Iron Maiden question - Does anyone know what "Up the Irons" means?

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The Irons is an alternative nickname used by fans of Steve Harris' favourite football team, The Hammers. It comes from the days when West Ham were called Thames Ironworks FC.

Ah, this I didn't know at all! Thus a double reference. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

Steve Harris operates on a level we can only hope to comprehend.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 December 2003 18:29 (twenty years ago) link

i can say without any irony or sarcasm that matt is otm

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:13 (twenty years ago) link

I'm glad someone agrees! I didn't mean it as sarcastic -- I luvs Maiden!! Up the irons!

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:36 (twenty years ago) link

Irony Maiden!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:37 (twenty years ago) link

Maiden are many (great) things, but they are never ironic.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:45 (twenty years ago) link

Indeed.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:45 (twenty years ago) link

As I thought when I saw them this year, they jump around on stage like that precisely because THAT'S WHAT THEY DO.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:46 (twenty years ago) link

They're playing AGAIN in NYC in January!!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:47 (twenty years ago) link

they mean it when they jump around. Or even if they don't mean it they do it out of a earnest sense of professional pride.

How were they in concert, are they holding up well?

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:47 (twenty years ago) link

Maiden rule! and that pic with Bruce is great!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:48 (twenty years ago) link

I mentioned the January shows upthread: four nights at Hammerstein. I went to look at tickets, though, and they're $67 each plus some service charges. How much were they for the Garden show? (I got mine free because I interviewed Steve Harris for the Cleveland Scene.)

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:48 (twenty years ago) link

I got mine free because I interviewed Steve Harris...

Was he cool?

These shows aren't at the Garden, they're at the comparitively small Hammerstein Ballroom. The Garden tix weren't cheap, but they weren't outrageous (I honestly don't remember, but they were well fuckin' worth it).

If you don't like Iron Maiden....I wouldn't rescue you from a pool of quicksand.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:52 (twenty years ago) link

How were they in concert, are they holding up well?

Very well indeed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:52 (twenty years ago) link

They fuckin' earn every damn dime they make and give 200%.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:53 (twenty years ago) link

Now I see a scene of Aja and Alex rescuing Iron Maiden fans from quicksand in Ned's upcoming buddy cop film! It's going to be a good scene.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:57 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think Aja cares about Iron Maiden.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:04 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I guess she really wouldn't....still she might help save the quicksand-drowning people out of simple decency.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:09 (twenty years ago) link

I'm gutted, their show next week is sold out. Guess I'll have to wait another year...

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:11 (twenty years ago) link

And that will be her un-doing.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:11 (twenty years ago) link

>Was he cool?

Very cool. Easygoing, answered all my questions with no attitude or obfuscation. I was surprised to be talking to him. Usually Bruce does most of the press, but for the last tour I guess Harris wanted in on it.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link

Well, Bruce has got the mouth, but make no mistake, Iron Maiden is decidedly very much Steve's band.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:26 (twenty years ago) link

>Iron Maiden are never ironic

Does that mean they meant every word of 'Bring your Daughter to The Slaughter'. Scary.

― laticsmon (laticsmon), Saturday, 6 December 2003 13:03 (twenty years ago) link

I thought Scunthorpe Utd. are 'The Irons', not West Ham. Maybe they used to be called that too though...

Football can be most incestuous.

― Muppet Boy, Saturday, 6 December 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

Scunthorpe are indeed also "the Irons", although I hear they in fact run out to "If the kids are united" by the Sham these days.

But West Ham are still the Irons - you'll still hear it shouted at home games. Plus, of course, you may remember the Cockney Rejects having shouted "Come on you Irons!!" into the Top 40 (and Top of the Pops) back in the 70s.

NB i think "wildest dreams" this yr was Maiden's biggest UK hit for a decade ? It's certainly brilliant.

― fletcher dexter, Saturday, 6 December 2003 18:44 (twenty years ago) link

They had a number one single in the UK in the post Christmas lull with "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter" quite a while back.

― mei (mei), Sunday, 7 December 2003 20:04 (twenty years ago) link

six years pass...

Have no idea why the photo of Dickinson and one of his biggest fans popped into my mind this morning but I'm happy to find it again.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link

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