For the past 40 years, Iron Maiden has traveled the world, performing before huge crowds in sold-out amphitheaters and stadiums. But now frontman Bruce Dickinson has traded in the large venues he’s grown accustomed to for smaller, more intimate settings.

The singer’s latest tour, “An Evening with Bruce Dickinson,” doesn’t feature stacks of amplifiers or pyrotechnics. It doesn’t even feature a single musical performance by the headliner. The show only features Dickinson, who talks to paired-down audiences in tiny clubs. And Dickinson couldn’t be happier about it.

“There’s no script, per say, and there’s no auto cue or anything else like that,” Dickinson says of his speaking engagements. “I do have some images … I start to tell stories around the picture and then you just go off on a tangent about how I learned to sing and how I didn’t become a drummer and the weirdness of being in an English boarding school where you might have met Boris Johnson in another life and how I ended up wearing the world’s most ridiculous trousers on stage with Iron Maiden. It’s like, ‘How did that happen?’ So, it’s kind of that story.”

Are you interested in hearing Dickinson talk? Or would you rather hear him sing?