RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 2026


This is a compilation of different shows from the tour (Budapest, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Bremen, Frankfurt, Prague, Belfort), I watched it yesterday and the selected performances are quite strong. Good job. I enjoyed it a lot.

I have to say that the setlist is very predictable and not that exciting, but these classics are just timeless. No matter how many times they have been played. Now after some time has passed since the tour, I can look back on it. The best songs from the first half of their career with new and cool stage show - the other albums also deserve such tour. Songs like Wicker Man, Brave, Dance, Hell On Earth, Suns, Futureal...etc, deserve.

From the other big 80s songs for the band, we are missing: Evil That Men Do, Running Free/Sanctuary, Revelations/Icarus, Bring Your Daughter, while songs like Madness, Heaven, Children, Revelations, Icarus have been played recently. If this tour was 20 songs, they add the following songs and it's perfect (some are rare cuts though:

- Evil That Men Do (still a surprise it's not in the set)
- Infinite Dreams/Only The Good Die Young/To Tame A Land
- Bring Your Daughter/Be Quick Or Be Dead/No Prayer For The Dying

Even just changing Aces for Infinite or a 90s song will make a big difference.
 
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Objectively it is a great show. For those of us who have seen most or all tours since 1999 however, we've heard the reunion lineup play these songs already, so the 'wow' factor was a bit muted for me pesronally. But for the stadium crowds and casuals they want to attract, it is a well designed setlist.

I was more excited by Future Past, and I preferred Legacy as an all-career celebration, but I'm not alone among hardcore fans feeling that way. Doesn't mean to say there is anything objectively wrong with RFYL.
 
Replace Aces High with a rarity and it makes a world of difference.

I had the most stupid grin on my face in Budapest when they went from Rime to Hills and then Seventh Son. My first thought wasn't "hey, they played this song just 11 years ago".
 
For me, its a setlist mashup of Ed Huntour, Early Days, Somewhere Back In Time and Maiden England ... that's just how the current setlist feels to me. With every song from RFYL played on one or several of these tours. If I didn't follow the band avidly and see 50 shows over the last 25 years, I'd maybe perceive the current set differently, but that's just me. The newest thing about the current tour are the screens and Simon, not song selection.
 
Helmuth Von Moltke said:
For me, its a setlist mashup of Ed Huntour, Early Days, Somewhere Back In Time and Maiden England ... that's just how the current setlist feels to me. With every song from RFYL played on one or several of these tours. If I didn't follow the band avidly and see 50 shows over the last 25 years, I'd maybe perceive the current set differently, but that's just me. The newest thing about the current tour are the screens and Simon, not song selection.
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There is a few songs that they dont usually play (last 25 years). Since reunion they have played all the songs they didnt play in the late 80s and 90s. I think there will be a deep cuts tour after this.
 
Helmuth Von Moltke said:
For me, its a setlist mashup of Ed Huntour, Early Days, Somewhere Back In Time and Maiden England ... that's just how the current setlist feels to me. With every song from RFYL played on one or several of these tours. If I didn't follow the band avidly and see 50 shows over the last 25 years, I'd maybe perceive the current set differently, but that's just me. The newest thing about the current tour are the screens and Simon, not song selection.
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It's basically a "best-of" of the various history/best-of tours. Great for casual fans, but not particularly exciting for me.

I had a great time hearing some stuff like SSOASS again, but I won't be attending the same show in 2026 again.
 
Vaenyr said:
It's basically a "best-of" of the various history/best-of tours. Great for casual fans, but not particularly exciting for me.

I had a great time hearing some stuff like SSOASS again, but I won't be attending the same show in 2026 again.
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Helmuth Von Moltke said:
Objectively it is a great show. For those of us who have seen most or all tours since 1999 however, we've heard the reunion lineup play these songs already, so the 'wow' factor was a bit muted for me pesronally. But for the stadium crowds and casuals they want to attract, it is a well designed setlist.
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Agreed. The overlap with the setlists of some previous tours was significant (12 of those songs were already played on the SBIT tour in 2008 and 11 on the Maiden England tour in 2013).

Helmuth Von Moltke said:
I was more excited by Future Past, and I preferred Legacy as an all-career celebration, but I'm not alone among hardcore fans feeling that way. Doesn't mean to say there is anything objectively wrong with RFYL.
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Legacy of the Beast is probably the best tour they have ever done, from the stage props to a set representing their 50 years of fantastic songs, not just the first third of their career.
 
srfc said:
By definition, a tour spanning 1980-92 is going to have a lot of overlap with other tours.
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That's obviously true, I hope no one expected Maiden to start busting out multiple never-before-played songs.

The larger point being made though, is that the overlap isn't simply with the various tours that happened in the '80s by virtue of only playing songs that have been played before. The overlap is with the various history/best-of tours (which of course overlap with the '80s tours and so on...). So it's a bit like passing through multiple filters and distilling the setlist largely to the absolute classics, the most popular of the favorites.

This might seem like a distinction without a differenence to some, but LotB is the interesting contrast, where the majority of the songs were classics and highlights spanning their career, but there were still a few curve balls and deep(ish) cuts here and there, like Icarus, the Blaze songs or FTGGOG.
 
There are curve balls and deep cuts, Murders and Killers, are total deep cuts, as are Rime and SSOASS, I've seen Maiden 36 times since 1993, and they've all only been on 1 tour since then. LOTB only had FOI that was played less than those in that time period.
 
Those tracks are rarities for sure. But Rime and SSOASS were the centerpieces of extensive 2 and 3 year history tours respectively. That's what we mean with "best-of of best-ofs"; these songs were played originally on their album tours (Rime survived until Somewhere on Tour funnily enough), then were brought back for their respective history tours. Now they're in the same setlist.

Note this is neither an inherently good nor bad thing. It's just an explanation for why this current tour might feel a bit underwhelming in song choices for some, especially when we consider how adventurous TFP ended up being.
 
srfc said:
There are curve balls and deep cuts, Murders and Killers, are total deep cuts, as are Rime and SSOASS, I've seen Maiden 36 times since 1993, and they've all only been on 1 tour since then. LOTB only had FOI that was played less than those in that time period.
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What about For the Greater Good of God and Where Eagles Dare? Those surely were played live fewer times than Rime of the Ancient Mariner or Seventh Son of a Seventh Son post-1993…
 
GhostofCain said:
What about For the Greater Good of God and Where Eagles Dare? Those surely were played live fewer times than Rime of the Ancient Mariner or Seventh Son of a Seventh Son post-1993…
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I might have fucked up remembering but WED was 93 and 05 I think and FTGGOG was 06 and 2010

EDIT: From @GhostofCain 's post I can tell he understood what I meant, but I realise in my first post I said on one tour, when I meant one other tour
 
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