Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson threatens to 'sort out' violent fan at Adelaide gig
He tells the violent audience member 'I hope you like hospital food'.
Proving that wise old adage that you should never ever get on the wrong side of Bruce Dickinson, the Iron Maiden frontman verbally lambasted an unruly fan at the band’s sold out show in Adelaide on Thursday night (12th May).
The British rock titans were 11 songs into their Adelaide Entertainment Centre show at the latest pit stop of their Book of Souls World Tour when Dickinson singled out a member of the audience.
Clearly unimpressed with what he had witnessed in front of him, Dickinson blasted: "To the gentleman in the front with the Raiders shirt on. Yeah, you, yeah, you, being restrained by a couple of very friendly fans. Just f***ing calm down, all right, will ya? Otherwise… Yeah, you. Otherwise you will be exiting.
“Pick a window. I hope you like hospital food. You, yeah. Give me the fing finger, mate. You fing come backstage and I'll fing sort you out myself. C!"
Blabbermouth has quoted an attendee of the show, who explained what happened: "So me and my friend were just enjoying the concert, then this guy pushes in front of us. He had a Raiders shirt on and looked to be in his mid-40s. He was certainly drunk or on something, considering he could barely stand up straight.
"Now I've been to many concerts, and it's pretty common for someone to push in front of you, so we just kind of rolled our eyes and continued to enjoy the concert. Some bald guy in front of him turned around and said something to him that just set him off.
“This guy with the Raiders shirt went off and started hitting this bald guy. The bald guy pushed him into me and my friend, he went back at it with the bald guy which escalated into a fight. Three people were trying to restrain this crazy Raiders shirt guy and eventually someone with long hair managed to restrain him before it continued.”
The gig-goer confirmed that security eventually ejected the violent fan from the show.
You can watch video footage of the incident here. (Warning: it's very sweary)
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