Maiden Central

From the official site:

Maiden announce show at historic Villa Manin in ITALY for Aug 17 — tickets on sale 9am (GMT) Fri March 19… and Bruce Air is hoping to fly out specially!

Iron Maiden will play an exclusive show in Italy at the Villa Manin nr Udine as part of their Final Frontier World Tour on Aug 17. Bruce is planning a BruceAir* excursion from London’s Gatwick Airport., so keep checking this website for details which will be announced as soon as possible.

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A special guest will be announced soon. Details for the show are as follows:

IRON MAIDEN The Final Frontier World Tour Tue 17 Aug – Codroipo (Udine) – Villa Manin

Tickets for the exclusive Italian show will go on sale to the public on Friday March 19th at 10:00 a.m. (9am GMT) through Ticketone.com or charge by phone at 892.101 / 892.424 / 892.412

As the image says, Dream Theater – FUCKING DREAM THEATER!! – will be supporting Maiden on their North American sojourn. Hells yes! Now that is a kick-arse pairing.

The tour hits many of their usual areas, although it will be interesting to see the points plotted out on a map to see how they cover the country.

Iron Maiden Fan Club members, of course, get access to a pre-sale for the tickets – so if you’re not a member, get onto it! As far as I’m aware, online members are able to access the pre-sale, but do check to make sure.

FAN CLUB PRE-SALES – NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

CANADA pre-sale starts Wednesday 10th March

USA pre-sale starts Wednesday 17th March

Iron Maiden are to release their next studio LP, “Final Frontier”, in ‘late summer’ this year (so, expect it to drop around August).

This will be supported by a 22-date North American tour starting in June:

See IronMaiden.com for full details.

No, nothing to report yet other than Maiden are set to announce dates for North America (presumably for this year) on March 4th. Keep your eyes on IronMaiden.com for the announcement.

Further from IronMaiden.com, Maiden are also doing the following Sonisphere shows in Europe. Expect further festival announcements (I imagine for Germany, Italy and Spain at least) in the next month or so, if previous years are any indication.

Sweden Saturday August 7th 2010 at Stora Skuggan Park in Stockholm.

Other confirmed acts so far Heaven & Hell, Motley Crue, Iggy & The Stooges, Slayer, Anthrax and Alice Cooper. Tickets on sale from 10.00am CET (9am GMT) on 14th December 2009. 880 SEK + booking fee. Available from: www.livenation.se and Eventim sales points.  Eventims call centre: +46 771 651 000

Finland Two Day Festival Saturday August 7th & Sunday August 8th 2010 at Pori’s Kirjurinluoto.

Other confirmed acts so far for this two day Festival are HIM, Heaven & Hell, The Cult, Alice Cooper, Motley Crue, Iggy & The Stooges, Slayer, and Anthrax Tickets on sale from 9am EET (7am GMT) on 15th December 2009 Two-day ticket: 125 euro + possible service fee On sale starts on Tuesday 15.12.2009 9am at Lippupalvelu ticket outlets, call center 0600-10-800 (1,83 euroa/min + pvm) ja 0600-10-020 (5,99 euroa/puhelu + pvm) ja online athttp://www.lippupalvelu.fi NB!! Ticket limit is 10 tickets per customer. Age limit 14yrs. Under 14-year-olds must be accompanied by an adult. Camping ticket: 20 euro + possible service fee from Lippupalvelu starting from Tue 15.12.2009 at 9am EET.