De Montfort Hall

He was a ro- bass roadie for someone.

He used to go and say, "Oh, this is De Montfort Hall in Leicester and Kiss played here in blah, blah, blah." And we thought, "Yeah, but this is a good idea.

We should do this with Iron Maiden." And, uh, I think we got to the point where we thought that, "Oh, we have to hurry and do this because someone else is gonna steal the idea."

[laughs]

And I mean, uh, quite a few of these Kiss venues were also Iron Maiden venues, of course.

Yeah.

De Montfort Hall in Leicester was, is one.

Uh, there, there's quite a few really good sounding bootlegs-

Yeah.

So if you take, um, somewhere like, uh, De Montfort Hall, obviously 'cause we both know it well, you can't fly in De Montfort Hall.

There is no fly tower.

So if you were to put a production of something like Peter Pan into De Montfort Hall, you've also putting a flying rig in top of a venue that can't fly.

So that adds a complication to the amount of staff that you need.

Or if you take someone like Eden Court Inverness, which has this absolutely enormous stage, 52 fly bars.