RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 2025 Tour Thread *SPOILERS INSIDE*

Prowler said:
Now, I just hope this tour ends in 26 and they go on with something more interesting after that.
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Me too. I think this tour will be the ultimate Hits tour, as I can't see them playing almost the same classics again. Part 2, or in some way combined with some new songs and classics/eras is possible (they won't drop all of them; Blaze's albums would probably be skipped), why not, they do what they want and they can make a popular and workable set from the Reunion albums and not play the same classics- although there are more commonly played from the 80's that could return. The current tour shows that their ideas for Hits/History tours are running out, but there should be a reason why the 50th anniv tour is only for the first half of their albums...? I think they leave a door open. Bruce mentioned they have a lot of ideas, so. They won't do a 90's-based set or Deep cuts tour though, unfortunately.

The best will be a new album tour, so they could play newer or old deep cuts plus some classics - or a hybrid between new album/Reunion era/and classics. The current tour could have been a proper 50th anniv with just: 2 Reunion songs and one more from the 90's (Blaze era/No Prayer).
Patrick92 said:
Really wish they could release some live albums or videos from this tour and the Future Past tour. And something real from Legacy...
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I think they'll release from the current tour. TFP probably not, although who knows. From LOTB was a must, really odd to just release a live album. At least release the 3 SJ songs from 2022 to kind of ''make up'' for the lack of release from TFP.
redandtheblack92 said:
So yes, that aren’t going in in vain.
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^Good point.
 
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Kalata said:
I think they'll release from the current tour. TFP probably not, although who knows. From LOTB was a must, really odd to just release a live album. At least release the 3 SJ songs from 2022 to kind of ''make up'' for the lack of release from TFP.
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Though I wish we'd get a Future Past live album, I'd almost prefer A Real Live One-styled compilation from it with the 2022 Senjutsu songs and the new songs from the tour/SiT songs that haven't been released live yet. That alone is enough to fill a single CD. This is the rough setlist I used for the compilation I built for my iPod. Runs about an hour and 12 minutes. Not the full experience, of course, but none of the other songs that've been on a billion other Maiden live albums.

Caught Somewhere in Time
Senjutsu
Stratego
Writing on the Wall
Stranger in a Strange Land
Death of the Celts
Days of Future Past
The Time Machine
Alexander the Great
Hell on Earth

As for a RFYL live album...I'd buy it, listen to it a couple times maybe, but otherwise it'd probably sit on the shelf like Nights of the Dead since there's no material we haven't heard live on other albums.
 
After RFYL in 2026 hopefully we get a new album tour or something really different. Bruce had an idea to do a scaled down, smaller show for hardcore fans. It would be cool to see a show primarily of rarely/never played songs. I would name that tour "Eddie's Oddities". Doubtful they would do something like that but I would be all for it.
 
Kalata said:
The current tour shows that their ideas for Hits/History tours are running out, but there should be a reason why the 50th anniv tour is only for the first half of their albums...?
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I think that the three most recent tours (LOTB-Future Past-RFYL) showcase that they actually aren't running out of ideas of how to brand tours that, essentially, cover a certain classic period, whether as a main focus of the show or just partially.

That being said, I get what you mean; there probably won't be another as straightforward greatest hits kind of a tour of this scale.

I still think that the reason behind the 1980-92 album focus is purely pragmatic: there is no way to give a proper representation to every single era, play all the essential hits & include a couple of classic epics & gems in the vein of Rime & Powerslave.

I mean... yeah, they sure could play Bring Your Daughter, Futureal, The Wicker Man, Dance of Death/Blood Brothers and, e.g The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg and hence cover the whole history of the band in a more fair manner.

However, as much as I'd love to hear any of those songs, there is no way that any of the biggest 80's hits would've been dropped from this kind of a tour, so eventually the most (arguably) interesting songs of the current set would have been left out, at least I believe so.

I'm a huge fan of their 'reunion era' output, but I can totally see the appeal (both, from the band's & marketing perspective) of revisiting Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Clairvoyant & Seventh Son of a Seventh Son after some 11-16 years instead of a handful of more recent songs that, to be fair, have received relatively alright setlist representation in the past 10 years or so.
 
Kalata said:
Me too. I think this tour will be the ultimate Hits tour, as I can't see them playing almost the same classics again. Part 2, or in some way combined with some new songs and classics/eras is possible, why not, they do what they want and they can make a popular and workable set from the Reunion albums and not play the same classics- although there are more commonly played from the 80's that could return. The current tour shows that their ideas for Hits/History tours are running out, but there should be a reason why the 50th anniv tour is only for the first half of their albums...? Bruce mentioned they have a lot of ideas, so.

I think they'll release from the current tour. TFP probably not, although who knows. From LOTB was a must, really odd to just release a live album. At least release the 3 SJ songs from 2022 to kind of ''make up'' for the lack of release from TFP.

^Good point.
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Would really dissapoint me if they drop something from this tour and not from The Future Past tour. The Senjutsu songs together with Caught Somwhere in Time, Stranger and Alexander deservers something.

But yeah their whole approche with live releases after the Book of Souls have been weird imo.
 
I liked the concept of the TFP tour, to combine new material with an old underplayerd classic - if I had the choice, I would prefer this concept for a new tour if there was another underplayed album for the masses.
 
Think logically.

There is absolutely no way they do a 1995 to present tour for two reasons.

One the first two albums listed on the poster would be Blaze albums, so not gonna happen. They may play two big songs from those albums that the crowd enjoy but other than that, not gonna happen.

Secondly they are not going to do an entire show with no 80s classics on it whatsoever. No Trooper, Not etc. I would love it but the casuals wouldn't.
 
naranja said:
Think logically.

There is absolutely no way they do a 1995 to present tour for two reasons.

One the first two albums listed on the poster would be Blaze albums, so not gonna happen. They may play two big songs from those albums that the crowd enjoy but other than that, not gonna happen.

Secondly they are not going to do an entire show with no 80s classics on it whatsoever. No Trooper, Not etc. I would love it but the casuals wouldn't.
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I've said it before, but the only way I can see them doing a '95 to present follow-up to this tour is by making it a hybrid tour like Future Past. New album + the best from the reunion era and the Blaze era (though they'll likely shaft the Blaze era like they did NPFTD). I agree about the classics, though. They can't seem to not play Fear and Trooper, so those two would be somewhere in the set, maybe encores.
 
Iron Lurker said:
Bruce had an idea to do a scaled down, smaller show for hardcore fans. It would be cool to see a show primarily of rarely/never played songs.
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Certainly a better idea than the one for an ''Epics tour'', but iirc, Bruce was talking about playing SJ in full. Maybe with the new album. Deep cuts is the ultimate tour left to be done, but it would have to have quite a few songs from the 90's. Ofc from the Reunion era and still the 80's too.
Randalf said:
I think that the three most recent tours (LOTB-Future Past-RFYL) showcase that they actually aren't running out of ideas of how to brand tours that, essentially, cover a certain classic period, whether as a main focus of the show or just partially.

I mean... yeah, they sure could play Bring Your Daughter, Futureal, The Wicker Man, Dance of Death/Blood Brothers and, e.g The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg and hence cover the whole history of the band in a more fair manner.
However, as much as I'd love to hear any of those songs, there is no way that any of the biggest 80's hits would've been dropped from this kind of a tour, so eventually the most (arguably) interesting songs of the current set would have been left out, at least I believe so.
I'm a huge fan of their 'reunion era' output, but I can totally see the appeal (both, from the band's & marketing perspective) of revisiting Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Clairvoyant & Seventh Son of a Seventh Son after some 11-16 years instead of a handful of more recent songs that, to be fair, have received relatively alright setlist representation in the past 10 years or so.
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True that.
Randalf said:
I still think that the reason behind the 1980-92 album focus is purely pragmatic: there is no way to give a proper representation to every single era, play all the essential hits & include a couple of classic epics & gems in the vein of Rime & Powerslave.
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I guess so. Tbh, doing a Part 2 of the tour, even for one leg, would be the perfect celebration.
Patrick92 said:
Would really dissapoint me if they drop something from this tour and not from The Future Past tour. The Senjutsu songs together with Caught Somwhere in Time, Stranger and Alexander deservers something. But yeah their whole approche with live releases after the Book of Souls have been weird imo.
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Yeah, but they have an excuse for TFP tour.
damage_case said:
I liked the concept of the TFP tour, to combine new material with an old underplayerd classic - if I had the choice, I would prefer this concept for a new tour if there was another underplayed album for the masses.
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A fully underplayed album, apart from the 90's? Not sure if there is one. It has to be a popular album, so POM, Powerslave, BNW or AMOLAD.
naranja said:
One the first two albums listed on the poster would be Blaze albums, so not gonna happen. They may play two big songs from those albums that the crowd enjoy but other than that, not gonna happen.
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Good argument, but maybe they could brand it differently, who knows.
naranja said:
Secondly they are not going to do an entire show with no 80s classics on it whatsoever. No Trooper, Not etc. I would love it but the casuals wouldn't.
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Yes, they didn't do it in 2010.
MrKnickerbocker said:
They will never play a 90s + reunion only tour.
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If only FFTE had a tour in 2014...
 
Iron Lurker said:
After RFYL in 2026 hopefully we get a new album tour or something really different. Bruce had an idea to do a scaled down, smaller show for hardcore fans. It would be cool to see a show primarily of rarely/never played songs. I would name that tour "Eddie's Oddities". Doubtful they would do something like that but I would be all for it.
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When did he say that?
 
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