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And Finally
Iron Maiden: Stop being so polite and make us a sandwich
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 27 August 2010
Okay, I’m not certain they’ve been asked, but Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson says that the band wouldn’t play Glastonbury even if they were.
Speaking to The Sun, Dickinson said: “Glastonbury is a bit too cream cakes and afternoon tea for us. It’s all yurts and people being far too polite”.
He added that, as well as politeness, the band dislike being pampered: “I loathe all the celebrity crap – all the minders, the backstage glamour and the glitzy bollocks. We hate it all. We are all about the music. If we could beam ourselves back home after a show, we’d go back to the shops as if nothing had happened. The rest is just fluff. It’s nice but it’s bollocks in the grand scheme of things”.
Asked what the band do have backstage, Dickinson replied: “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'”.
