The Official Book of Souls Tour 2016 Thread (Warning: Spoilers within!)

matic22 said:
Which makes sense... End of February - April: N. America, May - June: UK, July - August: Europe.
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Wasn't the rumour different just few pages ago (first UK, then USA)?
Honestly, I love Bruce rants on the gig. They've become more and more fun but he should seriously drop that "see you soon/will come back" thing. It just confuses people and give them false hope. I definitely plan on seeing Maiden in UK someday, but not some on festival or big stadium (like Twickenham on SBIT), so a proper arena tour in late winter/early spring rumour really cheered me up.
 
It will be interesting what they do next year. It's clear that they will tour. It was stated before the 2016 tour even begun. But what will they play?
First up is the boring option. The Book Of Souls American and European tour with the same setlist.
Second is The Book Of The Beast 2017 tour, which would celebrate the 35th anniversary of The Number Of The Beast, with setlist looking something like this:
IESF
SOL
The Prisoner
COTD
The Red And The Black
The Trooper
Powerslave
Death Or Glory
Book Of Souls
Hallowed
Fear
IM
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Number Of The Beast
22AA or RTTH
Wasted Years

Third is The Fear Of The Souls, which would concentrate on the 25th anniversary of FOTD and Live at Donnington.

IESF
SOL
Wasting Love
Afraid To Shoot Strangers
TRATB
The Trooper
Powerslave
Death Or Glory
Book Of Souls
Hallowed
Fear
IM
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Be Quick Or Be Dead
TNOTB
Wasted Years

Fourth is something similar to what was done in 2014. Replacing 3-4 classics with other classics. If a new song is replaced it would probably be TOAC. Something like this:

IESF
SOL
Revelations
TOAC
TRATB
The Trooper
Powerslave
DOG
TBOS
HBTN
FOTD
IM
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NOTB
Clairvoyant/TETMD
Running Free/Sanctuary
 
Show I saw in Christchurch, NZ was less than 10,000 and amazing to see the band so close

Spambot said:
I think this monkey thing is out of control. Don't mind if they're having fun on stage, but this looks really exaggerated. Expecially when I see the crowd doing "monkey climb". It would be sincere if it happened occasionally, but this looks like they're really pushing it. Also, I don't get the backstory of mexican wrestler mask in Powerslave, it happened it Mexico first, but he used it on every gig since, if I'm correct.

On topic Maiden outdoor VS Maiden indoor I'll take Maiden indoor anyday. Stage production looks better, atmosphere is warmer, sound is in most times clearer, audience is more into it and so on. Few years ago I've decided not to see Maiden at festivals anymore, because of the reasons mentioned. The gig I'm going to (Croatia) is definitely the smallest one on this tour (indoor, cap. 11,000) and I'm so glad for it. But it could easily be their last one in Croatia. 3 weeks to gig and almost all of upper stands are unsold, plenty of tickets in other areas too. I hope this is that Croatian thing where people do everything in the last second. Otherwise it could be a small fiasco.

Seems like this is it considering event shirts, Italy and Spain could be lucky if they get one, which is a shame. It would probably cost them more than they would gained, but it would be nice if they made event shirt for every non-festival gig on this tour. I wouldn't mind if every event shirt was like Germany one, just Mayan Eddie and country/flag in the background, on the back of the shirt - date and place with that shaman guy (Eddie and EF1 are also nice but I liked shaman better.)
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I don't think they'll do a TNOTB thing since they did that on the 2nd leg of the AMOLAD tour. And I have a feeling they'll save 90's material for another non-new album tour. I wonder if they'll really surprise is and do something different from TBOS next year. Shadows Of The Valley or The Man Of Sorrows would be really amazing. Also, I'm surprised they didn't do anything from TFF since they usually do something from the previous album.
 
I could see them doing a 90s thing, depending on when the tour starts. We are about due for a new Maiden dvd and I really doubt they'll dedicate a whole tour to the 90s. They'll just throw in a couple songs in the current setlist.

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I don't think any of the songs they didn't play from TBOS would sound all that good live. I'm ok with them never being played.
 
Travis The Dragon said:
I don't think they'll do a TNOTB thing since they did that on the 2nd leg of the AMOLAD tour. And I have a feeling they'll save 90's material for another non-new album tour. I wonder if they'll really surprise is and do something different from TBOS next year. Shadows Of The Valley or The Man Of Sorrows would be really amazing. Also, I'm surprised they didn't do anything from TFF since they usually do something from the previous album.
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Fully 90's tour wont happen. The production is just not interesting enough and the music is not popular enough (except few tracks). They could do something like the 2010 TFF tour with the reunion songs, but fully dedicated 90's tour wont happen.
 
Mosh said:
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I don't think any of the songs they didn't play from TBOS would sound all that good live. I'm ok with them never being played.
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I don't agree, but I doubt we will ever hear them. I'm hoping this next tour keeps all the same TBOS material except for The Red and The Black, which they swap out for two older songs (1 reunion and 1 classic, I'd even be happy with Wicker Man and Wrathchild).
 
Mosh said:
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I don't think any of the songs they didn't play from TBOS would sound all that good live. I'm ok with them never being played.
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The Great Unknown live would be great! But won't be played.

They'll drop TOAC for a song off AMOLAD, Children of the Damned for The Evil That Men Do, Powerslave for Phantom of the Opera and Blood Brothers for The Wickerman.
 
Forgot about TGU, I could see that one being good. I think the alternate tunings kept that one from ever being played.
 
Sounds like parts of the song were in open tunings with a capo and some weren't. Adrian Smith mentioned in an interview that it'd be difficult live.
 
The whole song is in DADF#AD with capo on 2nd. H mentioned that performing it would cause a lot of issues tuning-wise. Songs in this setlist that will probably be changed for next year are: Children Of The Damned, Tears Of A Clown, Powerslave, Blood Brothers and Wasted Years. But my ideal setlist for next year would be (while keeping it somewhat realistic):

If Eternity Should Fail
Speed Of Light
Revelations
Killers
Infinite Dreams
Lord Of The Flies or Man On The Edge
The Trooper
Powerslave
Death Or Glory
The Book Of Souls
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Fear Of The Dark
Iron Maiden
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The Number Of The Beast
Brave New World
Wasted Years

So I would make the following changes: COTD->Revelantions, TOAC->Killers, TRATB->Infinite Dreams, Blood Brothers -> Brave New World. Added: Lord Of The Flies or Man On The Edge ,because TRATB is Infinite Dreams x2 in lenght.
 
Mosh said:
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I don't think any of the songs they didn't play from TBOS would sound all that good live. I'm ok with them never being played.
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Honestly I think Shadows of the Valley would work really well live. I doubt it will happen, but anything's possible, I guess.
 
If we're already discusing possible setlist for the next year I'd like to throw my 2 cents:

I doubt they'll remove any of the current BoS songs: If Eternity and Speed of Light are openers and they rarely change those, Red and Black and Book of Souls are Harris's epics doubt he'll drop those two also, Tears of a Clown had a very good crowd acceptance and the crowd is the main reason why that song is played on the tour and Death or Glory is shorter faster song that fits nicely anywhere in the setlist. I think the last one has most potential of being removed from the setlist, and if that was happening I would like to hear When the River Runs Deep. I don't get why is there nobody mentions that one as live material, I think it would be awesome.

I doubt they'll make 90's history tour, they're probably going to change 3-4 songs but I also doubt any of those will be from BoS. Children of the Damned and Powerslave somehow seem more likely to be removed, althougt I would like for Powerslave to stay in. As I've mention earlier, not a single song form No Prayer, X Factor and Virtual XI have been played live in last 11-12 years so I would be surprised if they change Children with Lord of the Flies and Powerslave with Clansman.
 
A full 90s tour will not happen. The band knows the clock is ticking, and they're close to midnight (maybe this explains this new energy on the road), they are probably planning on 2 more tour cycles, one of a new album and another monster-tour before retiring/going solo. But i could see easily some 90s/late 80s songs popping up, they would satisfy 2 needs with 1 tour: cycling the set and allowing Rod to "bloody promote the whole new bloody Donington DVD, with bloody new interviews and some bootleg with Blaze from Nowhere Land in Ohio". The TBoS songs will stay for two reasons: first, the band rarely changes album songs during an album tour; second, and most important, because all the songs are having a huge answer from the crowd. IESF is the best inedit opener since Wicker Man, SOL is the single, TOAC and TRATB are being huge with the crowd (y'all can hate it, but the oh-oh fits just perfectly with the audience), DOG is Bruce's funtime and TBOS is the main song of the album.

I could see a set close to this:

1. If Eternity Should Fail
2. Speed of Light
3. Can I Play With Madness
4. Tears of a Clown
5. The Trooper
6. The Red and the Black
7. The Evil That Man Do
8. Death or Glory
9. The Book of Souls
10. Hallowed Be Thy Name
11. Fear of the Dark
12. Iron Maiden
13. The Number of the Beast
14. Wasting Love
15. Bring Your Daughter...to the Slaughter or Wasted Years

Although i would just love to hear Afraid to Shoot Strangers, Man on the Edge, Holy Smoke or another 90s gem, but i sincerely can't see they being played, either because they were played early as a gem (ATSS) or the band just don't care about them (every other song from NPFTD or the Blaze era).

I'm realy optimistic about the chances of seeing Maiden again in 2017. I'm not hoping for a full Latin America Tour, obviously, but i can see, at least, a Rock in Rio show to finish the tour. The band can be tired, Bruce's voice can be depleted, but i'll not care, i just want to see them again.
 
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