None of those bands are available. Literally half of that list are playing other tours or festivals.
Maiden don't book themselves for Download. It's up to Download and they made it clear that they're moving on from "legacy artists".
I wouldn't say no if they launched a 0% Trooper.Btw, nothing wrong with none alcoholic beer...I enjoy Maiden shows so much more since I gave up drinking beer or any other alc half a decade ago. And First To The Barrier makes no sense with beer, because it would turn soon into some First To The Toilet or First To The Pee Tree or whatever you wanna call that project.
Iron Maiden announce EddFest! - Iron Maiden
The UK headline show in 2026 has been transformed into EddFest - the ultimate 50th anniversary celebration! Featuring the Infinite Dreams Museum Experience, Eddie's ultimate Dive Bar, the Unfair Funfair - and loads more! People with camping tickets will be able to get access on the Friday ahead...www.ironmaiden.com
Action! and Iron Maiden's promotional e-mail said:
I don't think Maiden have ever got the fact that really unless it's legacy metal band like Priest etc fans are only interested in Maiden. Im not saying these bands are no good. But every Maiden gig I've been too theres only I think 2 or 3 support bands the crowd have been arsed about. That was Halford and Trivium to a degree. Cant think of many more
If you mean tour together you havent seen blaze shows nowadays. I love the guy but he is in another division at the moment. He likes maybe be like this. Its not for an opening act its for have fun and remember one show
I think this is great, they are people with a genuine connection to the band goin back 50yrs in some cases and it's bound to be a wonderful jolly for those guys to be part of something this big and great for Maiden and associated folk to have so many of them all hangin round at a (kind of) festival again, a perfect bit of craic for all the lads in their 50th year. Plus a lot of the mega fans who go to looooads of gigs will have some kinda relationship with the guys from Stray and Tony Moore etc.So basically, Steve has a set of British Lion support bands playing there on the Friday!
(For what is worth, I quite like Stray and have seen them live twice: once supporting Maiden back in 2003 and then at a festival in 2021).
There's the Nils Oscar Running Free non-alcohol beer, but it's only regionally available as far as I know to the Nordic countries. I haven't tried it yet, but will at some point.
yeap they can release the dates one month before the scheduled show.
Maiden have had a few nicely received support bands in Sweden over the years. Sabaton and Opeth, for instance.
Helloween better than maiden in 1996 and 1998 ok they haf better albums. But megadeth in 1999 they were touring with risk a really bad album. And gamma ray i remember they had a bad setlist while touring with maiden. Could have been epic but was not that great
I was doing thr same. I was there lol.
That's a terrific opening act setlist. Support bands aren't supposed to play any deep cuts. They are supposed to play hits and a new song or two.
So your critique is "man, they didn't play the exact song I wanted". Come on. This is a hit-ridden setlist. They were the support band. Saying it's a bad setlist is just ridiculous.
