Bruce Dickinson is cooler than John Travolta
Iron Maiden will embark on a World Tour in 2008. The tour will be gigantic hitting five continents in seven weeks. India, Japan, North, Central, and South America, and Australia are the places going to be locked into the giant Somewhere Back In Time tour.
Iron Maiden will "Up The Irons" in May and June. But that isn't the coolest part. Iron Maiden will be able to accomplish this tour by a specially commissioned and converted Astraeus Boeing 757. The plane will be piloted by Bruce Dickinson, who is a qualified fencer and Astraeus Airlines Captain. The plane will carry the band, the 60 member crew and support staff, and more than 12 tons of equipment around the world.
"By taking the band, personnel, and equipment in one form of transportation, it makes all the touring so much easier and overcomes the logistical difficulty of people and equipment going in different planes, Bruce said. "We can even work out exactly how big our carbon footprint is and take care of that responsibility!"
If you were disappointed in the last tour, where the band played mostly songs from their album A Matter of Life And Death, you will be happy to know they won't be doing that now. To tie in with the 2008 releases of DVD versions of Maiden concert videos "Live After Death" and "Maiden England," the band will focus almost entirely on the '80s in both song choices and stage set for the tour.
The set will be based mainly around Maiden's Egyptian production of the 1984-85 World Slavery Tour, but will include key elements of the 1986-87 Somewhere In Time tour, including Cyborg Eddie.
Steve Harris says, "The choice of material and sets for the tour is a thank you to fans. On the last tour we opened the show by playing our new album, A Matter of Life and Death, in its 80 minute entirety. We thought we needed the challenge and it proved the right thing to do. However, it can be hard on the fans playing so much new material, and we really appreciated the superb effort they gave us. So now I guess it's payback times."
Here is the official tour poster and the albums they will be drawing material from:
Iron Maiden will "Up The Irons" in May and June. But that isn't the coolest part. Iron Maiden will be able to accomplish this tour by a specially commissioned and converted Astraeus Boeing 757. The plane will be piloted by Bruce Dickinson, who is a qualified fencer and Astraeus Airlines Captain. The plane will carry the band, the 60 member crew and support staff, and more than 12 tons of equipment around the world.
"By taking the band, personnel, and equipment in one form of transportation, it makes all the touring so much easier and overcomes the logistical difficulty of people and equipment going in different planes, Bruce said. "We can even work out exactly how big our carbon footprint is and take care of that responsibility!"
If you were disappointed in the last tour, where the band played mostly songs from their album A Matter of Life And Death, you will be happy to know they won't be doing that now. To tie in with the 2008 releases of DVD versions of Maiden concert videos "Live After Death" and "Maiden England," the band will focus almost entirely on the '80s in both song choices and stage set for the tour.
The set will be based mainly around Maiden's Egyptian production of the 1984-85 World Slavery Tour, but will include key elements of the 1986-87 Somewhere In Time tour, including Cyborg Eddie.
Steve Harris says, "The choice of material and sets for the tour is a thank you to fans. On the last tour we opened the show by playing our new album, A Matter of Life and Death, in its 80 minute entirety. We thought we needed the challenge and it proved the right thing to do. However, it can be hard on the fans playing so much new material, and we really appreciated the superb effort they gave us. So now I guess it's payback times."
Here is the official tour poster and the albums they will be drawing material from:
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