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Somewhere On Tour - 1986/1987

Somewhere On Tour - 1986/1987

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  • Fri 12 Ljubliana, FORMER YUGOSLAVIA Tivoli Hall  
  • Sun 14 Vienna, AUSTRIA Donauinsel  
  • Mon 15 Graz, AUSTRIA Eisstadion Liebenau  
  • Wed 17 Budapest, HUNGARY MTK Football Stadium  
  • Fri 19 Katowice, POLAND Zabrze Makoszowy  
  • Sat 20 Wroclaw, POLAND Halla Ludowa  
  • Sun 21 Poznan, POLAND Arena  
  • Tue 23 Gdansk, POLAND Olivia  
  • Wed 24 Lodz, POLAND Halla Sportowa  
  • Thu 25 Warsaw, POLAND Torwar Sports Hall  
  • Fri 3 Oxford, UK Apollo Theatre  
  • Sat 4 St Austell, UK Cornwall Coliseum  
  • Mon 6 Cardiff, UK St. Davids Hall  
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  • Wed 8 Bristol, UK Colston Hall  
  • Fri 10 Manchester, UK Apollo Theatre  
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  • Sun 12 Liverpool, UK Empire Theatre  
  • Tue 14 Leicester, UK De Montfort Hall  
  • Wed 15 Sheffield, UK City Hall  
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  • Sat 18 Ipswich, UK Gaumont Hall  
  • Mon 20 Nottingham, UK Royal Concert Hall  
  • Tue 21 Bradford, UK St. Georges Hall  
  • Wed 22 Hanley, UK Victoria Hall  
  • Fri 24 Newcastle, UK City Hall  
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  • Mon 27 Edinburgh, UK Playhouse Theatre  
  • Tue 28 Edinburgh, UK Playhouse Theatre  
  • Thu 30 Birmingham, UK Odeon  
  • Fri 31 Birmingham, UK Odeon  
  • Sat 1 Birmingham, UK Odeon  
  • Tue 4 Hammersmith, London, UK Odeon  
  • Wed 5 Hammersmith, London, UK Odeon  
  • Fri 7 Hammersmith, London, UK Odeon  
  • Sat 8 Hammersmith, London, UK Odeon  
  • Sun 9 Hammersmith, London, UK Odeon  
  • Wed 12 Helsinki, FINLAND Ishall  
  • Fri 14 Stockholm, SWEDEN Isstadion  
  • Sat 15 Gothenburg, SWEDEN Scandinavium  
  • Mon 17 Drammen, NORWAY Drammenshalle  
  • Tue 18 Malmo, SWEDEN Isstadion  
  • Thu 20 Offenbach, Frankfurt, GERMANY Stadthalle  
  • Fri 21 Stuttgart, GERMANY Sporthalle  
  • Sat 22 Hannover, GERMANY Eilenriedehalle  
  • Sun 23 Leiden, NETHERLANDS Groenoordhal  
  • Tue 25 Essen, GERMANY Grugahalle  
  • Wed 26 Munich, GERMANY Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle  
  • Fri 28 Brusssels, BELGIUM Forêt Nationale  
  • Sat 29 Paris, FRANCE Palais Omnisport De Paris Bercy  
  • Mon 1 Barcelona, SPAIN Palacio Municipal De Deportes  
  • Tue 2 Madrid, SPAIN Real Madrid Pabellon  
  • Wed 3 Madrid, SPAIN Real Madrid Pabellon  
  • Fri 5 Lisbon, PORTUGAL Cascais Hall  
  • Sun 7 Toulouse, FRANCE Palais Des Sports  
  • Mon 8 Montpellier, FRANCE Le Zénith  
  • Tue 9 Lyon, FRANCE Palais Des Sports  
  • Thu 11 Nuremberg, GERMANY Hemmerleinhalle  
  • Fri 12 Ludwigshafen, GERMANY Eberthalle  
  • Sat 13 Lausanne, SWITZERLAND Halle Des Fêtes  
  • Mon 15 Turin, ITALY Theatro Tenda  
  • Tue 16 Milan, ITALY Palatrussardi  
  • Wed 17 Florence, ITALY Palasport  
  • Thu 18 Naples, ITALY Theatro Tenda  
  • Fri 19 Rome, ITALY Theatro Tenda  
  • Sat 20 Bologna, ITALY Theatro Tenda  
  • Sun 21 Padova, ITALY Theatro Tenda  
  • Wed 7 Hampton, Virginia, USA Coliseum  
  • Thu 8 Landover, USA Capitol Center  
  • Fri 9 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Civic Arena  
  • Sun 11 Troy, New York, USA Arena  
  • Mon 12 New Haven, Connecticut, USA Coliseum  
  • Tue 13 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Spectrum  
  • Fri 16 Jacksonville, Florida, USA Memorial Coliseum  
  • Sat 17 Miami, Florida, USA Arena  
  • Sun 18 Lakeland, Florida, USA Civic Center  
  • Tue 20 Atlanta, Georgia, USA Omni  
  • Thu 22 Dallas, Texas, USA Reunion Arena  
  • Fri 23 Austin, Texas, USA Frank Ervin Center  
  • Mon 26 Lubbock, Texas, USA Coliseum  
  • Tue 27 Norman, Oklahoma, USA Lloyd Nobel Arena  
  • Wed 28 Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA Assembly Civic Center  
  • Fri 30 Houston, Texas, USA Summit  
  • Sat 31 San Antonio, USA Convention Center  
  • Sun 1 Corpus Christi, Texas, USA Coliseum  
  • Tue 3 Amarillo, Texas, USA Center  
  • Wed 4 Wichita, Kansas, USA Civic Center  
  • Fri 6 Denver, Colorado, USA Mcnichols Arena  
  • Sun 8 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Salt Palace  
  • Tue 10 Tacoma, Washington, USA Dome Arena  
  • Wed 11 Portland, Oregon, USA Coliseum  
  • Fri 13 Sacramento, California, USA Arco Arena  
  • Sat 14 San Bernardino, California, USA Orange Pavilion  
  • Mon 16 Los Angeles, California, USA Long Beach Arena  
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  • Sat 21 Oakland, California, USA Arena  
  • Sun 22 Fresno, California, USA Selland Arena  
  • Tue 24 San Diego, California, USA Sports Arena  
  • Wed 25 Phoenix, Arizona, USA Memorial Coliseum  
  • Thu 26 Tuscon, Arizona, USA Community Center  
  • Fri 27 El Paso, Texas, USA Coliseum  
  • Sat 28 El Paso, Texas, USA Coliseum  
  • Sun 1 Fort Worth, Texas, USA Coliseum  
  • Tue 3 Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Tingley Coliseum  
  • Thu 5 Omaha, Nebraska, USA Civic Center  
  • Fri 6 Kansas City, Missouri, USA Municipal Auditorium  
  • Sat 7 Saint Louis, Missouri, USA Kiel Auditorium  
  • Sun 8 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Mecca Arena  
  • Mon 9 Madison, Wisconsin, USA Dane Country Coliseum  
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  • Tue 24 Montréal, Quebec, CANADA Forum  
  • Wed 25 Quebec City, Quebec, CANADA Coliseum  
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  • Sat 28 East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA Brendan Byrne Arena  
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  • Fri 15 Tokyo, JAPAN NHK Hall  
  • Sun 17 Kyoto, JAPAN Kaikan Daiichi Hall  
  • Mon 18 Hiroshima, JAPAN Kosei Nenkin Kaikan  
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Revisiting Iron Maiden’s Deflating ‘Somewhere on Tour’ Shows

On paper, Iron Maiden ’s Somewhere on Tour road trip of 1986 should have been something worth celebrating. But the band seems averse to kicking that particular gravestone too hard.

Which is a shame, because by all accounts it was a spectacular show in support of Maiden's well-received, if non-standard, sixth album,  Somewhere in Time .

The best official hint at the impressive stage show can be seen on the video for the LP's second single, “Stranger in a Strange Land." Near the end of the song a giant inflatable version of Maiden’s Eddie mascot in futuristic bounty-hunter form appears to take over the stage. Nicko McBrain’s drum kit is elevated to the ceiling as the head appears beneath him, while singer  Bruce Dickinson and bassist Steve Harris take their places on platforms at either side of the stage, standing in the palms of Eddie’s hands.

Watch Iron Maiden's ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’ Video

“This was the ‘Great Inflatable’ tour,” Dickinson told Classic Rock later. “Dave Lights was still doing our lighting stuff, and he was well into inflatables. He had a bit of an inflatable megalomania, in fact. He built inflatables that were so big they wouldn’t actually fit inside the sodding buildings! We had two big hydraulic hands, which would raise up – not Spinal Tap at all! – with big Eddie claw hands that would inflate.”

“Me and Bruce stood in the palms of the inflatable hands,” Harris added. “On one night, a lamp was too close and burnt a hole in it. Consequently it was like [ deflating noise ] – I felt a right plonker being up there like that. But not only that! The best thing about it, the next gig we did, they’d patched it up. They tied the fingers back so it came out with the middle finger up. … That was quite hilarious!”

Dickinson recalled “roadies frantically coming out and [pumping air] sort of like alien hand fluffers!” He noted that the head underneath McBrain’s kit “was great, except when the pressure started to go and it looked a bit like a saggy bin liner.” (As the massive and impressive airplane, devil and angel inflatables used on the 2018-19 Legacy of the Beast tour demonstrate, the band has since gotten a better grip on the technology.)

In the meantime, the singer had gotten used to abandoning the top part of an outfit that was supposed to look like his heart and arteries were throbbing with light outside his torso. “I mean, obviously I didn’t think it was Spinal Tap at the time,” he admitted. “The idea was that the whole suit would be covered in veins that would just be pulsing the whole time so, in the end, the way they got it to work was about 30 pounds of copper wire inside a big jacket and a six-volt lead acid battery stuck in there which ran out of juice about halfway through the song!”

Watch Bruce Dickinson's "Lite-Brite" Jacket in Action

It was probably less funny back then – maybe that’s one reason why none of the shows was ever recorded (manager Rod Smallwood also said it was too soon for another live project). But Maiden appeared to be quickly falling out of love with Somewhere in Time  by the time it arrived on Sept. 29, three weeks after the tour started. By the end of the eight-month, 151-show journey, only four songs from the new LP remained in the set – the fewest number of new songs ever to be performed on a Maiden tour supporting an album.

Another part of the problem was that they hadn’t resolved the issues that arose after their fifth LP,  Powerslave , and its massive success, which was followed by a twice-round-the-world tour and the  Live After Death  concert album. A burnt-out Dickinson came to the conclusion that the band had to change direction, so he brought a group of acoustic-based songs to the table that he felt represented their Led Zeppelin III . But Harris thought they were closer to  Jethro Tull and inappropriate for Maiden.

That left guitarist Adrian Smith to fill the gap, delivering a stack of songs that moved in a more commercial direction and even saw the introduction of guitar synths. The result was an album that sold 2 million copies in North America alone but left the band feeling as deflated as the Eddie prop. Blackie Lawless, whose band W.A.S.P. opened the first leg, later recalled  that "there were a lot of times we went on their bus. Both of us felt we had sort of put out tired records by tired bands.”

Watch Iron Maiden's ‘Wasted Years’ Video

Even though they called their 2008 nostalgia tour Somewhere Back in Time , the band has continued to all but ignore the album, with only the lead single, the prophetically named “Wasted Years,” receiving much love. Dickinson and Harris mended fences over the idea of the follow-up concept album Seventh Son of a Seventh Son , and it was only after that the lineup began to falter. By the time they established a new paradigm at the turn of the century, perhaps those Dickinson songs would have become more palatable. Perhaps then Maiden should have done more than just patch up the inflatable.

“A live video would have complimented Somewhere on Tour perfectly, and would surely have sold well on the heels of Live After Death ,” Maiden Revelations argued. “In fact, based on bootleg recordings from 1986 (Paris, in particular), Bruce’s voice was significantly less strained than on the World Slavery Tour, as the entire band had learned several valuable lessons when it came to pacing themselves after the near-disastrous consequences of their previous tour.”

“As a project, the album attempted to carry the band into the future while flexing a budding songwriter in Smith and appeasing a stir-crazy Dickinson at the same time,” Invisible Oranges  said of Somewhere in Time . “It accomplished none of those things: Maiden abandoned this sound, Smith hasn’t written so much at once since and both he and Dickinson wound up leaving later. That Smith and Dickinson since returned to the fold doesn’t alter the album’s significance as a harbinger of the end -- not the end of Iron Maiden, but of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.”

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The singer wanted to make an acoustic record, the fans objected to the synths and the onstage inflatables wouldn’t inflate. What the hell was going on with Iron Maiden’s Somewhere In Time?

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The success of the World Slavery tour, not to mention the subsequent release and chart-battering triumph of the classic Live After Death live album in 1985, meant that Iron Maiden were now in more demand than ever and that all eyes and ears were keenly primed to receive the band’s next creative outpouring. Given that several years of non-stop recording and touring had driven them – and Bruce in particular – to the brink of exhaustion, that kind of immense external pressure could easily have compelled a lesser band to take an extended hiatus or, at the very least, a brief pause. But Maiden were stopping for no one.

“That’s the beauty of having strong writers in the band,” says Steve. “If one’s drying up or one’s messed up or for whatever reason, you know, you’ve got other people who can come in and take over and it wasn’t a problem, really.”

“Most of the things that I had were, really, trying to completely turn Maiden, you know, upside down and on its head,” says Bruce. “I said, you know, we’ve done this big metal thing, should we go a bit more chill-out, maybe we should go a bit more acousticy? And everybody looked at me like I had two heads!”

“I just said, look, a lot of these songs, there’s some good ideas, but they’re just not really right for us,” states Steve. “It’s kinda very Jethro Tull-y kinda stuff, which I love, but it just wasn’t really right. I don’t know, it didn’t feel right at that time.”

After Bruce’s plans to take Maiden in a radical new direction were brusquely rejected by his band mates, the singer stepped temporarily aside, allowing other members of the band to take up the compositional slack. On this occasion, it was guitarist Adrian Smith who grasped the nettle, contributing three songs to the sixth Maiden album, Somewhere In Time , including its first single, the anthemic Wasted Years . With Steve conjuring up his usual flurry of epic songs, the new record was destined to be another grand and substantial statement.

“Adrian has never really been one for writing too many lyrics so the fact that he came in and wrote some lyrics himself… I think he just wanted to experiment himself with some stuff,” says Steve. “It worked out great, three really superb songs.”

Recorded both at Compass Point Studios in Nassau and at the legendary Wisseloord studio in Holland, Somewhere In Time did mark a slight departure for Maiden, in that it featured the use of the then distinctly groundbreaking guitar synthesizer, something that had seldom been a feature in metal prior to that point. Adrian Smith’s songs certainly brought a fresh vibe and an air of radio-friendly oomph to the album too, perfectly complementing Steve’s compositions like instant live favourite Heaven Can Wait and the grandiose Alexander The Great .

It may have been the most controversial Maiden album to date, but Somewhere In Time , with its magnificently inspired and detailed Derek Riggs artwork featuring Eddie in full-on cyborg mode, would go on to delight the diehard fanbase, ensuring that the band’s momentum was in no way diminished by a slight change in musical mood. Released in September 1986, Somewhere In Time was another great success for Maiden on both sides of the Atlantic. Despite having come close to collective collapse at the end of the World Slavery tour, there was no way that Steve Harris or Rod Smallwood were going to allow the band to take their foot off the gas, and so they immediately embarked on another colossal world tour to support the new album.

“ Somewhere In Time came off the back of the World Slavery Tour which was picked on by Bruce in particular for being long,” says Rod. “I mean, it was a long tour. Every album and tour, we would get a little bit bigger. It’s my job to make it as big as we can everywhere in the world. This idea of going round the world twice was probably, in retrospect, not the best idea I have ever had. So, this one [ Somewhere In Time tour] was only 157 shows.”

Kicking off with a 24-date UK run that concluded with six consecutive sold-out shows at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, the Somewhere In Time tour took Maiden to a new level of presentational audacity. The science fiction vibe of the album’s iconic cover art provided a perfect spring board for the band’s imagination to run riot, resulting in a stage show that was visually explosive and unapologetically extravagant, in keeping with Maiden’s now steel-plated reputation as the greatest live rock band on Earth. With hindsight, however, the tour also marked the point where the band’s penchant for the spectacular dragged them firmly into the realms of the ridiculous.

“This was the ‘Great Inflatable’ tour. Dave Lights was still doing our lighting stuff and he was well into inflatables,” Bruce remembers. “He had a bit of an inflatable megalomania, in fact. He built inflatables that were so big they wouldn’t actually fit inside the sodding buildings! We had two big hydraulic hands, which would raise up – not Spinal Tap at all! – with big Eddie claw hands that would inflate…”

“Me and Bruce stood in the palms of the inflatable hands,” says Steve. “On one night, a lamp was too close and burnt a hole in it. Consequently it was like [makes deflating noise] – I felt a right plonker being up there like that. But not only that! The best thing about it, the next gig we did, they’d patched it up. They tied the fingers back so it came out with the middle finger up… that was quite hilarious!”

“All of a sudden there’d be roadies frantically coming out and going [imitates pumping] sort of like alien hand fluffers!” Bruce laughs. “We had the rising drumkit so that came up on hydraulic jacks taking Nicko to stratospheric heights, and of course the Eddie head that inflated underneath. It was great except when the pressure started to go and it looked a bit like a saggy bin liner. Ha ha ha!”

Never a man to hold back from injecting some theatrical flair into Maiden performances, Bruce was in his element during the _Somewhere O_ n Tour , arriving onstage adorned with some of the most bizarre and elaborate costumes imaginable. Maiden chose not to have any of the gigs on the tour professionally filmed, but despite that unfortunate oversight it’s safe to say that anyone who saw the band at that time will have the image of Bruce’s stage gear, not to mention his bandmates’ increasingly flamboyant variations on a Spandex theme, permanently etched onto their memory.

“What were we thinking? Ha ha ha! That was the era where it was big, loud costumes and loud production and a loud band,” says Dave Murray. “Everything was really loud. You had to wear sunglasses quite a lot because of the sheer volume… there was a lot of volume coming just from the clothing.”

“I mean, obviously I didn’t think it was Spinal Tap at the time but you know it is a pretty odd garment that I’m wearing out there!” Bruce confesses. “‘Right, what I want to do is I want the top half to be a bit Errol Flynn, you see, and the bottom half I want to look like they’re trousers that would be worn by some sort of space hunter in the Forbidden Zone type of guy who’s come along and shot lots of alien-looking toads and made trousers out of them!’ Then we had the issue of the very kitsch beating heart with what were supposed to be rope lights. The idea was that the whole suit would be covered in veins that would just be pulsing the whole time so, in the end, the way they got it to work was about 30 pounds of copper wire inside a big jacket and a six-volt lead acid battery stuck in there which ran out of juice about halfway through the song!”

Malfunctioning inflatables and ludicrous clobber aside, the Somewhere In Time tour was another unequivocal triumph for Maiden. Not only were they now enjoying unprecedented levels of popularity in both Europe and America, but even the Far East had succumbed to their charms – a phenomenon that led to the band headlining at Japan’s legendary Budokan venue for the first time.

“It was a big deal to play the Budokan,” says Rod. “It was the first time we’d played it. Budokan is a hugely famous Japanese martial arts centre. It’s sort of an honour to play there, and it’s really nice in Japan to reach the stage where you can.”

“I found it strangely disappointing actually,” notes Bruce. “I always visualised it as being [raises voice] The Budokan, and it’s just a gym! But we got to the end of that tour and I thought, ‘Oh, that wasn’t too bad!’, had a little think about things, and then I was chatting to Steve and he said ‘Concept album. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son !’ and that was it. I was off to the races then, I was like ‘Brilliant!’”

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All things maiden, from the vault: live in paris 1986.

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The Iron Maiden concert video that never was. Here’s a classic bootleg of the 1986 Somewhere On Tour show in Paris .

Somewhere In Time . One of Iron Maiden’s most popular albums. One of their most troubled productions. The point where singer Bruce Dickinson nearly left the band. The last Maiden tour that featured a genuinly different kind of stage production . And one of two classic tours in the 1980s that never got a proper concert video, the other one being the 1983 Piece Of Mind tour .

In other words, a rare gem in the vaults of hardcore Maiden fans.

Make sure to check out our Maiden History chapter about the making of the Somewhere In Time album , where producer Martin Birch had to balance the different musical ambitions that Dickinson, bassist Steve Harris and guitaris Adrian Smith brought to the table.

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Space age Eddie, caught somewhere in time.

The subsequent Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son album and tour would receive the full concert video treatment . But the Somewhere In Time show was saved for posterity by a Paris TV team. It’s a one-camera production from the 29 November 1986 concert, but to date it’s probably the best video bootleg of the 1986-87 world tour:

Intro – End Titles from Blade Runner (Vangelis) CAUGHT SOMEWHERE IN TIME 2 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT SEA OF MADNESS CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND WASTED YEARS RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER Guitar solo – Walking On Glass HEAVEN CAN WAIT PHANTOM OF THE OPERA HALLOWED BE THY NAME IRON MAIDEN THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST RUN TO THE HILLS RUNNING FREE SANCTUARY

This tour was the last time that Maiden would ever include a regular guitar solo spot in their show. Walking On Glass was composed by Adrian Smith in 1985 during his and drummer Nicko McBrain’s one-off side project The Entire Population Of Hackney . Smith and co-guitarist Dave Murray included a bit of the Howard Blake song Walking In The Air in this 1986 performance of their duet.

The setlist was remarkable for leaving out the current album’s epic, Alexander The Great , instead retaining the previous tour’s Rime Of The Ancient Mariner . Another current song, The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner , was only granted one single performance on opening night before being dropped.

It was also clear that Dickinson no longer had the ability to sing like he had done in the 1982-84 period, and thus Flight Of Icarus and Where Eagles Dare were dropped from the set early in the tour. A forgotten gem on the album and in the set was Adrian Smith’s Sea Of Madness , which was dropped early in the American leg of the tour, never to return.

You can at least savour that completely rocking song in the above video from the vault. Enjoy!

19 thoughts on “ FROM THE VAULT: Live in Paris 1986 ”

I think they nicknamed this, “The World Inflatable Tour.”

With good reason. 😀

LOL — poor Harry talked about how he would be standing in Eddie’s “hands” but one of the fingers wouldn’t inflate, or some other on-going tech issue, and he would “feel like a real dong.” After that fiasco, they said, “Never again!”

Still it’s a shame we don’t have an official release based on this tour, as well as 2006’s Amolad tour…

Yeah, the real holes in the live catalog are 1983, 1986 and 2006. When it comes to the eighties, 1983 only had the Dortmund show properly filmed and that was a mini-set compared to the regular setlist of the tour. 1986 only had pro-shot footage of bits and pieces and the Stranger In A Strange Land promo, so nothing complete will ever surface. Paris is probably as good as it gets. As Steve said recently, they didn’t film it for posterity and have regretted it ever since.

It’d still be nice if they had gone a bit more in depth into this tour in “History Part 3” 😦 at least that would’ve been something…

OMG! Seeing stuff from Maiden live in 1986 just remember me how awful that “History Part 3” was! I was so looking for that documentary… Part 3 was supposed to be the best Maiden documentary ever, since we have little information from 86 and 87. Instead we got the worst… short, almost nothing new, poor editing and that little blurry screen for the interviews. That pissed me off! Sorry, I needed to get this off my chest! 😀

hey , at least we learned about the puma sponsorship 😛 what else could we want ?

We tried to compensate by doing our part RIGHT HERE . 😉

And to be clear, the 3rd part of the History documentary is crap. The band tells pretty much what we would expect, but to have zero input from Martin Birch on the making of SIT and SSOASS is absolutely ridiculous…

At least they acknowledged the creative differences Adrian and Bruce had with the rest of the band! 😆

That being said, not having any input from Martin Birch was ridiculous. They could have used the interview(s) they did with him for the History of Iron Maiden part 2. As their original plan was to release “Maiden England” in 2008, I bet the documentary for part 3 was filmed around the same time…

@Ghost, as you say, I bet they filmed part 3 back in 2005 when they did the other ones, as Maiden England was supposed to tie in with Live After Death. Come 2012 they probably thought the footage was too old to make it seem current, so they scrapped it and redid it (speculating here). A lot of the interviews must have been done in 2011 as you can see several Oslo buildings in the background of some of the interviews.

I think it’s a huge letdown compared to the two others. They’re merely scratching the surface and there is no 2nd opinions from the crew or anyone else in the Maiden machinery.

I agree that it lacks the opinions from other relevant people (not having Martin Birch is a crime!), although I like the way the acknowledged some of the problems they faced in that era. Anyway, a let-down after the high quality of the first 2.

I agree with all of that. I thought Steve, Bruce and Adrian were very good and open. But it would all have been more meaningful if Martin had been featured. Particularly since he is very clear in the official bio, about both Bruce’s songs and Adrian’s.

And Ghost , being the Maiden nerd you are, how about Rod’s complete nonsense when it came to the Seventh Son recording schedule? 🙂

To be honest, I cannot really remember what he said. I know he has been instrumental in getting Maiden where they are, but his megalomania is too much for my liking!

@Ghost: He boasted that they wrote, recorded and released Seventh Son in less than six months, after the previous tour ended in November 1987. The first part is accurate enough, but the SIT tour ended in May 1987, as the graphics on the screen were showing while Rod was talking. 😉

Thanks. He was talking out of his arse then. 😆

Seventh Son was most definitely not in stores six months after the previous tour ended. But Rod believes it was. 😀

Bruce was on fire in this video. This was his most unrestrained performance ever. Very artistic. I love his looser approach to the melody lines, where the vocal melodies seem to detach from the songs and transcend their usual confines. I also love the way this approach makes the vocals soar compared to the studio versions. Bruce’s style is often described operatic, but this was the only time when that was truly the case.

The band sound really great in this concert and the mix is excellent, with Bruce’s vocals nice and high up in the mix. I wish the reunion albums had been mixed liked that, too, instead of burying Bruce’s vocals in a wall of guitars. I also like how they’re not playing the songs as fast as they did on the Maiden England tour. This must have been an amazing concert to experience. Great sound, mix, individual performances, a strong setlist, and a bombastic yet intimate stage design.

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Take a Look at Iron Maiden’s First-Ever Signature Monopoly Board Game

At long last, Iron Maiden finally have their very own edition of the classic board game Monopoly.

Everyone's favorite game about the brutal reality of capitalism through its late-stage phase where one winner ultimately bankrupts all other participants has been given an overhaul to accommodate Maiden lore, branded "Monopoly: Iron Maiden Somewhere on Tour."

As the title indicates, the game takes on the concept of its players touring the world with rebranded elements of the game itself to better model life on the road, such as houses and hotels being replaced by arenas and stadiums while merch and beer stands are in place where utility spaces used to be.

"Experience the highs and lows of touring life with an epic Maiden-ized board, player tokens and cards. All the fun of being on the road, with none of the jetlag," reads part of Iron Maiden's social media post relaying the news.

What's Different From the Standard Monopoly Game

Property Names:

The standard properties up for purchase have all been renamed after albums (studio, live, compilations) that Iron Maiden have released, laid out in chronological order as you move along the game board.

Houses + Hotels:

Houses are now called arenas and hotels have been rebranded as stadiums.

Why take the train when you can take Iron Maiden's Ed Force One airplane?

So long electricity and water and hello merch and Trooper beer stands!

Taxes + Fees:

As residents of the U.S., we find it ironic that the Brits have done away with taxes (that whole Boston Tea Party incident), but we support it nonetheless. Now, players are looking at recording fees and fees to land Ed Force One.

Game Tokens:

Nope, no thimbles or dogs anymore. The six player tokens are now an amplifier cabinet, Bruce Dickinson 's pilot's helmet, Nicko McBrain 's drum kit, Steve Harris ' bass, that pesky albatross from "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and the digital display console as pictured in the single artwork for "Wasted Years."

Surprisingly, there's no Eddie token.

Community + Chance Cards:

These have been rebranded as "Open the Box" and "Feeling Lucky?" cards.

Eddie as pictured on the "Stratego" single art (off the band's latest album,  Senjutsu ) graces the multi-colored game currency dubbed Eddie Bucks.

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Iron Maiden also noted that if the game is not available in your location, you can expect it to be available in time for Christmas.

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IRON MAIDEN Teams Up With THE OP GAMES For First-Ever 'Monopoly: Somewhere On Tour' Edition

Usaopoly ( The Op Games ),the board game and puzzle publisher behind iconic licensed games and best-selling party games Telestrations , Blank Slate and Hues And Cues , has teamed up with IRON MAIDEN , one of heavy metal's most prolific and influential bands of all time, and global leader in play Hasbro to bring fans the ultimate piece of tabletop memorabilia — Monopoly: Iron Maiden Somewhere On Tour .

Played by traditional Monopoly rules, players will buy, sell, and trade properties named after classic albums, including "The Number Of The Beast" , "Brave New World" , "Senjutsu" and more, to bankrupt their opponents and be the last one with Eddie -faced money to win. The notorious mascot also adorns the traditional Chance and Community Chest cards, aptly renamed "Feeling Lucky?" and "Open the Box," entertaining gamers and Troopers alike with instances of success ("Advance to nearest Maiden Goodies") and brushes with bad luck ("Bad weather... Ed Force One diverted"). Six custom sculpted pewter tokens also serve as miniature tributes to the band's records and gear, such as an Albatross, Amp Stack, Flying Helmet, Nicko's Drum Kit, Wasted Years Computer, and Steve's Bass.

"We're delighted to have been given the opportunity to have Monopoly get the full Eddie treatment," said Rod Smallwood , manager of IRON MAIDEN . "In true MAIDEN fashion, we commissioned our main tour artist, Akirant , to grace the board and the box lid with some of our most loved Eddies on tour. The game is full of our humor (who else would ransom Nicko 's pal Sooty ?),even the player pieces reflect our unique history (yeah, the impaled albatross!) and the weird and wonderful world we share with our fans and they have come to expect from us!"

Monopoly: Iron Maiden Somewhere On Tour releases hot on the trail of "The Future Past Tour 2023" currently traversing Europe through August. Fans in North America can join the IRON MAIDEN celebration this fall when the band brings heavy metal stateside at the Power Trip festival taking place in Indio, California this October, as well as three shows in western Canada.

"We're excited to add another prolific license to our line with the launch of Monopoly: Iron Maiden edition and provide fans with a new collectible that merges one of the greatest heavy metal bands of all time with Hasbro 's timeless Fast-Dealing Property Trading Game," said Dane Chapin , CEO of The Op . "The IRON MAIDEN fandom shares a universal sense of camaraderie, and we love that we can provide them with an engaging game that highlights so many of the band's legendary shows and immaculate album art."

Monopoly: Iron Maiden Somewhere On Tour (MSRP: $44.99),the ultimate collectible game for IRON MAIDEN "Troopers," is available now from The Op Games . Follow along on social @TheOpGames and @IronMaiden for more about the game and latest announcements.

Monopoly first hit shelves in 1935 with the Racecar, Thimble, Boot, Top Hat, and Battleship among the original set of Monopoly tokens, while the Scottie Dog and Wheelbarrow were added in the early 1950s. Although the brand has evolved over the 87 years, the gameplay and iconography of the classic Monopoly game has remained unchanged, making it a timeless classic sure to be enjoyed by future generations. Today, Monopoly is the world's favorite family game brand and is enjoyed by more than one billion players in 114 countries across the globe.

Founded in east London in the mid-1970s by songwriter and bassist Steve Harris , IRON MAIDEN 's decades-spanning career has made them one of the most revered and influential bands of all time. With over 100 million record sales, almost 2,500 live performances across 64 countries and 17 studio albums — including their latest, "Senjutsu" , released in 2021 — IRON MAIDEN have remained fearlessly creative and dedicated to their legions of fans for almost half a century.

For more information, visit The Op Games .

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"When we first started, he did not want to sound like Iron Maiden": Roy Z on his three-decade creative partnership with Bruce Dickinson

W hen Bruce Dickinson split from Iron Maiden in 1993, he barely let the dust settle before finding himself a new creative confidant in Roy Z, the California-based guitarist and producer working with him on 1994's Balls To Picasso and every subsequent solo release.

Bruce might have rejoined Maiden in 2000, but that didn't mean his partnership with Z was done - in fact, the pair have been toiling away at ideas for a new solo album since at least 2012. With The Mandrake Project finally brought to life this week, we asked Roy about his relationship with the Maiden frontman and how things have changed over the years... 

WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT MEETING BRUCE FOR THE FIRST TIME?  

“It was 1993 and we were working in the same studio - him in the day, me [with the band Tribe Of Gypsies] at night. I’d told my engineer that I didn’t want anyone to hear my music, no exceptions. One day I came in and there was this guy at the desk, listening to my shit, long hair flying everywhere. 

I was ready to kill somebody. But then he turned around and went, ‘Hey, I’m Bruce, I love your band, who are you?’ He asked if I wanted to come to the UK and write with him. That fall, he announced he was leaving Maiden and it just went from there.” 

WHEN DID BRUCE SEND UP THE BAT SIGNAL ABOUT MAKING A NEW ALBUM THIS TIME?  

“We were originally set to go in 2012. That’s when we did the first batch of demos. Maiden were going to have some time off, so it was like, ‘Let’s get this done!’ The plan was to release it in 2013 and possibly do some shows. But that all kind of changed. We did 12-14 songs, so a few of them didn’t come out on this record. Hopefully they’ll see the light of day.” 

HAVE YOU EVER WRITTEN A SONG THAT SOUNDS LIKE IRON MAIDEN AND THEN THOUGHT, ‘NO, WE CAN’T DO THAT’?  

“When we first started, he did not want anything to sound like Iron Maiden. But we like a lot of the same bands. I’m really into old Sabbath, old Deep Purple, Rainbow, and Bruce is as well. So we have a great foundation of influences.”  

BRUCE PLAYS GUITAR ON THE TRACKS RESURRECTION MEN AND FACE IN THE MIRROR . HOW DID THAT COME ABOUT?  

“I just said, ‘Hey, it’s your solo record, let’s have fun.’ He’s written riffs, but we’ve never had him play guitar on a record of anything. With Resurrection Men , Bruce was like, ‘Can you get us a [surf guitar pioneer] kind of sound?’ I said, ‘Here’s an amp that does that, so show me what you’re thinking.’ He ended up doing really well ’cos he was inspired by us vibing on it. It was a no-pressure kind of thing.” 

HAVE YOU PERSUADED BRUCE TO PLAY GUITAR ON THE TOUR?  

“No. Unless he wants to!”

The Mandrake Project is out now via BMG. Bruce Dickinson's solo tour starts April 15. For the full list of dates, visit his official website . 

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DP World Tour: Jordan Gumberg wins SDC Championship in play-off after Robin Williams' costly double bogey

Robin Williams squanders two-shot lead with two holes remaining before losing to Jordan Gumberg on second hole of play-off at SDC Championship in his native South Africa; American Gumberg claims maiden DP World Tour title - watch golf on Sky Sports or stream with NOW

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America's Jordan Gumberg won the DP World Tour's SDC Championship in South Africa on the second play-off hole after Robin "Tiger" Williams blew a two-shot lead with two holes remaining.

Gumberg carded a bogey-free, four-under-par 68 on a wet Sunday to finish on 12 under for the tournament, a mark Williams slipped back to having been at 14 under before a double-bogey on the par-three 17th.

Williams, who had led for much of the day, and Gumberg parred the first extra hole before Gumberg, ranked 669th in the world, birdied the second from around 15 feet to secure his maiden DP World Tour title.

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Gumberg, who now has playing privileges on the DP World Tour for the next two seasons, said: "I knew today was going to be tough with the rain and I tried to go one shot at a time.

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"I never got this far in my dreams, so I am lost for words. It was what we practise for, all the long hours, it makes it worthwhile."

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Williams, who carded a three-under 69 on Sunday, escaped with a par at 16 despite sending his third shot into the thick rough but then saw his two-stroke advantage wiped out at 17 when he failed to get up and down from a bunker.

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Williams parred the last to force a play-off after Gumberg missed a birdie putt for the win at the same hole but the South African was then edged out on the second additional hole.

Frenchman David Ravetto finished third on 10 under after a closing two-under 70, with the overnight leaders - England's Daniel Brown and Scotland's Connor Syme - ending their weeks with three-over 75s to finish in a share of fourth on eight under.

Former Ryder Cup players Jamie Donaldson and Andy Sullivan also shared fourth alongside Marcus Armitage and Nick Bachem.

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