Run For Your Lives World Tour 2026 Rumours and Speculation

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Good call (like Priest do too), but isn't that odd now, given their age. @Mosh was right, I never thought. Slowing down from now? Well we have to get used to it, but missing a whole year is ''like'' a 3rd leg of a same tour with a couple of changes. They only need 3 months, as they say. Is it because of Nicko. And Simon? The situation is different. Most likely. The longest gap - potential 6 or 7 years after SJ and 8 or 9 years after latest writing. And let's not forget about Steve's thought of semi-retirement. I'm worried that the band is not enthusiastic about albums and playing different songs. Bruce solo is. Him doing a very extensive solo tour in 2027? More than 5 months?

Them taking a whole year to write and record before: 1989, 1994 and 1997?
 
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Kalata said:
Good call, but isn't that odd now, given their age. They only need 3 months, as they say. Is it because of Nicko. And Simon? The situation is different. Most likely. And let's not forget about Steve's thought of semi-retirement.

Them taking a whole year to write and record before: 1994 and 1997?
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I think Bruce wants to do an extensive solo tour and they want to record an album. Those 2 things occupy basically whole year.
 
Kalata said:
Them taking a whole year to write and record before: 1994 and 1997?
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I think these are the only years they haven't had anything going on:
  • 1989
    I don't know the timeline between ending Seventh Tour of a Seventh Tour, Adrian leaving and Janick joining before recording No Prayer For the Dying

  • 1994
    Exasperated by Blaze Bayley's motorcycle accident

  • 1997
    I don't know why

  • 2015
    Exasperated by Bruce's cancer diagnosis I think?

  • 2020
    COVID-19 pandemic shelved any planned shows and an album release

  • (2021)
    This year could fit within parenthesizes. COVID-19 pandemic - although they did release Senjutsu that year
 
Kalata said:
Good call, but isn't that odd now, given their age. They only need 3 months, as they say. Is it because of Nicko. And Simon? The situation is different. Most likely. And let's not forget about Steve's thought of semi-retirement.

Them taking a whole year to write and record before: 1994 and 1997?
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There'll be a bit of solo stuff at the start of the year, record the album in the middle and release it in the winter
 
Steve: We are all loving this RUN FOR YOUR LIVES TOUR. The fans have been amazing, the set list is perfect for the 50th Anniversary, the show is arguably our best ever and ticket demand was incredible with pretty much everywhere sold out and over a million fans attending. So we all thought we should play some more shows in Europe before heading out to other parts of the world later in the year. Of course Simon Dawson will be joining us once again on the drummer’s stool, and both he and the whole band would like to thank our fans for the terrific reception you have given him on the first leg. We’ve always enjoyed playing festivals, especially as we get to play to people who aren’t just there for us, and we love that challenge! So we decided to revisit as many great Metal festivals as we could get to in this period.

Perfect setlist for Steve. No changes.

Rod: We were absolutely blown away by the overwhelmingly positive reaction of our fans and from across the mainstream media to the first leg of our Run For Your Lives Tour. We knew we had created a special show, but the energy of all our fans at every single concert we played was picked up on by the band and I think we all experienced something really memorable, and arguably our best tour ever. Throughout our career festivals played a huge part, starting with Rock in Rio in 1985 of course, by enabling us to play in front of new fans and hopefully convert them to being Maiden fans, which, in the absence of radio or mainstream media helped enormously to increase our following. So this tour, based around most of Europe’s pre-eminent Metal fests, is also a huge thank you to those very festivals for playing such an important part in the fifty years… and counting… story of Iron Maiden.
Besides Eastern Europe we will also play some stadium shows in regions we missed in Germany (Hannover), France (Lyon-Décines) and Italy, the latter at Milan’s legendary San Siro Stadium, home of both AC and Inter Milan and we will, I am told, be the first ever Metal band to play there. It’s always great to break more new ground – even after all these years!! You will note the schedule below just says UK SHOW for July 11th and there is a good reason for that! We are working on something special for our loyal UK fans. Yes, we know you have been asking, so we are going to film this special show for you and for posterity! We chose an indoor stadium to see the best of the production and also a great audience which we know Paris is and always has been for us. And, as I mentioned before, for all our fans outside Europe, we most definitely have not forgotten you and have some big announcements coming later for 2026. Rest assured we will be visiting as many of you as possible next year, before the band take a well-earned break from the road in 2027.
 
I wonder when the tour will start. I was told about a show as early as 10th of May, but that date was much later. Maybe they won't do more than one or two shows before Athens.
 
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