Leeds & Reading Confirmed
Iron Maiden are now officially confirmed for Reading and Leeds Festivals as we have been speculating at Maidenfans now for several months.Maiden will headline Reading on Sunday 28th August and Leeds on Friday 26th August and these will be the only UK appearances of this tour.
Here is the official press release:
21/03/2005Iron Maiden confirmed for Reading & Leeds Festivals
Iron Maiden have confirmed headline appearances at the Reading and Leeds on August 28/26
For over 20 years IRON MAIDEN have been at the forefront of World Metal and one of the World's great live bands, headlining stadiums and major festivals all over the planet, selling over 60 million albums in the process. Renowned for massive Stage Productions and inspired musicianship, their first Reading appearance since headlining in 1982 promises to be a major event. And the band are ready for it. Says singer Bruce Dickinson;
'Following the great reception received by our recent DVD 'The Early Days', which chronicled the Maiden story over the first four albums - Iron Maiden, Killers, Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind - we decided to give the fans a special treat on this Tour by playing materiel almost exclusively from these albums. There will be a lot of songs that fans have been asking us to play for years along with favourites like Number of the Beast, Run to the Hills, Hallowed be thy Name and The Trooper. In keeping with this we have put together a massive show where the stage sets, production, pyros and backdrops will recreate aspects of the shows we toured around those albums. Except bigger - much bigger!! And naturally Eddie will appear as special guest in various appropriate guises!! We are all very excited to be going back to Reading and intend to have a fantastic time and we're sure the fans will too'
These are IRON MAIDEN's ONLY UK FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES, their first ones for over a year and only ones for at least a year after.
The shows tie in with the earlier release of the hugely acclaimed DVD 'The History Of Iron Maiden part 1: The Early Days'.
Visit the Reading Festival and Leeds Festival websites for tickets.
Sky.com has the following report on the news:
Heavy metal veterans Iron Maiden are to headline this year's Reading and Leeds music festivals.
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[/left]The band, who have promised one of their trademark pyrotechnic stage shows, will play Reading for the first time in 23 years.
Lead singer Bruce Dickinson said: "We're all very excited to be going back to Reading and intend to have a fantastic time. We're sure fans will too."
Pixies and Foo Fighters are the other two headline acts for the Carling Weekend festivals which take place over three days from August 26-28.
Pete Doherty's band Babyshambles are also part of the line-up with an appearance in the NME/Radio 1 tent.
Last year Doherty's former bandmates The Libertines played the festival while he sang to a few hundred fans in a local club in Reading.
A festival spokeswoman said: "Pete may well have his problems but great music and great shows have never been amongst them.
"Who wouldn't bet on Babyshambles turning in the performances of the weekend?"
Other acts in this year's line-up include Kasabian, The Killers, Razorlight, Marilyn Manson, Kings of Leon, The Charlatans and Bloc Party.
The festival will be held at Bramham Park in Leeds and Richfield Avenue in Reading.
Sources: readingfestival.com leedsfestival.com sky.com, IronMaiden.com
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Right, looks like Reading for the 3rd Year Running... 
.. Will book shortly
See you there DI 
I'd love to go to Leeds, but the total cost of a day ticket with the insidious booking fee and postage is £72. Bloody hell.
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looks like i'll missout on this tour then 
That makes a pretty good tour for a band that wanted to cut down on touring
May
28 - Czech Republic, Prague, T-Mobile Arena
29 - Poland, Mystic Festival, Chorzow, Stadium Slaski (Silesia)
31 - Austria, Graz, Stadthalle
June
04 - Germany, Rock Am Ring, Nurburgring, Eifel
05 - Germany, Rock Im Park, Zeppelinfeld, Nurnberg
07 - Iceland, Reykjavik, Egisholl
11 - Italy, Gods Of Metal, Bologna, Parco Nord Open Air Arena
12 - Switzerland, Uster-Zurich, Fussballstadion Buchholz
16 - Portugal, Lisbon, Atlantic Pavilion
18 - Spain, Lorca Rock Festival, Lorca
21 - Greece, Athens, Terra Vibe
25 - France, Paris, Parc des Princes
26 - Belgium, Graspop Metal Meeting, Dessel
28 - Norway, Oslo, Spektrum
29 - Norway, Oslo, Spektrum
July
02 - Germany, Full Force Festival, Löbnitz, Airfield Roitzschjora
03 - Holland, Bospop Festival, Weert
06 - Finland, Helsinki, Hartwell Areena
07 - Finland, Helsinki, Hartwell Areena
09 - Sweden - Gothenburg, Ullevi Stadium
15 - USA, Boston, Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
17 - USA, Hartford, CTNOW.com Meadows Music Centre
19 - USA, Ozzfest, Camden, NJ Tweeter Center at the Waterfront info
21 - USA, Ozzfest, Darrien Center, Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
23 - USA, Ozzfest, Burgettstown, Post Gazette Pavilion
24 - USA, Ozzfest, Bristow, Nissan Pavilion
26 - USA, Ozzfest, Homdel, PNC Bank Arts Center
30 - USA, Ozzfest, Tinley Park, Tweeter Center Chicago
31 - USA, Ozzfest, Noblesville, Verizon Wireless Music Center
August
02 - USA, Ozzfest, Columbus, Germain Amphitheater
04 - USA, Ozzfest, Clarkston, DTE Energy Music Theatre
06 - USA, Ozzfest, East Troy, Alpine Valley Music Theatre
07 - USA, Ozzfest, Somerset, Float-Rite Amphitheatre
11 - USA, Ozzfest, Auburn, White River Amphitheatre
13 - USA, Ozzfest, Mountain View, Shoreline Amphitheatre
14 - USA, Ozzfest, Marysville, Sleep Train Amphitheatre
16 - USA, Ozzfest, West Valley City, USANA Amphitheatre
18 - USA, Ozzfest, Phoenix, Cricket Pavilion
20 - USA, Ozzfest, San Bernardino, Hyundai Pavilion at Glen Helen
26 - UK, Carling Leeds Festival, Leeds, Bramham Park
28 - UK, Carling Reading Festival, Reading
31 - Ireland, Dublin, RDS Arena
42 dates (so far, but unlikely that more will be added, maybe one or two).
GMETID had 55 dates, if I'm not mistaken.
DOD Tour had 49 dates.
It's true that these two tours followed each other (1 and a half month in between).... Still, 42 dates is nice. I was expecting less.
Cheers
The ticket prices are discgusting really. One good band playing. I'm going for maiden only, the rest of the bands are crap. Why cant we have a true metal festival over here?
Bloody hell that ticket price goes far beyond anything I've ever seen before! Although when tour shirts go for £20 I can't say I'm surprised.
There's a few metal festivals around in the UK, but none of them are big enough for Maiden. Apart from Reading/Leeds the only one I can see them playing is Download.
Last tour t-shirts were £20-25
Festival in Switzerland costs 55 EUR.
Festival in the UK costs 104 EUR.
Ok, not the exact same size of festival and not the same bill, but still, TWICE the price ?!
(I took Switzerland as an example because it's known for being an expensive country)
Cheers
3 Days at reading... £125
3 Days at Wacken in Germany £50 nearly 3 times the price
Seems that kids under 13 can enter for free.
So, will you create fake IDs ? 
Cheers
Week-end tix are SOLD OUT !
Only day tickets left...
Cheers
Only day tickets left...
Cheers
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