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Masquerade
01-01-2007
No publicity,no TV appearances,no airplay,no Simon Cowell yet still have highest new entry in top 40 at No.3!!!

Thats the sign of a proper band.Who else could manage that nowadays? I doubt anyone in U.K! \m/ \m/
starlight7480
01-01-2007
Iron maiden rock!
boyhitscarpimp
01-01-2007
Maiden have one of the most loyal fan bases going. Would have been even better if it had emulated 'Bring Your Daughter...' and made No 1. Superb marketing again.
The Chief
02-01-2007
Their new album is superb and this is one of my favourite tracks off it.
Delighted to hear it's done so well!
manticore
02-01-2007
i bet radio one wont play it. a couple of years ago marillion used the net to get big sales for their single your gone.it was 2cnd highest entry that week i think in at no.6 but radio one wouldnt play it and top of the pops gave the video about 3 seconds.typical,if it aint dance,rap crap or something trendy it gets ignored even if its miles better than the rest of the trash in the charts.
Last edited by manticore : 02-01-2007 at 15:59
nikproffitt
02-01-2007
Originally Posted by boyhitscarpimp:
“Maiden have one of the most loyal fan bases going. Would have been even better if it had emulated 'Bring Your Daughter...' and made No 1. Superb marketing again.”

Bring your daughter got to number one because they told everyone at their concerts to buy it! The fact that people did shows how loyal their fans are. Did the new single release coincide with a tour?
Dark Drums
02-01-2007
Originally Posted by nikproffitt:
“Bring your daughter got to number one because they told everyone at their concerts to buy it!”

Probably more due to the fact they released something like seven different formats of that particular single!!! Which is one of the reasons why the rules on the number of formats you can have per release was changed.
rwould
02-01-2007
The other factor is releasing the single after christmas when sales are low, which also helped Bring Your Daughter... get to number one.

However the chart success of 'Maiden puts many other bands to shame (14 top 10's iirc?).
paulspursman
02-01-2007
i think the new download ruling for the charts also helped but its great to see them that high
Hern
02-02-2008
Received the new Iron Maiden Live After Death DVD in the post today!!
Dave May Cry
02-02-2008
Iron Maiden do indeed rock! It was Run to the Hills that got me into rock & the first song I learnt on the guitar
ags_rule
02-02-2008
Iron Maiden > Any and every other band in the charts today

Fact. Way better than all of this dance/rap/R&B garbage that Radio 1 shove down our throats.
brokennews
02-02-2008
Originally Posted by ags_rule:
“Iron Maiden > Any and every other band in the charts today

Fact. Way better than all of this dance/rap/R&B garbage that Radio 1 shove down our throats.”

Absolutely agree. Maiden are legends- one of my faves is Run to the Hills "run for your liiiiife!"
The Chief
02-02-2008
Think my faves are still Number of the Beast and Can I Play with Madness, though there are many great tracks to choose from!

(Incidentally, yikes! My second post in this thread, exactly 13 months after my first!)
laineythenomad
02-02-2008
Originally Posted by ags_rule:
“Iron Maiden > Any and every other band in the charts today

Fact. Way better than all of this dance/rap/R&B garbage that Radio 1 shove down our throats.”

I agree too! This thread has made my day - so good to see some appreciation of REAL music. I have a really boring story if anyone can be arsed to read it.....I saw Maiden on the Brave New World tour - OMG, almost 8 years ago now....anyway my son went with me, we had standing tickets, I wanted to get down the front, he didn't so I said "see you later then!" (Don't worry, he was 18 at the time!) On meeting up at the end of the show, he told me he'd got talking to a couple, who asked if he was there on his own. He replied "No, I'm with me mum" to which they asked where I was, and he said "Oh, she's down the front moshing!" I dine out on that story to this day!!

OK, you can wake up now.....
Havelock Vetinari
02-02-2008
Love the Iron's. A guy I used to work with introduced me to them way back in 1982. Since then I've bought all the albums, and just love them. Wasn't too keen on the stuff without Bruce at the helm. But fave tracks have to be Hallowed Be Thy Name & Wasted Years.
tranmerefan
02-02-2008
Anyone seeing them in Twickenham this summer? I'd love to go but can't afford it. Gutted.
bijou
02-02-2008
I'd love to be able to see them in Twickenham but am also skint, my brothers going though (lucky git)
Dokkenboots
03-02-2008
It's about time they did a full production tour and stop this one off festival type shows!

They were on Sky News today.They are rocking India!!
gazwah
03-02-2008
Local radio will not play it i know that much, If it isn't Take That, Mcfly or some chav with some Beats it doesn't exist.
Cookie Jar
03-02-2008
Im glad this thread is here!
Maiden are probably my favourite band, just foooking amazingly brilliant shows and incredible songs. Hoping to see them this year too, saw them at Download last year and they owned it.
Looking to get the Live after Death DVD this week, cuz it also has the second part of the history of maiden which should be great too.

Have to say though, my fav song is probably The Clairvoyant, followed my Fear of the Dark. Amazing stuff!
ags_rule
03-02-2008
My fav songs are:
- Run To The Hills
- Flight Of Icarus
- Tailgunner
- Stranger In A Strange Land
- Where Eagles Dare
- Aces High
- The Prisoner

I AM NOT A NUMBER - I AM A FREE MAN!
urbanmiffed
03-02-2008
You might find this interesting. -

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...303709,00.html

Iron Maiden take on Bollywood.
Glawster2002
04-02-2008
Considering what they've achieved world-wide, it's nothing short of a disgrace how they're treated, or should that be ignored, by their own country's media!

Still, I'll be there at Twickenham in July, enjoying it just as much as the first time I saw them, way back on the "Iron Maiden UK Tour" in 1980!!
broadz
04-02-2008
Originally Posted by Dokkenboots:
“It's about time they did a full production tour and stop this one off festival type shows!
”

What on earth are you talking about? They have done a full UK tour in support of every studio album they have released since Bruce rejoined the band. They played the usual arenas for A Matter Of Life And Death just before Christmas 2006. They are only doing the one-offs (or the festivals) when promoting the "Best of..." stuff. They played Reading (and Leeds) for the first part of the History, they played Download last year for the second part, and they are playing Twickenham this year for the third part.

But when the next studio album comes out they will return to doing a full UK tour once more. You can't expect them to play the smaller concert halls like they did during the early eighties - the Hammersmith Apollos and De Montfort Halls and St George's Halls of this world, as they aren't big enough to hold the number of people who want to see Maiden. That's why they play the NEC, Sheffield Arena, Wembley Arena, SECC etc. But they will play them, next time they do a full UK tour. Maybe they don't want to do a full tour when they have no new material to promote.
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