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<\/p>\nIron Maiden today announces the highly anticipated North American dates of their critically acclaimed Run For Your Lives World Tour. In celebration of their 50th Anniversary, the band will be performing at stadiums and major amphitheaters across the United States and Canada, allowing fans the chance to witness the brand new, state-of-the-art production, on the scale it is intended for \u2013 huge stages in outdoor venues, to accompany the once-in-a-lifetime setlist of songs from the band\u2019s groundbreaking first nine albums. They will also headline America\u2019s biggest rock festival, Louder Than Life at the Highland Festival Grounds in Kentucky on 17th September 2026.<\/p>\n
Steve says, \u201cWe are greatly looking forward to bringing this Run For Your Lives Tour to North America and hope the fans enjoy seeing the show and hearing the set list as much as we do playing it. It\u2019s an added bonus to have a few of our good friends on the tour with us. Megadeth are playing all the shows and it\u2019s an honour to have them join us on their last ever tour. We also have Anthrax with us on the bigger shows, we had a great time with them when they came out with us on Ed Force One around the world in 2016. We\u2019re delighted to have both bands with us for this tour and know our fans will enjoy seeing them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bruce adds, \u201cThis whole tour has been such great fun. I really enjoy belting out all these great old songs, and the whole band are loving playing them too! We\u2019ve got all the big ones from that early period including Hallowed, Run To The Hills, Trooper, Number Of The Beast, Killers, Powerslave, 2 Minutes\u2026 and some of them we haven\u2019t played in the US for over 20 years!! Plus there\u2019s some real epics including my particular favourite \u2018Rime of the Ancient Mariner\u2019 and Seventh Son\u2026 We are doing them all and more. I mean, who wouldn\u2019t for a 50th birthday party!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor a tour celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Iron Maiden\u201d notes Manager Rod Smallwood, \u201cthe scale and incredible visual aspects of this show deserve larger venues than the arenas we have generally played in the past. We particularly chose this time of year to go bigger outdoors but to give us darkness when we go on stage so you will see the best of the production. Fans certainly won\u2019t be disappointed in the show or the 50th anniversary set list that is for sure!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe particularly look forward to playing the huge shows in Montr\u00e9al and the Alamodome in San Antonio, two of the biggest shows we have ever played in North America plus, of course, Louder Than Life \u2013 America\u2019s biggest Rock Festival! Along with the stadium shows in Los Angeles, New Jersey and Hershey we have also chosen to play a few of the biggest amphitheaters as they always have a fantastic atmosphere and great visual sight lines. We\u2019re also going to be doing everything we can to bring the hugely popular Eddie\u2019s Pop-up Dive Bar experience across the Atlantic for the very first time. Our European fans just loved these and we\u2019re convinced that the mix of Maiden fans, Trooper Beer & exclusive Tour merch makes for a winning combination.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLikewise we will continue to offer the well-loved Trooper VIP Experience at all venues.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFinally it was really special on our European dates this year to see that the vast majority of our fans appreciated and respected our request to severely limit their use of phones at our concerts, ideally just keeping it in their pockets the whole time, especially in those standing areas in front of the stage. Our fans\u2019 understanding and cooperation made a colossal difference to the atmosphere of every show and increased the enjoyment enormously for the band and fans alike.\u201d<\/p>\n
So for all our North American shows we are once again requesting that fans keep their phones in their pockets and enjoy the show \u2018in the moment\u2019, rather than raise their phone in the air trying to film sections and thus inconveniencing those around them and annoying the band. So if a so-called fan near you thinks they are special and filming what they selfishly want please just ask them, very politely of course, to put their phone somewhere the sun doesn\u2019t shine!\u201d<\/p>\n
These upcoming tour dates will mark 45 years since Iron Maiden first visited Canada and the USA on the 1981 Killer World Tour, and feature some of the biggest shows the band has ever played there. The return to BMO Stadium concert in Los Angeles on September 25th will be the 25th time the band has played in the City of Angels. A history-making tour for sure!<\/p>\n
Run For Your Lives North American Tour Dates<\/p>\n
August 2026
29 Toronto, ON \u2013 Scotiabank Arena *<\/p>\n
September 2026
03 Montr\u00e9al, QC \u2013 Parc Jean-Drapeau *^
05 Harrison, NJ \u2013 Sports Illustrated Stadium *^
09 Boston, MA \u2013 TD Garden *
11 Bristow, VA \u2013 Jiffy Lube Live *
12 Charlotte, NC \u2013 PNC Music Pavilion *
15 Hershey, PA \u2013 Hersheypark Stadium *
17 Louisville, KY \u2013 Louder Than Life Festival
19 Shakopee, MN \u2013 Mystic Lake Amphitheater *
22 Chicago, IL \u2013 Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre *
25 Los Angeles, CA \u2013 BMO Stadium *^
29 San Antonio, TX \u2013 Alamodome *^<\/p>\n
* Megadeth\u00a0 \u00a0^ Anthrax<\/p>\n
There will be an exclusive Iron Maiden Fan Club presale<\/a> beginning on Tuesday October 28. For the rest of the world \u2013 don\u2019t worry, there are still more countries to be announced for the Run For Your Lives World Tour 2026!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iron Maiden today announces the highly anticipated North American dates of their critically acclaimed Run For Your Lives…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-246308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Headline shows go on general sale on Friday October 31<\/a>.<\/p>\n