Ahead of the Brazilian leg of his "The Mandrake Project" solo tour, IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson was asked by the Rádio Kiss FM radio station what fans can expect from the shows. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Oh, wow. Well, we are having so much fun on stage. It's amazing to play with musicians who are less than half my age. So the energy and the enthusiasm is just off the chart. I mean, we've been learning new songs, and we just throw them into the set and go, 'Yep, let's do this one tonight.' Whereas a lot of bands, because they have a big show and fireworks and monsters — like MAIDEN, for example, we don't change the set around every night. But with this project, we do. So, yeah, people who come to Curitiba to see the show, the people the next night in Porto Alegre are gonna get a different show. And it's interesting for us, and it keeps us on our toes musically. The first time in Brazil, I've got some stuff to put on screens, so I think we're gonna have screens behind us. And so I've developed a load of material, some of it quite out there for the back. Because we don't play to a time code or a click track, we don't use tapes, backing tapes and all that crap, we're actually musicians who play the real thing, so if we're excited, we play a little bit faster. So we look at each other, we go, 'Should we stop now?' 'Yeah. Okay. One, two, three, four,' boom. Or 'should we start now? One, two, three,' boom. Let's go. We look at each other, we play off each other — it's that old-school stuff. And the way the stage is, I designed it so it's deliberately different to the normal thing where it's all about having a massive drum kit right in the middle. Well, we've got a pretty big drum kit, but it can be heavy and it can be beautiful as well. We play 'Navigate The Seas Of The Sun', which shocked us when we first played it, because we've never played it — I've never played that song live. And we've done it three times now, and each time I've been shocked at the reaction. It's a real emotional reaction to that song. It's beautiful."
