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I love the so called fillers, it’s the depth of the maiden catalogue that ultimately drew me to the band in the first place. Lots of bands have good songs or hits, few have this much depth over so many albums,

The biggest single worry about Maiden now summed up well there - just keep it going at a stadium/festival level till the fade out. All the talk about new music keeping the band vital and fresh was entirely correct, and I feel the absence of that drive right now. Hope to be proven wrong.

yes this is almost certainly true, the other part of it is keeping them all motivated to carry on aged 67/68/69… enjoy your life and do the fun parts of the job. After returning, Bruce seems to have first bitten his tongue back in 2003 over the DoD artwork, which he hated, but he didn’t veto...

It’s not just Steve. Metallica have suffered from even worse lack of studio perspective for decades now. I’d suggest Metallica are so leaden with awful production decisions like Death Magnetic and St Anger; over long songs; b-side material making albums like on ReLoad and Hardwired disc 2; and...

I believe it’s called ‘George Lucas Syndrome’. The creator who loses perspective, through an authentic love of their life’s work.

Metallica were substantially better than when I last saw them in 2017, when they seemed to be going through the motions. Setlist last night was absolutely brilliant. GhostofCain: say hello if you see me on Sunday (which is less improbable than it seems, I bumped into 2 separate people I know...

Made it into the Snakepit! By pure fluke, lucky me and round one in london was a winner. Phenomenal setlist.

Probably my top seven albums in the whole back catalogue, good way to put it. Current kick: Beast over Hammersmith DVD from early days. Just watched it for first time in a decade, it is sublime. (Listened to the CD a lot too)

I have a suspicion this is a more important episode than is understood. The other things that happened during Final Frontier was the poor state of Compass Point studios and having to bring in extra equipment / finish the album in Malibu (I think). I would have preferred if Adrian was allowed to...

Looking forward to Friday - and interesting how their sets are so focussed on older albums! Never seen Metallica in the standing section before.

Legacy is phenomenal for me, even more so that it seems Janick initially wrote the lyrics with Tony Blair in mind - but Steve made it more sci-fi with the 'strange yellow gas'. Lord of Light is also great. AMOLAD is indeed a musical peak. Albums since then all have immense highlights but not...

Worst case is Steve reluctantly replaced Simon with the expectation this line up simply tours till retirement. And that Maiden is done as a studio entity in his mind, not only because of Nicko's absence but also the other obvious pair of reasons (records don't earn $$ anymore + its harder to...

I hope that simply having Simon Dawson in the studio changes the feel and remove some complacency. The last revolutionary things Maiden and Steve did for their sound was expanding to three guitars and bringing in Kevin Shirley in 1999. Arguably, the recruitment of Simon in 2025 is the first...

There are two ways to judge Senjutsu now: In a fantasy world that I also love slipping into, where Senjutsu exists in its own vacuum and the strongest songs stand out in their own right. In the real world, as the sixth in a run of reunion albums against which it feels derivative (I agree...

Maiden typically use something like 5 or 6 mins of taped intro. Started noticing this on BOS tour. That’s 5% of a two hour show that Maiden don’t actually have to sweat on stage!!! You may also include doctor doctor, and I recall when that preceded transilvanya, that was about 10 mins of...

New interview with film director Wes including confirmation the pro-shot footage of Maiden in St Paul was supplied by Maiden:  "MAIDEN was on tour in America, and then they had that day [on October 21, 2024 when Paul died] off. And weirdly enough, it's only recently that I really kind of...

I was at the last two good natured 'power cut shows' by coincidence: Earls Court Christmas 2006 and NYC MSG 2008. Obviously Paris was much worse (and I wasn't there). But one strategy is to turn the concert film into a 'triumph through adversity' story? So long as the cameras started to roll...

Also the first time I saw the band, with about 1,000 people in attendance on the south coast of England. I also have that programme and still love VX11 and the whole concept.

Did you not see the 2012-13 or 2025 shows? Clairvoyant has had a good run already… On a different note the ticket scores listed above suggest maiden sold around 95% of the available tickets in those five shows this year - not bad.

I don’t get it. I’ve never heard Steve so unfocused on making new music with Maiden. I really don’t understand what’s holding his enthusiasm back. Aside from ‘every gig is sacred’ etc Glad Bruce is driving the new music argument. Very weird state of affairs, overall. I can’t think back to...