MICHAEL KENNEY is the bass technician for Steve Harris and keyboard and ambience hero for legendary metal band Iron Maidens amazing film like ability to be able to get inside your head and start imagining a non-existing movie with nothing but Guitar leads, harmonics solos Swells and Bass lines as well as music this keyboardist brings a layer of Mysterical Foggy Mist to the music in certain songs not achievable by other instruments live , this plus he never plays with the band on stage rather off stage (behind a curtain out of the fans eye ) he is no doubt an unsung hero of Iron Maiden MICHAEL KENNEY to bring the abrupting musical storm all together, He is FOAM TO THE PERFECT POUR OF ALE IRON MAIDEN AS A WHOLE GOING TO UNLEASH TO THE EAR DRUM.
- Michael Kenney
- Active: 1988–2022
- Instruments: (behind the stage) keyboards
- Release contributions: all Iron Maiden studio releases from No Prayer for the Dying (1990) to Virtual XI (1998), all live releases from Maiden England (1989) to Nights of the Dead (2020)
- Since 1980, Kenney has been employed by the band as Harris' bass technician. Following Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album, in which the band used keyboards for the first time, Harris insisted that Kenney perform the keyboard parts live under the alias of "The Count". Following this tour Kenney provided keyboards on their next four studio albums after which Harris took over playing keys with Kenney assisting. He still provides the band's live keyboards, although unlike the Seventh Tour of a Seventh Tour during which he performed on a forklift Kenney now plays the keys backstage. For the Maiden England World Tour 2012–2013, Kenney reprised his role as "The Count" during performances of the song "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son".