Up the irons!
Iron Maiden have announced a huge UK arena tour!
The metal legends will be bringing their massive The Book Of Souls world tour into the UK and Ireland for a 12 date stint, with Shinedown coming along for the ride.
Founding member and bass player Steve Harris said: “As it’s been so long since our last full UK arena tour, we really wanted to get to our fans in as many cities as possible. We’re really looking forward to it, especially visiting places we haven’t been to for a very long time like Leeds where we haven’t played since 2005 and Liverpool where we haven’t played since 1990. The whole band is really enjoying this tour and although we love playing festivals and stadiums, it is terrific to return to the intimacy and atmosphere of arenas. The songs from The Book Of Souls album and the new Maya-themed Eddies and stage sets have gone down really well and fan reaction has been amazing. And of course we know our fans appreciate us playing a lot of the older songs too, which we will continue to do.”
Iron Maiden have also announced extensive plans to combat ticket touts and counterfeit tickets, to ensure true fans make it into the show. Read all about their paperless ticket system here.
Iron Maiden will play the following dates:
May 2017
4 Nottingham Motorpoint Arena
6 Dublin 3arena
8 Manchester Arena
10 Sheffield Arena
11 Leeds First Direct Arena
14 Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
16 Glasgow SSE Hydro Arena
17 Aberdeen AECC GE Oil Gas Arena
20 Liverpool Echo Arena
21 Birmingham Barclaycard Arena
24 Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
27 London O2 Arena
