Run For Your Lives World Tour
Iron Maiden Harrison 2026
8 / 10
An 8 and the pick of the three masters from this night: a bigger reverb than the others, but the bass rumbles better and more of the crowd comes through, so the atmosphere wins.
// The bootleg
Also an eight. The reverb sits even heavier here than on the other masters of this night, but the bass rumbles more nicely and a little more of the crowd comes through.
That is what tips it: the atmosphere ends up slightly ahead. Honestly, though, the differences between the three tapes are small, and all three sit at an eight.
// Full facts
The show
- Date
- 2026-09-06
- Venue
- Sports Illustrated Stadium
- Location
- Harrison, USA
- Tour
- Run For Your Lives World Tour
The recording
- Source
- AUD
- Format
- FLAC 16-bit / 44.1 kHz
- Running time
- 123:19
- Equipment
- Sony ECM-717 microphone > Sony PCM-A10
- Lineage
- Sony ECM-717 > Sony PCM-A10 > WAV > iZotope RX 10 Advanced / Ozone 9 (mastering) > xACT 2.56 > FLAC
Credits
- Taper
- ukj69
- Cover art
- Official Run For Your Lives World Tour artwork, adapted for this release
// Release notes
And why not Recorder 3... ukj69 gives us a strong capture to add to the documentation of night two. We're fortunate that ukj69 was present at hundreds of shows, even before upgrading his gear, leaving us with an extraordinary number of previously unheard recordings.
// Tracklist
- 01 The Ides of March 2:34
- 02 Murders in the Rue Morgue 4:26
- 03 Wrathchild 2:59
- 04 Killers 6:33
- 05 Phantom of the Opera 7:35
- 06 The Number of the Beast 6:23
- 07 Infinite Dreams 6:14
- 08 Powerslave 7:35
- 09 2 Minutes to Midnight 7:27
- 10 Rime of the Ancient Mariner 13:55
- 11 Run to the Hills 4:36
- 12 Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 12:57
- 13 The Trooper 4:36
- 14 Hallowed Be Thy Name 7:49
- 15 Iron Maiden 6:13
- 16 Churchill's Speech > Aces High 7:02
- 17 Fear of the Dark 7:54
- 18 Wasted Years 6:32
// Cover art
// Available versions
- Live In New Jersey Night Two (ukj69 Master) Pick
The master this page documents, with the sleeve shown above. Sony ECM-717 into a Sony PCM-A10, released by mjk5510 from ukj69's master, 18 tracks in 123:19, with Churchill's Speech running straight into Aces High and no separate intro track.
- Zoom iQ5 master, taper unknown
Another capture of the same night, shared on Dime without a taper credit and without artwork. Zoom iQ5 into an iPhone 13, tracked in GoldWave with a 4.5% level boost, then FLAC level 8: 20 tracks in 124:04, with the intro tape and Churchill's Speech split out as their own tracks. The sound carries a light reverb and it is quite okay to listen to overall, but it is missing that something which sets the juicy bootlegs apart. Everything sits a little towards the back: the bass does not rumble, the guitars are not especially well audible, and a touch of distortion is in there too.
- bcironmaiden master (Schoeps MK41)
A third independent capture of the same night, taped by bcironmaiden: Schoeps MK41 microphones into actives, a Baby NBox and a Sony PCM-A10, transferred in Sound Forge from 48 kHz / 24-bit down to 44.1 kHz / 16-bit, split in CD Wave Editor, FLAC level 8. Twenty tracks in 2:08:38, the longest of the three, opening with the full Doctor Doctor tape and carrying a 1:07 encore break where the other masters put Churchill's Speech. The impression here is of hearing the show from further back, with a touch of distortion again.
// The night
This was the second of two nights in Harrison over Labor Day weekend. The band added the Sunday show in November 2025 with the note that no further dates would follow on the North American leg. Doors opened at 5:00 PM, Anthrax went on at 6:10 PM and Megadeth at 7:05 PM; Iron Maiden played from 8:50 PM to 10:50 PM. Crowd estimates differ: Rock and Roll Globe put it at nearly 25,000 on each of the two evenings, NextMosh at 20,000. Reviewing this second night, Rock and Roll Globe described Eddie coming out with his axe in hand during 'Killers' and again for 'The Trooper', the Egyptian Eddie structure towering over a masked Bruce Dickinson in 'Powerslave', and the singer swapping places with a digital avatar in 'Hallowed Be Thy Name'. Paul Debraski, standing in the general admission section, wrote that the first night had sold out quickly and that Dickinson said this one had too, that the Doctor Doctor intro tape ran with the stage still dark and empty, and that Dickinson wore a naval pea coat for 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. The night closed on tape with Monty Python's 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life', which none of the three masters of this show carries.
Sources Iron Maiden official announcement of the second New Jersey show Setlist.fm: Sports Illustrated Stadium, September 6, 2026 Rock and Roll Globe review of the second night Paul Debraski's account of the 6 September show NextMosh recap of the two-night New Jersey stand
// What the press said
Maiden, meanwhile, celebrated 50 years of their crucial role in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with an epic set for the ages.
Dickinson, who at 68 and a cancer survivor, sang and ran around that giant stage like a man a quarter his age.
Holy crap, did they really play the 13 minute Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
But Up the Irons! Maiden was fantastic.