Official 2020 Tour Thread

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Something is going wrong when you match the statistics and Iron Maiden, especially on their official site! As we know LOTB Tour covered 2 years so far and 82 concerts in 29 countries, NOT 39!:facepalm:2018: 23 countries, 2019: 6 ones. I just checked the number of countries where the band's performances were booked in the last four decades and I've found 65 territories visited by IM - NOT 63! And finally, album sales have been estimated as "over 90 million" - not updated for 6 years - when all sources report over 100 million (even Mr Smallwood mentioned this number in a 2017 interview!). Do you know about all these mistakes? Is this professional?! 10979
 
As errors go, this is hardly the worst. Placing Belfast in Ireland rather than specifically Northern Ireland is arguably more inflammatory to some people, although I notice that the official website now has Belfast placed in the UK. It looks like Bruce's British nationalism has won the day.

@RLonger have you taken into account that some countries no longer exist? For example, since Maiden first crossed the Iron Curtain on the World Slavery tour Germany has been unified, Yugoslavia has disintegrated and Czechoslovakia has split in two.

I just had a quick look at the World Slavery page on the official website and on Wednesday 12th September they had a show at the Capitol Theatre in Scotland, UK - no mention of a town or city! :lol:
 
RLonger said:
Something is going wrong when you match the statistics and Iron Maiden, especially on their official site! As we know LOTB Tour covered 2 years so far and 82 concerts in 29 countries, NOT 39!:facepalm:2018: 23 countries, 2019: 6 ones. I just checked the number of countries where the band's performances were booked in the last four decades and I've found 65 territories visited by IM - NOT 63! And finally, album sales have been estimated as "over 90 million" - not updated for 6 years - when all sources report over 100 million (even Mr Smallwood mentioned this number in a 2017 interview!). Do you know about all these mistakes? Is this professional?! View attachment 10979
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Rod Smallwood likes to boast but sometimes gets things wrong. Or perhaps he got distracted by Bruce’s revelations... :lol:
 
Black Wizard said:
As errors go, this is hardly the worst. Placing Belfast in Ireland rather than specifically Northern Ireland is arguably more inflammatory to some people, although I notice that the official website now has Belfast placed in the UK. It looks like Bruce's British nationalism has won the day.

@RLonger have you taken into account that some countries no longer exist? For example, since Maiden first crossed the Iron Curtain on the World Slavery tour Germany has been unified, Yugoslavia has disintegrated and Czechoslovakia has split in two.

I just had a quick look at the World Slavery page on the official website and on Wednesday 12th September they had a show at the Capitol Theatre in Scotland, UK - no mention of a town or city! :lol:
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But back in the days, these countries were something else in terms of territory and even the name (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, CCCP).
 
@RLonger - It's just a commercial sales text, not an historical study. Whatever agency they hired to write their website content didn't double check their info. Although 35 instead of 25 could just be a typo. They know that only a few nerds care for this anyway, even I can't be bothered about how accurate or inacurrate a sales blurb is.

Black Wizard said:
@RLonger have you taken into account that some countries no longer exist? For example, since Maiden first crossed the Iron Curtain on the World Slavery tour Germany has been unified, Yugoslavia has disintegrated and Czechoslovakia has split in two.
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They never played in East Germany or Czechoslovakia, though, Yugoslavia is the only country Maiden played that ceased to exist.
 
Perun said:
@RLonger - It's just a commercial sales text, not an historical study. Whatever agency they hired to write their website content didn't double check their info. Although 35 instead of 25 could just be a typo. They know that only a few nerds care for this anyway, even I can't be bothered about how accurate or inacurrate a sales blurb is.
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I bet Rod Smallwood is responsible for any PR text that is uploaded to the website... I also bet he is the person who writes the quotes from Steve and Bruce that accompany the band's press releases.
 
Perun said:
They never played in East Germany or Czechoslovakia, though, Yugoslavia is the only country Maiden played that ceased to exist.
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What about when they played Moscow in 93, could that have been some sort of post-communist interim state, or was it definitely Russia then?
 
Got myself a seat for Barcelona! :)

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I'll also get to see this lady:

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Fuck knows what she's doing there.
 
srfc said:
What about when they played Moscow in 93, could that have been some sort of post-communist interim state, or was it definitely Russia then?
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AFAIK Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (still functioning as Soviet republics) broke the Soviet Union sometime in late 1991, declared independence, and made CIS. So there's no interim between USSR and Russia.
 
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