First hand accounts or stories about 2008's Heaven Can Wait crowd participation contest(?).

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PapiLobo

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Unless this is an example of a mandela effect, I'm curious to know if anyone here can share a first hand account or some stories about when Iron Maiden performed Heaven Can Wait in 2008, how did the process happened of joining them on stage for the ''oh-oh'' chants part of Heaven Can Wait? Were you supposed to be fan club member and enter to participate via a contest or invitation from their management? Were there any other benefits like a meet and greet or a tour of the stage? How could you get in?

I know in some big radio markets like Eddie Trunk Rocks on Q104.3 ran a contest to call-in to win.
 
As far as I remember, and I maybe wrong as I never entered it, it was run the same way as "first to the barrier" is now, i.e. fan club members could apply and a set amount were lucky enough to be picked.

EDIT: but like you said, it may not only have been people from the Fan Club lottery on stage at any given show.
 
It was a combination of Fan Club members winning a lottery draw, people invited by radio stations, and those who knew somebody in the music business and, therefore, found themselves on stage with the band.

I went to 4 shows on the Somewhere Back in Time tour in 2008 (Mérida, Trondheim, Oslo, and Gothenburg) and won the Fan Club competition for the Oslo one. However, I did not end up going on stage because the process that one had to follow meant missing a number of songs; if I remember correctly, we were supposed to head backstage during Rime of the Ancient Mariner to get ready, missing that song and Powerslave just to be on stage for a few seconds.
 
I can't speak on 2008, but I would have been going onstage for Heaven Can Wait after winning a record store display contest through a local chain in 1998. I mentioned this recently elsewhere, but the show where that would have happened ended up cancelled due to Blaze's dust allergy/infection/whatever it was. I would have also gotten backstage, some Maiden swag, etc.

In the end, the manager of the store I won it at ended up pestering CMC--who put on the contest--so the winner got something. Months later, I ended up getting a signed band pic, probably the same one FC members got, as well as one of WASP for some reason.
 
CA Bryers said:
I can't speak on 2008, but I would have been going onstage for Heaven Can Wait after winning a record store display contest through a local chain in 1998. I mentioned this recently elsewhere, but the show where that would have happened ended up cancelled due to Blaze's dust allergy/infection/whatever it was. I would have also gotten backstage, some Maiden swag, etc.

In the end, the manager of the store I won it at ended up pestering CMC--who put on the contest--so the winner got something. Months later, I ended up getting a signed band pic, probably the same one FC members got, as well as one of WASP for some reason.
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This theme is very interesting because the moment when fans get to go on stage and sing along with the band during the song "Heaven Can Wait" is definitely worth experiencing. Thank you!
 
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