RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 2025 Tour Thread *SPOILERS INSIDE*

I am late to the party as I have been away, but I have finally managed to watch the first show. The use of the massive screen is quite good, with some nice animations. I think the setlist is excellent (not the one I would have chosen though).

All band members seem to be in great form, and whilst Nicko will be missed, Simon did a great job. Adrian's solos were a highlight and Bruce's voice was really good for the most part of the show, with the exception of some screams and the elephant in the room, which is Aces High. It is a song Bruce has always struggled with, even when he was younger and his voice was fresh at the start of the show (he probably was at his personal best singing it in 1999 and 2008/2009), so having it as an encore again beggars belief. I guess Bruce wanted to have Churchill on the tour...

Less than a month to experience the show live in London!
 
BludBrutha said:
Didn’t stop them playing a song from Virtual XI on the last “greatest hits” tour they did. Daughter was a hell of a lot more popular than anything from the Blaze era was, it was their only number one single!
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That's why I think they just don't like No Prayer as an album, they want to forget it exists. Clansman and Sign of the Cross are still good songs and sound better live with Bruce.
 
gazda said:
Maybe they dont like the feedback from previous tour playing deep cuts and rare song so they decide to play on the safe side.
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I'm not sure about that. Ultimately the feedback they care about is the box office, and considering this tour sold like hotcakes as soon as tickets went on sale (and likely before the setlist was finalized) I don't think the fans minded the deep cuts.
 
history tours are always getting much bigger sales, if they compare it with a new album tour (past future was sort of a new album tour) that's not right. for the hundredth time: they could squeeze 2 deep cuts (which are also classics/hits) into this setlist and could make everyone happy. they rather chose to squeeze bruce's vocal chords with aces high on the encore. :/
 
Starblind said:
Let's be honest, this is why Maiden can't be Metallica. If you can't present your magnificent discography to people, then everyone will think your music is just about just Run, Hallowed, Wrathchild and Trooper.

We forced Maiden to change 1-2 songs in a quarter of a century, while Metallica plays 40 songs in total for 2 days in a row without repeating any song! Ok their song structures are easier for them to learn the songs just before the show, but you are Iron Maiden, the true trail blazer in every area of this music genre... You should include more deep cuts in your songs that show the deepness of your music.
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Let's not pretend Metallica is out there playing all of these deep cuts themselves. Their setlist screams of classics for casuals and they completely ignore St Anger.
 
gazda said:
Ok so we got more and more photos that some of the screen animation are AI generated.
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Where are you seeing these photos?

Also, are we sure that the animations are AI? I know some of them on Mariner have that sort of look, but I'd really like confirmation
 
Flaming Blimp Crash said:
I think if the next tour is a new album tour then the LED screen for a backdrop will remain (but not as wide as it currently is), but the staging for the risers will go back to one specific theme rather than LEDs.
The full on embrace of LEDs for both this tour I feel has to do with the "many worlds of Maiden" but from the various press releases.
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Yeah, they will probably want to have one main decor for a stage set of a new album, although they can only bring it for the new songs and for the others with the specific themes. I like this feature a lot and want it to on every tour. It's perfect and the best move! But it do seems like a special feature for this tour with ''many visual worlds'' of Maiden.
 
Iron Brody said:
Where are you seeing these photos?

Also, are we sure that the animations are AI? I know some of them on Mariner have that sort of look, but I'd really like confirmation
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Reddit post
Rime and Hallowed for now.

On Rime arrow without bow, people with 6 fingers as similar AI generate mistakes.
 
btx109 said:
I know a few illustrators IRL who have worked with Bruce on his graphic novels and Maiden on some prints and posters (not name dropping, that's unimportant but understand that's my profession: illustration). One thing I know is that both Bruce individually and the band as an entity appreciate and respect the craft, the creativity, the imagination of artists. So when I hear charges of them using Ai-based images during their show, my opinion...and that's all it is, an opinion...is that I doubt it. I mean, MAYBE some, like the ocean waves in "Mariner"..? But there's so many specific references in the animations that I doubt Ai was the basis.
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Adrian has said in interviews that he is very much against using AI in art (or at least in songwriting), so I can believe that the band likes to honor real artists rather than AI tech bros.

But then you see images like the one I attached and I fail to see how a human artist would end up portraying a bow and arrow in that manner. Maybe the animations were rushed and some of the stuff is still being worked on, but that looks outrageously bad. The question then is if it was indeed AI or a human who fucked up.
 

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Josh said:
Let's not pretend Metallica is out there playing all of these deep cuts themselves. Their setlist screams of classics for casuals and they completely ignore St Anger.
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We dont need to pretend, because it is true.

This tour they are playing 32 songs back to back every show. That is impressive.

St.Anger songs were played in last few years. Mostly Frantic and Dirty Window.

And next year they are releasing a lot of stuff for 30 yrs of Load Album and that is their least popular album after St.Anger.
 
gazda said:
Maybe they dont like the feedback from previous tour playing deep cuts and rare song so they decide to play on the safe side.
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If there is ''not a good feedback'' it was probably for the new songs (not the deep cuts from the 80's, casuals right! - which were really only 3). I'm sure the casual fans will enjoy some NPFTD/FOTD songs (Daughter, Be Quick, Wasting Love, Afraid... like some Blaze era songs, so let's not pretend it's the other way around) and Maiden always sell out their tours in advance, so. Hits tours will have more appeal and that's normal, but that's not what it's about. They don't want it. They should have added at least 2 more deep cuts for the tour. It's all excuses, they'll never change in some aspects.
But, Maiden had quite a lot of missed opportunities on the previous History/Hits tours after all. I guess they want to make up in a way for the previous tour (like ME). Maybe the next tour will be deep cuts heavy, I hope so, but they will always play the same 80's songs. Btw, if it was a proper 50th anniv, they would have probably played only 1 Reunion era song...
Diesel 11 said:
Bro be realistic.
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Do you think they can't change 2 songs that were played during the previous 2 tours? They have many 80's hits.
 
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