Run For Your Lives World Tour 2026 Rumours and Speculation

GhostofCain said:
The first time I saw Maiden live, back in 1996, was at the football stadium in Miajadas, Spain.

This is what it looks like:

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They managed to attract 5000 people to the gig though.

I wrote a story about that fateful day here:

GhostofCain

Post in thread 'Your First Maiden Gig'

Although I had been a fan of the band since 1991, I had to wait until 11th August 1996 to see the band live (I did not have the means to go and see them in 1992 and 1993 as I was still under 18 and with the band playing more than 100 miles from where I was living it was impossible for me to attend the shows).

I was not too impressed with The X Factor and did not consider going to any of the 1995 shows, but Maiden were playing some C markets during the summer of 1996 and a guy (who later ended up playing bass in a band I did sing for!) decided to organise a coach trip to the show at...
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I did the same but in villarobledo albacete.
 
So just 10 NA dates (strong and popular openers, they will help, Steve loves them; why not for Knebworth?), shorter than usual/the 2022 similar tour, and the European dates - odd. Like the 2006 tour.
Should we expect more dates like probably for Europe? October is for SA (no Rock In Rio?). And they will probably do Australia, Japan. Around 5 months (6 at most), expected. I guess because of the 2027 break the approach to the dates is such, like combining 2 legs into one. Or they just wanted a little less (half less), but bigger shows, for this tour. Makes sense, promoted as a big tour and they can add more different countries.

Future tours could have a similar schedule, no?
Bruce: This 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. Some of them we haven’t played in the US for over 20 years.

Rod: The 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’t be disappointed in the show or the 50th anniversary set list that is for sure. We particularly look forward to playing the huge shows in Montréal and the Alamodome in San Antonio, two of the biggest shows we have ever played in North America plus, of course, Louder Than Life – America’s 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. When it comes to Mexico we just love playing in this magnificent 65,000 capacity stadium which I’m not surprised was named as the best in the world earlier this year by live industry magazine, Pollstar.

...allowing fans the chance to witness the brand new, state-of-the-art production, on the scale it is intended for – huge stages in outdoor venues, to accompany the once-in-a-lifetime setlist of songs from the band’s groundbreaking first nine albums.

^ummm, this is a bit exaggerated.
 
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Kalata said:
...allowing fans the chance to witness the brand new, state-of-the-art production, on the scale it is intended for – huge stages in outdoor venues, to accompany the once-in-a-lifetime setlist of songs from the band’s groundbreaking first nine albums.
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He would make a good car salesman, the stage set really isn't that impressive to warrant seeing it in stadiums as opposed to arenas lol
 
Flaming Blimp Crash said:
I think this is strategic with the venue sizes they're aiming for. If they had an itinerary the size of The Future Past with these venue sizes they'd be losing money on several dates. Getting folks to travel to these is inconvenient for the attendees, but good for the promoter.
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Yeah, this is exactly it. It's been proven recently that these short tours with very large venues will sell out. Booking Megadeth during their "farewell" year ensures that this will happen, too.
 
Flaming Blimp Crash said:
I think this is strategic with the venue sizes they're aiming for. If they had an itinerary the size of The Future Past with these venue sizes they'd be losing money on several dates. Getting folks to travel to these is inconvenient for the attendees, but good for the promoter.
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The US isn't Europe where people can easily travel out of state, that plan usually never works.
But they are all in and around big market areas so they likely are not hoping for larger out of state travel to boost sales.
 
Kalata said:
Bruce: This 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. Some of them we haven’t played in the US for over 20 years.

Rod: The 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’t be disappointed in the show or the 50th anniversary set list that is for sure. We particularly look forward to playing the huge shows in Montréal and the Alamodome in San Antonio, two of the biggest shows we have ever played in North America plus, of course, Louder Than Life – America’s 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. When it comes to Mexico we just love playing in this magnificent 65,000 capacity stadium which I’m not surprised was named as the best in the world earlier this year by live industry magazine, Pollstar.

...allowing fans the chance to witness the brand new, state-of-the-art production, on the scale it is intended for – huge stages in outdoor venues, to accompany the once-in-a-lifetime setlist of songs from the band’s groundbreaking first nine albums.

^ummm, this is a bit exaggerated.
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Just a bit? :lol:
 
I'm wondering if they decide to play some dates in Australia/Japan, 4 shows would be very likely: 2 in both countries, Saitama Arena in Japan would be a great opportunity, and two open-air fields in Australia.
 
Nomadd said:
I'm wondering if they decide to play some dates in Australia/Japan, 4 shows would be very likely: 2 in both countries, Saitama Arena in Japan would be a great opportunity, and two open-air fields in Australia.
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judging by how this tour is shaping up, playing less shows and maximizing profits, they likely won't be looking at the same typical 7 arena dates in Australia, maybe 1 or 2 stadium exclusives with a couple in Asia?
 
It's just such an odd itinerary. 2/3rd's of the dates are on/near the East Coast, with the only "southern" date being in Texas. No Southwest. No West Coast except for Los Angeles. No Florida! No Vegas! Unless they're planning a second leg: it's weird.

I can't complain, we get a Chicago date and I'm very excited, but it is weird.
 
MrKnickerbocker said:
It's just such an odd itinerary. 2/3rd's of the dates are on/near the East Coast, with the only "southern" date being in Texas. No Southwest. No West Coast except for Los Angeles. No Florida! No Vegas! Unless they're planning a second leg: it's weird.

I can't complain, we get a Chicago date and I'm very excited, but it is weird.
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I thought they would have at least done the T-Mobile arena in Vegas being a popular spot to see shows these days. It does come across as a slapped together NA tour with not much thought put into it though.
 
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