Bruce Dickinson

[Ledges Bitten In Dust]

If we're getting a new Bruce album in 2027, does that mean that at least until 2028 we're not getting a new Maiden album? 2026 is for tour, 2027 for Bruce, so 2028 right? Only time we got both Bruce and Maiden in the same year are 1990 with TM and NPFTD and 1998 with VXI and CW, but talking about Bruce' Maiden it's really only 1990. So I don't think that 2027 with 2 Bruce fronted albums are possible.

 

[Kalata]

Bruce about his live set (WB inspired Mandrake's comic):

I’m not one for punishing the audience with songs they don’t deserve. The idea of a great live show, it’s not a lecture. It’s not the teacher wagging his finger, saying, ‘You should have bought this album and damn it, you’re gonna listen to it, like it or not. To me, it’s a journey. It’s a story, a narrative. Not with characters and things, but a musical narrative. So you start feeling a certain way, and then you start to feel another way. You get to paint with colors.

And some photos from the studio:

 

[Ledges Bitten In Dust]

The idea of a great live show, it’s not a lecture. It’s not the teacher wagging his finger, saying, ‘You should have bought this album and damn it, you’re gonna listen to it, like it or not.

Maybe I'm missing context here, but Maiden is exactly doing that: playing half or more than a half of a new album. I think that is great and everyone should do it. But I don't view it as "forcing someone to listen to a new material" but rather a promotion. Nobody went to let's say "Brave new world" tour and expected full 80s set.

 

[Ascendingthethrone]

Maybe I'm missing context here, but Maiden is exactly doing that: playing half or more than a half of a new album. I think that is great and everyone should do it. But I don't view it as "forcing someone to listen to a new material" but rather a promotion. Nobody went to let's say "Brave new world" tour and expected full 80s set.

One of my mates said that they played too many new songs in 2017. I asked him what he was expecting when buying tickets to ‘The Book of Souls World Tour’.

 

[Azas]

Bruce about his live set (WB inspired Mandrake's comic):

I’m not one for punishing the audience with songs they don’t deserve. The idea of a great live show, it’s not a lecture. It’s not the teacher wagging his finger, saying, ‘You should have bought this album and damn it, you’re gonna listen to it, like it or not. To me, it’s a journey. It’s a story, a narrative. Not with characters and things, but a musical narrative. So you start feeling a certain way, and then you start to feel another way. You get to paint with colors.

Hmm, to me Bruce’s words here sort of contradict what he once said about A Matter of Life and Death—specifically their insistence on playing the whole album live. Didn’t he even rip apart a “Play Classics” banner back then? Maybe that was more about defending a decision made by the whole Maiden team rather than his own personal philosophy.

These latest comments from Bruce show that he’s fully aware of how important it is to read a crowd and give them something they want. You can’t completely ignore the audience’s wishes, after all.

 

[jazz from hell]

Bruce about his live set (WB inspired Mandrake's comic):

I’m not one for punishing the audience with songs they don’t deserve. The idea of a great live show, it’s not a lecture. It’s not the teacher wagging his finger, saying, ‘You should have bought this album and damn it, you’re gonna listen to it, like it or not. To me, it’s a journey. It’s a story, a narrative. Not with characters and things, but a musical narrative. So you start feeling a certain way, and then you start to feel another way. You get to paint with colors.

And some photos from the studio:

On the Skunkworks show I saw, before Helloween, he pointed his finger at us and said: "You're gonna buy the album or I'll kill you."
Everybody is allowed to change their minds of course!