Iron Maiden Announce New Studio Album 'The Final Frontier' and North American Tour
The official site reports:IRON MAIDEN are pleased to announce that their forthcoming new studio album will be called 'THE FINAL FRONTIER', and is expected be released late summer of this year.
The announcement comes with news of a North American Tour with Very Special Guests Dream Theater to open in Dallas, Texas, on 9th June and finish in Washington D.C. on 20th July, making it Maiden's most extensive North American tour in many years.
Following these shows in USA and Canada The Final Frontier World Tour will travel back to Europe for a few selected major festival and stadium shows with the band planning to continue to many other countries in 2011 (full currently confirmed dates below).
The full Live Nation North America press release for the North American Tour is posted here.
An exclusive pre-sale allowing members of the IRON MAIDEN fan club first access to tickets to the North American Maiden Shows will be made available two days prior to them being available to the public.
Tickets for the Canadian shows will go on sale to the public on Saturday 13th March at 10am PST (10am EST for Toronto and 12 noon EST Montreal).
Exclusive first access to the tickets will be available to IM fan club members on Wednesday 10th March at 10am PST through to Thursday 11th March at 6pm PST (EST for Toronto).
Regretfully due to technical reasons an exclusive Pre-Sale in Montreal is not possible.
Tickets for the US Shows will go on sale to the public on Saturday 20th March at 10am EST.
Exclusive first access to the tickets will be available to IM fan club members on Wednesday 17th March at 10am EST through to Thursday 18th March at 6pm EST
As IRON MAIDEN are actively dedicated to ensuring their fans always have access to the best possible tickets at the fairest possible price, without being subject to scalping for good seats, so many North American shows will operate, at least in part, a paperless ticket policy: More information on Ticketmaster Paperless Ticketing can be found here
To give IRON MAIDEN fan club members a privileged insight to their touring world, IMTV will return to www.ironmaiden.com to cover THE FINAL FRONTIER WORLD TOUR. This exclusive footage includes regular video from the live shows, touring, band interviews, insights into our crew and what they do and much much more. The website will also feature exclusive tour diaries, exclusive photographs and anything else that helps the fans get a real insight into the dynamics of a big tour.
**THE FINAL FRONTIER 2010 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR**
With Very Special Guests Dream Theater
JUNE
Wed 09 - Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center
Fri 11 - Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Sat 12 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center
Mon 14 - Denver, CO - Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
Wed 16 - Albuquerque, NM - The Pavilion
Thu 17 - Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Wireless Pavilion
Sat 19 - San Bernardino, CA - San Manuel Amphitheatre
Sun 20 - Concord, CA - Sleep Train Pavilion
Tue 22 - Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheatre
Thu 24 - Vancouver, BC - GM Place
Sat 26 - Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place
Tue 29 - Saskatoon, SK - Credit Union Center
Wed 30 - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Center +
+Dream Theater will not be performing in Winnipeg
JULY
Sat 03 - Toronto, ON - Molson Amphitheatre
Wed 07 - Montreal, QC - Bell Centre
Sun 11 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC
Mon 12 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
Wed 14 - Pittsburgh, PA - First Niagra Pavilion
Thu 15 - Cleveland, OH - Blossom Music Center
Sat 17 - Detroit, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre
Sun 18 - Chicago, IL - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Tue 20 - Washington D.C. - Jiffy Lube Live
**THE FINAL FRONTIER 2010 EUROPEAN TOUR**
July 30 -Aug 1 - UK - Knebworth Sonisphere Festival
AUGUST
Thur 05 - Germany - Wacken Festival
Sat 07 - Sweden - Stockholm Stora Skuggan Sonisphere Festival
Sun 08 - Finland - Helsinki Pori's Kirjurinluoto Sonisphere Festival
Wed 11 - Norway- Bergen Bergenhus Festning - Koengen