IRON MAIDEN ANNOUNCE 50TH ANNIVERSARY WORLD TOUR, INCLUDING HUGE OUTDOOR IRISH DATE!

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IRON MAIDEN have announced their ‘RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR’ for Dublin’s Malahide Castle on 25th June, along with 27 Stadium, Festival & Arena shows around Europe.

The tour marks 50 years since Steve Harris formed the band in late 1975 and to celebrate this, Maiden fans are promised a very special set list, spanning the nine studio albums from ‘Iron Maiden’ to ‘Fear Of The Dark’, with their most spectacular and elaborate show ever!

Tickets go on sale on Friday 27th September at 12 noon from www.ticketmaster.ie

As always there will be an exclusive pre-sale for Iron Maiden Fan Club members & Trooper VIP packages will be available at all shows.

Mastercard cardholders have special access to presale tickets in Ireland starting from Wednesday 25th September 20204, 09:00 until Friday 27th September 2024, 09:00. Visit this link to find out more.

Concert is subject to licence.

Says lead singer Bruce Dickinson, “Next year is a very special one for IRON MAIDEN and we’re going to be giving our fans a once-in-a-lifetime live experience. This is a tour that’s gonna put a smile on your face and a cheer in your throat. If you’ve seen us before, then get ready to take that experience to a whole new level. If you’ve never seen us before, then what the hell have you been waiting for? Now’s your chance to find out what you’ve been missing! IRON MAIDEN’s definitely gonna get ya!

Manager Rod Smallwood adds, “50 years of Maiden and I have seen 46 of them! With well over 100 million albums sold and almost 2500 shows in 64 countries and counting, to countless millions of fans, we are all still loving every second and consider every tour a new challenge to bring something different and exciting to our fans. And for this very special one we’ re pulling out all the stops!

We will cover classics and fan favourites from the first nine albums, from ‘IRON MAIDEN’ to ‘FEAR OF THE DARK’, many of which we haven’t played in years and many we will likely never play again in the future. We have already been hard at work for months putting together an even more spectacular and elaborate new show which will bring the songs to life more than we have ever been able to do before.  

This is going to be a huge couple of years for IRON MAIDEN, and Eddie of course, and we are very excited about what we have up our sleeves for you fans throughout the whole of our 50th year. I promise you are all going to be very happy indeed!

Special Guests for the first half of the tour, including the London & Dublin outdoor shows, but not the UK arenas, will be American rockers Halestorm. The second half of the tour sees Sweden’s Avatar as guests. And, finally, British metal band, The Raven Age, will open all UK & Ireland shows. The festivals will of course be festival billing.

MAY 2025

Tue 27th – Budapest Aréna, Budapest, Hungary *

Sat 31st – Letnany Airport, Prague, Czech Republic *

JUNE 2025

Sun 1st – TIPOS Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia *

Thu 5th – Trondheim Rocks, Trondheim, Norway (Festival)

Sat 7th – SR-Bank Arena, Stavanger, Norway *

Mon 9th – Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark *

Thu 12th – 3Arena, Stockholm, Sweden *

Fri 13th – 3Arena, Stockholm, Sweden *

Mon 16th – Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland *

Sat 21st – Utilita Arena, Birmingham, England ^

Sun 22nd – Co-op Live, Manchester, England ^

Wed 25th – Malahide Castle, Dublin, Ireland *^

Sat 28th – London Stadium, London, England *^

Mon 30th – OVO Hydro, Glasgow, Scotland ^

JULY 2025

Thu 3rd – Eurockéennes Festival, Belfort, France (Festival)

Sat 5th – Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano, Madrid, Spain **

Sun 6th – MEO Arena, Lisbon, Portugal **

Wed 9th – Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland **

Fri 11th – Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Germany **

Sun 13th – Stadio Euganeo, Padova, Italy **

Tue 15th – Bürgerweide, Bremen, Germany **

Thu 17th – Ernst Happel Stadium, Vienna, Austria **

Sat 19th – Paris La Défense Arena, Paris, France **

Wed 23rd – GelreDome, Arnhem, Netherlands **

Fri 25th – Deutsche Bank Park, Frankfurt, Germany **

Sat 26th – Cannstatter Wasen, Stuttgart, Germany **

Tue 29th – Waldbühne, Berlin, Germany **

AUGUST 2025

Sat 2nd – PGE Narodowy, Warsaw, Poland **

Support acts

*Halestorm

^The Raven Age
** Avatar

IRON MAIDEN are currently on the road completing their acclaimed The Future Past Tour dates, which started earlier this month in Australia and New Zealand and continues through Japan, Canada, United States, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Argentina before concluding in Sao Paulo, Brazil with two concerts at the huge Allianz Parque Stadium in December.

Malahide Castle, Dublin Ireland

Tickets priced from €83.75 to €88.75 including booking fees are limited to 6 per transaction, and are available 12 noon Friday 27th September from www.ticketmaster.ie

Under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult.

Subject to licence.

Photo – JOHN McMURTRIE

Oran O’Beirne

www.overdrive.ie 2024