News Run For Your Lives World Tour 2026 Rumours and Speculation

ShadowOfTheGods said:
Because Madness Live is the one who actually pays for everything in Cartagena, while Maiden are the ones to pay at Knebworth.
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it doesn't matter who's paying, the principle is the same.
make more than you spend.
you invite good bands, you pay more, but you sell more tickets/merch etc.
obviously this is a 3 day festival, but the supporting bands are so much better. Maiden could easily do something like that.
Why they didn't?
Probably greed.
They thought Maiden alone would sell a lot more tickets.
 
Aggelos said:
it doesn't matter who's paying
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It does if the one paying is a well established promoter with an insane amount of money available (talking about Live Nation here) and the other is just a band.

Calling all those big bands would be financially impossible for a band, which has to pay for everything else already. Also, how many tickets can they shift anyway? Because that's a 23k cap festival happening on a saturday and yet tickets are still available. It would make very little sense to pay astronomical amounts of money to sell 10k tickets more at best. At that point, it's better to just leave the sales as they are, hoping for an improve and get 100% of what you're making on site those days.
 
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I literally don’t know how you manage to get advance information on festival ticket sales, since there are no assigned seats, but I think that if they reach 50k, it won’t be anything embarrassing.

As for the lineup, it’s obvious that at least one more big band (Judas Priest) would increase demand, but with Blaze Bayley, for fans, it’s at least appealing.
 
MrK said:
I can't wait for the band to play shows and for people to attend those shows. Up the Irons!
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This comment reminds me of the best ‘heckle’ I ever heard at a gig. It was during Bruce Springsteen in Hyde Park 2009. There were two Americans behind me. One shouted ‘Woooo music!’ The other then shouted ‘Wooooo concert!’ I still chuckle to this day thinking about it.
 
Sabawish said:
Isn't Kilamajaro the promoter for Knebworth?
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Looks like it is, but I guess that's just details for some who think they are the single source of truth in all things touring and tickets...

from Gemini
"Kilimanjaro Live is the promoter for Iron Maiden's 50th-anniversary show at Knebworth Park on July 11, 2026, known as EddFest. The show, part of the Run For Your Lives tour, is being produced by Kilimanjaro promoters Stuart Galbraith and Alan Day, who previously worked with the band on the Sonisphere Festival."
 
BQOBD said:
Kilamajaro are the SOLE promoters for Edd Fest 2026….

@ShadowOfTheGods you truly are a remarkable touring industry guru if you know of a co-promoter that no-one else knows of for this gig!
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I mean, what can I say? Believe what you want, keep asking yourself "why knebworth? why they don't add more bands?" all day and we'll all be happy.

Should we close this thread anyway? There hasn't been rumors and speculations since the last announcement and it's highly unlikely we'll get one more gig. It's just a place where people cries if Iron Maiden sells good, cries if they sell poorly.
 
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