On Friday, March 30th 2007, Cliveaid goes off for the first time outside Great Britain. The location is Garage Club in Bergen, Norway, and Maiden Norway is behind it. Cliveaid is about supporting research on Multiple Schlerosis and teenage cancer. All profits from the event will be given to these causes.

”We have already booked most of the bands for the gig. We’re now awaiting confirmation from one of Norway's biggest Metal bands,” says Pål Johansen. ”The response has been amazing, everybody has been utterly positive to the project. It is clearly important for Norwegian bands to show their commitment to the community, and Cliveaid is a way to give by doing what you love doing – play your own music. Rock ’n roll and metal music isn’t just angry men with black hair, or happy christians with a rebel in their stomach.”

Both Norwegian and international artists play free for Cliveaid. Norway's THUNDERBOLT is one of the headliners, together with CRUEL (UK) and the local bands KRAKOW and CAT CALL.

”Rock ’n' roll and metal music isn’t just angry men with black hair, or happy christians with rebellion in their stomach,” says local Cliveaid promoters, Pål Johansen (left) and Frode Kilvik of Maiden Norway (photo: Lene Snekkevik).

”The mix of bands is very good, and we promise the audience will have an evening they’ll never forget. From Thunderbolts’ classic heavy metal to Krakow's uncompromised stoner metal – there’ll be something for everyone. In addition we have got very positive response from one of the biggest Metal bands in Norway, whom we are waiting confirmation from.”

The promoters won’t go into details about who this is, but can reveal that it is an extreme metal band who have been around for many years. ”Clive Burr said he would visit Bergen for the gig, as long as his health permits it of course,” says Frode Kilvik.

The Norwegian radio rock show Pyro will attend as MC’s, and will also be DJ’ing throughout the night after the gig. ”We have been wanting to go to England for Cliveaid for a long time, and obviously it is a lot easier when Cliveaid comes to Bergen. We are honored to participate, and are really looking forward to this night,” says Pyro’s Totto Mjelde.

About Cliveaid: Cliveaid was founded in 2004 as a onetime gig to raise money for the original IRON MAIDEN drummer Clive Burr, who is suffering from MS. The idea was to help Clive to a better life, and also to show him how much he means to the Rock world. The gig went beyond what anyone had imagined, and it was soon discovered that many, many more could be helped by the support and giving mindset of the Rock world. Now, Cliveaid is about supporting research on Multiple Schlerosis and teenage cancer.