Blaze Bayley

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Vaenyr said:
I think if Maiden sat down to have an open and honest discussion back then, about the strengths and weaknesses of Blaze, about how rigid they want to stay, downtuning or changing arrangements and so on, the Blaze era might've been more fondly remembered nowadays. Not saying that they'd necessarily been more successfull, but maybe the consensus on him would be somewhat more positive.
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100% agree. I would think after a few rehearsals before the tour, the range issue would've been apparent, but nobody said anything, I guess. Had they worked to the strengths of his voice and downtuned, yeah, I think we would've had a total hidden gem era through and through. There are plenty of videos of Blaze singing Bruce era songs in the correct key for his voice, and he sounds really good, IMO. We could've had an era of very different and darker Bruce era renditions on top of the two albums that have steadily grown in acceptance--The X Factor has, at least. I still hope more will come around to Virtual XI as time goes on.


SixesAlltheway said:
My opinion on this is that you don't lose anything by trying. I think the chances of him picking someone he doesn't know to write it is pretty slim unless he reads your stuff after you contact him and he *really* likes it. I also think that if you do it - you kinda have to do it as a labor of love and not expect super much in return.
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Agreed. If I do drop him a line, I'm not getting my hopes up that I'll even hear back. It's more about offering help since I'm able and have a window of time coming up, and yeah, I'd send him some ebooks of mine for him to try out and see if I'd be the right fit.


dickinson1978 said:
I have one bootleg that he forget tbe lyrics and start mumblinh the song
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Ah yes, The Eternal Flame bootleg (or one of the variations). A few verses of Fortunes of War that went horribly awry.
 
CA Bryers said:
100% agree. I would think after a few rehearsals before the tour, the range issue would've been apparent, but nobody said anything, I guess. Had they worked to the strengths of his voice and downtuned, yeah, I think we would've had a total hidden gem era through and through. There are plenty of videos of Blaze singing Bruce era songs in the correct key for his voice, and he sounds really good, IMO. We could've had an era of very different and darker Bruce era renditions on top of the two albums that have steadily grown in acceptance--The X Factor has, at least. I still hope more will come around to Virtual XI as time goes on.




Agreed. If I do drop him a line, I'm not getting my hopes up that I'll even hear back. It's more about offering help since I'm able and have a window of time coming up, and yeah, I'd send him some ebooks of mine for him to try out and see if I'd be the right fit.



Ah yes, The Eternal Flame bootleg (or one of the variations). A few verses of Fortunes of War that went horribly awry.
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Yes that one.
 
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Ticket booked for the Whelan's show, was a really great show the last time doing mostly Maiden stuff, but would prefer the Tenth Dimension this time instead of more Maiden
 
srfc said:
How humiliating would that be, to have to open for the bad you used to be in? I think Maiden would look like cunts if they made that offer.
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This has many times before in Maiden history, Adrian Smith’s band Psycho Motel opened for Iron Maiden at Rock City in Nottingham, UK, on 2 February 1996. Paul Mario Day (with More) opened for Maiden in 1981. Bob Sawyer opened for Maiden with Praying Mantis in 1980. Steve uses old Maiden members as openers for British Lion all the time, Doug Sampson and Airforce, Tony Moore for example.

Happens with other bands too. Charlie Dominici, the original Dream Theater vocalist, opened for DT in Europe with his solo band in 2007. His O3A Trilogy featured some truly great music!
 
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Always felt bad for Blaze that he was a good 5-10 years younger than the rest of the boys in the band and he was the one obviously heavily balding to the extent that he had to wear a hat for the Virtual XI tour.

Yeah Steve's hairline had crept back a good few inches but he still had the same thick unruly mop of hair on the rest of his head.

Yeah Davey started to develop a bald spot by the Virtual XI tour but you really don't notice it all that much really until a decade or so later when he had a transplant. Like rock in rio and death on the road are after the virtual XI tour and he seemed to cover it quite well.

Jan and Nick apparently just have immortal hairlines like George Lucas.

Just randomly occured to me after watching some footage of Blaze from the X Factour. As soon as he started to sweat every gig he suddenly looked like he had no hair. Poor bugger.steve-harris-virtual-xi-tour-1998-v0-bnwqah3ksvue1.jpeg
 
Blaze confirms Silicon Messiah 25th Anniversary 2026 shows:

"When Blaze Bayley handed the microphone back to Bruce Dickinson in Iron Maiden in 1999, it didn’t take long before he stepped out as a solo artist. Already the following year, he released his debut album Silicon Messiah. In 2001, the Silicon Messiah tour reached Sweden, where he supported Helloween and performed at Cirkus in Stockholm and Kåren in Gothenburg—the very same stages where he had stood with Iron Maiden during The X Factour in 1995.

Silicon Messiah featured music originally intended for a third Iron Maiden album with Blaze Bayley on vocals. The record has been praised as one of the strongest solo albums from any of the band’s members. Heavy Metal Overload described it like this: “It’s remarkably good … anthemic power metal tracks … the album just gets better and better as it rolls on and culminates wonderfully in Stare at the Sun: a gripping, goosebump-inducing epic.”

Now—25 years later—Blaze Bayley returns to Sweden and to Bomber Bar Motala and The Abyss Gothenburg to celebrate this groundbreaking album. With classics like Born as a Stranger, The Launch, and Ghost in the Machine, a powerful setlist is promised on these nights."

JANUARY 2026
20 – SPAIN – VALENCIA
21 – SPAIN – BARCELONA
22 – SPAIN – VITORIA
23 – SPAIN – GIJON
24 – SPAIN – VIGO
25 – SPAIN – GUADALAJARA

FEBRUARY 2026
05 – IRELAND – DUBLIN
06 – IRELAND – LIMERICK
07 – IRELAND – DROGHEDA
08 – UNITED KINGDOM – BELFAST

MARCH 2026
11 – GERMANY – CHAM
12 – AUSTRIA – VIENNA
13 – CZECHIA – BRNO
14 – CZECHIA – PRAGUE
15 – GERMANY – ERFURT
17 – GERMANY – HAMBURG
19 – SWEDEN – MOTALA
20 – SWEDEN – MOTALA
21 – SWEDEN – GOTHENBURG
22 – SWEDEN – GOTHENBURG


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