Matter Of The Beast Summer Tour 07

Metal master Number of posts : 814 Age : 58

On Friday I was on the Matter Of The Beast Summer Tour 07 in Ludwigshafen. I’m not good in writing reviews, but I will try to sum up my impressions from that concert.

It was the first time that I was in Ludwigshafen, so I was happy that there where a lot of signs so that it was very easy to find the parking area. But when we left the parking area, there were no signs to get to the stadium. After asking some people, we were told how to get there; it was a walk of more than 2 km. Impossible to find without a map or asking people who knows the way around. Strange… Evil or Very Mad

The location itself was excellent. It was a soccer stadium of a 3rd league team. Food and drinks at normal festival prices. And a lot of different Iron Maiden Tour Shirts to choose from. I picked one with the actual cover of A Matter Of Life and Death. Very Happy

The show started with Lauren Harris the daughter of Steve Harris. This was nice, but nothing special at all. They played 25 minutes. After that Mastodon played for 30 minutes. That was better and much heavier than the band before. I heard from them before, but never heard anything of them since then. I think that they aren’t bad, but something bothered me. I don’t know exactly what it was, maybe the vocal style…

The next band was Paparoach, they played 45 minutes. That was really boring for me and my son, because we both don’t like Paparoach at all. But my wife enjoyed them very much. I must admit, that they sound live a bit harder and better than on CD, but it does nothing for me at all.

The next band was the first highlight for me, In Flames played 60 minutes. They did a very good show although they had not the full lightshow and no phyro effects at all. Anders Frieden was better dressed than on the Come Clarity tour, when I saw them the last time. There he had a little bit funny dressing. Here is the set list of In Flames:

Cloud Connected

Leeches

Pinball Map

Trigger

Dark Signs

Only For The Weak

Egonomic

Crawl Through Knives

Come Clarity

Graveland

Bottled

The Quiet Place

Take This Life

My Sweet Shadow

And then finally Iron Maiden. I never saw Maiden before and it was really amazing to see this legend live on stage. Suitable to the cover of the current album the stage was build looked like trenches. The sound was very good and Bruce was running on the stage like a madman. Unbelievable what an energy he has and crystal-clear vocals. The show was amazing, and proved well the top status of Iron Maiden. But it was a little bit too short. They played only 90 minutes which is the minimum of a headliner of such an event. Here is the setlist:

Different world

These colors don't run

Brighter than a thousand suns

Wrathchlild

The trooper

Children of the damned

Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg

For the greater good of god

The number of the beast

Fear of the dark

Run to the hills

Iron maiden

Encore:

2 minutes to midnight

The evil that men do

Hallowed be thy name

After the show we had again a 2 km walk through the city of Ludwigshafen. And then at the parking area there where no cops to lead the movement of cars. So it took us 45 minutes to leave the parking area. Not bad for 300 meters… But after all it was an amazing concert day and we had a lot of fun. :metal:

Guest

Why would they even put Paparoach on this bill? What a waste of stage time.

Sounds like you had a blast though!

Administrator Number of posts : 19452 Age : 57

SAXON1500 wrote:: Why would they even put Paparoach on this bill? What a waste of stage time.

Sounds like you had a blast though!

That's what I thought. sick

nOOb master Number of posts : 4429 Age : 35

i saw papa roach at download the same day as Maiden and while heavie than i have heard them before they were just crap

maiden did the same set as listed above but the sound was not amazing and the vocals kept getting drowned out. they only played for 90 mins and i was gutted it was not longer but they were still amazing and it was still an amazing concert. bruce was on form and it was good to see the last european appearance of the tank.

roll on the tour wiiht the pyramid

i got a matter of the beast tour shirt with eddie spearing the download festival dog on the earth and it is a coool shirt. in fact i am wearing it right now

Metal master Number of posts : 814 Age : 58

I've found some photos and videos from the show on the internet:

http://www.ericwagner.de/2007/06/09/bilder-von-iron-maiden-am-08062007-in-ludwigshafen/

http://www.megaupload.com/de/?d=WSJKOJMK

Guest

At a 2007 show in Germany last month Bruce said that they would be back in 2008 "with some pyramids and stuff." I think we all know what that means after the early years tour they did following the dvd release. I'm looking forward to celebrating the middle years of Maiden.

nOOb master Number of posts : 4429 Age : 35

apparently they are going to do an english festival event all of their own possibly at donington so that should be cool

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