News Run For Your Lives World Tour 2026 Rumours and Speculation

[weebaggy]

This is sounding a lot like the Metallica debate. Ozzy as a brand is waaaay bigger than Maiden could ever hope to be..but it has nothing to do with music.

And, yeah, it's fair to say that's on Sharon's management. But what I'm struggling to see is why that would be considered a good thing. Fair enough if money and fame is your end goal but I suspect most Sabbath fans would have preferred Ozzy and Sabbath focused on making music instead of headlines.

 

[Smither]

This is sounding a lot like the Metallica debate. Ozzy as a brand is waaaay bigger than Maiden could ever hope to be..but it has nothing to do with music.

And, yeah, it's fair to say that's on Sharon's management. But what I'm struggling to see is why that would be considered a good thing. Fair enough if money and fame is your end goal but I suspect most Sabbath fans would have preferred Ozzy and Sabbath focused on making music instead of headlines.

But as I'm saying, at least on my personal experience in Brazil, it doesn't compare. Metallica is indeed way bigger than Maiden and their hits are more well known, but here, while the Ozzy brand is bigger, I'd argue FOTD and The Trooper are more well known than Paranoid or Crazy Train, for example. I know that isn't the case specially in the US but also UK and probably most of western europe, but here (and probably the rest of SA as well) they are in fact similar if we talk about song popularity. Metallica is in another level compared to both.

Granted, this obviously has to do with the fact that Sabbath came here like only in '92 with Dio and then 2013 and 2016 (and played smaller venues than Maiden usually does). I think they also came as H&H but playing in places for less than 10k people. Maiden has come here on all tours since FOTD except for a few summer tours and also went to big cities outside of the most famous ones.

 

[ShadowOfTheGods]

Ozzy's shows (same as Black Sabbath's) have always been way less attended than Maiden's (especially from 2008 until now). That goes for every single part of the world.
Metallica's shows used to be way more populated than Maiden but, aside from some markets, it's not the case anynmore: while Met usually makes larger numbers, the difference is slimming up every year. And let's not forget that sometimes Maiden has the upper hand (France 2025, for example).

Now can we go back to speculating about what other shows are left to announce?

 

[Cat Milk Supreme]

Promoters aren't expecting a sold out, but it should be their biggest show in the country.
Right now sales are basically non-existing, but I'm sure it's one of those markets where they pick up closer to show day

Yah, all will be well, I'm sure.

In further news, I now have a notification saying @Smither quoted my post in this thread but I see no such quote. I'm not sure how much more of this I can take.

 

[Smither]

In further news, I now have a notification saying @Smither quoted my post in this thread but I see no such quote. I'm not sure how much more of this I can take.

I quoted it before reading the whole conversation but then I edited and unquoted it because I felt like I was actually replying to everyone and not just you, sorry.

 

[Cat Milk Supreme]

I quoted it before reading the whole conversation but then I edited and unquoted it because I felt like I was actually replying to everyone and not just you, sorry.

Ahhhh, ok. Certainly no need to apologise. I've just never seen that before and it's happened twice this morning, hence my confusion

 

[Vaenyr]

Yah, all will be well, I'm sure.

In further news, I now have a notification saying Smither quoted my post in this thread but I see no such quote. I'm not sure how much more of this I can take.

I got a similar notification for a different threat. No idea what's up with the software today.

 

[Ironalice]

After the second Auckland show, no announcement this will be the final show added, wonder where else will get another

 

[Nomadd]

Ozzy's shows (same as Black Sabbath's) have always been way less attended than Maiden's (especially from 2008 until now). That goes for every single part of the world.
Metallica's shows used to be way more populated than Maiden but, aside from some markets, it's not the case anynmore: while Met usually makes larger numbers, the difference is slimming up every year. And let's not forget that sometimes Maiden has the upper hand (France 2025, for example).

Now can we go back to speculating about what other shows are left to announce?

Iron Maiden aren't so big a "brand" in the mainstream media, 'cos they and their management haven't ever been interested in. Maiden is about MUSIC and live shows, not just scandals, addictions, reality TV, and sensational headlines from street press. But let's make that offtop over! I think IM will announce additional shows somewhere, maybe Brisbane? Who knows.