RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 2025 Tour Thread *SPOILERS INSIDE*

Donner said:
Main set is amazing. Encore is a bit of a headscratching snoozer.

No Prayer was never going to be represented. No Infinite Dreams is the real sad thing here but either that song doesn't work or they just don't care for it. I would have rather have that than Powerslave again.

But, all in all, amazing show.
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They rehearsed Infinite Dreams in 2012 and decided against it. Maybe too slow for them or something... idk... they played it too fast in 1988 so we never got a decent live recording of it....
 
SirRobbins said:
They rehearsed Infinite Dreams in 2012 and decided against it. Maybe too slow for them or something... idk... they played it too fast in 1988 so we never got a decent live recording of it....
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Total nitpicking but if the set was the exact same but they swapped out one of the same old boring classics (take your pick) for infinite dreams I would have zero complaints
 
So, it's been few hours since the end of the show and I fully made up my opinion. Main problem I, and pretty sure others do, have is that setlist is OVERHYPED. Is setlist great? Yes. Amazing actually, to see powerslave, rotam and ssoass at the same concert + over ⅓ of the set being Paul' era it's great. Problem is that setlist had been marketed as 9 ALBUMS FROM IM TO FOTD as well as setlist that GONNA CHANGE YOUR LIFE GONNA MAKE YOU QUESTION YOUR LIFE CHOICES MAKE YOU REDISCOVER INNER POWER AND SPIRIT, yeah didn't happen. Setlist did not have any new premiers, real deepcuts (everything but killers has been played in 21st century) or "mindblowing first 30 min". Setlist is imo better than one on the SBIT tour and goes hand in hand with the LOTB setlists which are OBJECTIVLY the best setlists maiden ever had. If it was advertised as yet another crowd pleasing legacy setlist, would blow my mind.
Main set is I think great, almost untouchable, encore is rushed I would say, lots of safe options. Although powerslave, ssoass and sit being my favourite maiden albums, real 10/10s perfect albums of theirs, I gotta say, there was no need for aces high, 2 minutes to midnight and the clairvoyant. Why not add NPFTD and FOTD tracks instead, or even POM one? SIT choice could be wiser, but WY is amazing closer.
Show itself I won't talk about cause I really think was worth the hype it is I think the biggest one they had, biggest production probably, so everything great there. Performances can't judge as I haven't heard them, but I heard the best.
So setlist, taking emotions and wishful thinkings out of the way, is really 10/10, giving you epics, "deepcuts" and classic hits all in once, not getting you bored throughout.
Only thing I would change is replace aces high with BYDTTS, clairvoyant with infinite dreams and 2mtm with sun and steel. With that, would be real perfection.
I think we learned that not all hints given, are real ones, as the setlist I predicted only had half of songs actually played, all deepcuts and new premiers didn't make the setlist.
 
Starblind said:
Why did you call the title as From Iron Maiden to Fear.
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For the express purpose of putting Fear of the Dark in the setlist. No other reason, and I knew that would be the case. I was 50/50 on whether NPFTD as a whole would get the shaft, but was fairly certain FotD was going to be the only song off that album.

That said, the setlist is pretty fantastic for a hits set. Like others, I'd swap out a song to get Only the Good Die Young in so we'd get a live debut, swap 2MTM for Infinite Dreams, and Aces really should've been swapped out for Be Quick or Be Dead (or Tailgunner, even). That way, the casual fans would still be ecstatic, and most die-hards would have little to complain about.
 
The setlist imo is a 9/10.
-Yes, they played most of the hits, more than they needed to imo. 2 mins and Aces high are redundant, imo. The set would have been better if they were replaced by any song actually.
-Also, personally I don't like Murders as an opener. It doesn't offer something. It kills the hype of Ides of March. It should have been Ides and then straight to Wrathchild.
- Other than that of course I'm bored of Number, Trooper and Run to the Hills. I was bored of them before the first time I saw them live. They had to play them, though so no complaints there.
- Having SSOASS, Rime, Powerslave, Phantom and Hallowed in the same setlist is probably the best thing they will ever do. Can't top that.
- Some songs, like Rime, Fear and Hallowed were perfectly staged and the screen really helped.
- The Eddies were lame imo. The poster one is meh and the Trooper was used on the Legacy tour. No inflatable? I don't think the POM Eddie was the right fit.
- And now my biggest complaint. Only one POM song? Why? One song on an anniversary tour.
- I said for months that they won't play any No Prayer or Fear songs, but expected 1-2 deep cuts from the POM or Seventh Son album instead. Seventh Son title track counts, I guess.
- Simon was really good, a bit nervous in the beginning, but he truly rejuvenated the band.
- Poor Bruce, he sounded amazing and then he had to sing Aces Low 1 and a half hour into the show. It was a bit of a disaster, but this time it was only the vocals.
- Wasted years is the perfect closing song for such a tour, but I think it was a bit slowed down and sounded a bit weird. It was an unpredictable move to keep it as last song.
- The hidden t-shirt situation was the highlight of the night imo. Keeping Wrathchild and Aces High as a surprise was pure comedy. There must have been a mistake.
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