Goodbye Maiden Downunder

I remember it well :). Whatever became of the folks who used to post on there? Darth Raver is one that comes to mind right away.

Howsabout some of the people who used to post on here too, like Aussie Dave or Maiden Australia? Anybody seen or heard from them for a while?

If such a thing were possible and I wasn't such an antisocial old bastard, I might suggest a giant MD get-together/reunion for BB members old and new. Course then I'd have to think of an excuse to get out of it...

W
 
heh. Here's a blast from the past:



VIC

Nick: phlogiston
Real Name: Aaron Cooper
email: phlogiston@maidencentral.com
Age: 26
Birthdate: 16/4/73
Sex: Male
Location: Melbourne
Occupation: Programmer
ICQ No: 50250394
ICQ Name: phlogiston
Home Page:
Favorite Album: Piece of Mind
Fan Since: 1988
Other Interests: guitar, PC, Stuff
Something else interesting: I’m just not interesting
Other Favorite Bands: AC/DC, pre-Black Metallica, Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies, Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Chris Isaak

Nick: The Trooper
Real Name: Trent Wilson
email: trooper82@maidencentral.com
Age: 17
Birthdate: 12/10/82
Sex: Male
Location: Melbourne
Occupation: Student
ICQ No: 44758102
ICQ Name: Metal Warrior
Home Page: Maiden Hell (http://www.maidencentral.com/hell)
Favorite Album: Piece of Mind
Fan since: 1997 (i'm a newish one I guess)
First album bought: The Number Of The Beast
Other Interests: Guitar, metal, films, film making.
Other favourite bands: (hey...good new category!!) Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Kiss, Black Sabbath, Slipknot, Sepultura, AC/DC.

Nick: Los4words
Real Name: Jason Gale
email: losferwords@hotmail.com
Age: 27
Birthdate: 18/5/72
Location: Melbourne
Occupation: Consultant
ICQ No: 36200110
ICQ Name: as above, so below... (los4words)
Home Page: 'kin aint got that time for that!
Favorite Album: Piece of Mind
Other Interests: Family, footy, reading, movies, attempting to play my Bass, umm err growin my vegies (I sound so boring, sorry)
Sex: Male
Fan Since: Live After Death, so 1986 umm 14 years...
First Album : as above, Live After Death on LP!

Nick: Jaye
Real Name: Jordan Forster
email: stonedead666@hotmail.com
Age: 16
Sex: M
Birthdate: 15/1/84
Location: Bendigo, Victoria
Occupation: student
ICQ No: -
ICQ Name: -
Home Page: -
Favorite Album: Powerslave
1st Album Bought: Number of the Beast
Other Interests: Guitar, collecting metal stuff!
Other Fav Bands: Maiden, Bruce, Metallica, Dio, Sabbath, Ozzy, Megadeth, Sepultura, ect.
Fan Since: 1996

Nick: AxemanRorz
Real name: Rory O'Donnell
Email: enei52rdo@students.ballarat.edu.au
Age: 19
DOB: 9/5/81
Location: Ballarat
Occupation: Student
Home Page: http://go.to/strict
Favorite Album: Piece of Mind, might change to Brave New World.
Interests: Playing guitar in my metal band,
Dirt Bike rinding, yobbing about.
Something else interesting: Check my homepage for a comprehensive site on my metal band Strict Vincent.
Anything else you consider appropriate:
Yahh! When's Maiden gonna come and play down here! Ayiiee!! (running around in circles and flipping out soon after this was typed)

Nick: dieKetzer
Real Name: Lauren
email: mars@lecafe2000.com
Age: 30
Sex: M
Birthdate: 08/11/69
Location: Melb, Victoria
Occupation: IT
ICQ No: Forgot (invisible 24/7 anyways)
ICQ Name: dieKetzer
Home Page: -
Favorite Album: I'm not sure
1st Album Bought: Number of the Beast
Other Interests: I dunno.
Other Fav Bands: Too many to try listing.

Nick:Exciter
Real Name: Savo Mrsic
email: mrsic@bigpond.com
Age: 22
Sex:male
Birthdate: 10-4-78
Location: Melbourne
Occupation: Mechanic
ICQ No:
ICQ Name:
Home Page:
Favorite Album: 7th Son
Fan since:92
First album:Fear Of The Dark
Other Interests:motor bike riding, fishing
guitars & getting drunk
Fave bands:Judas Priest, Manowar, Pegasus,
Blak Sabbath, Motley Crue

Nick: jahosy
Real Name: jason ho
email: jahosy@hotmail.com
Age: 23
Sex: m
B-Date: 27 jun 1977
Location: melbourne(currently)
Occupation: student
Fav Album: somewhere in time
1st Album: 7th son...
Fan since: 1989
Other Bands: old Slayer and Megadeth stuffs, Helloween, Steel Prophet, At the Gates, Dan Swano, Cradle, Emperor, In Flames, Opeth, Dissection, Napalm Death, Erasure , etc...
Other Interest: guitar, jamming, video games, soccer(english).....
never been to ANY metal concert b 4. can't wait to see maiden live in aus!!!

NSW
Nick: Ironcross
Real Name: Christopher Peacock
email: chrislp@hunterlink.net.au
Age: 21
Birthdate: 18/10/78
Location: Maitland, NSW
Occupation: Pc and Network Support
ICQ No: 5438835
ICQ Name: Ironcross
Home Page: http://come.to/maidenaustralia
Favorite Album: Powerslave (Hopefully Brave New World)
Other Interests: Guitar, Pc Games!
Something else interesting: I like beer!
Anything else you consider appropriate: I have seen Iron Maiden seven times. Ive been a fan since 1993.

Mr Crowley
REAL NAME-bradley milford
AGE-25
OCCUPATION-pepsi cola australia
FAN CLUB MEMBER 10 YEARS
FAVOURITE ALBUM-seventh son
iCQ-24446947
LIVE-maitland nsw
NO HOME PAGE
EMAIL-bmilford@ozemail.com.au
FAV BANDS-MAIDEN,priest,cradle,sabbath,ozzy,nevermore,king diamond,mercyful fate, carcass, blind guardian, stativarius, iced earth, dio,helloween, skyclad, dungeon, testemant, metal church, exodus, moonspell, kreator, slayer, etc
FIRST ALBUM BOUGHT-seventh son

Nick: Seventh_Son
Real Name: Aaron Scott
email: azscot@mac.com
Age: 19
Birthdate: 6/2/81
Location: Valentine, NSW
Occupation: Software Engineer (Student)
ICQ No:
ICQ Name:
Home Page:
Favorite Album: Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Other Interests: Progressive Rock / Metal, Drums
Sex: Male
Fan Since: 1992
First Album bought: Fear Of The Dark

Nick: RAMSAY
Real: Brad Ramsay
Age: 25
email: BRAD@ironmaiden.com
Birth date: 8/7/74
Location: Mayfield, NSW.
Fav Albulm: Seventh Son
1st Albulm: Powerslave, Seventh Son
Interests: All things MAIDEN, Most other metal, Playstation, Tooheys OLD!, GUINNESS!!!
Listening to my CDs while slowly getting stoned!

Nick:Lestat
Real name:Andrew Sloss
email:lestat@ironmaiden.com
Age:26
Birthdate:31/10/1973
Location:Revesby,Sydney
Occupation:building security
icq number: haven't gotten one yet
icq name:none
Home page:
Favourite Album:Hard question but number of
the beast
Other Intrests:music music music music
Something Else intersting:Iam a boring person
Sex:I don't know you work it out
Fan since: o so many years ago
First album bought:Number of the beast

Nick: LUCIFA
Real Name: GREG WILLIAMS
email: LUCIFA@IRONMAIDEN.COM
Age: 25
Birthdate: 25/9/74
Sex: Male
Location: NEWCASTLE
Occupation: ENGINEER
ICQ No: 75623459
ICQ Name: LUCIFA
Home Page: N/A
Favorite Album: SSOASS/BNW
Fan since: 1990
First album bought: FOTD
Other Interests: ILL GET BACK TO YA!

Nick: Brett
Real Name: Brett Hansen
email: Hanso88@hotmail.com
Age: 20
Birthdate: 17/12/79
Sex: Male
Location: Leeton
Occupation: Meat Inspector and Slaughterman
ICQ No: 32031129
ICQ Name: Hanso
Favorite Album: Powerslave/SSOASS
Fan since: 1995
First album bought: Powerslave
Other Interests: Gambling and Drinking.....Yep I am very poor

Nick: RAMSAY
Real: Brad Ramsay
email: brad@ironmaiden.com
Age: 25
Locat: Mayfield, NSW, AUST.
Occ: Poker Machine Atten't
ICQ:
Fav Album: Seventh Son...
Interests: MAIDEN, METAL, ALCOHOL, VIOLENCE!!
Sex: Male
Fan Since: 88-89
1st Album: Powerslave & Seventh Son...

QLD
Nick: Icarus
Real Name: Tonci Brcich
email: drifter_88@hotmail.com
Age: 19
Birthdate: 10/6/80
Location: Brisbane
Occupation: Student
ICQ No: 24738964
ICQ Name: Prowler
Home Page:
Favorite Album: Somewhere in time
Other Interests: Hmm many and various
Sex: Yes please
Fan Since: 1996
First Album bought: Iron Maiden

Nick: Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman
Real Name: Tanya Brcich (yes I'm his sister)
email: polka_tulk@hotmail.com
Age: 17
Birthdate: 9/8/82
Location: Brisbane Qld
Occupation: Medicine Woman....no I'm a student : )
ICQ number: 65404768
ICQ name: Kementari
Home page:
Favourite Album: Piece of Mind
Other Interests: Medicine...oh all right, art, snoozing....
Something else interesting: Today I looked at worms
Anything else you consider appropriate: Up the Floridians! : D
Sex: female
Fan since: 1997
First album bought: I'll let my brother field that one

Nick: Strangey
Real Name: Mark Bridgeman
email: mark@maidencentral.com
Age: 27
Birthdate: 03/08/72
Sex: Male
Location: Brisbane
Occupation: Floridian
ICQ No: 8528395
ICQ Name: Mahke
Home Page: Maiden Central (http://www.maidencentral.com)
Favorite Album: SIT/SSOASS
Fan since: 1986
First album bought: SIT
Other Interests: Ohh, lotsa things. All things floridian, naturally.

Nick: Spiff
Real Name: Nigel Bridgeman
email: nigel@losfer.com
Age: 23
Birthdate: 30/06/76
Sex: Male
Location: Brisbane, Qld
Occupation: Administrator
ICQ No: 8613007
ICQ Name: Spiff
Homepage: www.losfer.com/blaze
Favourite album: Dunno, really... Iron Maiden, I suppose...
Fan since: 1986
First album bought: Best of the Beast!
Other interests: movies & stuff
Other bands: Children of Bodom, Iced Earth, Dream Theater, Metallica, some Megadeth, Rush, The Bangles, Ozzy, post-Ozzy Sabbath, Deep Purple, Def Leppard, Savatage, Blind Guardian, Superior, Opeth, Sarah McLachlan, and others I can't think of at the mo.


CBR
Nick: Aussie Dave
Real Name: David Gawthrop
email: gawthy@hotmail.com
age: 27 (DOB 9/1/73)
sex: male
location: Canberra
Occupation: Loans Manager
ICQ No: 12936987
ICQ Name: Gman
Favourite album: Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
1st album bought: Live After Death
Fan Since: 1989
Other Interests: Guitar, Drums, Chicago Bulls

Nick: Maiden Australia
Real Name: Matt Coffey
email: little.raven@effect.net.au
Age: 30
Birthdate: 31/10/69
Sex: Male (last time I looked)
Location: Canberra
Occupation: Play in Henry's Anger and also Graphic design
ICQ No:
ICQ Name:
Home Page: Henry's Anger (http://www.effect.net.au/anger)
Favorite Album: All except for X-Factor & Virtual 11
Fan since: 1982
First album bought: The Number Of The Beast in 1982
Other Interests: Life in general! and Guinness

Name: Tim Buckman.
Nickname: Bucko.
Age :36
Dob: 05/02/1963.
Location: Canberra
Occupation: Lending Manager
Favorite Album (Maiden) Killers / Number of the Beast.
First Album brought: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (LP still have it)
E-Mail Address: buckman_tim@hotmail.com
Intrests: Heavy Metal Sabbath , Maiden , Purple, Motorhead, Preist, Ozzy, Metallica, Soundgarden, Kiss, AC/DC, Angels, Chisel, Rose Tattoo, Led Zepplin, Gazza Moore,Thin Lizzy, Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, UFO, Van Halen, Krokus, Faith No More, Zakk Wylde, Greezer Bulter solo bands, Bill Ward (Sabs Drummer) Status Quo, Rainbow, Dio, Elf, and manny more
Seen Live : Purple 1984 Dec I think
Motley Crue 1989
AC/DC 1990
Ozzy 1997
but alas never Maiden.

SA
Nick: Wrathchild (Mr Blackwell to all non Maiden-ites!)
Real Name: Stephen J. Lord
email: sjlord@picknowl.com.au
Age: 23
Location: Adelaide
Born: 22 Sept 1976
Sex: Male
Home Page: www.geocities.com/Area51/Capsule/4011/blackwell-index.html (Stories From the Depths of the Blackwell)
Occupation: Author
ICQ No: 72370351
Fan since: 1986
Fave album: 7th Son...
First album bought: See above (I borrowed all the others from friends and copied 'em before I bought a CD player.)
Also listens to: KISS, Rush, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Van Halen, Hendrix, Union, Queen, Alice Cooper, Beatles, Tori Amos and so on...
Other interests: Crime, horror and fantasy fiction, comic books, cult TV & movies.
Trivia: I avoided Maiden for years because their album covers scared the s**t outta me.

NZ
Nick: Pendragon
Real Name: Stephen Chong
email: schong@taranaki.ac.nz
Age: 27
Birthdate: 9/5/73
Sex: Male
Location: New Plymouth, New Zealand
Occupation: Student
ICQ No: n/a
ICQ Name: n/a
Home Page: n/a
Favorite Album: Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Fan since: 1987
First album bought: Gary Moore - Wild Frontier
Other Interests: METAL, fiction, movies, other stuff.
Other favourite bands:Jag Panzer, Grave Digger, Steel Prophet, Warrior, Leatherwolf, Led Zep, Black Sabbath, Kate Bush, Queen, Annihilator, Deep Purple, Tori Amos, Savatage, Gamma Ray, Blind Guardian, Accept, Iced Earth, Demons & Wizards, Gary Moore, Rhapsody, White Skull, Dio, Metal Church, Helloween, Judas Priest, Running Wild, Loreena McKennitt, Riot, Warlock, Doro(Pesch), Chastain, etc.


Nick: Mike Bell
Real Name: Mike Bell
email: Bello@xtra.co.nz
Age: 26
Sex:male
Birthdate: 08 05 74
Location: Christchurch N.Z.
Occupation: Primary School teacher / Musician
Favorite Album: Everything from Number of the Beast to 7th Son!
Fan since:6 May 1988 (A defining day in my life)
First album:Seventh Son
Other Interests: playing Bass, Sport (tennis)Super 12 (Go the Crusaders!), My band, Reading, Socialising, internet, Self improvement.
Fave bands:Iron Maiden have been my favourite band for 12 years. I saw them live in Auckland in 92. 'kin awesome show. Can't wait to see 'em this year!
Also love Metallica (saw them in Wellington)
Helloween (Michael Kisk is a vocal freak!)
Queensryche (thought provoking progressive metal.
Bruce Dickinson (AOB, Chemical!!!)
I like real music. Doesn't have to be metal.
eg. Simon and Garfunkel, Eagles, Classical,
Billy Joel etc.



WA

Nick: Cooperman
Real Name: Paul Cooper
email: super_cooper@hotmail.com
Age: 22
Sex:male
Birthdate: 04 05 78
Location: Perth WA
Occupation: Uni Student/wannabe muso/wannabe sound engineer
Favorite Album: Powerslave
Fan since:1992
First album:FOTD
Other Interests: Playing guitar and recording in my "studio" - I use that term lightly
Other fave bands: Megadeth - in big way (I'm just as pissed off they haven't toured here in like 10 years as I am Maiden don't tour, Metallica, Sepultura, Ozzy
 
Hey, why arent I on that list? I was there man! I swear! I even remember that ridiculous wickergirl thread :lol:

You know, Crossy should get a platinum record from Iron Maiden for all the people he has helped to discover Iron Maiden :D
 
I think i first discovered MD about a year ago(after a post on the Dungeon BB) and have met a few of the memebers so far.I look forward to meeting of the others soon and am glad to see the BB will continue :)

NP Hammerfall Legacy of Kings

By the way,i haven't posted for a while because of the cookie monster but that is fixed now(Thanks for the advice Mark!)
 
Originally posted by spawn
Hey, why arent I on that list? I was there man! I swear! I even remember that ridiculous wickergirl thread :lol:

That was *just* before my time but was kindly pointed out to me by the devine miss Moonchild (AKA Maiden Girl in the olden days! :D ) Twisted stuff!

So what do we all say? M4TB 2002, the first national Maiden Downunder BB meet & grumble?
 
I'd be willing, but it'd be a bit far for me to travel, unless a few asylum seekers could give me a lift.

I was on the old board for a few months. The new one took a little getting used to, but it didn't take long to realise that it really is rather snazzy.
 
Originally posted by spawn
Hey, why arent I on that list? I was there man! I swear! I even remember that ridiculous wickergirl thread :lol:

Ah, but that wasn't on the original original BB :p . And if you put your name on the list and it's not on my list, that's because I gave up maintaining it. I'm just a lazy arsehole. So there.
 
Originally posted by phlogiston


Ah, but that wasn't on the original original BB :p . And if you put your name on the list and it's not on my list, that's because I gave up maintaining it. I'm just a lazy arsehole. So there.

OK, as long as its known that I was THERE man! :D
 
I would like to thank everybody for there comments. I've had the site running since 1998.. first it was Maiden Australia.. then Maiden Downunder.

Its fantastic for me to know i've brought together so many people. I've made a lot of friends.. even some very close friends.

The BB will still continue. The first thing I wanted was it to stay online. I had no doubt Mark would keep it.

I will also still be visiting. Im not going away hehe.

In the mean time.. visit my bands web site haha as we need more fans :loco: Then we can be at Metal for the Brain 2002 and get very drunk hehe :)

Cheers
 
Hey Moonchild,
looks like i will be on the gold coast early April 2002.maybe we can meet up for a beer or two!By the way,i hope to be in Brisbane around the same time....mayb i can meet up with some of the Brisbane members...i will give you the exact dates shortly(i can't remember them at the moment)
 
*bump*

Interesting to see this thread now from the "similar threads" box... I never noticed but I had maiden downunder bookmarked in my old bookmarks. neve realized that up until now...

Steve
 
Heres one for Spawny/Trenty :) (Note text in bold ;) ) Ah yes the time when Trent wasnt obsessed with 80s glam! haha yes it did exist! :D

phlogiston said:
heh. Here's a blast from the past:

Nick: The Trooper
Real Name: Trent Wilson
email: trooper82@maidencentral.com
Age: 17
Birthdate: 12/10/82
Sex: Male
Location: Melbourne
Occupation: Student
ICQ No: 44758102
ICQ Name: Metal Warrior
Home Page: Maiden Hell (http://www.maidencentral.com/hell)
Favorite Album: Piece of Mind
Fan since: 1997 (i'm a newish one I guess)
First album bought: The Number Of The Beast
Other Interests: Guitar, metal, films, film making.
Other favourite bands: (hey...good new category!!) Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Kiss, Black Sabbath, Slipknot, Sepultura, AC/DC.