And in 2019 there were two cases of actual phenomenal demand. Mexico City and Santiago.
Yeah (especially with the capacity of the arenas and a short (arenas) tour only in Europe is always easier to sell out), but it's their choice to play only in Europe next year and mainly arenas during album tours. Short tour with not that many different places to visit, hence the 2nd nights. The SIT album is the other reason for the 'phenomenal demand', but we know that Maiden have no problem with selling tickets. The canceled 2020 shows with a lot of stadium gigs were also mostly sold out.
I hope Lisbon, Portugal
What's the furthest you would travel for a scheduled gig? If it weren't for my economical situation being ass due to a realtor fucking me over, I would already have booked a travel to somewhere else for Sweden for the sake of this.
Futureal is one of Maiden's best concert openers and is often regarded as one of the two classic songs from its album. It would have been the concert opener for a 90's-themed History tour! But for this tour they will open with a song from Senjutsu or SIT for sure (not with ''Senjutsu''). Futureal will also work great in the middle of the setlist (like in 1999) after an epic or a slow song. ''Senjutsu'' was an atypical opener.
The stage will probably look like the futuristic video from the tour promo video and I think it will be spectacular. I can't wait to see it.I am really curious to see what we get in terms of stage. I would like to see a futuristic neon city with some Japanese influences to bring both Somewhere in Time and Senjutsu into one single setting. A bit like the image below. Maybe some tower-like structures like the Japanese temple during Legacy '22 or the sattelite towers during the Final Frontier tour. This way they only have to change the curtains in the background and it still fits the theme perfectly.
They could also opt for the Legacy of the Beast route and change the stage to match the songs they will play. During the Legacy tour in 2019 and 2019 we saw the stage change from War > Religion > Hell and in 2022 it became Japan > Religion > Hell which was pretty cool and (correct me if I'm wrong) the first time ever that the whole stage changed scenery instead of just the curtain in the background. If they do this during the Future Past tour I can easily see them swapping a futuristic theme with the Japanese temple theme we already saw in 2022. But this would also mean that the setlist would be very divided, meaning we would first get 5 Senjutsu songs and then 5 Somewhere in Time songs (or vice versa of course) Would that work? In my opinion, no. I would rather see them alternate between SiT and Senjutsu songs and some classics (like The Trooper or Notb)
I would also like to see a making of DVD of this tour, like the documentary on the En Vivo DVD or the Flight 666 DVD. I don't know how likely it is that this will happen, but I would love to see it. I think there is a possibility since Steve regrets not filming anything during the Somewhere on Tour in 1986/87.
Would be really cool! They played The Evil that Men do in 2019 though.
It would fit very well and it seems they had plans/wanted to play it during LOTB tour (the hints in the 2018 poster... Heaven Can Wait too). Clairvoyant is kind of a deep cut, I guess.
The bizarre thing is that it seems his stilted speech pattern is exclusive to his solo stuff--he's the same on his last two live albums from the Infinite Entanglement tour. Then watch some clips even from his most recent Wolfsbane tour, which is only separated from this performance by 5 or 6 months, and he's quick and actually pretty funny.
I loved how they had Stranger in a Strange Land, Futureal and Man on the Edge back to back in 1999. Those three work really well next to one another. Instead of Man on the Edge you could have Wasted Years!
On one hand I'd love to see Samurai Eddie and Cyborg Eddie being fused into one single Eddie (kinda like the Future Past tour poster). That would be neat!
