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Iron Maiden<\/a> drummer Nicko McBrain<\/a> provided an update on his status with the band since retiring from touring<\/a>\u00a0last December in a recent interview on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Yeah, I’m not touring,”\u00a0McBrain said<\/a>. “There isn’t any plans that I know of to do a record. I mean, we did speak about possibly doing a new album a couple of years ago and it was nixed then. But now, I dunno.\u00a0Everybody’s got that much older. We all lost about a year and a half, two years from that stupid pandemic. That affected everybody’s psyche as well.”<\/p>\n Although he has since ceded his drum throne to Simon Dawson<\/a>, McBrain said he’s “still part of the family. I’m doing a lot of work with the fan club, and there’s some books. I’m writing a book \u2014 actually, I’ve been writing a book for 10 freaking years. It’s about time I finished it, you know?”<\/p>\n Elaborating on\u00a0his in-progress memoir, McBrain said: “I’ve got 21 chapters, and that’s one chapter per year of my life, so it’s gonna be a marathon book. I’m only up to when I went pro. I\u00a0had a ghostwriter I sat with, but I’m not sure whether I’m gonna go over that. I prefer to do it myself.”<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Iron Maiden Unearths Nine Rarities on Opening Night of 2025 Tour<\/a><\/p>\n McBrain also didn’t rule out the possibility of guesting with Maiden at\u00a0future shows or on recordings. “It’s a possibility that when they come over here [to the U.S.], I might end up doing a show with them, just getting up and doing a song or two, or just being there,” he said. “If there is a new album in the pipeline, it’s a possibility I’ll do a couple of tracks\u00a0on the album. Yeah, who knows? We’re all still part of the family, although I’m not playing the shows.”<\/p>\n McBrain, who had a stroke<\/a> in 2023, also revealed<\/a> the moment he knew it was time to stop touring with Iron Maiden.<\/p>\n “There was a second night in Sydney, Australia, where it was probably one of the worst performances, personally for me,” he recalled. “I thought it was a really bad performance. And I remember saying to Bruce [Dickinson]<\/a>, walking back to the dressing room … I said, ‘Oh, mate. I’m really struggling up there tonight.’ He said, ‘Yeah.’ And he looked at [me], he said, ‘You looked like you were struggling.’ And actually he said, ‘I was worried about your health.'”<\/p>\n The drummer said he also had to\u00a0grapple with the loss of one of his best friends, who drowned\u00a0while Iron Maiden was rehearsing for tour.<\/p>\n “That really, really affected me,” he said. “So I had a lot of stress going on in my life, which, you know, we all get that. We all get issues where sometimes people deal with stress differently. For me, I went [into] a depression with it, and so I’m not making excuses for myself, but that was the time when I thought, ‘Hmm, maybe it’s time. I’ll finish the tour and I think I’m gonna hang it up.'”<\/p>\n McBrain is currently back on the road<\/a> for a brief Florida tour with his Iron Maiden cover band, Titanium Tart.<\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Bryan Rolli<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nNicko McBrain Discusses His Memoir and\u00a0Potential Future Iron Maiden Plans<\/h3>\n
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