Do Iron Maiden hate the Irish/burn Irish flags?

AARRRGH

Hey,

I remember as a kid we all thought Iron Maiden hated Ireland/burnt Irish flags/received death threats from the IRA.

True? Or just kids with a strong imagination??

Pearl666

alls I know is they brought out a english flag when they last played here...but I think they aren't to fond of us

revilegreg

Pure Horse ****. They never burned an Irish Flag, some people have overactive imaginations.

Yes they brought out the Union Jack during the trooper, which they do at every gig they play. Maybe a little insensitive to do it hear though.

bucks

Yeah Dickinson had "that flag" on stage during his last gig for the song The Trooper but the crowd didnt react too well to it and they started the usual booing and fireing stuff on stage.

Doctor J

FFS, shoot them cos they're proud of where they're from :rolleyes:

British people are entitled to wave their flag, the same way we like to wave ours. That doesn't mean they want to poison our potatos or make us live in stone huts and go to school among the bushes.

Newsflash: Iron Maiden weren't responsible for the 800 years :eek:

Creamy Goodness

Doctor J wrote:

FFS, shoot them cos they're proud of where they're from :rolleyes:

British people are entitled to wave their flag, the same way we like to wave ours. That doesn't mean they want to poison our potatos or make us live in stone huts and go to school among the bushes.

Newsflash: Iron Maiden weren't responsible for the 800 years :eek:

have to agree with Doc on this one. Although i'm not a big fan of theirs i was shocked to hear they were booed when they showed a union jack whilst playing in ireland.

jesus, like we watch their football teams we watch their tv we drive their cars.

super_furry

Typical small minded Irish crowd reaction I'm afraid. The burnt Irish flag story is one that's done the rounds for years about dozens of different bands and is pure horse****e. Paul Weller had to even address it on his website after he was the flavour of the month for that tale.

Zapp Brannigan

Doctor J wrote:

Newsflash: Iron Maiden weren't responsible for the 800 years :eek:

You'd wanna have some solid evidence to back a claim like that up! So where is it? Huh! :eek:

Mr. CooL ICE

When they waved the flag at the dublin gig, i didnt say anything because i just knew that people were going to boo, and i thought it was pretty poor. My friends were saying they shouldnt have done it in ireland and made an exception, but i just thought "why bother?"

tj-music.com

... was there as well. They didnt wave the flag AT people. I think it is a routine during "Trooper". As a matter of fact, I remember hearing Bruce Dickinson saying that they are happy to have a sold out gig @ the point because some people of their record company said there is no market for them in Ireland.

And he promissed to come back more often - and they do apparently: 31.8.05 RDS.

This whole Irish / British thing is so not cool. Everybody is bitching about the Brits but follows Manchester United and so on. So, when Maiden waves the English flag it is hardly an attack on Ireland.

Eye

i could be way off the mark on this one but i think dublindude might be thinking of motorhead, i do remember hearing similar story's of burning flags and threats from the IRA, not sure if it was a load of crap or not but i do remember it was motorhead not iron maiden that i heard it happened too.

astec123

Time to put a spanner in the works here. For those in this country who still retain the racist attitude (and yes it is racist) what the hell does it matter? You dont see the guys at football matches at manchester being beaten up over them having an irish flag, and then the minute a Union Jack is taken out all hell breaks loose here. Ireland needs to buck its ideas up ASAP. By far the most racist place I have been to. I know of people that have been given lots of grief over where they are from and one such example came from a tele2 rep. They phoned up selling their service and when they found out that it was esat BT being used the rep decided to say "you're one of them arn't you". Sorry but buck ideas up people or this place will remain in the stone age.

goin'_to_the_PS

:rolleyes:

BizzyC

Yeah, think the story is BS, I heard it was Def Leopard that did it.....

xzodia

the story behind the burning of the irish flag was Iron Maiden

it happened after dickensons brother was killed by the IRA and he was pissed off at the Irish, but that was a long time ago and most people have got over it, except it seems for a few irish people that dont seem to know what they are on about,

Raiser

Don't be so level-headed about it - we're entitled to be eternally suspicious....

Nobody ever asks cats why they hate water.

I say we get Daniel O'Donnell to play Glastonbury and torch the Union Jack.
- Then just call it quits and be mature about the whole thing.

juno75

One thing I fairly certian is true, as I remember the kerfuffle after it, was Dave Mustane playing Belfast at the hieght of the troubles and gave his 2c on how to sort it all out during a gig, the audience took great offense at that, I dunno what he said though.
I never heard Bruce Dickinson's brother being killed by the IRA - Is that true?!!

Doctor J

Dave mentioned something along the lines of giving Ireland back to the Irish... there's an amusing little bit about it in the Megadeth: Behind The Music dvd.

xzodia

as far as i know it is he was caught in one of there bombing campaigns , just unlucky wrong place wrong time

*Page*

the chillies brought out a usa flag a while ago and noone said anything

Doctor J

Odd, you'd think you'd be able to find something about Bruce Dickinson's brother on google somewhere but I couldn't find anything.

juno75

yeah, thats the first thing I did when I read that.
A lot of Bruce Dickinson's in the world....

super_furry

To be honest I don't believe for a second his brother was killed by the IRA. It's a typical urban myth and in this topic alone there's already been four different bands mentioned as those 'responsible' for the myth.

Sarky

Did you boo when they started waving the Union Jack about for The Trooper?

If you did, you really are a bloody moron. How shocking that someone should wave a British flag during a song that is about the Charge of the Light Brigade! (Note: the last sentance contains sarcasm, for those of you who might not otherwise notice)

I for one cheered, because I know it was part of the song. They do the same thing everywhere else too, you know. And it may astonish some of you to know that Britain invaded far more than this piddly little island. And is there any bad press about it when they wave the flag in America, or Brazil, or Germany?

No. There isn't. So grow the hell up.

McClane

Where was the concert ?

And it may astonish some of you to know that Britain invaded far more than this piddly little island

And that statement just goes to show why everything else you said is meaningless.

As for booing, they're lucky to get away with just that.

Doctor J

McClane wrote:

As for booing, they're lucky to get away with just that.

Why? Do you think Iron Maiden concerts attract a larger percentage of cretins than other events?

Töpher

Doctor J wrote:

Why? Do you think Iron Maiden concerts attract a larger percentage of cretins than other events?

Didn't you go?

In all seriousness, its part of the act. I'd say the actual real fans there would have known this, and anyone would half a pigeon brain wouldn't have booed, its pathetic. They put on a show, and you boo and whinge about it because of the colours on a piece of cloth, fair play!

Sarky

McClane wrote:

And that statement just goes to show why everything else you said is meaningless.

An explanation as to why would be nice. Personally, I think it's quite interesting that Iron Maiden could play, say, Aces High at a concert in Germany, complete with Winston Churchill intro, and recieve nothing but cheers. And America seems to have been able to put all that occupation, oppression, taxation, and war behind them. Why not one tiny little island that's really had it no worse than so many other places Britain had less than spotless relations with?

As for booing, they're lucky to get away with just that.

That, at least, is true. There's no underestimating the stupidity of some bigots.

Doctor J

You have to question the mental capacity of anyone who would pay €50-60 for a ticket to see a band who are blatantly British, from their lyrical content to their artwork and then boo when the band fly a flag in keeping with the imagery of one of their most popular songs which you're pretty much guaranteed they're going to play. The band were no less British before the flags were waved, so what is the issue. Hey, if you don't like British people don't listen to their music, don't go to their gigs and don't speak their language

egan007

Im sure U2 waved enough Irish flags at their recent world tour in England

Doctor J

I recall the Manic Street Preachers bass player often has his amp draped in the Welsh flag, does he get boo'd or have chunks of coal thrown at him, cos he's British too yeah?