The Future Past tour 2023

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I'm glad someone else pointed out the weirdly slow intro to Wasted Years. I get that it's intentional, it just sounds weird to me. Almost geriatric.
 
Sth2112 said:
Yes! I don’t understand why som many fans here hate it. It is a great classic NWOBHM song, works well live and not as overplayed as certain other hits.
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Hear hear. I have seen Maiden on 7 tours with 8 different set lists. I have only seen it twice. That’s the same amount of times that I have seen Moonchild, Powerslave and Where Eagles Dare! I don’t think it is overplayed at all.
 
Ascendingthethrone said:
Hear hear. I have seen Maiden on 7 tours with 8 different set lists. I have only seen it twice. That’s the same amount of times that I have seen Moonchild, Powerslave and Where Eagles Dare! I don’t think it is overplayed at all.
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Lucky you!!! I have seen it twelve times!

How many Iron Maiden live songs have you witnessed at (an) Iron Maiden gig(s)

37 now.
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Joking aside, it is a great song but I think they have loads that are much better.
 
You could probably swap it for anything from the first two albums. If they kept more of those older songs in regular rotation instead of defaulting back to Wrathchild it would result in some more interesting choices.
 
I was thinking - how can Maiden top this tour?

In terms of the stage set, I doubt they will use one big screen (the next upgrade) or a different shape (again after 1998).
In terms of the setlist, if we exclude the new songs, the ''real'' deep cuts are CSIT, SIASL, ATG (maybe Prisoner and Heaven/CIPWM too). So they can make the next setlist even more surprising and fresh.

IMO They can only top it with a ''Deep Cuts'' tour (with stage set without screens) or with a ''New album'' tour for which they will do the same as now: 5/6 new songs, 4/5 classics and 4/5 deep cuts (Infinite Dreams, To Tame A Land...).
 
Sth2112 said:
Yes! I don’t understand why som many fans here hate it. It is a great classic NWOBHM song, works well live and not as overplayed as certain other hits.
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Four reasons:

2005 - Charlotte the Harlot is replaced with Wrathchild after two gigs. Charlotte hadn't been played since 1980, Wrathchild had been played on the preceding four tours.

2009 - Several songs considered deep cuts then (Moonchild, HCW, Clairvoyant) are dropped from SBIT. One of the songs to replace them is Wrathchild.

2010 - Brighter Than a Thousand Suns and Paschendale are dropped after a few gigs. Paschendale was rotated with Dance of Death which became fixed now. BTATS is replaced with, you guessed it, Wrathchild.

2014 - Clairvoyant is replaced with Wrathchild on the third Maiden England leg.


It's true that Revelations had a few similar appearances in recent tours, but Wrathchild just sticks out a lot more.
 
Kalata said:
I was thinking - how can Maiden top this tour?

In terms of the stage set, I doubt they will use one big screen (the next upgrade) or a different shape (again after 1998).
In terms of the setlist, if we exclude the new songs, the ''real'' deep cuts are CSIT, SIASL, ATG (maybe Prisoner and Heaven/CIPWM too). So they can make the next setlist even more surprising and fresh.

IMO They can only top it with a ''Deep Cuts'' tour (with stage set without screens) or with a ''New album'' tour for which they will do the same as now: 5/6 new songs, 4/5 classics and 4/5 deep cuts (Infinite Dreams, To Tame A Land...).
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Unplayed live songs and the future of Maiden: what's next?

So now that Iron Maiden has broken the "no previously unplayed live songs" rule, one that I would argue was never a hard rule to begin with, it has me thinking about whether we will see more previously unplayed songs or if this is a one-off. The Occam's razor answer is that this is a one off and...
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