Collection / Chorzow 2005 Eddie Rips Up the World Tour
Iron Maiden Chorzow 2005 Silesia Stadium // 2005-05-29 // Chorzow, Poland
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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.
Step 2 of 4. The person who saved it
Ever seen someone at a gig standing dead still, not filming, just there? They might
be recording. Two hours holding steady, so this night doesn't vanish when the lights
come up. Every bootleg exists because one person in the crowd decided it was worth
keeping, for you, a stranger, years later.
Step 3 of 4. "But it's all on YouTube"
Is it? Those old concerts you find there are bootlegs too, someone recorded them,
someone passed them on, someone uploaded them. YouTube didn't replace the collectors.
It lives off them. And what you get is three phone-shot minutes with no context, gone the
day the account is struck. The whole night, in full, doesn't come from an algorithm.
Step 4 of 4. Why it matters
Which is the whole point. Somewhere in here is a night you can never attend, because
it happened before you were born. 1984, behind the Iron Curtain, a crowd that fought
the militia to get in. You weren't there. You couldn't be. But someone recorded it,
so you can still step inside.
// Full facts The show
Date 2005-05-29
Venue Silesia Stadium
Location Chorzow, Poland
Tour Eddie Rips Up the World Tour // Tracklist 01 Murders in the Rue Morgue 02 Another Life 03 Prowler 04 The Trooper 05 Remember Tomorrow 06 Charlotte the Harlot 07 Run to the Hills 08 Revelations 09 Where Eagles Dare 10 Die With Your Boots On 11 Phantom of the Opera 12 The Number of the Beast 13 Hallowed Be Thy Name 14 Iron Maiden 15 Running Free 16 Drifter 17 Sanctuary // The nightThe fifth Mystic Festival packed Silesia Stadium with around thirty thousand people in heat past thirty degrees. Security hosed the crowd with water, the water flooded stage cables and the first songs came out rough. Maiden closed a seven-band day (DragonForce, Frontside, Primal Fear, Behemoth, Kreator and Nightwish before them) with an early-albums set on the second night of the Eddie Rips Up tour, and Bruce kept greeting the crowd with 'Scream for me Katowice!', a few kilometres wide of the mark.
Sources Best of Iron Maiden festival report · Rockmetal.pl festival report (Arise) · Sanktuarium FC fan club report
// What the press said An interesting situation, but fully understandable: it would certainly have been hard for him to shout 'Scream for me Chorzów'. Best of Iron Maiden bestofironmaiden.pl Read the full review → // In their words Scream for me Katowice! Bruce Dickinson, on stage in Chorzów, repeatedly · source
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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.
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