Collection / Paris 2013 Maiden England World Tour
Iron Maiden Paris 2013 Bercy // 2013-06-05 // Paris, France
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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 2013-06-05
Venue Bercy
Location Paris, France
Tour Maiden England World Tour The recording
Source AUD
Format blu-ray
Running time 14:00 Credits
Taper Stoeff / Thumraider – 3 Cam-Mix // Tracklist 01 1 Blu-ray Disc 02 Doctor Doctor (UFO) 03 Rising Mercury 04 Moonchild 05 Can I Play With Madness 06 The Prisoner 07 2 Minutes To Midnight 08 Afraid To Shoot Strangers 09 The Trooper 10 The Number Of The Beast 11 Phantom Of The Opera 12 Run To The Hills 13 Wasted Years 14 Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son 15 The Clairvoyant 16 Fear Of The Dark 17 Iron Maiden 18 Churchill's Speech 19 Aces High 20 The Evil That Men Do 21 Running Free // The nightNicko McBrain turned sixty-one that day and the packed Bercy knew it: before Bruce could make his announcement, the hall was already chanting Happy Birthday for the drummer ahead of 'Afraid to Shoot Strangers'. The set was a rarities feast, with 'Phantom of the Opera' back after some eight years away, and Eddie walked out dressed as General Custer for 'Run to the Hills'. The one gripe in the reviews was a mix too heavy on the bass.
Sources ConcertAndCo review (Abigail Darktrisha) · La Grosse Radio review (Vyuuse)
// What the press said Still on form despite their respectable age, the six Englishmen of Iron Maiden set fire to a Bercy packed to the rafters. La Grosse Radio Vyuuse Read the full review → A masterpiece of stage performance in the sheer firepower deployed. Le Journal du Dimanche Guy Gadbois, Eric Mandel Read the full review →
The rating Close 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.
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