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On the train home. Great gig. Some grumbles but the band were on excellent form. I will post some more thoughts tomorrow.

I’m on the train down. I’m wearing my Earls Court ‘06 shirt. I’m surprised I still fit into it! I doubt there will be many more chances to do this. COYI!

Game knows game.

It’s a bugger to get to. At least Stratford has a good ‘international’ station, the tube and CrossRail.

I have no idea what they were thinking for the AMOTB tour. It was just the usual classics plus COTD and 5 AMOLAD songs. Although the band were on fine form, the setlist was turd.

I’m so glad I stopped caring about Maiden t shirts about 12 years ago. I walked into the O2 for the Maiden England Tour, looked at the prices, turned to my girlfriend (now wife) and said ‘Fuck that’. Since then I have proudly worn either my Coming Home or Earls Court 2006 shirt at every Maiden gig.

Meet up for a pint beforehand?

I have been thinking about this recently. Are there any Maiden or Maiden-related physical media products you would like to see released or re-released? Of course you can come up with your own desired product! Here’s mine Maiden England on black vinyl. The picture disc has too much noise! They...

I’m up for that! I bought two standing tickets this morning with O2 Priority.

I’m going to get tickets as well!

He still has great technique and a fantastic voice. But he doesn’t have the range anymore. I don’t have a problem with him changing a melody to make it easier on him or for adding interest to a boring melody. There are some great examples of this e.g. No More Lies on Death on the Road...

Robert Plant was 59 years old in 2007. I remember when I first heard Good Times Bad Times from the O2 Reunion gig, I thought ‘Wow they have really down tuned for his voice!’ Of course you they had to. The range of a voice is like a bell curve: You start with fairly limited range, grows over time...

Looks like Rod got to it. I take it I didn’t miss much!

This is book #20 for me so far this year. I need some inspiration to get back in shape.

That puts my rig on my last gig to shame. I just rocked up with a DI box and a tuner (and my bass of course!)

I was at Downlod in 2022. Maiden were great although the opening 3 songs went down like a led balloon. I am glad to have seen Senjutsu and Stratego on that tour, but they should have done the original Legacy set. If they had done Download in 2020 with the original set, it would have gone down as...

To be honest, I loved hearing Another Life and Drifter. They are not winning any songwriting awards but they are definitely songs I associate with the early days. The delay to hear Icarus was a shame. It was epic on the LOTB tour but would have been even better in 1999-2005. TTAL is not one that...

I would say they probably were rehearsed. I created a thread a few years ago about which tour rehearsal you would like to sit on. I think it would be fascinating to see them try songs that never made the tour.

I’m pissed off at both my job and my favourite band at the moment. Probably explains why my post was dramatic!