Dance of Death Tour DVD and CD to Be Released
According to the latest issue of the UK Metal Hammer (April 2005):Iron Maiden will headline the list night of the Reading the Leeds festivals in August, their only UK shows on their current European tour.
This will be the first time that Maiden will have headlined Reading since 1982 and their stage set and choice of material may be familiar to fans who were there the first time around. To celebrate their 25th anniversary, the band will only be playing material from their first four albums on these dates. The stage set - currently being constructed - will also reflect the early years of Maiden's live shows.
"This will be back to the full on metal spectacular," said Bruce Dickinson, "we've always put everything, physically and mentally, into our stage shows and this will be no exception. People are back and into REAL live music now and we want to make sure that the Maiden shows are never surpassed and an incredable experience for everyone there!"
There will also be a 'Dance of Death' live album and DVD released in the early Autumn, which will actually be the last in the series of DVDs chronicling Maiden of which 'The history of Iron Maiden - part 1; the early days' was the first part.
Subsequent releases will fill in the rest of the gaps.
Thanks to oozily for the transcript
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Hard to say if this is official or just a recollection of everything Metal Hammer read on the net for the past months.
Strange that Maiden decides to release the History DVDs in no particular order.
And if this is really the last one, what about the forthcoming tour and the forthcoming album ?
Finally, it seemed that the Eddie Rip Up the World Tour was going to feature mostly old songs but newer ones as well...
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i think they don't mean that the DOD dvd is released in autum, and after that the others, but i think they mean that the DOD dvd is released after all the other parts of the history, wich would mean that they put them all out this year shortly after each other, and the Eddie Rips Up... Tour is the only tour for the whole dvd serie
Would be strange that they will play songs only from the firsts four albums...
Would be very strange for me! 
I am sure they will play songs from more albums.
Would be very strange for me!
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That is only for the Reading concerts
be sure that they will play "fear of the dark" among others newer...
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Honestly, I doubt that they would release 4 DVDs in a row. It's an anti-selling strategy.
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Maiden usually plays the same setlist over a whole tour. I doubt they will alter their setlist for Reading only (and re-learning some old songs for that gig only).
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As i posted before on Maidenfans.com with my "meeting nicko" report:
Nicko words were: "The set will PRIMARLY contain songs from the first 4 albums, but for sure we can't exclude all time classics like fear of the dark which is the songs which get the biggest crowd response" 
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exactly...
So looks like Reading is going to be it.. Just wait for confirmation and get tickets
i wouldnt believe that they will be playing some extra songs in reading
Sure Iron Maiden will release something before Early Years tour starts. DOD/GMETID DVD could be perfect release. Why? They don't need to promote DOD/GMETID DVD playing it on stage. Summer tour will contains stuff from first four albums. Iron Maiden couldn't do Early Years tour as planned, if they release History Of Iron Maiden Part 2.
But it won't be released before the tour starts will it!? 
I want to add this:
It would seem more logical to release the 2nd part of the History series first... but...
...there's some money to be made here. So let's be realistic: the second DVD of Maiden's history will sell no matter what. The DOD might sell better now that the memories are fresh than it will be in the future, as the DOD, no matter how good it is, is less legendary than anything in the 80s.
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It would seem more logical to release the 2nd part of the History series first... but...
...there's some money to be made here. So let's be realistic: the second DVD of Maiden's history will sell no matter what. The DOD might sell better now that the memories are fresh than it will be in the future, as the DOD, no matter how good it is, is less legendary than anything in the 80s.
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As well, I think that people prefer some variety. They prefer sth old and sth new. It would be less interesting releasing 3 Early Dvd's in a row. Loss of Interest by the media and even the fanbase might acure.
With bringing out the DOD DVD followeed by a new album and than the 2nd part of early years, everything will be much more anticipated and spectacular.
So formats being,(My assumtion anyway):
DVD
DVD-A
CD
2 Vinyl lp picture disc set.
*Can Riggs do the artwork this time?
There's no much to say, the choice is logical:
Touring less but more often implies that releases must been logical:
Early days dvd Autumn 2004----> tour summer 2005
Autumn 2005---->Dance of death/give me ed dvd to give something to the fans while recording the album
May/June 2006--->New album out--->new tour in summer 2006
Autumn 2006--->2nd History dvd---->Related summer tour on summer 2007.
Will this last history dvd start from the Reunion period?
It would be amazing imagine all the great songs played on Ed Huntour, Brave new world tour, Give me ed till i'm dead tour and Dance of death tour 
Logically the next 'history' dvd would start from powerslave to 7th son, wouldnt it? then a third one to start from No Prayer till now