Last Friday 8 March Nicko McBrain performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London, with the Marine Philharmonic Orchestra, as part of the 52nd Mountbatten Festival Of Music (MFM).
Nicko played in front of the stage with a special kit, called “Legacy Of Royals” which will be auctioned off, a medley of three Iron Maiden songs, “Trooper”, “Wasted Years” and “Run To The Hills”. Very impressive was the part where he played along with the drummers of the Philharmonic.
He said about his involvement in the project: “Well, let’s see, 2020, the year that we don’t talk about, it was the 50th anniversary of the Mountbatten Festival, and I was in attendance as a guest… And it just came about that … the people that I met there at the event, they said, ‘Oh, it’d be nice to…’ ’cause it was THE PRODIGY, who did the halftime after the interval. And I was absolutely amazed at it. I thought, ‘There’s these guys playing PRODIGY. It’s brilliant.’ So that was where the idea came about. And they said, ‘Well, what would you like to do next year?’ And I was very honored and humbled, and I immediately agreed.”
