Iron Maiden, The Final Frontier… sounds pretty epic, doesn’t it? But don’t worry about the name; Britain’s heavy metal superstars haven’t sold themselves out with some kind of lame Star Trek tie-in, but instead Eddie is just revealing some science fiction influences again as he leads Maiden on their latest North American assault in support of Iron Maiden’s latest album, The Final Frontier, which is set to be released this summer. 
Rumours about a tour announcement were spread this morning via Twitter, with concert promoter Live Nation sharing an image of what seemed certain to be Eddie’s eyes and asking ‘guess who?’ – and a quick look over at Iron Maiden’s official website confirmed a pending announcement with this teaser image warning America to beware.
As promised, today at 3pm EST/8pm GMT Iron Maiden announced their latest tour, with American prog metal band Dream Theater supporting on all dates. ‘The Final Frontier’ tour starts in Dallas, TX on 9 June 2010, while the Canadian leg of tour starts on 24 June in Vancouver, reaching Toronto on 3 July. The North American tour wraps up in Washington, D.C. on 20 July. Iron Maiden were last in North America in 2008 as part of their ‘Somewhere Back In Time’ world tour.
In an effort to reduce ticket touts from hoarding tickets and forcing fans to pay over-the-odds, steps will be taken to reduce scalpers, with some venues set to operate ‘paperless’ ticketing for the show, where you turn up on the night of the show with your ID and credit card to gain entry. Singer Bruce Dickinson commented on this, “We are also trying to ensure that our fans get the tickets they want close to the stage without paying over the odds to ticket scalpers. This is something our manager Rod is working hard on so we hope to see many more familiar faces down the front having a great time.”
An exclusive pre-sale is being run for Iron Maiden fan club members from 10am EST/PST on Wednesday 10 March to 6pm on 11 March for Canadian shows, while the pre-sale for US dates starts a week later, beginning 10am EST on Wednesday 17 March and ending 6pm Thursday 18 March. General sale via Live Nation commences Saturday 13 March for Canadian shows and Saturday 20 March for US dates.
Meanwhile, Iron Maiden are among the headliners to play this year’s Sonisphere festival at Knebworth in the UK, 31 July – 1 August. Maiden will be joined in Knebworth by Rammstein, Slayer, Iggy and the Stooges and Placebo.
Iron Maiden ‘The Final Frontier’ 2010 North American Tour Dates:
| JUNE Wed 09 Fri 11 Sat 12 Mon 14 Wed 16 Thu 17 Sat 19 Sun 20 Tue 22 Thu 24 Sat 26 Tue 29 Wed 30 |
2010 Dallas, TX – Superpages.com Center Houston, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion San Antonio, TX – AT&T Center Denver, CO – Comfort Dental Amphitheatre Albuquerque, NM – The Pavilion Phoenix, AZ – Cricket Wireless Pavilion San Bernardino, CA – San Manuel Amphitheatre Concord, CA – Sleep Train Pavilion Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre Vancouver, BC – GM Place Edmonton, AB – Rexall Place Saskatoon, SK – Credit Union Center Winnipeg, MB – MTS Center + +Dream Theater will not be performing in Winnipeg |
| JULY Sat 03 Wed 07 Sun 11 Mon 12 Wed 14 Thu 15 Sat 17 Sun 18 Tue 20 |
2010 Toronto, ON – Molson Amphitheatre Montreal, QC – Bell Centre Holmdel, NJ – PNC New York, NY – Madison Square Garden Pittsburgh, PA – First Niagra Pavilion Cleveland, OH – Blossom Music Center Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre Chicago, IL – First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre Washington D.C. – Jiffy Lube Live |
Related links:
Iron Maiden – Official Website
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been waiting almost three years for this!!
cant wait til they come downunder!!!
Stoked for this, don’t care much for Dream Theatre but whatever, I’ll be at the Vancouver show
Dream Theatre doing the Saskabush show and not Winnipeg??? BOOO-URRNNSS!!!
Up the Irons!
UP THE FUCKING IRONS!
FUCK I hope they are coming to Australia
this is so nice they pass to canada on july
MAIDEN!!!!!!!!
The greatest metal band ever
great cant wait to see you lot in Toronto.
Up the Gunners!!!!
man I hope they gonna tour Australia.
Dream Theater and Iron Maiden together
It aint getting any better
UP THE FUCKING IRONS!! BEEN A FAN SINCE I WAS 5 NOW 17!! U GOTTA COME TO AUSTRALIA! AND BLOW US APART WITH UR INSANE MUSIC!! I NEED TO SEE U LIVE!!! (:
Wish July would get here sooner, i’m counting down the days till Maiden at Molson amphitheater!
Yes i agree with Ian.
They need to come to Australia, i also so wanna see them live
UP THE IRONS!!
anyone know what the deal is with the new countdown timer at http://www.ironmaiden.com ???
“Countdown is in progress” and by my watch it ends on Monday 7th June sometime…
…UP THE IRONS!
Man iron maiden need to com to australia sirously come to Australia heaps from aus wants to see u live cmon come oh god I wants see them live