Description

In May 2000 Iron Maiden released their long awaited Brave New World album reuniting the band with lead singer Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith. The release was well received as was the subsequent world tour that followed from which this release is taken, recorded at the Red Rocks Amphitheater on the 30th of August 2000. After the intro the band blows full steam into The Wicker Man, a song inspired the film of the same name that also spawned the Eddie used on this tour followed by the Ghost of the Navigator and Brave New World. The band played six of the ten tracks from the Brave New World disc. Wrathchild is introduced as a song from the Jurassic period like Red Rocks. There is a cut after 2 Minutes omitting Blood Bothers and Sign Of The Cross before coming back half way through The Mercenary, during which Bruce starts climbing the amplifiers and you think oh shit somebody trying to be Bono. Another cut after The Trooper that leads into a song inspired by Braveheart and mid evil Scotland and possibly the strongest of the Blaze era Maiden tracks The Clansman. The Evil That Men Do has the first appearance of Eddie in his Ed Hunter outfit and again he comes to the side before the house lights dim for Fear Of The Dark again a classic and always enjoyable part of the set but is unfortunately cut as the very end as is the beginning of Iron Maiden. The encores are standard for the tour, the seminal Number Of The Beast followed by Hallowed Be Thy Name and another from the Jurassic period Sanctuary during which Bruce tells us about another new record and tour. The Brave New World tour was the last of the huge mega tours Maiden would undertake, after this they would scale down the tour slightly. This limited album features 10 tracks taken from that night Track listing: 1. Ghost Of The Navigator 2. Brave New World 3. Wrathchild 4. Two Minutes To Midnight 5. The Trooper 6. The Evil That Men Do 7. Iron Maiden 8. The Number Of The Beast 9. Hallowed Be Thy Name 10. Sanctuary