Maiden Tour 2014 (SPOILER TAGS REQUIRED WITHIN)

[Night Prowler]

Ah OK. Might be better this way, they make mistakes on first shows

 

[Black Wizard]

They can use those early shows to sort out the sound issues from last year. Hopefully it'll be fine by the start of July.

 

[Brigantium]

^I like your thinking.

I can't decide if I'm going to look at the setlist before Sonisphere. I like the idea of surprises, but I'll miss being part of the discussions about it.

 

[Black Wizard]

Avoid it.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

I like the idea of surprises, but I'll miss being part of the discussions about it.

Avoid it.

What surprises are Maiden really likely to pull though? It will be the exact same bloody set, no doubt.

 

[Brigantium]

Not exactly the same, they hinted at dropping one nineties song and keeping another. So there'll be some changes.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

I'm going to PM you the setlist!

 

[Brigantium]

I'm going to PM you the setlist!

I'm going to block you!

 

[Perun]

Damn! For once I had hoped to see the first show on a tour.

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

It is still early enough on the tour - before they stop alternating between two rarely played songs and decide to go with Wrathchild. (2010 summer tour, I'm looking at you ...)

 

[Perun]

Or they'll just do that on our gig.

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

Spain - first gig: Infinite Dreams.

Second gig: Nah, that didn't work so well. Let's try something different. Stranger in a strange land.

Fortarock: Nah, let's stick with something well-tried. Wrathchild.

 

[bearfan]

I think the only time I have seen a first show was the first one on the TFF tour, which was cool that we got BTATS instead of Wrathchild and Paschendale instead of DoD ... but crappy because the album had not been released yet, so only El Dorado is the only TFF song I have heard live

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

Paschendale instead of DoD

No biggie. Dance of Death is a great song too.

BTATS instead of Wrathchild

We didn't

 

[Forostar]

Damn! For once I had hoped to see the first show on a tour.

Bah. Me too.

 

[Lego]

I think the only time I have seen a first show was the first one on the TFF tour, which was cool that we got BTATS instead of Wrathchild and Paschendale instead of DoD ... but crappy because the album had not been released yet, so only El Dorado is the only TFF song I have heard live

Lucky you! I was pretty gutted when BTATS was dropped, even more so when Paschendale was! Though I have to admit, I think having a short, snappy tune like Wrathchild really livened up the setlist.

 

[Lego]

Even though I won't be attending any gigs this summer, I've been toying with going "spoiler-free" on this tour until I can find a nice, quality pro-shot rip of one of the gigs. I think it'd be kind of fun to sit down and watch the whole thing all the way through that way! (Rock Am Ring, perhaps?!)

 

[Forostar]

The earliest gig I have seen at a tour is still the Brave New World Tour. It was the 2nd gig:

gig 1: 2 June 2000 Strasbourg, France, Festival des Artéfacts
gig 2: 3 June 2000 Nijmegen, Netherlands, Dynamo Open Air


This year, they'll play at the same festival grounds!

 

[Warhurst]

Same here DOA was the earliest gig I saw. Same place this year (hopefully as close to the stage as than) and with luck less rain. Swimming makes you less wet as that gig.

Tickets are bought so just we will just wait and see what the weathergods will bring.

 

[Black Wizard]

we will just wait and see what the weathergods will bring.

I'll see what I can do for you.