Maiden on Top of the World: Switzerland Gig
After a leak from the number one ticket agency in Switzerland Ticketcorner.ch, the official website now confirmes that Iron Maiden is set to play in Uster at the Buchholz football stadium on the 12th June 2005, as a part of the Spirit of Music Festival, who saw Deep Purple, Scorpions and Lenny Kravitz performing last year.Doors will open early, at 12:00. Other bands are yet to be announced.
Tickets go on sale on December 18th 2004 at 08:00 at 75 CHF (roughly 49 EUR / 66 USD). There are no categories and no age restrictions.
Sources: TicketCorner.ch, IronMaiden.com, Spirit of Music Festival
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I'm on top of the world!I'll be there!!! 
Can anyone do a translation of this?
Here's a translation:
- Details of the venue
Location: Uster (CH), Buchholz football stadium
Date: 12.06.2005
Start: 12:00
Categories and prices in Swiss Francs: venue map
Standing tickets: minimum available 99
Normal price: n.a.1*
Price in Swiss Francs
n.a.1* = sale opens on 18.12.2004 at 08:00
More information
Line Up: Iron Maiden & Guests
Opening of the doors: 12:00
Age limit: none
For entries with wheelchairs ask the organiser (phone: 01 / 463 69 40)
Organiser: Special Events SE GmbH
Oh and here's a map of where this event is supposed to take place:
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The middle of nowhere! 
see you there guys!! it is a bit strange that they play in Uster.. and not in Zurich or Basel... but how cares?? and to uster there are some good train lines... so it is not in the middle of nowhere 
the topic above is mine (sorry for my english I am a very happy swiss guy )
Re-written and moved to Iron Maiden news.
The intel I had wasn't totally right, but I knew the place.
I knew it was going to happen at Uster, but it was mentionned to me that it would happen during the Spirit of Music festival (2004 saw Scorpions, Deep Purple,...).
That part seems to be wrong as the Maiden show will happen in June and the festival is very early July.
Mav, do you happen to know the capacity ?
Cheers
Well, it's a football stadium, so I'd say about 30,000. But your guess is as good as mine
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I would have said roughly this. On spiritofmusic.ch, the festival website, you can judge on the pictures that the venue allows that kind of capacity.
Seems Free And Virgin lost the Swiss contract to Special Events... Means I'm going to travel more. It's friggin far. I now hesitate and might only go to Paris...
Cheers
According to a report, the Spirit of Music welcomed 12000 people, not more. For it had big names headlining, I guess it gives us an idea...
Cheers
I read somewhere today that last year there were 17.000 people to a gig in that stadium. Possibly 20.000 could fit in, if not more it depends if it was sell out that gig or not
Strangely enough, the booking details for the gig have been withdrawn from ticketcorner.ch. Was it a false alarm?
Probably got a bollocking from management for leaking details early. It's on iromaiden.com now anyway
So, after all, I had a correct info, it's REALLY the Spirit of Music festival !
Let's see which other bands are set to play on that Sunday (there will surely be a first day on Saturday with another big name).
I've corrected the main news accordingly.
Cheers
Added a scan of the ad running in 20Mins, a newspaper.
Thanks to Sacri of the IMBB for scanning it for us.
Cheers