Iron Maiden’s Nicko McBrain Gets Hit by Falling Gong

Issues acquired just a little heavy for Iron Maiden’s Nicko McBrain throughout a current live performance in Dublin, when the drummer was hit by a falling gong after it had been struck by frontman Bruce Dickinson.

The steel giants have been rocking by way of their music “Alexander The Nice” when Dickinson climbed upon a riser behind the stage. The singer made his manner in direction of a big, 40-inch symphonic gong that had been affixed behind McBrain. Because the epic tune (which runs longer than eight minutes) reached one in all its emphatic factors, Dickinson struck the gong with a big mallet, sending it crashing down on his drummer’s again.

Dickinson appeared momentarily shocked by what occurred, solely to then crack a smile as he returned to his customary heart stage place. Regardless of clearly feeling important influence from the falling gong, McBrain, impressively, continued taking part in by way of the entire incident.

Watch fan-shot video of what occurred beneath.

“Alexander the Nice” is a brand new addition to the Iron Maiden set checklist. Although the monitor was initially launched on the 1986 album Someplace in Time, Setlist.fm notes that the music wasn’t carried out in live performance till Might 28 this yr.

Iron Maiden is within the midst of their Future Previous tour, a trek which kicked off in Might and can see the band performing throughout Europe. Earlier on the tour, bassist Steve Harris seemingly bristled with Dickinson’s onstage antics, when the singer positioned a Roman-style helmet on Harris throughout a efficiency in Prague. That incident, coincidentally, additionally occurred throughout a rendition of “Alexander the Nice.”

Iron Maiden will return to the States for a efficiency on the extremely anticipated Energy Journey pageant in October.