The archive

Collection

47 audio recordings, by tour. Not for sale, full credit to the band.

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Run For Your Lives World Tour

4 recordings
  1. 2025-06-28 London, London Stadium, England AUD Inconnu 8 / 10
  2. 2025-06-13 Stockholm, 3Arena, Sweden AUD mats666 9 / 10
  3. 2025-06-09 Copenhagen, Royal Arena, Denmark AUD tolvis 8.5 / 10
  4. 2025-05-28 Budapest, Papp László Sportaréna, Hungary AUD duttka 7 / 10

The Future Past Tour

8 recordings
  1. 2023-10-06 Indio, Power Trip Festival, USA AUD fried_morals 8 / 10
  2. 2023-07-18 Barcelona, Palau Sant Jordi, Spain AUD YvesZ 8 / 10
  3. 2023-07-13 Antwerp, Sportpaleis, Belgium AUD 9 / 10
  4. 2023-07-07 London, O2 Arena, England AUD Dante 8 / 10
  5. 2023-06-30 Manchester, AO Arena, England AUD rbose1 9 / 10
  6. 2023-06-19 Zurich, Hallenstadion, Switzerland AUD Navigator 10 / 10
  7. 2023-06-17 Clisson, Hellfest, France AUD Timewalker 9 / 10
  8. 2023-06-07 Bergen, Koengen, Norway AUD Metallican 9 / 10

Legacy of the Beast World Tour

1 recording
  1. 2022-10-12 Hamilton, FirstOntario Centre, Canada AUD 9 / 10

The Book of Souls World Tour

1 recording
  1. 2016-06-25 Moscow, Olimpiyskiy, Russia AUD Barghest 8.5 / 10

The Final Frontier World Tour

2 recordings
  1. 2010-07-12 New York, Madison Square Garden, USA AUD bcironmaiden 8 / 10
  2. 2010-07-11 Holmdel, PNC Bank Arts Center, USA AUD ukj69 Master 7 / 10

Somewhere Back in Time World Tour

1 recording
  1. 2008-02-16 Tokyo, Makuhari Messe, Japan 8 / 10

Eddie Rips Up the World Tour

2 recordings
  1. 2005-07-06 Helsinki, Hartwall Areena, Finland AUD Motleb 8 / 10
  2. 2005-05-29 Chorzow, Silesia Stadium, Poland Dunkan 7 / 10

Dance of Death World Tour

3 recordings
  1. 2004-01-13 Santiago, Pista Atlética, Chile SBD 10 / 10
  2. 2003-11-28 Wrocław, Hala Ludowa, Poland AUD Kris 7 / 10
  3. 2003-10-30 Zurich, Hallenstadion, Switzerland AUD 7.5 / 10

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

2 recordings
  1. 2003-06-28 Stockholm, Olympic Stadium, Sweden FM 9 / 10
  2. 2003-06-03 Katowice, Spodek, Poland AUD Kris 7 / 10

Brave New World Tour

2 recordings
  1. 2000-08-06 Mansfield, Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts, USA AUD BHoy 7 / 10
  2. 2000-06-21 Warsaw, Torwar Sports Hall, Poland AUD unknown 7 / 10

The Ed Hunter Tour

1 recording
  1. 1999-07-13 Montreal, Molson Centre, Canada AUD 1 6.5 / 10

Virtual XI Tour

1 recording
  1. 1998-09-12 Katowice, Spodek, Poland AUD 7 / 10

Real Live Tour

1 recording
  1. 1993-04-10 Paris, Élysée Montmartre, France AUD 7 / 10

No Prayer on the Road

1 recording
  1. 1991-04-05 Tokyo, NHK Hall, Japan AUD 5 / 10

Seventh Tour of a Seventh Tour

2 recordings
  1. 1988-11-24 Whitley Bay, Whitley Bay Ice Rink, UK 8.5 / 10
  2. 1988-06-21 Minneapolis, Met Center, USA AUD 9 / 10

Somewhere on Tour

4 recordings
  1. 1986-12-16 Milan, Palatrussardi, Italy AUD 7 / 10
  2. 1986-10-14 Leicester, de Montfort Hall, England AUD Simon Clapham (Gig Addiction) 9 / 10
  3. 1986-10-12 Liverpool, Empire Theatre, England 8 / 10
  4. 1986-09-25 Warsaw, Torwar Sports Hall, Poland AUD 5 / 10

World Slavery Tour

2 recordings
  1. 1984-11-12 Milan, Teatro Tenda di Lampugnano, Italy AUD GManOF Memories Series No. 257 8 / 10
  2. 1984-08-12 Wrocław, Hala Ludowa, Poland AUD 6 / 10

World Piece Tour

5 recordings
  1. 1983-12-18 Dortmund, Westfalenhalle, Germany AUD 9 / 10
  2. 1983-11-30 Munich, Olympiahalle, Germany SBD D Hall (crew-side cassette) 10 / 10
  3. 1983-11-19 Clermont-Ferrand, Maison Des Sports, France AUD 9 / 10
  4. 1983-05-17 Newcastle, City Hall, England AUD 8 / 10
  5. 1983-05-08 Ipswich, Gaumont Hall, England AUD Smiler 9 / 10

The Beast on the Road

2 recordings
  1. 1982-04-21 Hamburg, Messehalle 8, Germany AUD 6 / 10
  2. 1982-03-05 Leicester, de Montfort Hall, UK AUD GManOF Memories Series No. 195 7 / 10

Killer World Tour

1 recording
  1. 1981-05-24 Tokyo, Nakano Sun Plaza Hall, Japan FM 10 / 10

Bruce Dickinson Solo

1 recording
  1. 2024-06-11 Stockholm, Gröna Lund, Sweden AUD mats666 10 / 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.