MAIDEN KEEP IT SIMPLE ON TOUR
Rockers IRON MAIDEN are shunning the trappings of fame - they’ve scaled d own their backstage rider to a simple list of tuna sandwiches and a few b eers.
The Number of the Beast hitmakers are disgusted by bands who insist on their dressing room being stuffed with expensive food, mountains of booze , and bouquets of flowers.
So they only demand some bread, butter and tuna - and guests are told t o make their own snacks if they are hungry.
Frontman Bruce Dickinson tells Britain’s The Sun, "I loathe all the cel ebrity c**p - all the minders, the backstage b**locks. We hate it all. We are all about the music. If we could beam ourselves back home after a sh ow, we’d go to the shops as if nothing had happened. The rest is just flu ff. It’s nice but it’s b**locks in the grand scheme of things.
"We got rid of most of our rider. We just have three loaves of white br ead, some butter, a tin of tuna fish and some beers. People come backstag e looking for the spread of food and we say, ‘Go make yourself a sandwich ‘. And we don’t want vases of flowers. Do we look like the sort of blokes who have flowers in their dressing room?"
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