Iron Maiden have confirmed that they will be their continuing their mammoth 'Final Frontier World Tour' with shows for a 10 city arena tour. The UK shows will be the culmination of The Final Frontier World Tour, which began in June 2010 with a hugely successful 25 date tour throughout North America, followed by selected European stadium and festival shows, including Knebworth Sonisphere in the UK. As recently announced, early next year Ed Force One will fly the band, crew and equipment 50,000 miles around the World visiting thirteen countries before the band take a short break prior to the extensive European Tour (more announcements soon) of which the UK is the final leg.
Steve Harris comments, "Everything in the Maiden camp has been so full on these last five years or so that we haven't travelled around the UK to play for our home fans for almost that long. These fans supported us by coming to Twickenham Stadium, Reading and Leeds Festivals, Download and more recently Sonisphere so we thought we should get off our backsides and do the travelling this time and get round the country to see them all. We very much look forward to playing all four home countries and a couple of places we haven't been for a very long time, Aberdeen and Belfast! And playing the O2 gets us as close to the East End of London where Maiden started off than we have been for many a year, probably since the Ruskin Arms! All in all l think this is going to be a very special series of shows and a wonderful way to end this whole world tour.
"We intend to take the full stadium show into the UK arenas and fit everything we possibly can into each venue. The set list will be different to this year's tour. Of course we will play more songs from the new album and some other recent material, but we intend to include a healthy dose of older fan favourites too for those who havent seen us before, plus a spectacular light show and stage set, not forgetting, of course, Eddie!"
Iron Maiden's fifteenth studio album 'The Final Frontier' was released earlier this year in mid-August. During their 30-year career, the metal legends have to date sold roughly 85 million records.
The tour dates are as follows:
Wed 20 July SECC, Glasgow
Thu 21 July AECC P&J Arena, Aberdeen
Sat 23 July Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle upon Tyne
Sun 24 July Motorpoint Arena, Sheffield
Wed 27 July Trent FM Arena, Nottingham
Thu 28 July MEN Arena, Manchester
Sun 31 July NIA, Birmingham
Mon 01 August CIA Arena, Cardiff
Wed 03 August Odyssey, Belfast
Fri 05 August O2 Arena, London
Tickets will go on sale on Saturday 20th November, and eGigs will have links to buy them then.
article by: Scott Williams
published: 11/11/2010 12:03
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