EO - We've done three shows so far and I'm having a really good time with it. We have a great cast and I'm really happy to be a part of it; everyone that has seen it so far seems to have really enjoyed themselves which is good to see. The band is really rocking, and everybody is really working their butts off to make it a really great show. It’s most definitely on the heavy side, its not really your typical kind of musical

That's exactly right, I toured here with Alice Cooper for two weeks and I have toured with Twisted Sister a few times but this show is by far the most exposure around the UK that I will have had myself which I’m really happy about

EO - Well its kind of like I’m in character but I’m also kind of myself; its not a real stretch you know (laughs). The make up is a little bit different and I’m wearing a different outfit but the whole thing about being a Vampire fits right in with me really. And of course I have the Bullseye guitar with me, an old beat up one and a newer one

Vampires Rock

EO - Yes, that’s absolutely right. We are doing two Twisted Sister songs, ‘Burn in Hell’ and ‘We're not gonna take it’. ‘Burn in Hell’ in particular works great, I start the song by coming in from the top of the stage, which represents the club and Steve and the girls come in from the bar area and the song works really well in the setting of the show. The choreography is awesome, you know it’s a very dramatic song and its cool to see one of our songs done in a different way

EO - Well there are just so many, you know. We start with ‘Welcome To The Jungle’ and then we have AC/DC ’If You Want Blood’, ’Highway To Hell’, and Queen of course, ’ We Will Rock You’, ’Killer Queen’, ’Don’t Stop Me Now’. I play a guitar solo to open the second half and then we have ’Sweet Child Of Mine’, Alice Cooper ’Poison’, ’Whole Lotta Love’, ’Dead Ringer’, ‘Bat Out Of Hell‘. And there are a couple of really old songs in there aswell, Slade ’Cum On Feel The Noize’ and Suzi Quatro ’ Devil Gate Drive’. There are just so many really cool songs that I get to play every night (laughs)

EO - Yeah it came out really well, I am selling it at the show although we aren‘t playing anything from it. I got Ronnie James Dio singing a song on there, Dee Snider, Joe Lynn Turner, Rudy Sarzo plays bass on 2 songs, and I sing on the other songs and there are a couple of instrumentals. So it has got a little bit of everything on there really. The songs I picked for them really fitted their voices, when I wrote ‘Tonight’ I thought wow I have written a Dio song and he would be the perfect guy to sing it. We did a couple of shows together and I asked him to sing it and he said yes right away, he has his own recording studio in his house and I would send people files on CD and they would do their bits and send them back and that seems to be the way a lot of people work now and it works great

EO - That’s right, it was a great day. It was a lot of fun to be with all of those people in the same room, jamming together, we had a great three days in LA and it was a really cool experience. I wish that it had got more exposure like the Michael Jackson one did but at least it did something and in the rock community it was the only one of its kind

EO - Well it started off as something we just really wanted to have fun with and then when it came out last November it really seemed to take off, we got together to do some recording in the summer and someone said "well why don't we do a Christmas album" (laughs) and it seemed like a great idea and like you say it could have gone the other way but it actually turned out to be really successful and people loved it. We also have a DVD coming out soon of the three shows that we did lat year

EO  - We’re headlining the Hard Rock Hell show at Butlins in Minehead on November 10th, and then we will probably do some festivals next summer. We also have a date in Finland soon and then a couple of Christmas shows in the US. We're also working on a TV appearance, we did Jay Leno last year and it was a lot of fun, a really great show to be on

EO - I had a feeling…its like everything always comes back, look at Led Zeppelin getting back together. A lot of the current scene is quite dry and there is a resurgence in the old classics that you are really aware of and its good to see that happening

EO - Audioslave, Stone Temple Pilots, I’m quite open minded to quite a few things really. My Chemical Romance are a cool band, I know they are categorised as an "emo" band but they are still cool and so are Green Day. But I still enjoy bands such as AC/DC and Metallica

Eddie it’s been really good talking to you. Is there anything else you wanted to say about the show?

EO - Well I really think people should come and check it out, it’s a rocking show and the girls are beautiful (laughs) so that really makes my day