OFFICIAL tour thread. SPOILERS inside!

Before the show, with 5 or 6 hours, they started some sound checks with the same songs, it was a couple of 3 songs I think

Knows somebody what songs? I remember it was something with female voice
 
I don't think they'll add more songs, they just have 2 more shows, and then holiday  :bigsmile: untill 2011, so... we have to wait until then.

But I asked something, if someone knows... :innocent:
 
One show to go.

I don't understand your question rokyronnie. Which show? Pukkelpop? Female vocals? A Maiden soundcheck with 60.000 people able to hear it?

All this sounds very unbelievable. Please explain.  :)

HA! I forgot to mention this:

Steve Harris was wearing a shirt at Pukkelpop (yesterday).

which stated:

WHALE
OIL
BEEF
HOOKED

@Eddies Wingman: Did he also wear this in Norway?
 
Forostar said:
Steve Harris was wearing a shirt at Pukkelpop (yesterday).

which stated:

WHALE
OIL
BEEF
HOOKED

@Eddies Wingman: Did he also wear this in Norway?
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He wore it every show in the states
Travis_AKA_fonzbear2000 said:
and possibly the same Eddie.
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110% the same eddie
 
Forostar said:
HA! I forgot to mention this:

Steve Harris was wearing a shirt at Pukkelpop (yesterday).

which stated:

WHALE
OIL
BEEF
HOOKED

@Eddies Wingman: Did he also wear this in Norway?
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Yeah, he wore it here as well. Very cool T-shirt that.
 
I think they used that songs before every show.When they finished the mounting process, the guy from the mix board started some songs to use them as an support to make the sound-checks, to see if everything is okay with the speakers system.

And he used 2 or 3 songs, which have nothing to do with iron maiden songs.
It was something with female voice and I think he repeated that songs ten times.
 
Eddies Wingman said:
Yeah, he wore it here as well. Very cool T-shirt that.
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Excellent. Apart from the wordjoke it was a very cool statement as well, especially in Norway. Glad you liked it though.

@rokyronnie: I guess I missed that.
Travis_AKA_fonzbear2000 said:
True, but Maiden will be using the same stage design next year and possibly the same Eddie.
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That's too bad. Time to get rid of the spoiler tages tomorrow, I hope.
 
Forostar said:
Excellent. Apart from the wordjoke it was a very cool statement as well, especially in Norway. Glad you liked it though.
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I'm not sure I get it completely. Whaling isn't a hot topic here apart from when whale boats get attacked by "environmentalists" like Paul Watson. And apart from that, I don't see how the t-shirt makes any statement in that debate. Are we in some way hooked on whale, oil and beef?

Well, I'll be ...
 
What do you think? Norway isn't exactly hooked on pineapples, is it? ;)
Norway is the only whaling country where Steve wore this t-shirt.

Take the shirt the way you want, but people who care about such activities surely see that particular meaning.

Beef, oil, when we consume too much of it, we'll all be fucked and I can imagine that whales also play a part in the ecosystem.

Steve is no activist but he still wore a cool shirt and didn't mind to change it in Norway. Respect, Steve, respect!
 
My point was that why should he mind changing the t-shirt just because he was in Norway? Nobody would be giving him stick for it anyway. I think you overestimate how big a deal this whale thing is here.

Do you really think the t-shirt provoked anyone in the crowd? I doubt it ...
 
The shirt is a play of words, it's supposed to read "Well I'll be fucked".

It was also featured in the stage hieroglyphics during the Powerslave and SBIT tours:

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Women, wine and song
Well, Oil, Beef, Hooked (Well I'll be fucked)
Up, Ton, Park, Hammers (Upton Park, home of West Ham)
Boot, Leg, Music (Bootleg music)
 
I think Foro and I are both aware of that meaning of it. It just seems Foro thinks that the more literal meaning would hit a sore spot with Norwegians. I, as a Norwegian, doubt it.
 
Okay, sorry.

Since Steve wore it on every show of the tour, I really doubt there's any meaning behind it apart from the wordplay, or that anyone misunderstood it.

By the way, did Bruce wave the British flag during The Trooper at the Dublin show? If anything could be (mis)interpreted as provocation, it would be that particular detail.
 
Funny, national_acrobat and I talked about that shirt after the Knebworth show, and we both agreed it's probably some sort of inside joke we don't get. Cheers for that, Ranko! :)

Ranko said:
By the way, did Bruce wave the British flag during The Trooper at the Dublin show? If anything could be (mis)interpreted as provocation, it would be that particular detail.
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This reminds me of a bootleg of the 2003 show in Buenos Aires where Bruce actually didn't wave the flag. There are other boots from Argentina (before and after) where he does, though.
 
Ranko said:
Okay, sorry.

Since Steve wore it on every show of the tour, I really doubt there's any meaning behind it apart from the wordplay, or that anyone misunderstood it.

By the way, did Bruce wave the British flag during The Trooper at the Dublin show? If anything could be (mis)interpreted as provocation, it would be that particular detail.
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Nothing to be sorry about - and the rest (besides the well oil beef hooked thing) I didn't know, so thanks!

I also agree on your first point - probably the wordplay is the main thing.

About waving the flag, I can see how it would provoke people in Ireland. Still, I assume most Maiden fans are intelligent enough to realize it is not waved to provoke them. And I don't think it is as bad as a certain other British band using an Avro Lancaster as stage prop - in Germany.
 
Eddies Wingman said:
And I don't think it is as bad as a certain other British band using an Avro Lancaster as stage prop - in Germany.
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And yet that band has its biggest fanbase in that country.
 
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