Since this'll be my first gig, i'm looking forward a lot to hear Blood Brothers. In fact, Blood Brothers, Powerslave, The Trooper, Children of the Damned and If Eternity Should Fail are the songs that i'm most anxious to hear. But i understand the point of everyone, if someone attended a gig in...
Steve had an interview here in Brazil, which were released today. One question were about the setlist, which we all discuss.
G1 - Is there a classic of Iron Maiden which you don't play in a long time and wish to do it?
Steve - We have a lot of classics we don't play in a long time, and which...
Maiden likes to leave their comfort zone, just see their album tours. When the majority of the big bands play 2 or 3 songs of their "promoting album", Maiden play 6-7 (or the whole, in the AMOLAD Tour). They have one song from the 90s that is The Hit (FotD), a couple that the majority of the...
That's the point, the band have 6 or 7 years left before one of them (Nicko) call it quits and everyone follows.
In 6 years you can have 2 tour cycles, where one of it will be the Farewell Tour, featuring classics. So, unless Nicko plays until he's 75, which i don't believe, they'll have to...
The Stamp (or semi-stamp) set
1. Aces High
2. 2 Minutes to Midnight
3. Wrathchild
4. The Trooper
5. Wasted Years
6. Can I Play With Madness
7. Blood Brothers
8. Run to the Hills
9. The Clairvoyant
10. Hallowed be Thy Name
11. The Evil That Man Do
12. Fear of the Dark
13. Iron Maiden...
Well, if the boys were 5 years younger, it would've been a no brainer to do, at least, one leg dedicated to the 90s. After all, they played ATSS on the ME tour, Bring Your Daughter on Give me Ed...they don't see the 90s with despise.
The point here is that a year touring with 90s content-only...
Well, let's compare 2 tours: TFF World Tour (an album tour, less "commercial") and Maiden England (a historical one, with an appeal on classics, more "commercial"). Excluding festivals, of course.
TFF: Average 14.227 attendance in an average 17.276 venue (79% of occupation). Around US$ 934.550...
Yes, i know. It's unfortunate, but only Adrian likes the album.
I'm just arguing that, if the band named the tour Somewhere Back in Time and ignored the Somewhere in Time album, they could do a Early Days tour and play...i don't know, The Evil That Man Do. I think they were pretty loyal on that...
That does make sense. Maiden's point was never "I'll replay my whole history to you guys", it was "We had some magic moments in our carrer and we want you to see this too, young padawan". I would hardly call the 90s a magic moment in Maiden's history, and the average fanbase definitely doesn't...
If they actually play a whole tour exclusively to support Live at Donington (which i can't see happening at all), i think the set would look like this:
1. Be Quick or Be Dead
2. Can I Play With Madness
3. Man on the Edge
4. The Trooper
5. 2 Minutes to Midnight
6. Afraid to Shoot Strangers
7...
I definitely wouldn't call a 90s tour as something "inevitable". Of course i would love to hear some 90s songs (specially Sign of the Cross), but a LOT of casual fans don't even know about Man on the Edge or Futureal. Maiden doesn't tour just to please the diehard fans, they do to please...
Maybe the censors thought the lyrics were critical only to capitalists societies (if you force a little bit, you actually can read that, as a critic to consume and capitalism as a whole. No, I don't read like that haha), maybe they slipped...but Powerslave's lyrics are a lot more explicit on...
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