Iron Maiden played their very first gig in on May 1, 1976 at St Nicholas Hall in Poplar, East London. Exactly what was in the setlist on that illustrious night has been lost to time, though luckily some far-sighted souls have kept track of the songs they have performed at the 2500-odd shows they’ve played since.
Maiden’s current Future Past tour, which sees them focussing on 1986’s Somewhere In Time, kicked off on May 28, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and they’ve already dropped one surprise on us by playing epic SITW closing track Alexander The Great in full for the very first time. They also gave Senjutsu tracks Days Of Future Past, The Time Machine, Death Of The Celts and Hell On Earth their live debuts.
