Iron Maiden will be taking to the skies once again in 2009

Following the huge international success of their spectacular 'Somewhere Back in Time World Tour 08' Iron Maiden will be taking to the skies once again in 2009 for a fourth and final leg starting in Dubai on February 13th.
Тhe dates are as follows ...

February 2009:-
Fri 13th - UAE - Dubai Media City Amphitheatre
Sun 15th - India - Bangalore Royal Challenge Rock In India
Fri 20th - New Zealand - Auckland.  Mount Smart Stadium
Sat 21st - New Zealand - Christchurch. AMI Stadium
Wed 25th - Mexico - Monterrey Estadio Technologico.
Thurs 26th - Mexico - Guadalajara Arena VFG Jalisco.
Sat 28th - Mexico - Mexico City Fero Sol Stadium Complex

1st - 29th March 2009 - South and Central America.
Details to be advised soon...

As I promised the Iron Maiden / Killers month starts today.

Expect a lot of material , interviews , bootlegs and info around those two albums to be uploaded on our site durring this month

Iron Maiden Bulgaria is online again

It took us a little time to reconstruct our site, but now we are ready to present it to you.
The new stuff that you can find are:

• Information about all Iron Maiden singles and EP-s
• All bootlegs from all tours *
• Information about the Best of compilations and videography
• The pressings of every particular album. *
• Full information about the artwork of the covers and the symbolic behind them *
• Section for the Fan Club Iron Maiden Bulgaria and information how to Join.
• Shop section (which will be online soon)
• Bootleg torrent tracker for fan club members only
• Somewhere Back In Time Tour 2008 picture gallery

* Every month we will concentrate on different album from the history of the band and these sections will be updated during this period

Next week we will start with the Iron Maiden / Killers month, but for a demo we are giving you updated “Bootlegs” and “Pressing” sections for this two albums.

Mestrock.se has uploaded 30 high-quality photos of Saturday's (July 26) soccer game between the official IRON MAIDEN team, Iron Maiden FC, and Gothenburg, Sweden's Paddington's Allstars that took place a few hours before MAIDEN's concert at the Ullevi stadium in Gothenburg. In scorching heat (one of the warmest days of the Swedish summer so far), Iron Maiden FC won by 5 goals to 2. MAIDEN bassist Steven Harris scored two goals and said afterwards that he was happy his team got revenge for the loss in Gothenburg in 2005.

Later the same evening, IRON MAIDEN played to its biggest Swedish audience yet, with official ticket sales figures of 56,132, according to Live Nation. The concert received the highest possible ratings (5 out of 5) in the two major Swedish newspapers Expressen and Aftonbladet.

A personal message from Captain Bruce Dickinson
Dear 666 passenger,
I am gutted to have to tell you that Astraeus Airlines have been forced to remove the Iron Maiden decals (artwork transfers) from the Boeing 757 and that its now highly unlikely that operational proceedures will allow enough time to have the Ed Force One livery reinstated for my Bruce Air trips.
When we originally commissioned the 757 from Astraeus it was due to be reverted back to their normal airline branding at the end of the first leg of our tour.  However Astraeus were getting such great feedback from passengers and airports around our tour, that they asked if they could retain the Iron Maiden decals when they took the plane back for their own normal charter flights.  We thought this was great and it has since been flying European and Middle East routes with spectacular reaction.

Unfortunately for us, 'Ed Force One' was the only plane available from the Astraeus fleet to fly a new and regular route into and out of an African country on a recent new route.  The striking Iron Maiden imagery had a violent reaction from the locals as they regarded the artwork, particularly that of Eddie, as very bad ju ju. Not only would local passengers refuse to board the plane because of the artwork, but other passengers were refusing to board planes of other airlines parked nearby in case they were tainted by the evil spirits!  This resulted in some furore among the attending passengers and even more among the airlines involved!  As the liveried 757 is owned and maintained by Astraeus, they had no alternative but to strip off all the Iron Maiden artwork and return the plane to its usual livery to be able to continue on the new route .
 
As most seats on these trips were taken up before I announced that we would be using Ed Force One (Warsaw/Prague was already sold out), I really hope this isn't too much of a disappointment to you, and I much look forward to welcoming you aboard Bruce Air Flight AEU 666.

The team at ICT will keep you advised of any developments.

Best wishes,
 
Bruce

Iron Maiden invited American/Norwegian melodic metallers KAMELOT as support band for their show, at the massive TT Circuit location on August 16 in Assen, Netherlands.

For  more information visit Kamelot’s Myspace page

As a tribute to Iron Maiden Kerrang! has persuaded some of their favourite bands to record unique covers of their greatest anthems, for an exciting free CD entitled Maiden Heaven. The tracklisting and details for this world exclusive release will be revealed next month and we want YOU to get involved too by designing the album's artwork!

Feel free to interpret the cover's concept in any way you wish by using any medium at your disposal. A K! panel will select the winner and contact them in due course. Your entry can be submitted as a high-resolution JPG (300dpi - 150mm x 150mm) and should be e-mailed to feedback@kerrang.com or alternatively, you can send in your original artwork, but please note it cannot be returned. The deadline for this competition is May 26.

What's in it for you? In addition to having your artwork adorn the cover of this incredible album, the winning entrant will also win a year's subscription to Kerrang!.

Iron Maiden released the artwork of the upcomming BEST OF Compillation "Somewhere Back In Time - The Best Of: 1980-1989 "for free download

UK's What Records will release "Chemical Wedding - Original Soundtrack" on May 19.

"Chemical Wedding" is a feature film written by IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson and long-time Monty Python editor Julian Doyle, who also directed the film. The film is a gothic sci-fi extravaganza set in Trinity College Cambridge, where a scientific experiment goes awry resulting in the resurrection of the infamous Edwardian occultist Aleister Crowley, who was immortalized into pop culture by the likes of THE BEATLES, Jimmy Page and Ozzy Osbourne. The soundtrack includes two tracks from IRON MAIDEN and two tracks from Bruce.

"Chemical Wedding - Original Soundtrack" track listing is as follows:

01. Chemical Wedding - BRUCE DICKINSON
02. Hush Hush Here Comes the Bogie Man - HENRY HALL / VAL ROSING.
03. Fanlight Fanny - GEORGE FORMBY
04. Man of Sorrows - BRUCE DICKINSON
05. Wickerman - IRON MAIDEN
06. Can I Play With Madness - IRON MAIDEN
07. Separation - SKIN
08. Une Faune Apres Midi - DEBUSSY
09. The Alleluya Chorus - HANDLE
10. (Excerpt) Violin Concerto – MOZART

Directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn of Banger Films Inc. — creators of the critically acclaimed, award-winning documentary "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" and its soon-to-be-released follow-up "Global Metal" — are looking for fans' "home videos" for possible use in the upcoming IRON MAIDEN documentary that follows the band's current "Somewhere Back in Time" tour. "So if you captured the excitement of Ed Force One landing, fan mayhem at the airport, camping or lining up outside the venues on your cell phone, camera or video camera, please upload your clips to our special YouTube group 'Somewhere Back in Time Fan Videos.' (Please note we are NOT looking for any fan footage of the concert performances.) Directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn will review all videos. If selected, fans will be contacted with further details. Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2008. Go to this location to upload your video."

Producer Kevin Shirley is currently in the studio mixing IRON MAIDEN tracks for a new feature documentary that follows the band's current "Somewhere Back in Time" tour. The film is being helmed by directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn of Banger Films Inc. — creators of the critically acclaimed, award-winning documentary "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" and its soon-to-be-released follow-up "Global Metal".

For the official tour documentary, Scot and Sam are following the band in the air and on the stage, giving fans behind-the-scenes and front-and-center access to one of the most-talked-about metal tours of 2008.

The president of the Bulgarian fanclub Dimitar Petrov and the members of the managing committee Liubomir Baliev , Gergana Popova , Stanlly Milev and the owner and administrator of the website Nickola Petras will appear as guests on Z-rock's BRUTALLICA show. The show will be on Wednesday (09.04.2008) and the guests will appear 30 minutes after the start of the show in 21:00

After the great gigs in USA and Canada. Iron Maiden are pleased to announce new dates for North America.

SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME -- WORLD TOUR 08'  CANADA SUMMER TOUR DATES:

Tue 03 June - Pacific Coliseum Vancouver, BC    
Thu 05 June - Saddledome Calgary, AB
Fri 06 June - Rexall Place Edmonton, AB
Sun 08 June - Brandt Center Regina, SK
Mon 09 June - MTS Centre Winnipeg, SK

SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME -- WORLD TOUR 08' USA TOUR DATES:
5/21/08 San Antonio, TX Verizon Wireless
5/22/08 Houston, TXВ  Woodlands
5/25/08 Albuquerque, NM Journal Pavilion
5/26/08 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Pavilion
5/28/08 Concord, CA Concord
5/30/08 Los Angeles, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
5/31/08 Los Angeles, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
6/2/08В В  Seattle, WA White River Amphitheatre

Bulgarian Official Iron Maiden Fan club members will travel to Athens, to see Iron Maiden live on 2nd august. The tickets are here and are waiting for their owners. This is first activity organized by the “Official Fan club Iron Maiden Bulgaria”.

For now 15 members will have the luck to see their idols from few meters in the front section of the stage. There are still tickets for the show and if you wish to join, please contact us.

maidenbulgaria@abv.bg

maidenbulgaria@gmail.com

With the overwhelming success of the current 'Somewhere Back In Time World Tour '08', and the recent No 1 selling DVD 'Live After Death', EMI Records are proud to release a very special album on CD and double picture disc vinyl on 12th May to chart the first decade of the band's extraordinary career. The album celebrates the essence of the current tour by featuring most of the essential tracks from the band's first seven studio albums and one live album, recorded between 1980 and 1989, and is aptly also entitled 'SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME'

Here is the tracklis:

1. Churchill Speech (0.49)
2. Aces High (4.36)  
3. 2 Minutes To Midnight (6.00)  
4. The Trooper (4.11)   
5. Wasted Years (5.06)   
6. Children Of The Damned (4.35) 
7. The Number of The Beast (4.53)  
8. Run To The Hills (3.53)   
9. Phantom Of The Opera -- Live (7.21)
10. The Evil That Men Do (4.34)   
11. Wrathchild -- Live (3.07)   
12. Can I Play With Madness (3.31)  
13. Powerslave (6.47)
14. Hallowed Be Thy Name (7.12)
15. Iron Maiden -- Live (4.50)

In an unprecedented move to let younger fans hear, understand and appreciate the quality of these recordings EMI launch the unique SOMEWHERE BEST IN SOUND whereby the curious/adventurous can download the entire album without charge from www.ironmaiden.com  as a high quality audio file (WMA) which is a typically powerful 320 kbps. Fans will then be able to listen to the entire album at their leisure three times before the download expires.  The listener is then given a simple option to upgrade and purchase the album as a full traditional DRM-free download (so they can then copy or do as they like with the album). The Cover is illustrated by the legendary Derek Riggs.

From onstage last night (Feb 19), amid the pandemonium in front of 14,000 screaming fans at a packed Los Angeles Forum, Iron Maiden announced the first leg of their eagerly anticipated North American summer tour.

Tickets for Iron Maiden's current "SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME -- WORLD TOUR 08" dates at the Los Angeles Forum and New Jersey's Izod Centre sold out months in advance, the band are delighted to announce they are coming back for more major USA concerts this summer which will take them to a number of cities they have not played in many years.

Wed 5/21/08 San Antonio, TX - Verizon Wireless
Thu 5/22/08 Houston, TX - Woodlands
Sun 5/25/08 Albuquerque, NM - Journal Pavilion
Mon 5/26/08 Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Pavilion
Wed 5/28/08 Concord, CA - Concord
Fri 5/30/08 Los Angeles, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Sat 5/31/08 Los Angeles, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Mon 6/2/08   Seattle, WA - White River Amph

According to IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson, the group's concert in Tokyo, Japan tonight (Saturday, February 16) was filmed for an upcoming DVD. No further details are currently available.

IRON MAIDEN kicked off their Somewhere Back In Time - World Tour '08 with a headlining performance Friday night (February 1) in front of nearly 100,000 fans at the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai, India. The group's setlist was as follows:

01. Intro - Churchill's Speech 02. Aces High 03. 2 Minutes to Midnight 04. Revelations 05. The Trooper 06. Wasted Years 07. The Number of the Beast 08. Run to the Hills 09. Rime of the Ancient Mariner 10. Powerslave 11. Heaven Can Wait 12. Can I Play With Madness? 13. Fear of the Dark 14. Iron Maiden ----------------------------- 15. Moonchild 16. The Clairvoyant 17. Hallowed Be Thy Name

Iron Maiden are currently on a worldwide tour which has just started in Mumbai in India. AmongВ  many stadium and festival performancesВ around the planet we are delighted to announce that the band will perform in Budapest on the Mainstage of Sziget festival on Tuesday August 12th.

Tickets for the show are available from http://sziget.interticket.com/festival?language=englishВ - festival tickets at the moment, day tickets will go on-sale in May.

Former IRON MAIDEN/WOLFSBANE singer Blaze Bayley will be IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson's guest on Friday, February 15 during Bruce's weekly BBC 6 Music radio show, aptly named "The Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show". This will mark the very first interview that Bruce and Blaze have ever done together. Listen to the program live via the Internet between 10:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. U.K. time at BBC.co.uk.

Iron Maiden are very pleased to announce they will be performing at the Assen TT Race Track in Assen, Holland on Saturday 16th August as part of their Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008. This is the first time any such music event has been staged as the famous motorcycling rack track which regularly hosts the World superbike championships and TT races.

Tickets go on-sale to the general public at 10am on Saturday 26th Jan via www.livenation.nl

On the eve of the highly anticipated Australian leg of the IRON MAIDEN world tour, which will see the band play sold out arena shows in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in February, the support acts have been announced.

Legendary local metal band Vanishing Point is confirmed as support on the Perth and Melbourne IRON MAIDEN shows.

Behind Crimson Eyes is support on the Sydney and Brisbane IRON MAIDEN shows.

Lauren Harris and her band have been announced as the opening act on all Australian IRON MAIDEN dates.

AfterВ a lot of deliberation, we can finally announce the name of Maiden's 757, and the lucky winner of our 'name the plane' competition. Over to Rod...

"From well over 2000 entries, Bruce and I chose ED FORCE ONE. ALthough many were quite original in concept, it has a niceВ ring to it. In the tie breaker pretty well all of you chose to flatter the band! Very nice of you! Anyway, we chose WILSON's entry -В "Timeless, inspirational, continually evolving, but always true to themselves, camaraderie that survives the evil that men do!" - I like the reference to camaraderie as I feel that it's something the Maiden and their fans are very much about."

So big congratulations to WILSON who'll soon be sinking a few beverages with Rod backstage before watching the gig from the mixing desk as well as getting some goodies like a tour jacket a personalised signed pic of the plane. (Signed by the band, not by the plane, obviously.)

We'll also be sorting out runners up prizes for the 15 other people who chose the same name!

Iron Maiden will be playing the Via de la Plata festival in Merida, Spain on July 11th. Tickets for this gig go on-sale on Saturday 12th January via www.ticktackticket.com

Iron Maiden are to perform at the St Jakobshalle in Basel, on Thursday 14th August as part of their Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008.

Steve Harris says "We've always been regular visitors to Switzerland on just about every tour since our first journeys abroad in the early eighties so we have a lot of friends there and it will be great to see them again on this spectacular tour. Although this time is a little different as we're going to being playing up in Basel in the north which we haven't visited a long time."

Tickets go on sale to the public Monday 28th December 10am GMT but members of the Iron Maiden fan club will get special and exclusive first access to purchase tickets from Wednesday 26th December - just check the FC News section.

Maiden have just confirmed that they'll be playing Belgium's Graspop festival in June 2008.

Iron Maiden are very pleased to announce they will be performing at the Split City Stadium in Split, Croatia on Sunday 10th August as part of their Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008.

Steve Harris says "This will be our very first visit ever to the city of Split and we're very excited about getting there to play on this tour. We have visited Croatia only a couple of times before, both times in Zagreb much further north in the country. The first time was way back in 1986 and last time on the 'Give Me Ed' tour 3 or 4 years ago. So to us this will just be like playing somewhere new for the first time which always gets us going on stage and I'm sure many of our friends from Zagreb will be making the trip down south for this special show."

Tickets go on sale to the public at midday on Thursday 20th December.

web:           www.ticketpro.hr
e-mail:        ticketpro@ticketpro.hr

Iron Maiden are very pleased to announce they will be performing at the Gwardia Stadium in Warsaw, Poland on Thursday 7th August as part of their Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008.

Steve Harris says "This will be a very special show for us for many reasons as the Powerslave Tour was the first time we visited Poland all the way back in 1985 which was a really big deal back then owing to the country being under Soviet rule at that time. Despite what many people told us to expect of life 'Behind the Iron Curtain' we found only the most friendly of welcomes from the fans in Poland some of whom would save up nearly a months wages just to get hold of one our records at that time. So ever since then we've always tried to make sure we got to Poland on every tour as the fans there always remind us of that amazing time."

Tickets go on sale Friday 14th December via www.ticketpro.pl

Iron Maiden are very pleased to announce they will be performing at the Cotroceni Football Stadium in Bucharest, Romania on Monday 4th August as part of their Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008.

Steve Harris says "We've mentioned before in previous announcements how exciting it is to be playing new places and although we have visited Bucharest only once before, way back in October 1995, this will be the first time our fans there will get to see Bruce performing the classic songs.  So this will basically like playing here for the first time for us and I'm sure the fans will be as fired for it as we are!"

Tickets go onsale today at 1pm local time - www.myticket.ro

Iron Maiden are to perform at the Super Bock Super Rock Festival in Lisbon on Wednesday 9th July at the Parque do Tejo as part of their Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008.

Steve Harris says "I'm personally really looking forward to be playing this festival as I have a lot of close ties with Portugal because I spend a lot of time at my second home in Faro where I also have my 'Eddie's Bar' as well. So I will have a lot of friends and regulars coming down to this show. The Portuguese fans have always been very ardent and loyal followers of the band so it should be a great festival."
Tickets are on sale to the public at www.ticketline.pt

Iron Maiden today announced they have renewed and extended their historic 28-year recording relationship with EMI  for the World excluding USA.

Rod Smallwood commented, "We've had three tremendous decades working with EMI and have many friends there. Through many "regimes" EMI have always given us their full support and our relationship with their companies worldwide has always been excellent. We've got some great plans for 2008 and beyond, and I can't wait to get back on the road next year on a tour which appropriately celebrates the band's formative years. "

Tony Wadsworth, Chairman & CEO, EMI Music UK said, "Since the early eighties Maiden has been a flagship band for EMI and we have enjoyed a fantastic long term relationship. Now that we can work with and support them in their broader music activities, our goal is to help build on the foundations already in place for an even more successful future."

Big Star Promotion in association with Phantom Music Management and K2 AgencyВ  is proud to announce that Greece will be part of Iron Maiden's spectacular SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME WORLD TOUR 2008.

Iron Maiden are confirmed to perform at the Terra Vibe ParkВ  in Athens on Saturday 2nd August 2008.

Steve Harris says, "This is a great venue to play. We played there back in 2005 and I remember it being unbearablyВ  hot but the fans were just wild and gave us a fantastic reception. I have to say that fans in Greece are as loud and responsive as any anywhere in the world. Thats the major reason why we have always tried hard to have Greece in out tour itinery although it can be tough geographically!! We also enjoy Athens culturally and we have all made more than one visit to the Acropolis and other beautiful relics.And the food is terrific!!"

The stage of Terra Vibe Park - one of the largest ones in Europe -  impressive, visible from all angles and able to lift 130 tons of equipment, will be perfect to host all the elements of the great show.

Tickets go on sale to the public at 10.00am on Tuesday December 18th, but members of the Iron Maiden fan club will get special and exclusive first access to purchase tickets on Monday 17th December.  Watch the www.ironmaiden.com and www.didimusic.com  for further information!

Iron Maiden are to perform at the Slavia Football Stadium in Prague on Friday 8th August as part of their Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008.

Steve Harris says "We've got a lot of friends in Prague as we visit there as often as we can although this time it's going to be a little different as we're in a much bigger venue than usual at the football stadium so the atmosphere will be all that more special I think.
I remember the last time we were there at the T Mobile Arena and it was the opening show of the Eddie Rips Up Europe tour in 2005 and the reception from the fans was just incredible. Nearly lifted the roof off the place! It's always electric thanks to the energy of the fans and we're really looking forward to playing there again."
Tickets go on sale to the public on Monday 17th December.

Iron Maiden have now added a third show in Brazil at  Curitiba Pedreira (outdoor) on March 4th.

Tickets for this show, and Porto Alegre, go onsale on December 8th.

Iron Maiden are to be the main headliner at Italy's "Gods of Metal Festival" on Friday 27th June as part of their 'Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008'.

The three day festival will be taking place at the Arena Parco Nord in Bologna with tickets going on sale on Thursday 29th November at 12.00 Midday

This will be the third time the band have headlined the festival, helping it grow to be Italy's premier Metal event.This will be the band's only Italian performance in 08.

A full supporting bill will be announced soon and fans can check progress at www.godsofmetal.it

Tickets go on sale to the public at 12noon CET 29th November.
Tickets available from www.ticketone.it

A poster for IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson's upcoming supernatural horror-thriller inspired by noted occultist Aleister Crowley called "Chemical Wedding"

As previously reported, "Chemical Wedding" wrapped principal photography in September with Julian Doyle at the helm. The film stars Simon Callow as a reincarnation of Crowley, once dubbed "the most evil man in Britain." Callow's character, Haddo, is a shy, stuttering professor.The film will be released in Britain and Ireland by Warner Bros. The studio also has a first-look option on other territories.

Iron Maiden will be playing their first ever stadium show in the UK at  the Twickenham Rugby Stadium in London on Saturday 5th July 2008 as part of their Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008. Despite headlining major UK festivals like Reading and Donington many times and selling out stadiums around the World, the band have never before elected to play a stadium in the UK and intend to make this first time a very special occasion.

The 50,000 capacity celebrated home of English Rugby will be transformed into a Maiden mecca with fans travelling in from all parts of the country and further afield for this one and only UK show of 2008.
Iron Maiden are also to perform at the Ominisport De Bercy Arena in Paris on Tuesday 1st July as part of their Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008.

"Maiden Mania" is currently gripping the world as tickets sales of the 2008 World tour fly out of the box offices in Australia, India, Japan, North and South America and now Europe with many shows selling out within only a few hours.

FULL LIST OF CONTENTS

Disc 1 -- LIVE AFTER DEATH
Live After Death concert with Stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 AudioВ  (90 minutes)

Set list --
Churchill Speech/Aces High
2 Minutes to Midnight
The Trooper
Revelations
Flight of Icarus
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Powerslave
Number of the Beast
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Iron Maiden
Run to The Hills
Running Free
Sanctuary

Disc 2В  -- DOCUMENTARY / BONUS CONCERT FOOTAGE

1.The History of Iron Maiden -- Part 2В  (60 mins) -- Documentary.
Band members, crew, friends and associates talk about the period in the band's career which saw the writing, recording and release of the Powerslave album, and later Live After Death, and the subsequent massive touring. And not just the serious side!!

2.В Behind the Iron Curtain ( 57 mins approx) Documentary and Live -- shot during Maiden's historic tour of Poland and other parts to the Eastern Bloc in 1984 featuring interviews, live and offstage footage capturing the atmosphere of this remarkable journey behind the Wall at the height of the Cold War.

3.В Live Footage - Rock in Rio '85 (50 mins approx)
The full Maiden set supporting Queen on the first day of the first Rock in Rio in front of 300,000 manic metal fans. A bloody and stirring performance!!
Songs performed include Aces High, 2 Minutes to Midnight, The Trooper, Revelations, Powerslave, Iron Maiden, Run To The Hills, Running Free

4.В Ello Texas -- 15 minutes -- Interview and live. Caught by a film crew in 1983 at the Alamo and sound checking their show in San Antonio.

5.В Artwork Gallery, Tour Programme, Tour dates and photo gallery

6.В Promotional clips for Aces High and 2 Minutes to Midnight

Subtitles for All documentary footage --
PAL version -- English HOH / Dutch / French / German / Italian / Swedish / Portuguese / Spanish
NTSC Version --В  English HOH / Brazilian Portguese / Latin Spanish

EMA Telstar are delighted to announce the return of IRON MAIDEN to Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland next year with what will be the biggest Rock Tour that any band has EVER undertaken in these Nordic regions. Following their record breaking and massively popular sell outs at Ullevi Stadium, in 2005, and the multiple arena shows around the region in 2006, EMA Telstar have put together a concert schedule which will allow the band to play to at least 250,000 fans in the six stadium shows in the Summer of 2008. The full schedule is --

SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME World Tour 08
JULY 2008

Wed 16th - Stockholm, Sweden - Stockholm Stadium
Fri 18th - Helsinki, Finland - Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Tue 22nd - Trondheim, Norway - Lerkendalstadium
Thu 24th - Oslo, Norway - Valle Hovin
Sat 26th - Gothenburg, Sweden - Ullevi Stadium
Sun 27th - Horsens, Denmark - Horsens Gods Bane Pladsen

Comments Tour Promoter Thomas Johansson of EMA Telstar "We are all very proud to be making history by giving our rock fans the biggest Nordic Rock Tour there has ever been and certainly one of the most spectacular. Maiden is so hugely popular with the Nordic peoples that we wanted to ensure that as many fans as possible got the opportunity to see this very special show next year as we expect demand for tickets to be enormous."

This first leg of Iron Maiden's 'SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME' World Tour will open in Mumbai India on Feb 1st, and continue through Australia, Japan, Los Angeles and Mexico, followed by the band's first ever concerts in Costa Rica and Columbia, and then on to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Puerto Rica and New York, before finishing in Toronto, Canada, on March 16th. Over the 45 day period it is anticipated that Maiden will play to well over 400,000 fans in 21 cities in 10 countries, flying close to 50,000 miles in the specially refitted plane (full schedule below).

Comments Bruce Dickinson, "I have been flying commercial passenger jets for Astraeus Airlines for a few years now and we are commissioning an Astraeus Boeing 757. It will go in for overhaul, painting and conversion in November which will then give us time to ensure we have all the necessary safety documentation, especially with regard to fire safety. It also means it could possibly be flying commercial air routes decked out in Maiden colours for a couple of months before we start!

"Looking at the list of places we would like to play we have always had problems joining up the dots. With sea containers in various places it slows down the whole touring process, which is fine if you want a holiday but not if you want to play. It's great to see places but we don't want to sit around for a week waiting for gear to get from, say, Australia to South America, so this way we can get to more fans in more places en route in the same time period"
To tie in with forthcoming 2008 releases on DVD of the classic 'LIVE AFTER DEATH' concert video (full details coming soon) this tour, aptly entitled 'SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME', will revisit the band's history by focusing almost entirely on the 80's in both choice of songs played and the stage set, which will be based around the legendary Egyptian Production of the 1984-85 'Powerslave Tour'. This will arguably be the most elaborate and spectacular show the band have ever presented, and will include some key elements of their Somewhere In Time tour of 1986/7, such as the Cyborg Eddie.
Steve Harris comments "l always loved the Powerslave show which I think was arguably our most spectacular ever, so taking it out again is really going to be a lot of fun. Taking our own 757 really makes it a lot more flexible for us and we intend to ram into the specially constructed cargo holds as much of the show as we possibly can. The schedule we have been able to put together due to this flexibility l think is very exciting, taking us to some places we haven't been in a long while like Australia and some we have never been to like Columbia and Costa Rica. It is always refreshing going to new places and we hear the fans there are incredible! It's a lot of flying but will be well worth it.
"As always when planning these tours we sadly aren't always able to get to everywhere that we'd like to for various logistical and timing reasons
and there are probably fans out there who might be disappointed. We promise we will try even harder the next time around to get to those places."

Full Schedule for the first leg
SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME World Tour 08

February
Fri 1st - Mumbai, India - Bandra Kurla Complex
Mon 4th - Perth, Australia - Burswood Dome
Wed 6th - Melbourne, Australia - Rod Laver Arena
Thu 7th - Melbourne, Australia - Rod Laver Arena
Sat 9th - Sydney, Australia - Acer Arena
Sun 10th - Sydney, Australia - Acer Arena
Tue 12th - Brisbane, Australia - Entertainment Centre
Fri 15th - Yokohama, Japan - Pacifico Yokohama
Sat 16th - Tokyo, Japan - Messe
Tue 19th - Los Angeles, USA -The Forum
Thu 21st - Guadalajara, Mexico - Auditoria Telmex
Fri 22nd - Monterrey, Mexico - Arena Monterrey
Sun 24th - Mexico City, Mexico - Sports Palace
Tue 26th - San Jose, Costa Rica - Saprisa Stadium
Thu 28th - Bogota, Columbia - Simon Bolivar Park

March
Sun 2nd - Sao Paulo, Brazil - Skol Arena Anhembi
Wed 5th - Porto Allegre, Brazil - Gigantinho
Fri 7th - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Ferrofcarril Oeste Stadium
Sun 9th - Santiago, Chile - Pista Atletica
Wed 12th - Puerto Rico - San Juan Coliseo
Fri 14th - New Jersey, USA - Izod Arena
Sun 16th - Toronto, Canada - Air Canada Centre

The second leg of the Tour will take place mid May to mid June with further concerts in North America, followed by the third leg European Tour, extensively covering most of Europe in Stadiums and major Festivals. In total the band are expected to play to well in excess of one and a half million fans during the whole tour.

Exciting news of Nordic dates are expected to be announced soon. Make sure you have registered here to receive news bulletins as they are released !

Lauren Harris and her band are playing the following gigs around the U.K.in November and December.
From 24.Nov.onwards supporting Thunder.
Check out Lauren atВ В www.myspace.com/laurenharrisuk

5 Nov.В - Kettering Sawyers 6 Nov.В - Tamworth The Palace 7 Nov. - Dudley JB's 8 Nov.В - Hertford Marquee 9 Nov.В -В Hard Rock Hell Festival Minehead 24.Nov.В - Newcastle City Hall 25.Nov.В -В Glasgow Academy 27.Nov.В - Wolverhampton Civic Hall 28.Nov.В - Bristol Academy 1.Dec.В -В Manchester Academy 2.Dec. - London Astoria 3.Dec. - Sheffield City Hall

Arrrrrghh Finally!! More than year of hard work and the site is open. I sure hope you will enjoy it.

First I want to say one big THANK YOU GUYS!! To all the boys and girls who helped me for translating and finding most of the materials, pictures and stuff witch are included in the site. I wouldn’t do it. Without them (well I might, but maybe in 2070:P ). So thank you! I won’t forget it. Let’s start with little explanation: This is an unofficial site with no connection to Iron Maiden. Most of the materials and information are taken from the Iron Maiden Official site, The Iron Maiden Commentary and other sites like Encyclopaedia Metallium Wikipedia and other Iron Maiden Fan-sites. Off course there is a lot to say and read for that GREAT, LEGENDARY AND IMMORTAL BAND so there are tons of materials, interviews and stuff that I hope you will find soon here As you see a lot of the sections of the site are still under construction But we are working hard to upload all the material as soon as possible. So Expect a lot of new material with the new updates. We are planning to make 1-2 updates every week.

This is Bulgarian Website, therefore the materials have to be translated and to be uploaded together with the English ones. If you think that you can help I will be very grateful and those who help will be included in the VIP group in the forum. And this will be the way to build strong BULGARIAN IRON MAIDEN COMMUNITY.

maidenbulgaria@gmail.com or maidenbulgaria@abv.bg

dragontear666@abv.bg Maiden Rules!!!

Team Members

IRON MAIDEN announce their most ambitious and extraordinary touring plans ever -- and are very pleased to announce that this will include Australia for the first time in 15 years!
The 'SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME' World Tour 2008 will be in three sections, 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, of course, Australia, opening in Perth on Feb 4 and continuing through Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane

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 encompassing major stadiums and festivals all over Europe.

To tie in with forthcoming 2008 releases on DVD of the classic 'LIVE AFTER DEATH' and 'MAIDEN ENGLAND' concert videos (more details coming soon) this tour, aptly entitled 'SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME', will revisit the band's history by focusing almost entirely on the 80's in both choice of songs played and the stage set, which will be based around the legendary Egyptian Production of the 1984-85 'Powerslave Tour'. This will arguably be the most elaborate and spectacular show the band have ever presented, and will include some key elements of their Somewhere In Time tour of 1986/7, such as the Cyborg Eddie.

Tickets go on sale to the public 9am Thursday 27th September, but members of the Iron Maiden fan club get exclusive first access to purchase tickets from 12 noon Thursday 20th September through to 12 noon Monday 24th September. More details soon!