Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Tour Books: No Prayer For The Dying 1990/1991 World Tour programme. 27 pages all colour.









This is the Tour Book for The No Prayer For The Dying World Tour 1990/91.The book has 27 pages all colour with superb photos, the dates are from October 1990 until April 1991.On the center of the programme it folds out into a spectacular poster.
This was the first World Tour with the new member, ex White Spirit and Gillian band, Janick Gers. Adrian had left the band in early 1990 to pursue a solo career since he was not 100% happy with the musical direction that Maiden was doing since the Somewhere In Time album.
On this tour Maiden left behind the big productions from the eighties, with a less elaborate stage, although they have of course lots of backdrops, the Eddie appearing on the back of the stage in a coffin, and the other Eddie walking onstage to have a bit of rock n' roll!!There is also a Japan edition for this book, but its exactly the same unless for the language, its written in Japanese.

Tour Books: Fear Of The Dark World Tour 1992 programme. All tour dates, 24 pages colour.












Spectacular Tour Book for the Fear Of The Dark World Tour 1992.For the ones who don't know yet, Fear Of The Dark when was released entered straight to number one to the UK chart for the third time in their history, not bad for a metal band hei?! And without writing a song with the words babe, baby or other crap!!
The programme has 24 pages with loads and loads of spectacular photos. It has all the tour dates since June until December.This book is again very special to me because when I bought at the time I didn't had much of this stuff so, this was so cool discovering this new items to purchase, seeing the photos etc. This is also a great read for serious fans and collectors.There is also a Japan edition for this book but is almost the same just three or four photos different from the world edition , and its written in Japanese.

Tour Books: Fear Of The Dark World Tour 1992 Japanese programme.


Awaiting for purchase.

Tour Books: Donington Monsters Of Rock Festival 1992 programme. 47 pages all colour.






This is the official Tour Book of the 13th edition Monsters Of Rock in castle Donington.Following the tremendous success of the Fear Of The Dark album , once again the boys make it!! They headlined for the second time in their career. This was a very special night, even Adrian was there and joined the band for the encore Running Free.
This tour programme has 47 pages all colour and Maiden had the honour of having 7 pages for their own, yeahhh!!The book has also features of Skid Row, Slayer, Thunder, Wasp and The Almighty.

Tour Books:A Real Live Tour Europe Summer 1993. 24 pages all colour. Comes with merchandise insert.










Book made specially for the final tour with Bruce in. It was called, The Real Live Europe Tour 1993.
This programme is again one of my favourites, has 20 pages all colour with outstanding photos.I have to say that, besides I wasn't a Maiden fan or collector at that time, is a pleasure to inform you guys that this tour kicked off in Faro,Portugal, your host country.The book comes with the original and marvelous merchandise insert.

Tour Books: The X Factour World Tour 1995/1996. 33 pages all colour with the European dates.










Tour book made for the X Factour World Tour 1995/96.
This was the beginning of a new era to Maiden. The ex Wolfsbane, Blaze Bayley, joined the band in 1993. The band was to released an album in 1994 but due to a accident that Blaze had with is motorbike, the plans were schedule to 1995.
The programme has 33 pages all colour with outstanding photos, mostly taken in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Masada where they filmed a promo video for the song Man On The Edge to be broadcast by BBC show Top Of The Pops. Also photos taken in Johannesburg , South Africa .
Its one of the most beautiful tour programmes ever made, it has two rice sheets with the logo of the tour in one, and on the other saying: Iron Maiden Archives. It brings also photo album and single discography. A tremendous item!!!There is also a Japan edition for this book , but its exactly the same unless for the language, its all written in Japanese.


Tour Books: Virtual XI World Tour 1998. No indication of the tour dates.28 pages all colour.







This is a great tour programme with loads of nice photos. It has 28 pages all colour. This item was sold to be by a guy in Utah , USA, this person put an ad on the official fan club magazine, I saw it because it was shown to me by a friend, I wrote a letter to the guy and that was it, took a long time to came to my hands but in the end was well worth the time and money, eheheeh!!There is also some photos of the Ed Hunter game that was just released in 1999.My dear web friend ( I don't know him yet personally) Teddy Yates from Texas, USA, and Japan ( He has two houses because his mother is Japanese and his father American), told me that in Japan they didn't do a Japan programme but they made a translation to Japanese language from the World book, and sold it there with that special sheet inside the regular world tour book.

Tour Books: Ed Hunter World Tour Summer 1999. Fold out poster programme with all the tour dates.







This is the tour book for the Ed Hunter World Tour Summer 1999. The Ed Hunter Tour was to promote the Ed Hunter video game but also so the guys could warm up a bit, at this time Bruce and Adrian had just come back again to the beast! The programme is nothing spectacular, in fact its just a fold out poster.But, to me has a point of interest because most of the photos were taken at Algarve, Portugal, yours truly country.
I bought mine at Madrid when I went there to see them, marvelous show, great memories.

Tour Books: Brave New World Tour 2000/2001. First programme, 28 pages all colour.










This is the first edition of the Brave New World 2000/2001 Tour programme. I have sure this is the first one because I bought it at Vilar De Mouros Festival here in Portugal in July 2000, a month or so after the tour kicked off.
it has 28 pages and brings different photos. No indication of dates, the same on the second edition.You will tell that the sleeves are the same but they're not 100%, there's a slightly difference on the colours they used on the Eddie face, but you must have both in your hands to compare them, trust me.