Randalf
Ancient Mariner
I think someone has said that NPFTD song was also considered for this tour? - that would have been a dream come true, for me. Anyway, 2014 tour should have been a tour related to the 90's albums IMO. It was a short date tour and they could have done a stage only with Marshall speakers as a tribute to these times and with backdrops, lights etc... that would have been the better option for us the fans and for the band too - I mean songs from 90's are not played often (aside from FOTD), and that for sure would have been very fresh for the band.
Where does that NPFTD rumour actually come from? I've seen it popping up here and then, but it seems that there's no proper source for it...
Well, doing a short summer run with more extensive 80's coverage was kinda neat concept, but the execution was very sub-par, for the reasons mentioned earlier. It really would have been cool if they went with one or two "90's additions", but well, that didn't happen. Sort of a wasted opportunity, really, since playing both ATSS and FOTD in 2012-13 already gave some basis for that and including Be Quick or be Dead or Bring Your Daughter too would not have taken the 80's focus away at all, really.
But alas, we got what we got, and I'm pretty happy with the Maiden England run in general, as I am with the tours that followed.