Iron Maiden - Going on Tour!

Iron Maiden is preparing to launch its most ambitious tour ever with its Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008 that includes a swing through Australia for the first time in 15 years. The world tour will consist of three legs, starting in February and March 2008, with the first leg encompassing major concerts in 20 selected cities on five continents in seven weeks, including India, Japan, North America, Central and South America and Australia. The tour opens in Perth on Feb. 4.

The tour then continues with more concerts in North America in late May and June before finishing with a third leg in July and August covering major stadiums and festivals throughout Europe. During the tour the band is expected to play to well over one and a half-million fans and travel close to 100,000 miles.

In an historic first, Iron Maiden, their 60-person crew and support staff and more than 12 tons of equipment, will be traveling around the world en masse for the first leg of the tour in a specially commissioned and converted Astraeus Boeing 757 decorated with Maiden and its mascot Eddie designs. Vocalist Bruce Dickinson, who is also a qualified airline captain flying for Astraeus Airlines, will pilot the plane, flying over 50,000 miles. . .

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