A couple of questions about recent Iron Maiden tours

pilau

pilau

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I'm trying to understand something about recent Iron Maiden tours. First questions are about the current tour so if you are trying to avoid spoilers you might want to skip that.

Seeing that the BNW tour and DoD tour all featured 6 songs from each supported album, I don't see that in the current tour, "The Final Frontier World Tour". Only one song from the new album. I can only compare the setlists and timing to the Give Me Ed 'til I'm Dead tour in 2003, which, like the current tour, contained one song [only] from the then upcoming Dod album. However, that tour was first and foremost not titled "The Dance of Death Tour" as the current tour, which is obviously focused on the new album and is acutally named after it. Also, GMETID didn't feature a stage set themed after the then upcoming album themes. This is also, not the case with this tour, where the stage set is obviously themed after TFF. What do you think about this comparison? Perhaps a different question should be asked, what was the purpose of GMETID?

Does the fact that the current tour contains only one song from the new album mean that next year they're going to have another one, with the same stage set and perhaps the same video intro just with more songs from TFF? I assume (and also hope) that in that case the rest of the setlist will be only recent material and perhaps just the song Iron Maiden.

Next topic.
Was the Ed Hunter Tour dubbed or regarded by the fans back then as "The Reunion Tour"?

Also another thing coming to my mind while going through the setlists for all tours from 2000-2007 - all of the songs played on the SBIT tour were played at least on two world tours during 200-2007. Some of them I believe where played even on all those tours, and many others where played on at least 3 different world tours. That's a lot of classics being repeated. Considering that SBIT was running for two years and that completes nine very repetitive years. Of course there where some refreshing songs like DWYBO, 22AA and Futureal but they are the only ones! You might say that Eddie Rips Up the World tour may have stirred things up a little bit during 2005 with all the songs from the early days but that tour's setlist still contained 9 songs that fit into the aforementioned definition for very repetitive songs.

Just my two cents. Cheers! :D
 
About TFF tour:
I agree that it is a bit strange that they're calling it that and only playing 1 new song from the album. They're probably doing it to help support the new album and get people talking more about it. Not sure why it was different on the GMETID tour. Also for the stage, I think they're using that setup now so when they fully support the album, they can continue to use it instead of having to rebuild an entirely different stage. I can understand why they're doing that because it will make things easier and save on expenses.
About the Ed Hunter Tour: http://www.ironmaidencommentary.com/?ur ... link=tours That says nothing about how the fans regarded it though.
 
Shouldn't you use a spoiler tag for that?

Perhaps but this tour uses the album name and theme and has it all over the stage set, lights, intro videos... So that's a very big difference from GMETID. Actually I like it this way because next summer when I'll go see them again I'll be able to enjoy this stage set again and that makes me very happy! :bigsmile:
 
In the original TFF press release they said that the tour would continue to many more countries in 2011, and I always saw that as meaning that they'd come back to Europe next year and do a full album tour.  They didn't tour that much in Europe this year, far less than in the US, which is very unusual for them.  I'd say this was like the GMETID tour but they just didn't want to give it a different name.
 
Okay, well that is good, as I said - I will be very pleased to see them again next summer on the same stage set. While we're on the subject, I just hope they'll return to the US around July-August 2011, because that's where I will be at then. Do you reckon that might be possible?
 
Well, recently, they haven't done any massive US tours, and the TFF tour had only two US gigs less than SBIT, all legs included.  Sure, they might have had enough of the US touring for some time, or they might go back next year...  Your guess is as good as mine.  As for times/dates, well, maybe even they don't know yet, though I'd be inclined to believe that in the summer they'll be in Europe more likely than the US.  Europe has a lot of festivals and stadium gigs in the summer, and Maiden just doesn't play at that level in the US. 

Or, they might be in South America, or Asia, or the Middle East, or f'ing Antarctica for that matter.  :ninja:
 
Ha! If they will come to play in Israel while I'll be having a road trip with my mates in the US I'm packing my stuff and going back home! ;)
 
Travis_AKA_fonzbear2000 said:
They better return to the US and not use the tour they just did as an excuse not to.
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It'll probably be the usual maiden returning to America tour, y'know  a few shows on the east coast, maybe one in the midwest or texas, and Los Angeles, and then probably down south of the border.
 
I think that all we saw was the first part of the tour (they will keep the same setlist till the end of the tour the 21 of august) After that, i think they will start the same tour, but with a different setlist and of course, more song !!! And there is some chances of see them again in America !!! I hope !!!
 
They are so overdue to play here in MN. again. HELLO? We're only the 14th largest metropolitan area in the USA which means if a band plays more than 13 dates, we should be included.
 
I really hope they return to NA in 2011 to play some songs off of the new album. I'm an Ottawa boy, they played here this summer for the first time in 19 years and it was, according to the online diaries, one of the best crowd's they had had so far on the tour. I certainly don't want to wait two decades to see my second Maiden show.
 
Travis_AKA_fonzbear2000 said:
They are so overdue to play here in MN. again. HELLO? We're only the 14th largest metropolitan area in the USA which means if a band plays more than 13 dates, we should be included.
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Tours should definitely NOT be planned in relation to population.  Maiden (well, specifically their tour manager whose name I've forgotten) has to take logistics into account too, as I remember reading somewhere that they said that the US is a lot more expensive for them to tour.  In addition, they play relatively small gigs in the US.  Areas like Scandinavia get a hugely disproportionate attention from Maiden in relation to its size (~20 million in all), because, frankly, there are more fans and crazier fans here.  Also, it's a lot easier for an American to drive to another state where Maiden are playing than it is for a European to drive to another country. :)
 
Actually, I'd say it's a lot easier for a European to drive to another country in some cases. The United States and Canada are truly vast places. The reason I've never seen Maiden is because the closest they come is Quebec or Montreal, and that's like if I started in Paris and drove to Warsaw. Not to mention the lack of good trains in Canada.
 
Well, it's not just about distance, and you can't drive from everywhere so easily in Europe.  For me, driving would require either the use of a ferry or a huge detour were I to visit any other country than Russia.  It's more difficult to purchase tickets to a show in another country, as well as other arrangements, often involving the use of a foreign language.  No matter how much of a lingua franca English may be, it is not spoken as a shared language between Europeans so that you can always be assured of getting by with English.  Thankfully, currency and crossing borders is not a hassle nowadays, but in any case there are practical difficulties to do with visiting another country.

Not that it can't be done, of course, just ask Perun.  ;)  I haven't tried it, but it would be seriously cool to visit Wacken or some other festival some summer in the near future.
 
Wow, this is out of the blue here -  I have always been under the impression that all the old timers here have seen Maiden live at least a dozen times before! I find it not so easy to realize that, for example, you didn't see them play, LC. :(
 
I would guess driving to Wacken from for example Trondheim, where I live, or from Helsinki, would require two days. The quickest route from Helsinki would be a ferry to Sweden and then driving across Sweden and through Denmark, or perhaps to Tallinn (driving through the Baltic states, Belarus and Poland).

From Trondheim I would say Gothenburg is about as far as you can get in one day. Then there is one more day of driving.

Paris to Warsaw is plenty shorter than that  :D

I'm happy that on most tours these days, Maiden visit Finland, Sweden and Norway. I really hope for another show in Norway next year - and I guess our neighbours in Sweden are starving for a show or two.

pilau said:
Wow, this is out of the blue here -  I have always been under the impression that all the old timers here have seen Maiden live at least a dozen times before! I find it not so easy to realize that, for example, you didn't see them play, LC. :(
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Remember, "old timer" does not necessarily mean old person  :smartarse:

Btw, Pilau, how was your trip before the concert?
 
I tend to agree with LC's point of view, there's plenty of gigs around Europe and basically the entire North, West and Central Europe is covered pretty well. We've also got the low cost airlines, so you can go out and see Maiden outside your country for 100 - 200 € (ticket price included) and visit the town they're playing in. The five of us went from the western part of Croatia (Rijeka) to Budapest by car, which is about 550 kilometers away and it cost us 90 € per head - 45 € for the ticket, 25 € for the hostel and around 20 € for gas and road toll. We stayed the night there and used the whole of Sunday to explore the sights of Budapest.

The USA and Canada are huge and Maiden usually don't do many shows in the central part of the States, so going from there to a show on the East or West coast is a pretty demanding task. Also take into account that the cheapest plane tickets there are around 150-200 $, if I'm not mistaken.
 
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