Blaze Bayley

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dickinson1978 said:
At the show i attended was a bar and the crowd around 200 people? I dont know how are the places BL play but blaze is filling really small venues
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I saw British Lion play in Brisbane at The Triffid, while Maiden were there for The Future Past tour in 2024. There were around 300 people there.
 
Spaldy said:
Matinee shows are unusual for touring bands. That being said, the older I get the more I'd like to see this. Not getting home from concerts till past midnight is getting tiring.
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The current trend of over 30s day rave/parties is ticking the rock box now, there's 3 rock/metal day parties comin up in Belfast over the next few months. One is a dj and the other 2 are cover bands. I'm here for it, as the under 30s might say.
 
Blaze in Belfast was great, well attended, deadly tunes. 10min Thin Lizzy medley near the end without Blaze. I recommend it if he's in your vicinity.

2nd guitar would enhance things but the tones of both players made it irrelevant for me for the most part, the bass filled the space in the main.

Also, £7.05 for a Guinness, not £7.50. Weird price for a pint.
 
Cat Milk Supreme said:
Blaze in Belfast was great, well attended, deadly tunes. 10min Thin Lizzy medley near the end without Blaze. I recommend it if he's in your vicinity.

2nd guitar would enhance things but the tones of both players made it irrelevant for me for the most part, the bass filled the space in the main.

Also, £7.05 for a Guinness, not £7.50. Weird price for a pint.
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It is clearly a £0.45 discount to celebrate Iron Maiden launching some new merchandising for the 45th anniversary of Killers.
 
Tom Atkinson is in Absolva, he joined the band for the X Factor Anniversary shows, but not for the Silicon Messiah shows. I think he will play with the band for the future Maiden Anniversary shows, but not for the solo Blaze shows. Since Blaze have 4 solo albums and the Wolfsbane cataloge with one guitar player, I think they can build a show around one guitar when focusing on the solo stuff. For the Maiden shows, I'm sure they'll bring Atkinson back
 
Yax said:
I get it if it's the case for financial reasons, but I think we fans are worse off with one guitarists for Silicon Messiah than two.
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I think Karl left just before the tour was due to start, with Luke switching over to bass. If they’d known in advance that they needed to return to a four-piece lineup, it would have made more sense to tie it into an Infinite Entanglement 10th Anniversary, or to continue the Circle of Stone tour with a stronger focus on the Infinite Entanglement trilogy material alongside War Within Me, songs that were originally written as a four-piece plus rearranged CoS stuff. Since the change was announced so close to the start of the tour, they probably didn’t have time to rework the plans. They’ve performed Silicon Messiah as a four-piece before (in 2015), so I wasn’t too worried, they pulled it off very well. That said, I don’t think fans would accept an X Factor tour with only one guitarist. If they decide to stick with the four-piece format, I really hope they record a new album and, for next year’s tour, focus on material that was actually written and recorded as a four-piece. For Iron Maiden anniversary dates, they could always bring Atkinson in for those shows. And if operating as a four-piece puts the band in a better financial position, I’m all for it, as long as it leads to more albums and tours, that feels like a small sacrifice.
 
On another note, it looks like Blaze is about to sell out the Swedish shows in March. When I was a teenager, he was playing to maybe 20 people here in Sweden; these days, he sells out shows more often than not. Most recently, the Jönköping show last year drew around 250–350 people. I’m really happy for him, Sweden is clearly a much more viable place for him to tour now than it was back in the mid-2000s.
 
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