As he gears up to take brilliant solo album The Mandrake Project on the road, we catch up with Bruce Dickinson to talk decades of touring – from moments of glory where you’re “on the edge of self-destruct”, to less glamorous aspects like, uh, occasionally going to the loo in a hole in the ground. The thing that I have to have on tour is… “A bed to sleep in that doesn’t move. I fucking hate tour buses. Tour buses got old on me after five days on the first Iron Maiden tour I ever did when we drove to Italy. It took us three days and then the bus broke down. We had to push it to start it.” The longest journey I’ve ever made for the least reward was… “I did a day trip to Japan with [1996 solo album] Skunkworks. We got there in the morning from the UK, went and di...