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Ancient Mariner
Of course it is as he is basically playing just power chords the whole song.
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 2025 Tour Thread *SPOILERS INSIDE*
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Helmuth Von Moltke
Ancient Mariner
Good question. I’m glad for the excitement around the tour and it was a delight to be in the London stadium crown.
Almost all the x50 shows I’ve seen have been the reunion era, so the highlights of the current show have already been the highlights of past tours (and I generally preferred how they were staged in past tours). I preferred Legacy 2018, for instance.
No Nicko is a factor, the screens are sometimes a factor.
But it’s also the 6th or 7th maiden tour I’ve seen now since 1999 with ‘80s nostalgia’ as the core of the set list, depending on how you cut it, so that’s maybe a factor too.
The legacy 2018 tour was 10 times better than the current tour. I, also, prefer the staging of past tour.
Personally, I don't care about the lineup change. It was for the best, as much as I love Nicko.
The setlist is my main issue as I don't really like the Killers songs, I don't think Aces should be there and also I don't think Rime and SSOASS should be that close to each other in a set. I'll still go and see them 3-4 times for this tour, as I think some songs will never be performed live again, but they can't top Legacy or SBIT or even TFP for me.
Personally, I don't care about the lineup change. It was for the best, as much as I love Nicko.
The setlist is my main issue as I don't really like the Killers songs, I don't think Aces should be there and also I don't think Rime and SSOASS should be that close to each other in a set. I'll still go and see them 3-4 times for this tour, as I think some songs will never be performed live again, but they can't top Legacy or SBIT or even TFP for me.
jeanpoleon
Trooper
The closeness of SSOASS and ROTAM boggles me. It's obvious that it's a problem. So why would they do that...
Maybe a good point in the show from a performance point of view to be playing such long songs? It was as if they slid a shorter song between them just to avoid playing back to back epics.
I was surprised they included SSOASS in general, though. They do play it well, but ROTAM was more like their centrepiece on this tour
I was surprised they included SSOASS in general, though. They do play it well, but ROTAM was more like their centrepiece on this tour
skogtastic
Trooper
Agreed. I still hoped that they would play the songs album by album, as started with Killers. But I get why that maybe doesn't work when you try to pace a setlist. But the Clairvoyant should have been closer to SSOASS.
Randalf
Ancient Mariner
I agree with the points raised about the setlist pacing when it comes to the two big epics, but their "closeness" to each other didn't really bother me at all. Both were among the highlights of the show and I loved them! Run to the Hills also felt, somehow, more enjoyable than on the previous times I've seen it live.
Generally speaking, I think the set could be paced a bit better indeed, but anyway, I'm so happy that I finally got to see Rime live and Seventh Son shortly after felt like the best dessert in the world, heh!
Generally speaking, I think the set could be paced a bit better indeed, but anyway, I'm so happy that I finally got to see Rime live and Seventh Son shortly after felt like the best dessert in the world, heh!
skogtastic
Trooper
The screens for Seventh Son were the highlight of the show for me, it was just so vibrant and epic. Loved it.
Smither
Ancient Mariner
The last question is basically about how he feels about the state of heavy metal right now and he answered:Yeah, and apparently (mentioned in a comment) he said the same thing in this new interview about his upcoming big solo show in Brazil. Can someone translate the entire excerpt?
IMB - IRON MAIDEN BRASIL on Instagram: "Nova entrevista do Bruce Dickinson sobre a sua participação no The Town, que vai acontecer em São Paulo no dia 07/09. Você já garantiu o seu ingresso?"
4,390 likes, 92 comments - ironmaiden.brasil on July 12, 2025: "Nova entrevista do Bruce Dickinson sobre a sua participação no The Town, que vai acontecer em São Paulo no dia 07/09. Você já garantiu o seu ingresso?".www.instagram.com
"The crowd at our shows every night isn’t just made up of people my age, there are teenagers in the audience, as well as fans who’ve been following the band for over 40 years. To us that's great because it shows we’re able to connect with new trends without compromising what we do. What I love most about this job is that I have so many stories to tell and that we won't stop anytime soon."
Besides that, he tells that he wants to play Revelations in Brazil (the interviewer asked about the incident in which he injured himself during Revelations in RIR 1985), says that it will be a pleasure to play in Brazil again 40 years later after his first time and also tells that a brazilian friend of his gave some ideas to Balls to Picasso with indigenous instruments and orchestral elements.
BludBrutha
Ancient Mariner
Why do they keep that in the set when Bruce can’t sing it anymore? Infinite Dreams or their only #1 single Bring Your Daughter would work way better.
dickinson1978
Ancient Mariner
CLassics and has to be there. They should start with aces
Kalata
Out of the Silent Planet
This. The special stuff from this tour are: the stage set, the first opening songs are memorable and having 3 80's epics in one set.
Yeah. I'm not sure which song to call a centerpiece of the tour, since both Rime and Seventh Son are. If only they played another one like Infinite. Maybe the classic set as a whole. Bruce loves both songs.
For me are - Powerslave (I guess because of the stage), the 2 main epics and the first opening songs.
It was manageable with another 90's song, but some of the hits should be played later in the set.
To think, with Nicko we could have had songs like Alexander, Land, Sun and Steel, Infinite Dreams(who knows) in the set. Despite the current tour, I still think we can hear a few surprises again for the next tour.
Batman
Evening The Odds.
To be honest it is hard to be to be stocked for this tour. Last one was amazing with setlist and pacing & stage design.
With current one... well... I like most of the songs (but still lack of songs from No Prayer for me is false advertising) but order of them is quite random in my opinion. Stage design? Well... now everyone is doing screens thingy so I'm not mindblown as much as I was with Legacy of the Beast tour.
Given that PGE stadion in Warsaw has one of the shitties accoustics in the world* it is hard for me to be happy with that show but it will be first one Maiden show of my son so there it is.
* Guns&Roses had show there couple of days ago and half the songs were indistinguishable due to the acoustics. Many people left during the concert. There has been talk for a long time about banning concerts at this venue. https://www.eskarock.pl/radar/afera...przelaly-czare-goryczy-aa-Fu5n-aUF2-8UwA.html
With current one... well... I like most of the songs (but still lack of songs from No Prayer for me is false advertising) but order of them is quite random in my opinion. Stage design? Well... now everyone is doing screens thingy so I'm not mindblown as much as I was with Legacy of the Beast tour.
Given that PGE stadion in Warsaw has one of the shitties accoustics in the world* it is hard for me to be happy with that show but it will be first one Maiden show of my son so there it is.
* Guns&Roses had show there couple of days ago and half the songs were indistinguishable due to the acoustics. Many people left during the concert. There has been talk for a long time about banning concerts at this venue. https://www.eskarock.pl/radar/afera...przelaly-czare-goryczy-aa-Fu5n-aUF2-8UwA.html
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Although I enjoyed the London show, I am glad I only got tickets for one concert on this tour (especially considering the price!).
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed seeing them play their biggest UK headline show that was not a festival, but the setlist was very reminiscent of previous (and, dare I say it, better) tours: 12 of the same songs were played on the SBIT tour in 2008 (13 in 2009), 11 on the Maiden England tour in 2012-2013… The pacing and flow of the setlist were issues too (the crowd only really erupted from TNOTB onwards, ROTAM and SSOASS were played too close in the setlist), and the least we say about Aces High (the aces struggled to take off) the better.
It was nice to see some of those oldies live again (Powerslave in particular) and some of the screen animations were good, but I cannot help but feel that I have seen them on much better tours.
It is what it is, though, and if this ends up being my final Maiden show, it would be a good ending.
This, opening with 3 Killers songs definitely wasn't ideal. As much as I hate Aces Low nowadays, it should have been the opener and then they could just go Wrathchild/Killers/Phantom, if they wanted to. That leaves room for one surprise as the first encore song, even if it was just "Moonchild" or something, it would make more people happy.
I know they wanted to open with the Killers-London visuals and that's why they picked those songs, but Murders takes place in Paris, anyway.