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Who is seeing the X Factor anniversary shows later this year? Tempted to hear the Unbeliever live …

yes it was jarring when I first heard it in 2003 but I really like it. The fact Maiden can pull off the immense contrast in moods is quite something. I like the interpretation of the mocking tone by the way.

This is it: for the first time since the reunion I have a concern about ambition. Obviously ambition is absent at the moment to make new music, as far as we can tell. I also sense from some of Bruce’s many interview comments that he is reflecting again on the distance between Steve’s approach...

It’s the weakest of the three, doesn’t help I used to listen to it with picture disc crackle in the sound as the Man on the Edge b side. But Blazes voice is closest to his Wolfsbane days on I Live My Way, and his natural exuberance is sometimes missing on TXF

I think people are being a bit harsh, or I just have a childhood love for the three songs and I'm not being objective. Maybe they needed a bit more work but all three had the potential to rebalance the X factor's feeling of dirge. Judgement Day - fantastic solos, real Gers energy to the track...

I’m not very excited by knebworth for this reason. I also thoroughly agree that going out on RFYL is not going out on a high.

I’d love that. Let’s see whether that’s what a group of guys in their early 70s by then can pull it off… really wish they weren’t stringing out the album part so much.

That’s the worry … wish they hadn’t already left it so long. Steve’s literally gone from his early 60s with Senjutsu to 70 when they get round to the next one.

He had a damn good go with Accident of Birth and Halford Resurrection! I agree TCW as a special one-off, but he hit three home runs in a row with these albums 1997 - 2000.

I agree with you that Roy Z may in fact be far beyond his peak, and he seems a bit of a mess in some interviews as well, so Roy doesn’t seem to be adding chemical wedding era (or halford resurrection era) levels of awesomeness these days. The thing about Bruce’s current band is this. It...

Knebworth support bill is better for a hard rock or pop/rock fan than it is for a metal fan. To be fair, that should widen the appeal of the show and attract a more general hard rock / Planet Rock radio crowd, which is probably a bigger plus than the real metal (ie Bloodstock) crowd would be...

Zero pressure to buy a ticket right away, in other words. I'll wait this one out for a while.

I have been once, to Sonisphere 2010. There were free festival coaches to / from the train station. Badly organised but it was do-able. Didn't go to Sonipshere 2014 (was feeling pretentiously mature and was arms length in my fandom at that stage ... ;) Not sure how I feel about this one. If...

This has been an occasional problem for Maiden, about relative levels of enthusiasm and split focus. It was worst in 1990 when Bruce penned some truly lazy lyrics for Maiden. The fear is Mandrake and the sequel have become the greatest things since sliced bread in Bruce’s head. I do get it...

Some of my concern circulates around this. I like Senjutsu a great deal but they have settled into a groove with the reunion era that is starting to feel stale. Maybe Steve cannot write for Maiden in any other way now, 'glueing' ideas that Janick or others bring to the table into mini-epics , or...

and Slash's divorce from just before the pandemic....

'compelling points' that are very likely statements of the obvious. I'll never understand why channels like this become fonts of wisdom, they know nothing more than any of us. The better analogy is AC/DC simply in terms of patterns of activity, given the scale Maiden want to top out as a...

Hoping for deflection, but also remember that the 2026 run is the first Steve will conduct as a 70 year old. In fact, next year's dates are the first Maiden have ever played with a member other than Nicko who is in his 70s. Steve may be feeling very different about new material at his age (he...

Sadly, yes. Bruce Mandrake and sequel seems to have captured his imagination. Steve seems overly burdened by the idea of making a new Maiden album. I wish someone could tell Steve that it doesn’t have to be a double album of 7 - 13 minutes intricate epics. That it could be a simpler set of...