Iron Maiden Manager Doubles Down on ‘Selfish’ Fans Using Their Phones During Concert

Iron Maiden is asking fans to live in the moment during their shows.

Ahead of the Run for Your Lives World Tour European leg, the heavy metal band’s manager, Rod Smallwood, asked fans to transport themselves to the 1980s, meaning, to refrain from “excessively film the concerts on their phones or tablets.”

Less than two weeks later, Smallwood called out fans on Iron Maiden’s Instagram on May 30 for their concert phone etiquette, thanking those who “kept their phones down” and respecting “the band and their fellow fans” — and shading those who didn’t obey during their show in Budapest.

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“It is so much better when they can see you unencumbered and that drives them on without that distraction,” he wrote of the band. “For the selfish few that didn’t and just had to keep videoing… I wish you nothing but a very sore arm!”

Smallwood clarified that the concerts don’t need to be completely phone-free. “As I said before, by all means take the odd quick pic as a memento of a great night,” he added, “but otherwise please keep your phone in your pocket.”

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This renewed ask comes weeks after he shared a statement on the band’s website on May 20, initially asking for fans to keep their phones away at Iron Maiden shows. “We really want fans to enjoy the shows first hand, rather than on their small screens.”

“The amount of phone use nowadays diminishes enjoyment, particularly for the band who are on stage looking out at rows of phones, but also for other concertgoers,” Smallwood continued.

He added that the fans’ “passion and involvement” makes the concerts “special.”

“But the phone obsession has now got so out of hand that it has become unnecessarily distracting especially to the band. I hope fans understand this and will be sensible in severely limiting the use of their phone cameras out of respect for the band and their fellow fans.”

Smallwood concluded by asking fans to “have the time of your lives as you join your Maiden family by singing your heart out, rather than getting your phone out.”

Up next for the heavy metal band — made up of bassist Steve Harris, Dave Murray, Janick Gers and Adrian Smith, all on on guitar, Simon Dawson on drums and Bruce Dickinson on vocals — are tour stops in European cities such as Vienna, Paris, Madrid, Dublin, London and Copenhagen.

Iron Maiden will wrap their European tour stops, which continue through June and July on Aug. 2 in Warsaw, Poland.