Bruce - On TV

FLYING HEAVY METAL

Flying Heavy Metal with Bruce Dickinson, premiering on UK Discovery Channel at 9pm on Wednesday 19th January, follows Bruce as he indulges his love of flying whilst examining the highlights of the past century of American and British aviation.
Flying Heavy Metal tracks a fascinating transatlantic battle for the dominance of the skies. This exciting new series approaches the past century of aviation from a number of innovative and interesting angles - from The Comet to Concorde, runways to revolutionary NASA technology, Flying Heavy Metal is guaranteed to propel you into the heart of the past century’s aviation triumphs.

In this new 5-part series, Bruce literally flies viewers through the history of the jet airliner. He pilots the major landmarks in aviation history from the DC3 Dakota - the classic prop plane of the mid-30s - through to the key airliners of the jet age and the fly-by wire Airbus 320. He even gets a sneak preview of the soon to be unveiled Airbus A380.

Flying Heavy Metal contrasts the European and American approaches to aviation, as the two continents prepare once again to do battle with their latest aeroplane designs. Bruce looks back at their creations from the past 50 years, and discovers British fingerprints on some of the most ingenious and innovative technologies in the aviation industry.

Highlights from the series include: Bruce flying a pre-war DC3; cruising over the Florida Everglades in a Boeing 727; reliving the hair-raising experience of a night landing in one of the oldest Tiger Moths still flying, and roller-blading around the two decks of Airbus’s new monster - the A380.

Flying Heavy Metal with Bruce Dickinson, premiering on 19th January 2005 at 9pm, is the rocker’s guide to aviation, taking in the hits, the misses and some truly incredible planes along the way.
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BBC FOLK AWARDS 2005

Bruce presented the Best Group Awards, won by Oysterband Big Session

The BBC Folk Awards event was started in 1999 as a way of celebrating the past year’s achievements in the folk music world. It was seen as an opportunity to get artists and folk industry pundits together and say thank you for their work over the previous twelve months. It was also seen as a chance to showcase to the mainstream media just some of the artists and albums that we, the people who work in folk music, have been particularly proud of during the year.

The awards themselves are voted for by a panel of around 120 broadcasters, folk journalists, festival organisers, agents, promoters etc; people whose job it is to make judgement of one sort or another about folk music during their daily work. I have never asked musicians to vote because I think it is their role to make the music and other people’s to judge. The voting is in two stages: the first round is open and the panel can vote for anyone they like in each of the designated categories. These votes are collated and the top four artists in each category declared as nominees. The same panel is then asked to vote again on this shortlist to choose an award winner in each category.
The Folk Awards are an occasion to celebrate the music and thank the people who bring it to us, generally for little reward, and a wonderful opportunity to publicise folk music to people who may not normally hear it.

Sometimes many of us who deal with folk music every day can forget how little it is known and appreciated outside the folk scene. The Folk Awards gives an opportunity to broaden the knowledge of some journalists and hopefully bring new people into the fold. Each year over 60 journalists attend the Awards and I’m delighted to say that many hundreds of column inches - so far all positive - have been written about the event and the music it celebrates.

MTV EUROPE AWARDS 2000

Bruce Dickinson presented the “Best Rock Act” award alongside the beautiful french actress Virginie Ledoyen at the MTV Europe Awards in Stockholm on November 16th, 2000. The Red Hot Chilli Peppers were announced as the winners for this category.