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Cheers, mate!

Anything from No Prayer would be great. It’s the only album I’ve never seen live.

I never thought I would leave a Maiden show early to avoid a song, but that is what I did on 2022. I didn’t want to see Aces High. I couldn’t have my lasting memory of that song be spoiled by a lacklustre performance. I still don’t know what they were thinking on that tour. 2018 was immense...

Thanks for the response, @MindRuler. I’m glad you managed to get out and find something better. My frustration is that I work across 3 schools and the behaviour varies across them. One of my schools has excellent behaviour and I just want to be there all week (not realistic). I have spent...

I’m going through a rough patch at the moment with work. I am full time but only teach for 3 days. The other 2 days I am working on a range of projects for my organisation, which I have to say I am really enjoying. I came home early from work on Friday after having a ‘wobble’. The kids were not...

*ascendingthethrone sits quietly during the price discussion, as he snagged the boxset for £12 on an Amazon deal*…

Only the last few weeks I have been playing all of the shows from the Strangers in the Night boxset by UFO. I love the concept of this boxset. I wish Maiden would do something like this for LAD. Credit to Phil Aston from Now Spinning magazine. I lifted the photo from his website. He does great...

I love Maiden, but god they test my patience sometimes. This is so tacky.

They should have released Maiden England in 2008 or 2009 like originally planned. I would have happily sacrificed the Maiden England tour for more physical media, interviews and content. I thought the tour was ok, but the set list was mostly a big let down. It didn’t need to be a 3 year tour...

Good catch.

On a slight random side note, The Mercenary is the only song where the guitarist who wrote the song gives the solo up to another player. Janick co-wrote the song but Dave and Adrian take the solos. So if The Mercenary is a Virtual XI leftover, Adrian definitely took a Janick solo.

Just stick an Albatross head on the Icarus from LOTB. I can imagine them looking it at and going ‘That’ll do’.

I am really looking forward to this documentary.

Found it! ‘I think on the last album [Final Frontier] I brought in a lot of ‘strange’ time signatures, a lot of sevens. To be honest, we didn’t really embrace it like I thought we would. I don’t think it really gelled’...

Great post. I’m in the proTFF camp. There are some really interesting songs on there and they were trying some new ideas. I think it is a shame that Adrian said in an interview that he went back to writing shorter songs after the slightly negative press TFF got (citation needed).

‘Some fans are on the stranger side of things’ *cuts to @Vaenyr in their Virtual XI themed living room*

I can’t imagine them ever doing something like this. Also they had an album in the can and just had to ride out the pandemic. Personally think they should have done a better job at releasing good quality live recordings for the fans during this time. NOTD is shite but the Donnignton 07 videos...

Sign of the Cross has a firm place in the greatest tour they have done and one of the greatest sequences of songs from a Maiden set list. Revelations-FTGGOG-The Wicker Man- SOTC- Flight of Icarus. The 2022 set list run of Revelations-Blood Brothers-SOTC-Flight of Icarus was great too.