The archive

Collection

32 video recordings, by tour. Not for sale, full credit to the band.

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The Future Past Tour

2 recordings
  1. 2023-07-11 Amsterdam, Ziggo Dome, Netherlands 10 / 10
  2. 2023-05-28 Ljubljana, Arena Stozice, Slovenia AUD 9 / 10

The Book of Souls World Tour

2 recordings
  1. 2016-04-10 Vancouver, Rogers Arena, Canada LeifH 7 / 10
  2. 2016-03-30 New York, Madison Square Garden, USA AUD 10 / 10

Maiden England World Tour

1 recording
  1. 2013-06-05 Paris, Bercy, France AUD Stoeff / Thumraider – 3 Cam-Mix 10 / 10

The Final Frontier World Tour

4 recordings
  1. 2011-06-28 Paris, Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, France chmetal 8 / 10
  2. 2011-06-10 Warsaw, Sonisphere, Poland Damien 8 / 10
  3. 2011-02-24 Sydney, Entertainment Centre, Australia AUD Dr Bootleg / Starclassic 9 / 10
  4. 2010-07-30 Dublin, The O2, Ireland 8 / 10

Somewhere Back in Time World Tour

4 recordings
  1. 2009-03-28 Buenos Aires, Vélez Sarsfield, Argentina Professional leomet_2000 9 / 10
  2. 2008-08-08 Prague, Stadion Eden, Czech Republic Norbinho – 5 Cam-Mix 8 / 10
  3. 2008-06-20 Mansfield, Comcast Center, USA AUD InvisibleGuest 8 / 10
  4. 2008-03-14 East Rutherford, Izod Center, USA AUD 9 / 10

A Matter of Life and Death Tour

1 recording
  1. 2006-11-23 Bergen, Vestlandshallen, Norway Invaders / BMR 7 / 10

Eddie Rips Up the World Tour

2 recordings
  1. 2005-06-04 Nurburgring, Rock Am Ring, Germany FM 1 DVD-DL 10 / 10
  2. 2005-05-29 Chorzow, Silesia Stadium, Poland 7 / 10

Dance of Death World Tour

2 recordings
  1. 2004-01-21 Quebec, Colisée Pepsi, Canada AUD BootlegDVDs@JTT 8 / 10
  2. 2003-10-27 Milan, Fila Forum, Italy AUD Dance of Death in Milan, 2 DVD 8 / 10

Give Me Ed... 'Til I'm Dead Tour

3 recordings
  1. 2003-07-23 Philadelphia, Tweeter Center, USA Professional FM Productions DVD#3 9 / 10
  2. 2003-06-12 Madrid, Las Ventas Arena, Spain AUD 8 / 10
  3. 2003-06-03 Katowice, Spodek, Poland AUD from master, best version 7 / 10

Brave New World Tour

3 recordings
  1. 2001-01-15 Santiago, Pista Atlética, Estadio Nacional, Chile #3: JayTor2112 9 / 10
  2. 2000-09-15 Bakersfield, Centennial Garden, USA AUD 9 / 10
  3. 2000-08-03 Quebec, Colisée Pepsi, Canada 6 / 10

The Ed Hunter Tour

1 recording
  1. 1999-09-20 Essen, Grugahalle, Germany LGP 7 / 10

Virtual XI Tour

1 recording
  1. 1998-06-28 Hamilton, Copps Coliseum, Canada AUD 9 / 10

Real Live Tour

2 recordings
  1. 1993-05-14 Nancy, Le Zénith, France AUD Liquid Grace 7 / 10
  2. 1993-04-23 Gothenburg, Scandinavium, Sweden AUD 1 – 1 cam 6 / 10

Fear of the Dark Tour

2 recordings
  1. 1992-07-25 Buenos Aires, Ferrocarill Oeste, Argentina 8 / 10
  2. 1992-06-08 New York City, The Ritz, USA AUD 6 / 10

No Prayer on the Road

1 recording
  1. 1990-11-20 Rome, Paleur, Italy AUD emmebi Productions 7 / 10

Somewhere on Tour

1 recording
  1. 1987-01-11 Troy, Houston Field House, USA AUD NYBC/Damageinc/Jaytor2112 (1st Gen 24bit/96k Audio Upgrade) 8 / 10

How to read a source

The source tag is provenance, not a verdict. A great audience tape can beat a dry soundboard, so read the tag for where the recording came from and the rating next to it for my ear.

AUD (audience)

Microphones out in the crowd. You hear the room: the PA, the reverb of the hall, the people around the taper. Quality swings hard with the spot, the gear and the night. At its best it puts you back in the room; at its worst it is a phone in a pocket.

SBD (soundboard)

A feed taken straight off the front-of-house mixing desk. Close, clean, no air. The balance is the one the engineer rode for the hall, which is not the balance you would build for headphones: vocals can sit oddly, and effects added live in the room can go missing. Direct, but often clinical.

FM (radio broadcast)

Captured off a radio transmission. The broadcast itself is usually a professional mix, a desk feed plus ambient mics, so FM often sounds balanced and easy on the ear. The tells are radio compression, the occasional station ident, and sometimes an incomplete set or fades between songs.

Pro (professional)

A professional, usually multitrack recording made for an official release, a DVD or television. The cleanest, deepest sound. For video it means a proper multi-camera pro-shot, not a phone in the stands.

Matrix

A blend of an audience tape with a soundboard or broadcast, mixed to keep the clarity of the desk and the air of the room. Done well, it is the one to beat. It is its own category, not an AUD and not an SBD.

The grey zones

The hard call is FM against SBD, because a broadcast is built on a desk feed, so FM can sound like a better soundboard with atmosphere. If it came off the air, it is FM; a raw desk that never went to radio is SBD. SBD against Pro is a raw two-track off the desk versus a properly mixed multitrack. And a matrix is the easiest of all to file wrongly as one of its parents.

How I classify

Lineage first, ear second. I go by what the Info.txt and the taper declare: a microphone means AUD, a desk or console means SBD, a named station or "broadcast" means FM, multitrack or pro-shot means Pro, a stated blend means Matrix. The ear is for verifying, or for the rare case with no paperwork at all. When the source is genuinely unclear I leave it unknown rather than guess, because the whole point of this archive is that you can trust the tag.

The rating

The rating is mine, and it is the only quality mark here. The number from 1 to 10 next to a recording is my own listening judgement: how much I enjoy putting it on, everything weighed together.

I do not hand out an "objective" grade, because nobody can grade a live recording objectively. One collector's ears are not another's.

A tape can be clean and still rate lower if it leaves me cold, or rate high in spite of its flaws because it captures the night. Higher means I reach for it more often.

Take it as one ear, then trust your own.