Eddie's Bar
Eddie's Bar is a bar dedicated to the heavy metal band Iron Maiden.
It is located in the village of Santa Bárbara de Nexe in southern Portugal. It is owned by Steve Harris, the bassist of Iron Maiden. The bar features many props used during former Maiden tours, like sarcophagi from the World Slavery Tour 1984/85, Steve Harris' bass, Nicko McBrain's cymbals and signed records, photos and posters of the band. Heavy metal videos are played during the opening hours.
The bar opened in 1989 with Manu Da Silva, a former roadie for Iron Maiden, as manager. Soon fans of the band from around the world started visiting the place. After Manu's death in 2005, the bar closed. It reopened in July 2006 with new managers Dave Sullivan and Terry Rance, former guitarists of Iron Maiden, and Jeff Daniels, who was a roadie of the band in the 1970s.
External links
- [http://perso.orange.fr/fredouille/sakkath/eddiesbar/#| Fans of Eddie's Bar], a site in French, English and Portuguese with many pictures of the place