Iron Maiden: Flight 666 Page #5

Wow. Fantastic. Careful. Janick.

We've got to mind our heads here.

We've got to go through

a very low passageway. boys and girls.

Sh*t.

We are under the Sun Pyramid

and we're probably about 50 feet.

- So it's...

- I wondered why it was so dark.

We know that the medicine tradition.

healers.

decide this day

for you to deliver the holy fire

to share it with your brothers

on the holy road.

take all the love to the people that that's

the way how you want to heal the people.

Any message you want to deliver

and share with them?

I share this medicine of the spirits

with my friends.

and wish them health.

happiness. Iove. friendship.

cherish the spirit and the bond

we have here today.

That was f***ing insane.

You came in the wrong door.

You've got to go back.

I have never seen anything like that.

When the promoter suggested Costa Rica.

I thought. Iike. 7 000 capacity hall.

He said. "No. we're doing football stadium."'

I said. "You sure?"

It ended up being the biggest gig ever

in Central America.

It was sold out way upfront. 27 000

and anybody else they could cram in.

It was the biggest show they'd had

in Costa Rica.

and we'd never been there before.

So it was new territory

for us to go in and Maidenize.

It was like finding some weird tribe

in the middle of the jungle

and they all come out and go.

"Fear Of The Dark. favourite album!"

"What?"

Children Of The Damned!

When I was 1 4 or 1 5.

I heard lron Maiden for the first time.

"This is amazing. Iron Maiden.

Can you imagine to see them live?

"No. Shame we live in the ass of the world."'

A lot of people have come here.

People from El Salvador. Honduras.

Nicaragua.

From South America like Ecuador.

This is once in a lifetime.

I have a friend who quit his job

to be here today.

This is the thing. you know.

This is the thing.

Maiden! Maiden!

Maiden! Maiden! Maiden!

We decided to go and play golf

in Costa Rica.

So we get out on the first tee.

tee off and get down to the first green.

A f***ing golf ball hit me on my wrist.

Within two minutes

it had swollen up. black and blue.

My main concern was.

"I'm not gonna be able to play tonight."'

I'm a wounded soldier in battle.

Yeah. it's gonna swell up a bit more.

The doc's saying it'll be a couple of days

it'll go up your arm.

See. boys and girls?

That's what a golf ball can do for you.

Max-Fly number three.

Low compression. though.

- It was a sh*t ball. thank goodness.

- Dangerous game. isn't it?

- No. not at all.

- You're banned. Are you all right?

Thank the Lord that it wasn't an inch lower.

Because we would have been going home.

It's ironic that with all the planning and

the huge setup and the massive logistics.

the half-an-inch trajectory of a golf ball...

And it would be Nicko. of course.

It could have brought

the whole thing to an end.

Your face. "You'd better be able to play."'

You'd better be able to play.

It'll be fine.

Scream for me. Costa Rica!

Scream for me. Costa Rica!

Scream for me. Costa Rica!

If it's like this at lmmigration. what's it

going to be like in the rest of the country?

Good afternoon. everybody.

How are you?

The show last night. phenomenal.

Absolutely phenomenal.

As Bruce said when we were in Mexico.

the further south we come down

into South America. the hotter it gets.

And it became pretty hot last night.

The show was really good

and the audience were phenomenal.

So the Columbian audience tomorrow night.

you have something to live up to.

Nicko's a larger-than-life character.

You send him into a room or a party.

he batters his way through

and goes schmoozing in there.

Then I just walk in behind him

and pick up the pieces.

Nicko is the social side of Maiden

because he's so gregarious and fun.

We will go in the room. and sometimes

you've got to say hello to people.

But he's a totally genuine. full-on...

and. again. a great part of the team.

They broke the mould

when they made Nicko.

He's one of these people. the first time

you meet him. you love him for life.

What can you say about Nick?

It's best left unsaid.

Yeah. that'll do. won't it?

We'd never been to Columbia before

and we were playing this massive park

and all the way along there were tents.

three miles of it.

They'd been out for a week. ten days.

so they could get nearer the stage.

I've never seen that before. ever.

Seeing that. your pulse rate goes up

and you get a huge adrenaline rush.

Columbia was one of the places

that I was slightly apprehensive

about going to. I guess.

because of the idea that

if some kind of event kicked off offstage.

that it could get nasty.

Even though everybody was very happy.

you got the impression

that they lived with the military presence

and tolerated it on a day-to-day basis.

We've been here the whole week

but we don't have any food right now.

They just take away everything.

food. cameras. all that stuff.

- So it's pretty heavy security.

- It's heavy security.

The atmosphere was charged.

It was all brewing up.

It was only going to take a small thing

for things to get out of control.

There is no f***ing use to it.

They are f***ing a**holes.

They don't like metal. man.

They are mistreating the metal in here.

The world knows that Columbia

has a very serious social problem.

But here the metal music is alive.

This is the main dream

for every rocker here in Columbia.

I think that I'm going to cry here.

I may sound very emotional

but I think that I'm going to cry there

because I grew up listening to lron Maiden.

Tell you what. the old altitude is...

You feeling it?

Big difference.

I woke up this morning in bed.

which is a good place to wake up.

But I was out of breath.

You're just in bed.

It was shallow breathing and stuff. Bizarre.

Oxzgen stage right.

and oxzgen by the drummer.

I've got one on my jacket.

No. no. no!

Bruce. when you need oxzgen.

it's over stage right.

I could have done with oxzgen last night.

I've got a shocking hangover.

Come on!

Have a nice bottle of white. mate.

Look at that. Loads of that funny cheese

in there. I bet.

It's not bad.

I don't like the sweaty-feet cheese

or the strong cheese.

But this ain't bad.

Anyone fancy a chunk of pizza?

No. but nine o'clock is early to leave.

Is that the time we're leaving?

That's a 7:
30 wake-up.

Eight o'clock. mate. pack up.

You've got to do the three S's. I can do them

in 1 5 minutes and be downstairs.

I have the shave first. then the shower.

Then the sh*t. I can't even say it.

Does it confuse you if anything's

out of sequence?

It does sometimes.

Like you wipe your bum with your razor

or something like that?

Please take a seat.

We are cleared for landing.

Brazil. for us. is where Latin America

started. when we did Rock In Rio.

We went down there just for one show.

and the experience was unbelievable.

Life-changing.

Run To The Hills!

The Rock In Rio in '85 was fantastic.

We flew in especially for one show.

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