RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR (2025/2026)

GhostofCain said:
I think you are missing the point. Accept are celebrating their anniversary and even though their best known material is from the 80s, they are not just restricting themselves to playing just that. One could argue that they are merely the Wolf Hoffmann band these days and keen to disassociate themselves from the glory they enjoyed when Udo was the singer, but that is a different story to the one we are discussing here.

For what is worth, I am not too keen on Maiden’s choice for the 50th anniversary tour and would have preferred some post-reunion material in the set, but I am sure my daughter will have a blast seeing them play their best-known material. It also saves me having to explain why most songs have a slow intro and a slow outro!
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No I understand the point alright, but when you are trying to get a crowd into much smaller venues it gives you a bit more freedom to be less "crowd pleasing" then when you are Maiden aiming to get ambitious numbers into venues you haven't usually been able to play in, or multiple nights in some venues you've only done one before.

Re: set list, to be honest, I think there's been too many of these retro tours and the 21st century albums have not been given a fair crack of the whip at becoming live favourites, but that's 21st century fans fault, they don't buy the albums and stream individual "hits" on spotify and youtube sending out a particular message to the band.
 
In a perfect world, I would be perfectly fine with a setlist like this:
1. Aces High
2. Wrathchild
3. The Trooper
4. Bring your daughter to the slaughter
5. Infinite Dreams
6. 2 Minutes to Midnight
7. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
8. Still Life
9. Fear of the Dark
10. The Evil That Men Do
11. Children of the Damned
12. The Number of the Beast
13. Running Free
14. Hallowed Be Thy Name
15. Iron Maiden
 
srfc said:
Re: set list, to be honest, I think there's been too many of these retro tours and the 21st century albums have not been given a fair crack of the whip at becoming live favourites, but that's 21st century fans fault, they don't buy the albums and stream individual "hits" on spotify and youtube sending out a particular message to the band.
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So sad for a band who was always so proud of the most recent material to cave in, don’t you think?

Perhaps 21st century fans do not see the quality of their lumbering prog-rock longueurs of late…

I personally think A Matter of Life and Death is a top 5 Maiden album, but I became a fan in the early 90s. :lol:
 
Meliegree said:
In a perfect world, I would be perfectly fine with a setlist like this:
1. Aces High
2. Wrathchild
3. The Trooper
4. Bring your daughter to the slaughter
5. Infinite Dreams
6. 2 Minutes to Midnight
7. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
8. Still Life
9. Fear of the Dark
10. The Evil That Men Do
11. Children of the Damned
12. The Number of the Beast
13. Running Free
14. Hallowed Be Thy Name
15. Iron Maiden
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I’ll eat my hat if they play Infinite Dreams. Although I said that about CSIT on this tour…
 
GhostofCain said:
So sad for a band who was always so proud of the most recent material to cave in, don’t you think?

Perhaps 21st century fans do not see the quality of their lumbering prog-rock longueurs of late…

I personally think A Matter of Life and Death is a top 5 Maiden album, but I became a fan in the early 90s. :lol:
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I've said before I'm a fan since 1981 and I enjoy the reunion era as much as the classic. However I don't view this as caving in more like making up/giving the majority (yes it's the majority like it or not) of fans what they want.
 
Kalata said:
They can easily play 4-5 deep cuts.

15 songs set.
5 must-have classics (IM, Fear, Trooper, Number and Hallowed/Hills)
2-3 90's songs
4-5 more old popular songs (2 Minutes, Evil, Wrathchild, Phantom, Running Free, etc...)
and 2-3 other rare songs like Rime, Infinite Dreams, To Tame A Land, Seventh Son, Killers, Still Life...

edit: all albums represented without SIT.
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Im with you mate on this one, I can sense that given the path they've gone with the past couple tours, this time they will indeed do 4-5 rare songs, deep cuts.
 
Be Quick Or Be Dead as the opener would be amazing. Tailgunner I'm torn; on one hand I really dislike that song, on the other it's a rarity that hasn't been played in decades.
 
PhantomOfTheOpera said:
Im with you mate on this one, I can sense that given the path they've gone with the past couple tours, this time they will indeed do 4-5 rare songs, deep cuts.
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I thought they are only going to play what the majority of fans want in order to make more money. Or are deep cuts fine as long as they are not from the era after 2000?
The tickets for 2025 are of course sold before the setlist is known but what about 2026? Won't the whole clever marketing strategy to fill big venues fail then because of the known deep cuts that are on the setlist?
 
TaaviMaiden said:
I thought they are only going to play what the majority of fans want in order to make more money. Or are deep cuts fine as long as they are not from the era after 2000?
The tickets for 2025 are of course sold before the setlist is known but what about 2026? Won't the whole clever marketing strategy to fill big venues fail then because of the known deep cuts that are on the setlist?
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The marketing talk and such in the announcement don't really give too much ideas what songs they will play from 1980-1992.
Anything happen but as given the fact how they've gotten some rare songs back to the setlists lately, I think they might do some real surprises.
We don't know for sure, until the first show is played and then the setlist is revealed. Anyways, having couple rare songs or deep cuts won't harm at all.
 
Tailgunner is way too obscure a song for this tour. NPFTD is quite an ignored album from the band. You might get Holy Smoke or BYDTTS, or nothing at all.
 
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