SH: Well, it’s not weird at all — it just feels
great. It feels natural to me. I love playing
gigs anyway. I’ll get up and play gigs any-
time, anywhere — I don’t really mind
where they are. But I actually like playing
smaller places, and now I’m getting to
play them all, and not many people have
had that chance. And lots of these clubs
Maiden didn’t even playback in the day, so
IE: Lyrically, The Burning touches on a lot
of interesting subjects, like faith, what’s
gone wrong with society, and mankind’s
inevitable extinction.
SH: Well, it’s obviously relevant to a lot of
things going on today. But Richie writes a
lot of the words, and they’re perhaps
slightly more personal than what I would
write. I do write personal stuff, but I tend
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I’m getting the chance to do them now.
IE: People forget how influential
Maiden, Saxon, and maybe even Krokus
were back in the late ‘70s when metal
started speeding up. It was like you took
your cues from punk rock.
SH: Well, we didn’t really. I can’t speak for
the others, but I wasn’t into punk at all. In
fact, if anything, I really couldn’t stand
punk, and it really used to piss us off
because they were basically taking our
gigs away. So we weren’t very happy with
them at all. But having said that, yeah,
back in those days, it was pretty amazing,
what was going on. And being in British
Lion brings back a lot of those memories of
struggling, trying to make it, where every
gig you play in a club is just fighting for
recognition or for people to like us. It
brings back a lot of those memories for me,
so I like that side of it, as well.
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going on around you. Nathaniel Rateliff And It's Still Alright
IE: You listen to “Land Of The Perfect
People,” and lines like “Just a young boy
all alone,” and it sounds like an orphan’s
viewpoint.
SH: Well, it was. That’s exactly what he
was. And the Taylor family are the people
who used to run the orphanage, and when
they left the place and disbanded the
orphanage, they adopted him. So that’s
really quite literally what it’s about. BTS Map of the Soul: 7
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Greenaway’s
The
Draughtsman’s
Contract. And you were actually an
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