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For what it's worth just anecdotally I know 4 or 5 people who haven't been to an Iron Maiden show before who have said this morning they feel like the London show is the one to go to at last.

My early prediction is something like this, I think it will be a Somewhere Back In Time style crowdpleaser of a set: Iron Maiden – Running Free, Phantom, Iron Maiden Killers – Wrathchild Number of the Beast – NOTB, RTTH, Hallowed Piece of Mind – The Trooper, Revelations Powerslave – 2MTM, Rime...

I'm pretty sure Iron Maiden are associated with Live Nation, who also promote Download, they'd be mental to clash them!

I agree - I could see SIT being skipped over given that it's had it's long deserved time in the sun over this year and last. Maybe Bring your daughter... gets dusted off to represent NPFTD, but I could do without it. Wouldn't surprise me at all to see FOTD being the only post-Seventh Son track.

Most importantly of all, Wrathchild will return.

A play classics set would go down an absolute storm at download. It's always felt quite crazy to me that Somewhere Back In Time never made it there, it would have gone down as one of the all time greatest headline sets of the fest. Seems inevitable that this one will though, either next year or...

If this proves to be true I'm actually very happy with it, I'm down for a straight up classics era tour especially if some rarities resurface. Especially Rime.

Trondheim Rocks are announcing their headliner tomorrow, some posters may be dismayed to know it takes place one week before Download Festival :lol:

If the Thursday rumour is to be believed, then it may not be a coincidence that Sonic Temple Festival (in Ohio, May of next year) are announcing on the same day and teasing a very big act:

I think a lot of what Steve says has to be interpreted through the fact that he is an understated, self-deprecating English geezer. I know a lot of people of similar background and they're constantly joking about being old, broken down, decrepit, even if they're not very old and saying stuff...

The only scenario I can see where Nicko steps down is one where he implores the band to carry on and has a hand in picking a successor to whom he gives his full blessing. I can't find it at the moment but I'm sure he's said in an interview in the past, before his stroke, where he said he would...

A lot of fans going to these Oasis gigs, and stadium gigs nowadays in general which are usually over £100, aren't frequent concert goers and this will be seen as basically a once in a lifetime, or at least a once in a generation, event for them. Basically equivalent to the Eras tour but for 90s...

Something that would actually make the 50th anniversary tour a special one, and allow them to celebrate more of the back catalogue, would be having 4 or 5 rotating song slots on the setlist, but I don't think Maiden will change their ways in that regard at this point.

The Future Past Tour was announced 3 weeks before the end of the 2022 Legacy of the Beast run, I could see something being announced before the tour is over, but they might want to get the live album/video out for this tour before they begin hyping up the next.

The only unplayed Maiden epic that has the remotest chance of being played by Bruce is some sort of orchestral rendition of Empire of the Clouds.

Coincidentally, the Director of Public Prosecution during the time of the 2011 riots was in fact Kier Starmer himself, he took a hard line then and I imagine a similar approach will be taken now.

Similar things have been said even earlier than that, I distinctly remember the band using phrases like 'every gig is sacred' and 'we don't know how much longer we've got' as early as the Somewhere Back in Time tour.

Honestly it would be very weird if they used the 50th anniversary to focus on a specific album or combination of albums, especially following hot on the heels of a tour completely focused on new material and deep cuts. It's the most obvious opportunity to do a straightforward Greatest Hits...

The Brave New World Slavery Tour?

Not sure if it helps decipher any hints, but I believe this Sphinx is part of the Cleopatra's Needle monument at Embankment in London.