A Matter of Life and Death and A Matter of the Beast were two concert tours by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden from 2006 to 2007. The first tour was unique, as the set list primarily consisted of the band's most recent release, A Matter of Life and Death, in its entirety, although this got a mixed response from audiences. Unusually, the first leg did not include "The Number of the Beast", a song which Iron Maiden had previously played on every tour since its inception. The second part of the tour, in celebration of The Number of the Beast's 25th anniversary, saw the band playing four songs from said album as well as five from A Matter of Life and Death (although they had initially planned to play five songs from both releases).
Set Throughout the tour, the stage would be decorated to look like a First World War trench, with the wall canvases featuring painted sandbags and barbed wire, the stage floor decorated with barbed wire and mud as well as actual sandbags placed in front of the monitors. The podiums at the end of each runway came with actual barbed wire and searchlights (operated by Dickinson) and the bodies of two parachutists would appear from the lighting rig during "The Longest Day" (during "Iron Maiden" in 2007). As with previous tours, Nicko McBrain's drumkit featured a Sooty puppet, this time dressed in army attire.
During "Iron Maiden," a tank would appear from the back of the set (the rear runway transforming into the tank's wheels), topped with a binocular-wielding Eddie with flashing LED lights. The walk-on Eddie would also appear as an armed soldier during "The Evil That Men Do."
Opening acts Lauren Harris Trivium Bullet for My Valentine 3 Inches of Blood Motörhead Machine Head Parikrama In Flames Mastodon
Setlist
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Number of the Beast, the band announced that they would play five songs each from The Number of the Beast and A Matter of Life and Death throughout the 2007 part of the tour. However, only four songs from The Number of the Beast were actually played, which meant that "Children of the Damned" would be the only rarity in the setlist.
Tour dates + List of 2006 concerts Date City Country Venue 4 October 2006 Hartford United States New England Dodge Music Center 6 October 2006 Boston Agganis Arena 7 October 2006 Camden Tweeter Center at the Waterfront 9 October 2006 Quebec City Canada Colisée Pepsi 10 October 2006 Montreal Bell Centre 12 October 2006 Uniondale United States Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum 13 October 2006 East Rutherford Continental Airlines Arena 16 October 2006 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre 17 October 2006 Auburn Hills United States The Palace of Auburn Hills 18 October 2006 Rosemont Allstate Arena 21 October 2006 Irvine Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre 25 October 2006 Tokyo Japan Nippon Budokan 26 October 2006 Hiroshima Yubinchokin Hall 28 October 2006 Tokyo Kokusai Forum 30 October 2006 Osaka Osaka-Castle Hall 31 October 2006 Nagoya Shimin Hall 9 November 2006 AalborgDenmark Gigantium 10 November 2006 Copenhagen Valby-Hallen 12 November 2006 Tampere Finland Icehall 14 November 2006HelsinkiHartwall Areena 15 November 2006 17 November 2006StockholmSwedenStockholm Globe Arena 18 November 2006 20 November 2006 Gothenburg Scandinavium 21 November 2006 OsloNorway Vallhall Arena 23 November 2006 Bergen Vestlandshallen 25 November 2006 Stockholm Sweden Stockholm Globe Arena 27 November 2006 Den Bosch Netherlands Brabanthal 28 November 2006 Paris France Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy 30 November 2006 Barcelona Spain Palau Sant Jordi 2 December 2006MilanItalyDatchForum 3 December 2006 5 December 2006 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion 7 December 2006 Stuttgart Germany Schleyerhalle 8 December 2006 Dortmund Westfalenhalle 11 December 2006 Cardiff Wales CIA 12 December 2006 BirminghamEngland NEC 14 December 2006 Manchester Manchester Evening News Arena 15 December 2006 Glasgow Scotland SECC 17 December 2006 NewcastleEngland Metro Radio Arena 18 December 2006 Sheffield Hallam FM Arena 20 December 2006 Dublin Ireland The Point 22 December 2006LondonEnglandEarls Court Exhibition Centre 23 December 2006
+ List of 2007 concerts Date City Country Venue 9 March 2007 Dubai United Arab Emirates Desert Rock Festival 11 March 2007 Athens Greece Hellinikon Basketball Arena 14 March 2007 Belgrade Serbia Belgrade Fair Hall 1 17 March 2007 Bangalore India Eddfest, Bangalore Palace Grounds 2 June 2007 Ljubljana Slovenia Bežigrad Stadium 4 June 2007 Sofia Bulgaria Lokomotiv Stadium 6 June 2007 Ostrava Czech Republic Bazaly Stadium 8 June 2007 Ludwigshafen Germany Südweststadion 10 June 2007 Donington Park England Download Festival 14 June 2007 Venice ItalyHeineken Jammin' Festival 16 June 2007 Biddinghuizen Netherlands Fields of Rock Festival 17 June 2007 Düsseldorf Germany ISS Dome 20 June 2007 Rome Italy Stadio Olimpico 21 June 2007 Bilbao SpainBilbao BBK Live 23 June 2007 Dessel Belgium Graspop Metal Meeting 24 June 2007 London England Brixton Academy
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External links A Matter of Life and Death Tour dates