RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR (2025/2026)

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"All had this feeling that it was something really momentous": Bruce Dickinson looks back on his solo albums and forward to Iron Maiden's big year

Bruce Dickinson reveals the solo album that should've been better and the song Iron Maiden play while he enjoys a cup of tea
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@Kalata has shared this interview in the Bruce Dickinson solo career thread and I thought it would be a good idea to repost it here as it contains some information about the Run for your Lives tour:

Classic Rock: Looking ahead to this year, Iron Maiden will be celebrating their 50th anniversary with the Run For Your Lives tour, performing songs from the debut album all the way up to Fear Of The Dark.
Bruce Dickinson: You want the greatest hits, right? Well, we can’t do them all, because we’re going to stop at a certain album. It’s the greatest hits up till then. But the production is going to be out of this world. And we’ve got a set-list that’s going to knock people’s heads off!
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Bruce always uses this marketing to keep fan base excited and commenting on the internet until the tour starts. Normal.

And they played Alexander, so they can play any other forgotten song and surprise everyone. I hope so.
 
onurb said:
Bruce always uses this marketing to keep fan base excited and commenting on the internet until the tour starts. Normal.

And they played Alexander, so they can play any other forgotten song and surprise everyone. I hope so.
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Yes, it is the usual marketing hype from Bruce. I just highlighted that bit because it suggests the setlist will be just greatest hits and the main novelty of the tour is going to be the production.
 
Yeah, the usual hype from Bruce. For such a ''wow setlist'' they will need to play lots of deep cuts and multiple epics, or something like that. You know, what one can imagine, but I guess he's talking about the classics. The usual songs presented in a new way.

Btw, idk why, but the wording of his answer about the greatest hits and albums, I thought there could be a chance for Part 2. They can't do them all, and they're going to stop at a certain album, so he view hits in the second half of the discography.
 
Bruce Dickinson: “You want the greatest hits, right? Well, we can’t do them all,…”
…in part 1 of the tour?

Some here wrote this as soon as the next tour was announced, but it was considered completely implausible by others.

GhostofCain said:
Yes, it is the usual marketing hype from Bruce….
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Yes, sure. But is it my imagination, or does he genuinely sound even more enthusiastic this time?
 
I wouldn't read too much into that. It's the typical "we are awesome and have so many hits that even a two hour show won't be enough to play them all" kind of PR. It makes perfect sense to take such a marketing approach for an anniversary tour. Don't forget: It's his job to get people excited, to get them to buy tickets and spread the word. I'd argue the show is mostly aimed at casual fans who know the classics and singles. Something like ROTAM is legendary enough (thanks to LAD/SBIT) to make the setlist, but I wouldn't expect many deep cuts.

Would be great to get something like Killers again, after not having been played for ages. I think that's the type of deep cut we might get; songs that were played regularly in the first 10 years of the band but slowly fell by the wayside.
 
This might make me tweak my setlist prediction slightly, looks like we're heading into 100% 2 hours of the absolute biggest hits.

Potentially a bit boring for us die-hards, but I'm sure the crowd reaction will be insane.

It also gives me the fear that Aces High might make a comeback.
 
As much as I don't want it in the setlist. I think if they were to bring back Aces High, it could still work, it all depends on the place in the set.

The problem with 2022, was that it was the LAST song of the set. Which was a fucking ridiculous idea, Bruce struggled, and so did Nicko even before his stroke. However, if it was the show opener, I think Bruce could probably pull it off, and with a new drummer it probably won't sound as pedestrian as last time.
 
Trevoire said:
This might make me tweak my setlist prediction slightly, looks like we're heading into 100% 2 hours of the absolute biggest hits.

Potentially a bit boring for us die-hards, but I'm sure the crowd reaction will be insane.

It also gives me the fear that Aces High might make a comeback.
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1 hour and 40 minutes at most!

I dread to think how strained Bruce would sound on Aces High if they end up playing it this year. :ahhh:
 
I hope they decide on a setlist that mostly varies from what made LotB and TFPT. Hell, drop every song from those tours and do something else. Keep Hallowed and Trooper and FotD if you wanna, but play some other stuff!
 
I am mostly disappointed by their choise to do stadiums this time. I have a Ga ticket for London and considering how much I hate crowds I know I'll end up at the far end of the arena, meaning I'll probably see nothing. Plus it's gonna take me at least 2 hours to get home after the show. I also see Ghost's comment about ticket cost and Nicko missing and I am not convinced this new guy can actually do justice to the songs. Right now I feel like I'll decide at the last minute if I wanna go or not and if not I'll put the ticket for sale here.
 
GhostofCain said:
He sounds to me as enthusiastic as he ever does when trying to promote something, from No Prayer for the Dying to Trooper beer and all things in between.
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With the FOTD album it was different and Bruce was not so enthusiastic. I remember a promotional interview with the whole band except Nicko when the album came out, and Bruce couldn't stop praising "the sound alone". It made think even back then what was wrong when a band's singer and frontman has not much more to praise but the sound of the new album.
 
Aggelos said:
I am mostly disappointed by their choise to do stadiums this time. I have a Ga ticket for London and considering how much I hate crowds I know I'll end up at the far end of the arena, meaning I'll probably see nothing. Plus it's gonna take me at least 2 hours to get home after the show. I also see Ghost's comment about ticket cost and Nicko missing and I am not convinced this new guy can actually do justice to the songs. Right now I feel like I'll decide at the last minute if I wanna go or not and if not I'll put the ticket for sale here.
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Become a FC member and go for FTTB. From 2021 on when I joined the FC, I almost didn't miss a single front row.
 
With the recent Legacy Of The Beast and Future Past tours (both which actually brought old forgotten songs back to the setlists) Im prepared to the situation, that I might be totally surprised by Maiden next summer. They've proved with few songs (Caught Somewhere In Time, Flight Of Icarus, Alexander The Great...also Stranger In A Strange Land) that they might actually for real have some special surprises for us. Of course, this all pre-tour talk is marketing and hype but Im confident that this tour will be special one.
One thing is luckily mostly thing of the past, the habbit of them changing the setlist during the first few dates (like playing Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner only once in 1986, Charlotte The Harlot played 2 times in 2005 then dropped, Paschendale played 5 times in 2010 then dropped etc etc).
 
Legacy 2018 was also a greatest hits tour and they played a lot of deep cuts. WED, The Clansman, FTGGOG, Sign of the Cross and Flight of Icarus. I remember there was a guy here before the first show, who said he heard the band rehearsing Sign and nobody believed him.
I bet we will get at least 4 deep cuts again.
 
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