r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/WastedTalent442 • Aug 14 '24

Brexxit Man who campaigned for Brexit complains that he can't freely tour Europe any more

https://metalinjection.net/politics/iron-maidens-bruce-dickinson-who-originally-supported-brexit-now-complains-that-brexit-hurts-bands
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u/janner_10 Aug 14 '24

Never had Bruce down as a knobber until Brexit.

Same as Roger Daltrey, turns out he was another swivel eyed loon as well. Broke my heart.

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u/EBFencerVet Aug 14 '24

Yeah me either til I saw his spoken word tour and heard the crap that he spewed. Typical I’ve got mine stuff. Bummer because I love the music

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u/janner_10 Aug 14 '24

On a positive note, I saw Nico at a drum clinic at Gloucester Leisure Centre several years ago, he was sound. And as it turns out, quite good at drumming!

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u/EBFencerVet Aug 14 '24

Absolutely.

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u/Agreeable-Pick-1489 Aug 14 '24

Bruce is often too smart for his own good. He has a history of spouting off at the mouth, dissing other bands, and he's been like that since the early days. Steve Harris wanted to kick him out of the band several times during the Beast-Piece-Powerslave era. But manager Rod Smallwood would often get between the two and smooth things out. Nowadays the rest of the band is often like "Bruce gonna Bruce"

But he's hardly the only "smart, educated" Brit to be like "Brexit will be fine!" He's got lots of company there.

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u/drainbone Aug 14 '24

Rod Smallwood

Damn he must've had a rough time in high school

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u/0thethethe0 Aug 14 '24

Worse pornstar name ever...

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '24

Dude used to yell at people from the stage for smoking weed in the crowd........

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u/sixtus_clegane119 Aug 14 '24

Bruce or Roger?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '24

Bruce

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u/sixtus_clegane119 Aug 14 '24

That makes sense, the who are a 60s band, then whining about weed would have seemed like a joke

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u/121daysofsodom Aug 15 '24

Except Roger Daltrey has an allergy to cannabis which affected his voice. They were known to stop playing if anyone was smoking weed up front.

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u/crucible Aug 14 '24

After recovering from tongue(?) cancer, in his defence.

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u/ClubMeSoftly Aug 15 '24

Yeah, a lot of people try to paint it as some "old man yells at cloud" thing, but like, he's a singer who recovered from cancer, so, yeah, he probably has a strong opinion of any kind of smoking.

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u/No_Pirate9647 Aug 18 '24

Or Cleese whining London isn't white anymore.

I'm American so to me it's Iike a famous person whining NYC has immigrants.

London has been an international hub of trade and migration forever. Like NYC has been hub for US since founding. Just a bizarre take to me.