RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 2025 Tour Thread *SPOILERS INSIDE*

Manchester was even a bit better than Birmingham. Let's hope the videos won't get taken down, there's no reason. This was probably Bruce's strongest version of Aces of this tour. Adrian with a full-on improvised and cool 2 Minutes solo. Btw, I miss Bruce's ''scream for me'' at the beginning.


 
BludBrutha said:
Yet they’re not playing any of their biggest hits.


Chart PositionSongYear
#1Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter1990
#2Be Quick or Be Dead1992
#3Can I Play with Madness1988
#3Holy Smoke1990
#5The Evil That Men Do1988
#6Infinite Dreams (Live)1989
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That's the UK singles chart, they may now use other metrics like youtube views as well to gauge this.

Setlist wise, this feels like the maiden for the masses tour that some people in the media like Kerrang! were screaming at them to do in the early 2000s. Can't believe that day is finally here. Although SBIT and ME tours were also first 7 albums + FOTD as well... This one feels more blatant as a mass market grab. Fair play to them for holding off for 25 years.
 
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BludBrutha said:
Yet they’re not playing any of their biggest hits.


Chart PositionSongYear
#1Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter1990
#2Be Quick or Be Dead1992
#3Can I Play with Madness1988
#3Holy Smoke1990
#5The Evil That Men Do1988
#6Infinite Dreams (Live)1989
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Only Evil That Men Do is a proper hit. Then Madness.
 
matic22 said:
So, Dave is carrying 4 strats and the LP Axcess this year...


CBS era headstock Black strat, Hicks Strat, California Series Strat (Hicks backup), Birthday Strat (CBS headstock backup) and LP Axcess.

Floyd Rose Classics are seemingly retired.
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The Birthday Strat, a surprise. A replacement for his cream Strat. It seems he's retired the cream Strat too (like the signature Strat, used for more than 20 years), it was in his rag last year (iirc). The LP is the sunburst one, right. I want to see it during Powerslave if he changes guitars.
 
Kalata said:
Only Evil That Men Do is a proper hit. Then Madness.
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What is a "proper hit"? I mean, I do think that The Evil That Men Do is a lot better song than Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter, but the latter is quite popular and, for example, still receives a healthy doze of airplay here - even more than this "proper hit." ;)
 
Randalf said:
What is a "proper hit"? I mean, I do think that The Evil That Men Do is a lot better song than Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter, but the latter is quite popular and, for example, still receives a healthy doze of airplay here - even more than this "proper hit." ;)
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I have in mind the band's live outing. And it's for sure the bigger song. Anyway, I doubt the band looks at the charts.
They really should play one NPFTD song during this tour to be fair, is that too much to ask for... they could allow 2 more 90's songs, although this is a greatest hits tour, and they don't care for the 90's stuff. I hope the next tour, even new album tour, to be ''deep cuts heavy'' like the previous one.
Helmuth Von Moltke said:
Setlist wise, this feels like the maiden for the masses tour that some people in the media like Kerrang! were screaming at the to do in the early 2000s. Can't believe that day is finally here. Although SBIT and ME tours were also first 7 albums + FOTD as well... This one feels more blatant as a mass market grab. Fair play to them for holding off for 25 years.
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Maiden for the masses cases: 1999 (right thing to do), 2008 (continuation), 2012 (if only was the full album), and now. Not bad for so long. But - those tours probably had better theme representations, despite some missing songs. The current tour just needs 1-2 changes for that. LOTB was a very good mix of their career. The missed opportunities could be ''checked'' with rare songs tour, but the best we could hope for is Part 2/Reunion era after this one.
 
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Kalata said:
I have in mind the band's live outing. And it's for sure the bigger song. Anyway, I doubt the band looks at the charts. They really should play one NPFTD song during this tour to be fair, is that too much to ask for...

Maiden for the masses cases: 1999, 2008, 2012, and now. Not bad for so long.
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Shouldn't that be: Maiden for the masses: 1999, 2008-2009, 2012-2024, 2018-2022?
 
GhostofCain said:
Shouldn't that be: Maiden for the masses: 1999, 2008-2009, 2012-2024, 2018-2022?
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Nah the Legacy tour had some deeper cuts and also the 2022 version had 3 new songs. It was a well balanced set, especially the first version. Now, I am a bit disappointed about the setlist of this tour. I don't recall being disappointed about the Legacy setlist, at all. I mean they played 2 Blaze songs, FTGGOG, Icarus after so many years, WED etc. It had something for every fan. Now it's a setlist for the masses.
 
I was at Manchester and I'm happy. It's like a rejuvenated band. I understand Simon's drumming changing the game but wth got into Dave? He hasn't played this well in years!

Highlight for me was ROTAM. It was very polished, similar to their approach to Alexander on the last tour. The visuals and light effects really work, too, particularly Rime, 'Bruce' running up the path to the gallows, the tracer fire and searchlights in Aces, plus the FOTD moon and the giant King Kong-like Eddie.

I liked the Killers stuff more than I expected.

Bruce did do a bit of sidestepping vocals as ever, but also delivered some strong performance moments, notably his super long note (possibly SSOASS?).

It takes a bit of getting used to Simon, although I love his Hallowed. His drums sounded fantastic in the closing stages. Have they been introducing Simon as their 'new member' at all the shows? I thought they skirted around the issue by calling him something like a 'new face'?
 
BludBrutha said:
Yet they’re not playing any of their biggest hits.


Chart PositionSongYear
#1Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter1990
#2Be Quick or Be Dead1992
#3Can I Play with Madness1988
#3Holy Smoke1990
#5The Evil That Men Do1988
#6Infinite Dreams (Live)1989
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I totally agree!
And want to add two things:
1- Infinite Dreams' success comes with its live recording. And it was the fourth and final single of 7th son. So it didn't have a proper video like Madness, Evil (live edit) and Clairvoyant (live edit). It could have gain much more fame if it was one of the first singles and had a proper video.

2- And sometimes the band makes their song a hit regardless of its chart success by just playing the song. Volbeat's Still Counting was like that. They didn't release it as a single but the song became huge on live gigs. And the song became a staple of their setlist and they had to release it as a single 4 years later. (just like that fear of the dark live single maybe, but maiden epics are another thing of course)

Maiden could have made many of their songs a classic or a hit by just playing them. But they prefer not to play, stick to a pool of songs and that songs' fate locked only to a "cult" fame. Just like Alexander... And when they played it, we saw what happened. It was the climax and one of the selling points of that tour.

I'm sure that all these 6 songs would work much better than Aces High or 2 Minutes. (Yet I really loved the chosen flags on 2 Minutes to midnight, showing the countries' with nuclear weapon danger/risk)
 
Brigantium said:
It takes a bit of getting used to Simon, although I love his Hallowed. His drums sounded fantastic in the closing stages. Have they been introducing Simon as their 'new member' at all the shows? I thought they skirted around the issue by calling him something like a 'new face'?
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Bruce has introduced him as the newest member of Iron Maiden, their new drummer, and similar. And reportedly he's listed as drummer in the tour programme. No qualifiers.
 
Bruce described the setlist as the best songs by the band from the first nine albums. In their view, "Aces High" is one of those songs.

I think that "22 Acacia Avenue," "The Prisoner," or "Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter" would fit much better than "Aces" in that encore slot. But gotta remember...some kid out there has never heard that song performed live before unlike most of us and their minds are probably blown like when I heard the Doobie Bros perform "Long Train Running" or "You Belong To Me" when I saw them for the first time a couple years ago.

BTW, speaking of "Aces," the tempo picked up a bit on it during the Manchester show on the 25th. Sounded great to me, vocal adjustments notwithstanding.
 
There's always someone who's seeing the band for the first time, but it's their "fault" that they didn't attend any earlier tour.

I mean, Maiden didn't play Hallowed at my first concert, but I couldn't complain. I got Phantom instead, which was a pretty sweet deal. I'll probably never hear AC/DC play Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be live, but I was lucky to hear Sin City last year, and I appreciate that. You can't please everyone, it's never possible, but focusing on younger/less experienced fans is never a good idea. They still get to hear lots of hits on this tour. Not performing Aces High wouldn't be a gamechanger. Especially since it's been only a few years since Legacy of the Beast.
 
Well, that's silly to say it's their fault for not attending a prior tour. Too many reasons factor into that situation; age, for one. Finances are another. I'm fortunate; I saw the "Powerslave" tour in 1985. But for someone who just watched a YouTube clip and thought how cool would it be to see those songs live for the first time, here is their chance.

Its all moot anyway; its in the set because they want to play it. Two years ago, we feared that "The Future Past" tour would be their last; now they sound better than they have in years. Enjoy them while we can.
 
Everything doesn't need to be hardlined exclusive and divided.

I saw one show of the last tour. I saw two shows of this tour. Should have been thrice had I not gotten sick.
Would I rather have seen two shows of The Future Past Tour instead of two shows of the Run For Your Lives Tour? Absolutely yes.

Can I say I'm happy that I saw two shows of the Run For Your Lives Tour? Absolutely yes.
 
btx109 said:
Well, that's silly to say it's their fault for not attending a prior tour. Too many reasons factor into that situation; age, for one. Finances are another. I'm fortunate; I saw the "Powerslave" tour in 1985. But for someone who just watched a YouTube clip and thought how cool would it be to see those songs live for the first time, here is their chance.
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That's why I said it's their "fault", but not their fault. Yes, there are many factors that have an impact on being (or not being) at a concert. But the point is that a person has the theoretical chance to participate in the event.
 
My view is that when they include Blaze songs it’s not really maiden for the masses. So 1999 and 2018-19, there are Blaze songs in there which is only for the hardcore.

Maybe 2008 and 2012 are the two closest setlist analogies to today ?

Maiden for the masses, where you know every tune with just the 80s albums and Fear.
 
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