“That activity that a very, very small minority of people do is so selfish and so disturbing”: Bruce Dickinson admits he “lost his temper” when a fan lit a flare at an Iron Maiden show in 2022

Bruce Dickinson onstage, plus a photo of a flare at a concert.

Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson has admitted that he “lost [his] temper” when admonishing a fan onstage for lighting a flare during a concert.

The incident took place at Maiden’s show at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, in July 2022, during a performance of The Number Of The Beast. When Dickinson saw the ignited flare, he followed the lyric “What did I see?” by shouting, “A cunt with a fucking flare!”