5th July '14 Knebworth!

harrisdevot said:
This might be the answer.
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/ir...nd-would-consider-opening-interactive-museum/
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That would be amazing. Think of all the old set props and outfits etc they must have in the Maiden warehouse. I would like to get up close to some of that stuff.
Also sounds very Maiden. They will have a plan in place for the end of the road, and business like as they are, this would be a way of keeping things going after they stop. Expect it would have a bar selling Trooper too.
 
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Well, that was fun. I still haven't quite recovered yet (and I'm supposed to be off to France for a few days too), so not quite got my thoughts together yet. Maiden great as ever. I take it spoiler tags are totally redundant now?

Nice to meet up with Wiz, even if my Trooper had just about gone before he got there!
 
Gerald Wiley said:
I may have mis-heard this, but I am fairly sure at one point Bruce got the crowd screaming and shouting and mentioned something about filming a tv show or something...? Anyone able to elaborate on this ?
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Wasn't he taking the pee out of some TV show? I don't quite remember.
 
One thing I must say about the show, was how powerful Fear of the Dark was. Sweet Jesus on a pogo-stick. Probably one of my all time favourite live show moments. The opening riff sent shivers down my spine, and I'm not ashamed that I had tears in my eyes!

But you know, that's just because I'd never heard it live before. All you veterans are probably sick of it.
 
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Yes, that's how I felt when I heard FOTD live first time last year, and it never quite loses that. Not one of my favourite Maiden songs by a long shot, but it doesn't half work well live. Phantom was the winner for me again, crowd loved it and it sounded fantastic. I think the flames failed during Phantom. Bruce carried on with his 'burn the fucking place down' thing, but the flames didn't appear as many times as they were supposed to, which was a shame. I'd shuffled my way further forward by that point, though, and feeling the heat was incredible! I noticed Bruce was standing on the left raised bit of the stage quite often, too, he pointedly kept away from the right for some time, which made me wonder if there was some problem over there, from just after The Trooper.

Seventh Son I love, but some people got bored in the middle and turned around to talk, which was irritating.

Once again, I thought Dave's playing stood out more than Adrian's. Adrian is great as ever, but I noticed Dave much more often. I might have to reconsider my 'favourite guitarist' stance to date.

I had real trouble seeing anything at the main stage too. The second stage was at the bottom of a hill, in what was a bit of a natural arena, and it was easily possible to see that stage and the screens from a very wide area. The main stage, on the other hand, was just over the brow of a hill, going into a slight dip, I think. There wasn't anywhere near as much space between the top of the hill/merch stall/sound tower/disabled viewing platform and the main stage as there was facing the other way towards the second stage. As a result, everyone tried to cram into a much smaller area, with the ground going uphill, then dropping away slightly.

I stood near the top of the hill for a while, then a few hundred more tall people crammed in, so I ended up going on a wander towards the bank on the left of the stage. View was quite restricted from there, but at least I could see the screens at all times, and got a reasonable view of the stage, too. It was worse the following night for Metallica, though, there were near-fights breaking out regularly.

I was a bit surprised by the number of kids at Sonisphere, too. There were lots of quite small children sitting on shoulders or in the middle of the crush, with parents getting angry about the behaviour of people around them.
 
Brigantium said:
I was a bit surprised by the number of kids at Sonisphere, too. There were lots of quite small children sitting on shoulders or in the middle of the crush, with parents getting angry about the behaviour of people around them.
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I was 2nd row for Anthrax when a 8/9 year old boy sidled up. Bizarrely, I'd seen him and his dad on the train that morning! We looked after him 'til his dad could get through the crush, but the boy didn't want to know when he arrived! Given that there were lots of 14 stone men with boots crowd-surfing over our heads, I was surprised to find a kid in the pit!

My only Maiden niggle was during SSOASS. At the start of the quiet bit Janick played some harmonics that weren't on the original, but the mix had his guitar right up at that point and he was louder than everyone else. So, the atmosphere was spoiled for a moment. It all got back to brilliant normality when Dave and H came in. Other than that, flawless I thought!
 
Brigantium said:
I noticed Bruce was standing on the left raised bit of the stage quite often, too, he pointedly kept away from the right for some time, which made me wonder if there was some problem over there, from just after The Trooper.
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Funny you should say that, as I was on the right side, and during The Trooper an old guy next to me, decided to put on an English Cavillary jacket, similar to what Bruce wears, get on his mates' shoulders and wave a fucking huge flag around. It was no surprise that half way through the song he fell off his mates' shoulders and nearly on top of me. Same with a woman behind, minus the costume.

People around me were really rude as well, constant interruptions. People pissed out of their minds, bumping into each other, pushing trying to get closer to the stage, and even though we were in the middle at the start of the show, by The Evil That Men Do we were pushed back to the rear barrier. It's a shame that people around me stopped me from enjoying the show fully.

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THESEVENTHMARINER said:
One thing I must say about the show, was how powerful Fear of the Dark was. Sweet Jesus on a pogo-stick. Probably one of my all time favourite live show moments. The opening riff sent shivers down my spine, and I'm not ashamed that I had tears in my eyes!

But you know, that's just because I'd never heard it live before. All you veterans are probably sick of it.
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THESEVENTHMARINER said:
One thing I must say about the show, was how powerful Fear of the Dark was. Sweet Jesus on a pogo-stick. Probably one of my all time favourite live show moments. The opening riff sent shivers down my spine, and I'm not ashamed that I had tears in my eyes!

But you know, that's just because I'd never heard it live before. All you veterans are probably sick of it.
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That's my only beef with one of your favorite bands playing so many shows. You miss a lot of cool stuff like airshows and Jesus on a Pogo Stick during FOTD! We didn't get any of that in Houston, Tx back in 12!
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Maiden10_0 said:
That's my only beef with one of your favorite bands playing so many shows. You miss a lot of cool stuff like airshows and Jesus on a Pogo Stick during FOTD! We didn't get any of that in Houston, Tx back in 12!
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I guess I was looking the other way when Jesus came out on his pogo stick! Damn it !!!;)
 
THESEVENTHMARINER said:
Funny you should say that, as I was on the right side, and during The Trooper an old guy next to me, decided to put on an English Cavillary jacket, s to imilar to what Bruce wears, get on his mates' shoulders and wave a fucking huge flag around. It was no surprise that half way through the song he fell off his mates' shoulders and nearly on top of me. Same with a woman behind, minus the costume.

People around me were really rude as well, constant interruptions. People pissed out of their minds, bumping into each other, pushing trying to get closer to the stage, and even though we were in the middle at the start of the show, by The Evil That Men Do we were pushed back to the rear barrier. It's a shame that people around me stopped me from enjoying the show fully.

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I had exactly the same problem with some of the people very near the front as well (originally I was positioned near the very centre, probably 7-8 rows back). To begin with when the Mercury Rising intro started it was ok but then within 10 seconds of Maiden bursting on the stage during Moonchild it got rapidly hectic and a bit out of control. I remember being pushed from left to right, forward and backwards continuously for the first 10 minutes of the set - it really was getting ridiculous and a load of others besides me who just wanted to jump up and down and watch Maiden were getting quite stressed, I thought that any minute now or at the end of a song Bruce may mention about all of the pushing and the surge and tell people to calm down a bit (I could see that Bruce was looking towards our very closely as well).

At the end of 2MTM was when I managed to pull back more towards the right a bit and it was much more calmer there but I also remember just as I got past it all seeing about 15 lads all pushing towards the front and crushing people deliberately and behind them was quite a gap between the next row a people. Mosh pits were still breaking out everywhere you looked too lol. Some people who were absolutely off their faces were just taking it way to far by dragging any random person in the pit whether they liked it or not, and I remember seeing a bit later on during the set that some tall middled aged rocker with really long grey hair was actually pulling people to one side who were taking things to far and giving them an evil stare close up, and probably telling them to pack it in as well (and literally within a couple of minutes a lot of them had calmed down... huge credit to the old chap I say!).

Oh yeah - who also spotted the lad dressed from top to bottom as The Trooper Eddie (complete with the Eddie mask too)? :D I spoke to him a few times and got a photo with him, quite a nice chap!

Liam
 
2Mins said:
My only Maiden niggle was during SSOASS. At the start of the quiet bit Janick played some harmonics that weren't on the original, but the mix had his guitar right up at that point and he was louder than everyone else. So, the atmosphere was spoiled for a moment. It all got back to brilliant normality when Dave and H came in. Other than that, flawless I thought!
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When I saw them at Hellfest, two weeks ago, I thought that SSoaSS is one of the only songs for which the three guitars stuff doesn't work at all. The mid-section is supposed to be very quiet, with dominant keyboards, and soft guitars underneath ; it's meant to be atmospheric. Instead, we had a true guitar wall, very heavy and high in the mix, and the keyboards behind it. It's a shame, because it's my favorite Maiden song, and probably the last time ever I can hear live.
 
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