According to a posting on
IRON MAIDEN's
official web site,
Eddie's Bar — the Santa Barbara De Nexe, Portugal bar owned by
IRON MAIDEN bassist
Steve Harris — is "only closing for the winter and will re-open again May 2010 for the summer months, May - September."
A posting on
Eddie's Bar's official
MySpace profile previously indicated that the bar would be "closing down for good at the end of September." (The posting has since been removed from the page.)
The bar opened in 1989 with
Manu Da Silva, a former roadie for
IRON MAIDEN, as manager. After
Manu's death in 2005, the bar closed and reopened in July 2006 with new managers
Dave Sullivan and
Terry Rance — both of whom played guitar in the first-ever
IRON MAIDEN lineup — and
Jeff Daniels, who was a
MAIDEN roadie in the 1970s.
The bar features many props used during past
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 bar's opening hours.