Iron Maiden Announce 2011 'Final Frontier' UK Tour & Tickets
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Written by Jon Stickler
They promised and now they have delivered! Heavy metal giants Iron Maiden have announced they will be hitting the UK road next year as the band continue their Final Frontier World Tour!
The announcement comes following a message that was posted on the band's official website earlier this week, simply saying 'THURSDAY 11th NOVEMBER – 12 NOON GMT'. The message was backed-up with an imge of the Union Jack flag fueling rumours that the band were to announce some UK tour dates.
Now the rumours have been confirmed with the noon announcment revealing that Iron Maiden, with their crew and many tons of equipment, will hit the UK roads in June 2011 on their continuing mammoth Final Frontier World Tour, playing 10 shows.
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 July 20th at Glasgow's SECC with shows also confirmed for Newcastle, Sheffield, Nottingham, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff (YES!!) Belfast and London (full dates below).
Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson says, "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".
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