Iron Maiden Announce 2011 Dates For Final Frontier World Tour
Tuesday, 02 November 2010
Written by Jon Stickler
Heavy metal giants Iron Maiden have announced they will be hitting the road, or should that be the skies(!), again next year as the band board Ed Force One to continue their Final Frontier World Tour!
The announcement comes following a message that was posted on the band's official website earlier today, simply saying 'TUESDAY 2nd NOVEMBER – 6PM GMT'. The message was accompanied by a picture of Earth in the plam of band mascot Eddie's hand fueling rumours that the band were to announce more tour dates.
Now the rumours have been confirmed with the 6PM announcment revealing that Iron Maiden, with their crew and many tons of equipment, will once again be boarding Ed Force One in February 2011 to fly 50,000 miles round the globe on their continuing mammoth Final Frontier World Tour, playing 29 shows and visiting 26 cities in thirteen countries across 5 continents with Bruce again in the pilot's seat, and heading into more new Frontiers of uncharted Maiden territory! UK Fans have been told not to worry, UK shows are set to be announced VERY SOON!
The tour follows the release of Iron Maiden's fifteenth studio album 'The Final Frontier' which has sold more than 800,000 copies since its release earlier this year in mid-August. During their 30-year career, the metal legends have to date sold roughly 85 million records.
The first show will be on Feb 11th in Moscow's Olympic Stadium, after which the Boeing 757, which will have new designs to tie in with the new album and tour, will fly the band to Singapore and Indonesia for Maiden's first ever shows there, before arriving in Australia to headline two arena dates and five Soundwave Festivals. Ed Force One then turns its attention briefly to the Northern Hemisphere with a first show ever in South Korea and two shows in Tokyo, before heading all the way across the Pacific, a journey which (believe it or not!) is 6660 miles for two shows in Mexico. An extensive series of stadium shows through five South American countries follows, including a first visit to Belem, Northern Brazil, and, via Puerto Rico, the band will play the final show on this leg of the tour in Tampa, Florida, USA on April 17th, exactly 66 days after Moscow! (full dates below)
Says Bruce, "We were taken aback by the fantastic reaction from everyone to Ed Force One during the 2008/09 World Tour. As our fans all know from the "Flight 666" film, which documented the trials and tribulations we underwent in order to get the whole project literally off the ground, the end result was well worth all the effort and complex logistics we had to deal with! The band and crew enjoyed themselves so much travelling that way, it seemed only logical to set up this part of The Final Frontier tour in the same way so we could get to see as many fans as possible all over the World, only this time we're pushing the boundaries even further and going to more places Maiden has never been before... in true Frontier style!! We very much look forward to playing in Singapore, Indonesia and South Korea for the first time, as well as revisiting our fans everywhere else.
"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 will include a healthy dose of older fan favourites as we will be playing to so many new faces who we know will want to hear those songs live for the first time. We will cram into the plane as much of the production we used this year as is physically possible, including of course Eddie, and intend to replicate the spectacular light show in as many places as we are able. All in all it promises to be a fantastic trip for everyone!! So see you all soon".
The dates for Iron Maiden's Round The World Trip on Ed Force One and current European dates for The Final Frontier World Tour are:
FEBRUARY 2011
Fri 11 Moscow, RUSSIA Olympiski
Tue 15 SINGAPORE Singapore Indoor Stadium
Thu 17 Jakarta, INDONESIA Stadium Utama Gelaro Bung Karno Senayan
Sun 20 Bali, INDONESIA Garuda Wisnu Kencana
Wed 23 Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Hisense Arena
Thu 24 Sydney, AUSTRALIA Entertainment Centre
Sat 26 Brisbane, AUSTRALIA Showgrounds (Soundwave Festival)
Sun 27 Sydney, AUSTRALIA Eastern Creek Raceway (Soundwave Festival)
MARCH 2011
Fri 4 Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Showgrounds (Soundwave Festival)
Sat 5 Adelaide, AUSTRALIA Bonython Park (Soundwave Festival)
Mon 7 Perth, AUSTRALIA Steel Blue Oval (Soundwave Festival)
Thu 10 Seoul, KOREA Chamsil Gymnasium
Sat 12 Tokyo, JAPAN Super Arena
Sun 13 Tokyo, JAPAN Super Arena
Thu 17 Monterrey, MEXICO Banamex Theatre
Fri 18 Mexico City, MEXICO Foro Sol
Sun 20 Bogota, COLOMBIA CC Sapo
Wed 23 Lima, PERU Estadio San Marcos
Sat 26 Sao Paulo, BRAZIL Morumbi Stadium
Sun 27 Rio De Janeiro, BRAZIL HSBC Arena
Wed 30 Brasilia, BRAZIL Nilson Nelson Parking Lot
APRIL 2011
Fri 1 Belem, BRAZIL Parque De Exposicoes
Sun 3 Recife, BRAZIL Parque De Exposicoes
Tue 5 Curitiba, BRAZIL Expotrade
Fri 8 Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA Velez Sarsfield
Sun 10 Santiago, CHILE Estadio Nacional
Wed 14 San Juan, PUERTO RICO Coliseo De Puerto Rico
Sat 16 Sunrise, Florida, USA Bank Atlantic Center
Sun 17 Tampa, Florida USA St Pete Times Forum
JULY 2011
Jun 30 - Jul 3 Roskilde, DENMARK Roskilde Festival
Fri 1 Gothenburg, SWEDEN Ullevi Stadium
Wed 6 Oslo, NORWAY Telenor
Fri 8 Helsinki, FINLAND Olympic Stadium
Sun 10 St Petersburg, RUSSIA SKK Peterburgskiy
Check back to Stereoboard.com for the announcement of more shows in the coming weeks and months!
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