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Ok here's my prediction. Be Quick or Be Dead 2 Minutes to Midnight Killers Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Only the Good Die Young The Trooper Wasted Years Rime of the Ancient Mariner Phantom of the Opera Number of the Beast Fear of the Dark Iron Maiden The...

Yeah I reckon BYDTTS is the only NPFTD pick. FOTD we'll get thr title track and maybe BQOBD.

Realistically it's just a reference to them putting on a very big production to celebrate their 50th. I do think Rime has a good chance of being played, but this isn't a hint.

Simon will have roughly zero input on the setlist. He's very much a hired gun at this point.

I expect the set will be full of classics with a couple of deep cuts. Maybe one song that hasn't been played before. I think Bruce's comments about thing never done before is referring to the staging/production.

Realistically that's just not going to happen. If it was worthwhile to do then Maiden management would have already done so.

Aye its just the typical Bruce stubbornness, ego and arrogance. Who cares that I've clearly been unable to hit some of the high notes for a decade? I'm more interested in bragging about doing a sub standard job in the original tuning than dropping down a step and knocking it out the park...

Dave seems very happy there. No doubt it will do nothing to stop all the idiots saying he's about to retire at any minute!

I reckon Nicko could do well doing some kind of Maiden Fan Club Podcast. Almost an extension to listen with Nicko.

Not sure if this has been posted already? Bruce did a 2+ hour podcast with Rich Roll. Lots of interesting stuff: I wish Maiden did more long form interviews like this.

Yeah, loads of bands downtune a bit live and no one notices. Not that Maiden will do it anyway.

The sets have been roughly the same length for a while now I think? Didn't seem to have anything to do with Nickos stroke so I doubt it will change.

At the end of the day I'm sure Joe wanted to go out and build his own career as a drummer/drum tech rather than just get paid to be on standby for several more years with Maiden. So he's made some connections and is out doing his own thing. Because of this Simon was put on standby, and as...

It was more of a virtue signalling response orchestrated by Sharon than that there being anything wrong with Bruce waving the union jack in the first place. She was upset about the reality show jabs from Bruce so decided to say he was disrespecting American troops by waving the union jack as...

I imagine Nicko will be working in some capacity as a spokesman for the band, doing promo and things. He's such a huge personality and it would certainly be much easier than life on the road.

The "stepping in behind the kit for 2025" is obviously interesting. Seems to me that Maiden aren't looking to commit to making anyone a full member, and they're just going to take things a year at a time. So we could still see Simon in 2026. Joe already has some touring commitments in place...

I mean checking out that live from Wacken clip that was posted the drumming seems absolutely fine, the singer on the other hand has no excitement or energy to his performance at all.

I don't know about Nicko recording in the future. Just because he's in a studio rather than a stadium doesn't bring his drumming ability back. If there's a new drummer then he should be THE drummer for Maiden. Not someone who plays the live gigs but gets sidelined when they record.

Just saw this

Nicko is stepping down https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ei45NZ4FA/