Vaenyr
Ancient Mariner
Personally I'd take that over seeing the same show two years in a row. Rod, if you want my money you know what to do
Run For Your Lives World Tour 2026 Rumours and Speculation
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matic22
Ancient Mariner
Yes. And song length is not a problem.
I'd even say that Future Past tour was more challenging than the RFYL setlist would be with the Aces-Alex swap arrangement-wise. Celts and Hell On Earth have difficult arrangements on the level of Rime IMO.
Ascendingthethrone
Ancient Mariner
I have the date of Knebworth still blocked out in my diary. Still waiting for the price to drop…
Ascendingthethrone
Ancient Mariner
Despite being a well-known connoisseur of Aces High performances from 2025, I would buy a ticket straight away if Alex was the setlist as the encore opener. All the major 80s in one setlist! Yes please (go home TTAL. No one wants you here)
edward creighton
Nomad
Run for your lives essentially a greatest hits tour? According to Spotify the top 8 most popular Maiden songs have streams of between 145 million and 582 million, all 8 are on the RFYL setlist. Number 9 is Wasting Love at 123 million streams, or 94 million streams more than Alexander. Youtube views has WL at 76 million, Alexander 10 million.
Imagine the complaints from the masses if the set was thrown out. Hallowed, 2 Minutes, Aces, Fear replaced by Gangland (10.7 million streams), Back in the Village (9.3m), Sun and Steel (8.2m) or Total Eclipse (4.7m). How many stadium tickets would be sold?
Announce rest of world please!
Imagine the complaints from the masses if the set was thrown out. Hallowed, 2 Minutes, Aces, Fear replaced by Gangland (10.7 million streams), Back in the Village (9.3m), Sun and Steel (8.2m) or Total Eclipse (4.7m). How many stadium tickets would be sold?
Announce rest of world please!
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dickinson1978
Ancient Mariner
People speaks about spotify like it was the bible. Wasting love someone said its because was in some list of power ballad songs or love songs. That song or journeyman doestn represent iron maiden sound at all
Prowler666
Trooper
Wonder knebworth contest??
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
A 2-for-1 offer would make me reconsider attending…
AlexN
Invader
Same here. For me, going would mean going with my young son as well (as he'll be royally miffed if I went without him), but two tickets and paking will currently come in at near £300 for a gig that will be the same as London Stadium but with a worse view for him. That's a very hard price to justify in those circumstances, even if I had that cash readily to hand.
ShadowOfTheGods
Ancient Mariner
Every section available for El Salvador and tickets are 15% off. What a mistake to return there.
Another mistake? Isn't it strange everytime you state the show will be a success, the reality shows something different. As I said, if they will sell 10k tickets for shows in Costa Rica and El Salvador, it would be a success. Probably the same we'll see in the rest of the world. Definietly this tour isn't as good idea as it seems.
Ironalice
Ancient Mariner
I'm not surprised, they wanted 200 USD for some of the better sections which is outrageous for their economy.
Helmuth Von Moltke
Ancient Mariner
Wonder why Maiden doesn't focus more on a bigger spread of Asia? Dream Theater currently touring Singapore, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, then Australia. Maiden never cover such a range of countries in Asia. Nor did they ever return to India.
ShadowOfTheGods
Ancient Mariner
I was just making fun of you know who.
If the sales for the seats are anything to go by, it's selling way better than last time and it will sell out in a couple of months.
But yeah, everything is still available (as it should be) and there are some tickets you can get for 15% off
ShadowOfTheGods
Ancient Mariner
Most shows already are in the range of 30k tickets sold but they're gonna end up with 10k sold.
ShadowOfTheGods
Ancient Mariner
Because they don't need to. Smaller bands must do more shows to cover the expenses, Maiden is okay with a couple.
Also, definitely not their biggest market, so no point in doing a more extensive asian tour.
The tickets are very expensive for local people. El Salvador and Costa Rica aren't the richest countries, even in the region's scale. Generally, this tour has the most expensive tickets in the history of Maiden; logistics and production cost a lot. I'm wondering for rest of the world shows. What size venues will they book? Small stadium/open air parks or indoors? A safer option would be indoors. They played Japan and Oceania in September 2024, not long ago. This time demand might not be so big.I was just making fun of you know who.
If the sales for the seats are anything to go by, it's selling way better than last time and it will sell out in a couple of months.
But yeah, everything is still available (as it should be) and there are some tickets you can get for 15% off
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
I imagine there are no promoters in many of those countries ready to pay their fee...
edward creighton
Nomad
In Asia they could do Jakarta, Singapore, Delhi. Singapore keen on subsidies for bands to appear. India lot of bands now playing there. Bangkok, where I live, not sure big enough market to sell out 12000 arena.