The 2011 Tour Thread! (SPOILERS)

Is everything about the tour exactly the way you want it?

  • Yes

    Votes: 22 33.3%

  • No

    Votes: 38 57.6%

  • I'm not sure what I want

    Votes: 6 9.1%
  • Total voters
    66
LooseCannon said:
Maiden could definitely put together a great tour out of 90s material. There is certainly 12-14 songs they could draw on. It's been done in another thread of course, but think about it. Be Quick or Be Dead would be a great opener, followed by Lord of the Flies and Bring Your Daughter. Wrathchild, Sign of the Cross, Futureal, Afraid To Shoot Strangers. Then The Trooper, The Clansman, Edge of Darkness, Fear of the Dark, Iron Maiden, with Hallowed, 2 Minutes, and Sanctuary to close. I would love to see that set.
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I would too. But I was being realistic. Those albums aren't popular enough. But I think it is realistic to think that they could belt out SOTC one more time. I would love to see that.

Sign of the Cross, Starblind, and Paschendale in the same concert alone would be the best set ever.
 
Blood Brothers, Paschendale, These colours don't run Ghost of Navigator....last year, among others, that was the best set list.  Paschendale and BB especially.  I also believe a classics tour awaits for 2012. I think [that third song you mentioned in the spoiler thread] will be so great and emotional live, that they play it on the next tour as well.. Instant live classic! 
 
Hi guys,

I just fixed the thread to cover up some spoilers.

Anything referring to what is or is not on the setlist as suggested by Bruce MUST be in a Spoiler tag. From here on in, we will be giving one warning followed by a ban for the remainder of the tour.

Please don't make us ban you. This thread has all the explicit rules, and they are all in force.
 
One warning per person? Theoretically that means that we could get dozens of spoilers, and no one banned.
That's a very pessimistic view of course.  :D
 
I was just thinking that if they want this set to be as awesome as 2010 it needs to be just as unpredictable. Maybe rotate IOA and Starblind.
My revised set list based on Bruce's recent comments. I assume these need to be spoiler-ed.

1:The Final Frontier-Seems unlikely that they will do Sat 15
2: The Trooper-Bruce said there would be new classics added
3: Wrathchild
4: El Dorado
5: Isle Of Avalon/Starblind (rotation eventually dropping one. Probably Starblind
6: The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg
7: These Colours Don't Run
8: Blood Brothers
9: When The Wild Wind Blows
10: Brave New World
11: The Talisman
12: Fear Of The Dark
13: Iron Maiden
14: Number Of The Beast
15: Coming Home
16: Hallowed Be Thy Name
The order is a bit off but you get the point.
 
I'll go for

Note: I have the idea that if Maiden wants to add some classics, that no songs will be played from either A Matter of Life and Death either Dance of Death, or even both. I am 100% sure that at least one Brave New World song will stay in the set, and that there will not be any nineties songs apart from Fear of the Dark.

Biggest chance is option one: No A Matter of Life and Death songs.
Reason: Breeg is the most likely song to be chosen, but then there'd be too many songs with long intros. Besides, if The Evil That Men Do will return (big chance!), that intro sounds too similar, and The Talisman and WTWWB, and FOTD also all have such long calm intros.

Here we go, place your bets!

1: Satellite 15 (tape) / The Final Frontier
2: El Dorado
3: The Trooper
4: The Wicker Man
5: The Talisman (early in the set because it demands a lot from Bruce's voice)
6. Run to the Hills
7: Coming Home
8: Wildest Dreams
9: When The Wild Wind Blows
10: The Evil That Men Do
11: 2 Minutes to Midnight
12: Fear Of The Dark
13: Iron Maiden
- - - - - - -
14: The Number of the Beast
15: Hallowed Be Thy Name 
16: Running Free
 
I think we are guaranteed the title track from BNW.
 
Indeed possible. I considered it but also this track

contains a long calm intro. I know that many of such songs were done in 2010, but now I guess that Maiden wants more faster older songs, to mix well with the extra amount of slower new ones.
 
I don't recall them mentioning fast songs. Just classics. If only one reunion song is going to be played it will be BNW. I think that one is a staple now. It is the only one to survive every show since 2000. (with the exception of Early Days and SBIT of course)
 
Forostar, I really hope you are wrong about #9 on your list.

What is a bit disappointing is that you are probably right with at least 80% accuracy. Not to start yet another round of setlist complaints, but Iron Maiden's biggest flaw is the predictability of their setlists. How hard would it be to alternate a couple of songs throughout the tour? I can understand wanting to be well rehearsed, but come on, surprise us a little!
 
2010 was very unpredictable. Go read the first 10-13 pages of the 2010 tour thread. We had no clue what the set would be next. SBIT was kind of predictable in the fact that the 4 powerslave songs were played and most of the setlist was hinted at in the press release. Moonchild was a nice surprise though, and although predictable, Rime of the Ancient Mariner was easily the best part. A Matter Of Life And Death had the album played as a whole and if you didn't listen to the interviews leading up to the tour you would have never guessed that they were doing the whole thing live. The Early Days had tons of surprises and is still my favorite set list. (Murders, Another Life, Drifter, WHERE EAGLES DARE!!!111) Dance of Death had LOTF and tried some new things when presenting the title track, paschenfuckingdale and journeyman live. But I will give you that one it wasn't anything new. I'm not gonna count Ed Huntour and BNW as they were reunion tours and featured a carrerr spanning setlist. So do you still think Maiden's sets are predictable?
 
Since I know the 2010 set (which huge amount of 2000-2006 material indeed surprised me, after Rod told that Maiden would cover their whole career), I can predict the 2011 list a bit better.
 
Come to think of it, Bruce said Maiden would cover their whole career. Well I certainly hope he is wrong again.
 
Since Maiden seem to only do either new album tours or classic hits tours, I'd say this will focus more on the former than the latter for obvious reasons.  I kind of miss the tours before all the hits tours because we really got a good dose of both old and new.

I'd have no problem with those songs that have been mentioned as possibilities as to me they are the ones that would work the best in a live environment.

Sadly, I won't be seeing any of these shows myself so I'm hoping they don't pull out anything too obscure and random (like, Still Life or something).

Like many others, I do think they will tour the Maiden England set in 2012-13.  I think the original plan behind the SWBIT was to include that era as well and release Maiden England towards the end of that tour.  But once Rod and the band realized just how immense that tour was, they delayed the release of Maiden England opting to focus more on reprising Live After Death.  This is most obvious by studying the set list of the second leg which added the songs performed on side 4 of the LAD record and substituting them in for most of the keyboard era songs.

As a huge fan I too would love to see a 90s era tour and I feel they have enough songs to justify one.  But from a purely economical standpoint I don't see them doing it.  The 90's albums are ranked low by nearly all Maiden fans and a tour focusing strictly on those songs wouldn't be too terribly well received. 
 
YESYESYES,thats in acception of one song the exact songs i wanted played from the album  :yey:
syched!!!
shame about starblind though, would have loved to see that live, unsure of its live track potential though  :ninja: even if it is the best track of the album
 
Really looking forward now to seeing what the official setlist will be after the show on the 11th. Even if Bruce has come out in an interview mentioning titles you never know if those are final.

If the list from Bruce is true, I also think it is a shame they are not playing Starblind, definitly the strongest track on the new album for me. But with the weird rhythms and all the stuff going on in the background on that track, it might be too hard to pull it off live, high margin of error I guess  :D
 
Mother Of Mercy would go fantastic live, due to that monstrous head banging main verse riff and emotional chorus.

As for Starblind, as much as I love this song (Maiden's best since 1988), I do think that it would be hard to be pulled off live at the same quality level as on record.
 
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