Returning to old venues

SirRobbins

SirRobbins

Ancient Mariner
Let me make it clear, I love maiden but wish they would do more small venues again like small concert halls and big pubs for the sake of their hardcore fans. I wish I could experience maiden like the fans back in 1980 and 1981 did and not these large stadiums and such. I know they may have too many fans to do it but maybe for like fan club members in select areas to have a club meet for old time sake. I'd love to see it that way. Who else would love to have some old style venues played? I have seen several other metal bands do it recently seeing Slayer at the Tabernacle and Queensryche as well as Exodus and Suicidal Tendencies.
 
I think Maiden has been in "go big or not at all" mode for a while. I don't think they'd be happy with the limitations of smaller venue.
 
It could become pretty wild and fierce at the ticketsales and perhaps also at these venues. Many people wish to see Maiden. If they do this, then I rather see a proper circuit tour instead of only giving 0,000001 percent of the fans this pleasure.

Altough, it's cool to give fanclub members something extra of course. :D
 
Perfect scenario : Their new album is full of short, aggressive tracks like Killers, announce world tour in all small venues and hard core fans rejoice
 
Perfect for you, maybe. Unlikely to actually happen. Maiden has all but said that they are concentrating on larger venues in Europe for the last few years - and that's where a small venue tour would be most likely to happen. The boys want to make money. I don't blame them.
 
They played many smaller concert and city halls during the No Prayer tour in the 90s as well and with Blaze. Hell yes, I would love to see them do more shows like this but since their popularity just sky rocketed when Bruce came back and for the reasons LC mentioned it won't happen.

Larger stadiums/indoor venues perhaps!
 
I think, although indeed cool, they would only do it here and there. Not at all as a tour, i think.

A band at their level has to please a lot of people. In this band's case, that applies to gigs only, since musically they're 100% pure.
 
That being said, i do think it would be cool to see them at a more intimate venue. At the same time, i don't know how pretty much all of their catalog post-Killers would fit in a smaller venue. Their songs sound LARGE, if you know what i mean...
 
Actually, I would just like to see them at an indoor gig again, doesn't have to be a small venue. They played many arenas and concert forums on the A Matter of Life and Death tour for example and that was great. Their stage show and the live feel really come to to life at an indoor show. I'm tired of Maiden at festivals....
 
SixesAlltheway said:
Actually, I would just like to see them at an indoor gig again, doesn't have to be a small venue. They played many arenas and concert forums on the A Matter of Life and Death tour for example and that was great. Their stage show and the live feel really come to to life at an indoor show. I'm tired of Maiden at festivals....
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That i do agree with. Although (shame on me) i'm yet to see them live, i usually "feel" the gigs a bit more at indoor venues.
 
SixesAlltheway said:
They played many arenas and concert forums on the A Matter of Life and Death tour for example and that was great.
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It's not all that bad, really. They played indoor venues on the second leg of the TFF tour, and some large ones on the Maiden England one. In general, people just have to come to terms with the fact that we won't see them playing small clubs anymore. It's just a fact, and useless to lament about.
 
i want maiden to play big stadiums,for me was great and sad to see maiden in 1995 and not fill out a small venue or see bruce in 98 in a really small venue in front of 800 people
 
I think they are made to play big festivals, midi - sized stadium and the big indooe arenas as well. I hope they will elaborate their stage sets for next tour pretty much and waiting for the stage props shots makes my wonder if they wanted to suprise their masses a lot or not? Let them play for the big crowds once again - around the world!
 
Maiden is far too popular to return to small clubs for a tour.

Now a four-night Fan Club show in a small club with lots of surprises, like what Metallica did, would be amazing. Doubt it would ever happen, but it would make one hell of a DVD! And it would make me join the Fan Club.
 
Brigantium said:
Or a charity show, the highest bidders get the tickets.
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When they did charity gigs for Clive, were those tickets just sold on the open market, or were they offered to fanclub members (first)? Also, no idea how big Maiden's fanclub was back then compared to now, but Raising Hell was a fanclub only gig (if I recall; my sister went to it).
 
I tried to look up details of those but didn't find very much out. But certainly, I'd find a whole tour of small venues a lot less likely than a couple of extra-special shows for some cause.
 
I may be in the minority, but I'm not a fan of them playing the small unseated venues. I went to 2 shows on the Dance of Death tour at one of the smaller theaters like they used to play and hated that. Everybody packed in so close like sardines so you can't see anything. Mosh pits breaking out left and right. People walking through the crowd every 2 seconds to get to the restroom. It distracted me from the show way too much. Now i"m not suggesting for a second that I want to sit down at an Iron Maiden show like I"m at some kind of movie theater, but it's nice to stand up and have your own space and concentrate on watching the show and not deal with all the crap. I've been going to enough death metal/thrash/and other metal shows for 25 years so I have no problem with that in that setting. But for a maiden show, give me a big seated venue. But those are just my experiences. Some of you may enjoy the small settings and vibes better and that's cool too.
 
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