Collection / Zurich 2023 The release, in hand · what's this? ? Never heard a bootleg? Here's why people chase them →
× 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 2023-06-19
Venue Hallenstadion
Location Zurich, Switzerland
Tour The Future Past Tour The recording
Source AUD
Format audio Credits
Taper Navigator
Mastering Navigator
Cover art Navigator // Tracklist Disc 1
01 Intro: Doctor Doctor 02 Blade Runner (end titles) 03 Caught Somewhere in Time 04 Stranger in a Strange Land 05 The Writing on the Wall 06 Days of Future Past 07 The Time Machine 08 The Prisoner 09 Death of the Celts 10 Can I Play With Madness 11 Heaven Can Wait Disc 2
01 Alexander the Great 02 Fear of the Dark 03 Iron Maiden 04 Hell on Earth 05 The Trooper 06 Wasted Years // The nightA sold-out Monday at the Hallenstadion, with Oerlikon's streets filling with Maiden shirts by late afternoon of a hot day. During 'Heaven Can Wait' Bruce duelled a samurai Eddie and won, and Swiss reviewers, used to a reserved home crowd, kept noting how loud this one was.
Sources Tracks Magazin review (Laurent Giovanoli) · Bäckstage review
// Video from the nightFan-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).
▶ Caught Somewhere in Time (Hallenstadion, 19 June 2023) ▶ Fear of the Dark (Hallenstadion, 19 June 2023) // What the press said This was, without any ifs or buts, the best concert of 2023! Metalinside.ch Kaufi Read the full review → Dickinson whirls across the stage as if he were in his twenties. Bäckstage Bäckstage Redaktion Read the full review → // In their words Are you really Swiss? Bruce Dickinson, on stage, taken aback by the crowd's volume · source
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.
About these releases Close 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.
