The Beast on the Road

Iron Maiden Leicester 1982

de Montfort Hall 1982-03-05 Leicester, UK

Iron Maiden, Leicester 1982: the physical release in hand

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Step 1 of 4. What you're looking at

This is a bootleg, not the official live album. The actual night itself, recorded from inside the crowd, with the mistakes and the roar left in. This is the concert as it really sounded, before anyone cleaned it up.

// Full facts

The show

Date
1982-03-05
Venue
de Montfort Hall
Location
Leicester, UK
Tour
The Beast on the Road

The recording

Source
AUD
Format
WAV
Lineage
unknown –> Maxell UL 90 –> Yamaha KX-670 (Dolby Off, Play Trim +0) –> ESI U24 XL –> Adobe Audition 2020 (ASIO 2.0) –> WAV (44100 Hz, 2 Channels, 32-bit) –> Amplitude +10 db –> Splitting Tracks (Audacity WAV) –> FLAC (Level 8, 44100 Hz, 2 Channels, 16-bit)

Credits

Taper
GManOF Memories Series No. 195
Catalog ID
IMN#63

// Release notes

Received this back in a trade in 1983, 40 years ago 🙂 Cut after Total Eclipse Cut after Iron Maiden

// Tracklist

  1. 01 The Ides of March (Intro)
  2. 02 Murders in the Rue Morgue
  3. 03 Wrathchild
  4. 04 Run To The Hills
  5. 05 Children of the Damned
  6. 06 Number Of The Beast
  7. 07 Another Life
  8. 08 Killers
  9. 09 22 Acacia Avenue
  10. 10 Total Eclipse
  11. 11 Transylvania
  12. 12 Guitar Solo
  13. 13 The Prisoner
  14. 14 Hallowed Be Thy Name
  15. 15 Phantom of the Opera
  16. 16 Iron Maiden
  17. 17 Sanctuary
  18. 18 Drifter

// Cover art

Help Cover artist unknown. If you made this artwork or know who did, let me know and I will credit it.

// The night

Five songs from the still-unreleased The Number of the Beast were in the set this night in Leicester: 'Run to the Hills', 'Children of the Damned', 'The Number of the Beast', '22 Acacia Avenue' and 'Total Eclipse', seventeen days before the album reached the shops on 22 March 1982. The Rods supported. The audience tape from the night circulates among collectors, and individual tracks are up on YouTube.

Sources Setlist for this show (Wayback snapshot of setlist.fm) The Beast on the Road archive on ironmaiden.com, with The Rods as support Album release date on Wikipedia

// Video from the night

Fan-filmed clips from this show on YouTube, separate recordings, not the bootleg audio catalogued above. Click to load the player (YouTube sets cookies once you play).

// Around the web

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.

About these releases

The disc you see in these photos is burned by me and the cover is printed by me, by hand. Each one is a single copy for my own shelf, put together while I catalogue the collection.

This is not a label, and nothing here is a product. Nothing is for sale and nothing is for trade.

If a release looks finished, that is just the fun of the craft. Please do not write asking for a copy. I make them for no one but myself.