin, in the jungles of Brazil. 816 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,560 MUSIC: "When The Wild Wind Blows" 817 00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:23,880 818 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:25,920 819 00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:27,160 820 00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:31,040 - AUDIENCE CHANT: - Hey! Hey! Hey! 821 00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,320 822 00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,520 823 00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:48,120 824 00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,600 Somebody, who will remain nameless, 825 00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:57,040 decided to film a new DVD in Santiago and Buenos Aires 826 00:46:57,040 --> 00:47:01,000 due to the fact of the good crowd reactions and such. 827 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,200 All the logistics were put together, months and months, 828 00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,280 sea containing out the Big Eddie. 829 00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:10,000 Air freighting in the towers, extra drapes. 830 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:14,440 We did rock in Rio, but it just seemed the turn to go further south. 831 00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,120 Six o'clock in the morning we got up, 832 00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:26,280 and as you can see, it's still dark, 833 00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,000 it looks more like the end of a load out than a load in. 834 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,720 Yeah, early start today, big, big show, 835 00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:34,640 the crew's been at it all night, moved down here yesterday. 836 00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:36,960 Yeah, this is Chile's national stadium. 837 00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,400 They were going to pull it down 838 00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:41,840 but then they decided to keep it as a monument. 839 00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:45,000 A monument to all the people that were killed in here by Pinochet, 840 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,040 this is one of the places where he executed thousands of people - 841 00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:54,120 they reckon up to 100,000 people were killed during his dictatorship, 842 00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:57,160 that's not that long ago, 1973. 843 00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:00,200 But we're here for something a bit more lively. 844 00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:12,920 It can be quite distracting when you've got... 845 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:14,960 I think there was 20 or 30 cameras, 846 00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:17,920 every note, every move you make's being recorded 847 00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:20,200 but you've just got to try and forget about that. 848 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,640 Because there is limited space on the plane, 849 00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,800 we have quite a small and compact and sophisticated recording system 850 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:30,560 which takes feeds from the front desk, 851 00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,600 and we record everything digitally, and then we have a few other, 852 00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:37,600 seven or 11 different microphones around to capture the audience. 853 00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,760 The audience is an integral part of the Maiden experience, 854 00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,960 I mean, the audience is something else, they sing every song, 855 00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:46,680 every lyric, it's something to see. 856 00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:49,680 The Santiago crowd was particularly animated. 857 00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:51,120 60,000 people, 858 00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:54,600 and I don't think there was anyone that wasn't singing along with them. 859 00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:55,800 MUSIC: "Blood Brothers" 860 00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,600 861 00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:01,800 862 00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:05,520 863 00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:08,960 864 00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:14,040 Here we are, we're about to launch off from a murky Chile 865 00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:16,280 towards Puerto Rico. 866 00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:20,280 Out of here, obviously, it's seven hours and 16 minutes flight plan 867 00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:25,040 going to Chile, going over the Andes pretty much straight away. 868 00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:26,800 MUSIC: "Flight of Icarus" 869 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,080 870 00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,320 871 00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:34,960 872 00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:39,120 873 00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:40,680 The speed of a beast. 874 00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:44,320 875 00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:45,800 876 00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:54,880 Because of the size of the Iron Maiden shows, 877 00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:58,040 screens are a really important part of the production. 878 00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:02,000 We use a total of eight cameras, four main cameras 879 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:06,120 looking at all the band members which you have to direct and cue. 880 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,280 ..finishing on four. 881 00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:13,760 We carry three mini cameras of our own which go on Nicko. 882 00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,440 There is one other camera, which, of course, Eddie has, 883 00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:20,800 which gives us a good show to the screens. 884 00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:24,000 We're here in Puerto Rico, three shows from the end. 885 00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:27,120 We've had some interesting challenges along the way 886 00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:28,720 with language barriers. 887 00:50:28,720 --> 00:50:32,160 With a lot of these countries, you get what you're given, 888 00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,520 and some of the kit I've seen has been hysterical, 889 00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:37,240 I mean, it's like early '80's, 890 00:50:37,240 --> 00:50:39,640 so you do have to take the rough with the smooth. 891 00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:43,200 This has been slightly easier here in Puerto Rico. 892 00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:45,200 It's been a very good meeting. 893 00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:49,200 We have had pretty interesting runs in South America, 894 00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:50,480 but this is a good one 895 00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:53,120 and I've got a good feeling about the show tonight. 896 00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:54,920 LYRICS: "Iron Maiden" 897 00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:57,360 898 00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:01,800 899 00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:06,280 900 00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:10,960 901 00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:12,280 CHEERING 902 00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:14,400 PLANE ENGINES ROAR 903 00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:20,600 So we do two shows in Florida, it was great, 904 00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:24,000 and to finish up in Tampa, we hadn't been for 20 years or so, 905 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,120 it capped off the tour well. 906 00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:29,920 I think, at the end, everyone was pretty well about time to go home. 907 00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:31,400 And we're back in America now. 908 00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:35,440 We've been through Chile again, which was a fantastic gig. 909 00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:37,880 We've done Puerto Rico, and now we're in Florida 910 00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:41,440 doing the last two gigs, and it's been an absolutely fantastic tour. 911 00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,000 It's not doing the longest tour by any means, 912 00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,040 but for some strange reason 913 00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:48,320 having it on Ed Force One magnifies everything. 914 00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:49,880 We really are living in a fish bowl. 915 00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:52,440 You've spent time with everybody every day for months on end 916 00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:56,000 when you're on tour, time zone to time zone, different languages, 917 00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,960 different cultures, every day the equipment's different, 918 00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:02,920 and we're all trying to make the show look and sound the same. 919 00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:06,000 It's been great, it's been really good, the spirits have been high. 920 00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:09,240 I think the band's enjoying it as well. 921 00:52:09,240 --> 00:52:10,680 All in all, I've had a blast. 922 00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:12,400 We're still standing, you know, 923 00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:15,760 we might have aged a little bit, maybe a few chinks in the armour, 924 00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:18,240 every night has been absolutely tremendous, you know, 925 00:52:18,240 --> 00:52:21,360 and it's hard to determine one night as better than another 926 00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:23,320 because they're all great. 927 00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:26,480 With all the pre-work, the money, the agreements, 928 00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,560 the hotels being provided, which hotels, 929 00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,440 when can we land and when can't, 930 00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:34,920 with all that pre-work, to actually make the tour work, 931 00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:36,720 it's the crew who make it work. 932 00:52:36,720 --> 00:52:40,800 We've got a really fantastic crew, and they all know what's needed, 933 00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,600 they're all trying their hardest to get the show looking the best 934 00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:46,160 it can be, and that's all you can ask of anybody, really. 935 00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:47,720 Yeah, we're all mates, 936 00:52:47,720 --> 00:52:50,600 we all watch each other's backs in difficult situations. 937 00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:54,560 It's part of what it takes to be in a killer crew. I'm sure it's what makes us the best. 938 00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:57,480 We're all very loyal to Maiden because they are to us, 939 00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,560 it really is like one big family. 940 00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:02,080 I wouldn't say one big happy family all the time! 941 00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,920 There we go, this'll learn you! 942 00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,920 To put that amount of people together 943 00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:11,360 is quite a contrived scenario, but when you think about it 944 00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:15,000 it's like any other regular family, but we're not related. 945 00:53:16,240 --> 00:53:18,520 We're related through rock and roll! 946 00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:20,000 MUSIC: "Coming Home" 947 00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,960 948 00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:25,560 949 00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,840 950 00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:31,120 951 00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:33,720 It's been a great tour, we've done a lot of miles, 952 00:53:33,720 --> 00:53:36,960 time for a break, recharge the batteries and get home 953 00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:40,240 and put a few shelves up, bit of painting and decorating! 954 00:53:40,240 --> 00:53:42,800 Well, it's the longest we've ever done, actually. 955 00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:45,840 It felt like a really, really long time to be away. 956 00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,480 Considering the first one was not much more than six weeks, 957 00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:50,840 the extra three weeks, you know. 958 00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:53,040 It's equivalent to 50,000 miles, 959 00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:55,920 we've been around the planet twice in a couple of months, 960 00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:59,120 you know, obviously we've spent a lot of it in South America, 961 00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,560 When you go back, although we've been to a lot of places before, 962 00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:06,600 it always feels new, and especially the audiences, as well, 963 00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:08,240 they seem to be getting younger. 964 00:54:08,240 --> 00:54:10,240 Nothing's perfect in this world 965 00:54:10,240 --> 00:54:12,280 and we try to be the best you can be, 966 00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:14,840 but at the end of the day, I think we've gone out there 967 00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:17,320 and we've done the best we can in the given circumstances, 968 00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:19,800 with quite a lot against us on this tour. 969 00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,400 Yeah, we're on a private plane, but the distances are like, 970 00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:24,440 you know, ten hours' flight or whatever, 971 00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:27,280 I mean we actually went through the dateline from Japan to Hawaii 972 00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:29,600 and then Mexico, and we got there before we left, 973 00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:31,120 I mean, work that one out! 974 00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,760 I actually had two days' birthdays, and who wants that at my age? 975 00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:41,400 976 00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:43,880 977 00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:45,880 Yee-ha, we're heading home! 978 00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,520 See all them names on that side of the plane there? 979 00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:50,480 It doesn't say England on the bottom, 980 00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:51,920 but that's where we're going, 981 00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:54,520 and that's where I'm looking forward to being. 982 00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,360 We're coming home! 983 00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:58,040 Is this the bus home, Mark? 984 00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:00,880 OK, the flying bus home. 985 00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:02,400 Yes, baby, yeah. 986 00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:06,280 Success, triumph. Again. 987 00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:09,000 It's been an emotional rollercoaster ride. 988 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:11,480 Good to be going home. 989 00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:13,720 990 00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:17,600 I don't want to go. Not finished yet. 991 00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:20,560 That's it, it's all over. 992 00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:23,040 993 00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:29,120 994 00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:31,920 995 00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:34,840 996 00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:37,160 997 00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:41,000 998 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,800 999 00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,760 1000 00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:52,480 1001 00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:55,640 1002 00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:58,480 1003 00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:00,600 1004 00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:06,960 1005 00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:34,480 Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd