IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson will embark on a U.K. spoken-word tour this summer. “An Evening With Bruce Dickinson” will consist of six dates, beginning in Brighton on August 1 and ending in London on August 10. Tickets go on sale on Thursday, April 29 at 10 a.m.
The dates are:
Aug. 01 – Theatre Royal, Brighton
Aug. 04 – The Lowry, Salford
Aug. 05 – St George’s Hall, Bradford
Aug. 08 – Theatre Royal, Nottingham
Aug. 09 – The Alexandra, Birmingham
Aug. 10 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
Dickinson told the New Zealand TV show “The Project” about his speaking tour: “The show I do, basically, it’s a one-man show. And it morphed out of being initially promo for [my autobiography ‘What Does This Button Do?’]. The publisher said, ‘We’re gonna rent a little theater and you just do some readings,’ and I thought, ‘Well, that’s kind of dull, really.’ So, years ago, when I was an undergraduate in college, my then-girlfriend persuaded me to go and see a one-man show by a guy called Quentin Crisp. So I had to be dragged along: ‘Oh, who is this guy?’ Anyway, it was absolutely brilliant. And one of the things he did in the second half was he took cue cards from the audience who wrote questions down, and he basically came and did almost like an improv thing where he answered the questions. So I thought that would be nice to do. So I sort of constructed this show, as it were, and just winged it. And it was so good, they asked me back to do the Edinburgh [International Book] Festival. And then the next thing after that was I’ve ended up doing a bunch of them in Scandinavia, and I’m now doing Israel and Greece and more shows in Scandinavia and everything else. So, all of a sudden, I’ve got myself this little extra gig.”
“What Does This Button Do?”, landed at No. 10 on the New York Times “Hardcover Nonfiction” best sellers list. It was released in the U.S. in October 2017 via Dey Street Books (formerly It Books), an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
“What Does This Button Do?” is Dickinson‘s third book. He has previously published two satirical novels, “The Adventures Of Lord Iffy Boatrace” about the English upper classes and “The Missionary Position” about televangelism.
Dickinson joined IRON MAIDEN in 1981, replacing Paul Di’Anno, and made his recording debut with the band on the 1982 album “The Number Of The Beast”. He quit the band in 1993, pursuing several solo projects, and rejoined in 1999.
Dickinson, who turned 62 last August, has several other interests beyond music. He is a licensed commercial pilot and owns an aviation company. He has also done some acting and brewed beer.
