jOHN McMURTRIE
Iron Maiden (from left, Janick Gers, Adrian Smith, Steve Harris, Bruce Dickinson, Simon Dawson and Dave Murray).
Sports Illustrated Stadium in Harrison — the home of The New York Red Bulls of the Major League Soccer league, and Gotham FC of the National Women’s Soccer League — has announced its biggest rock concert yet: Iron Maiden with Megadeth and Anthrax, on Sept. 5. Tickets will go on sale Oct. 31 at 10 a.m.; visit ticketmaster.com.
This is the only currently announced New Jersey show of Iron Maiden’s Run for Your Lives World Tour, which will have North American dates from late August to late September.
The tour, which celebrates the band’s 50th anniversary, was in Europe from May to August of this year, and will be in Europe again from May to July.
“This whole tour has been such great fun,” said frontman Bruce Dickinson, in a press release. “I really enjoy belting out all these great old songs, and the whole band are loving playing them too! We’ve got all the big ones from that early period including ‘Hallowed,’ ‘Run to the Hills,’ ‘Trooper,’ ‘Number of the Beast,’ ‘Killers,’ ‘Powerslave,’ ‘2 Minutes’ … and some of them we haven’t played in the U.S. for over 20 years!! Plus there’s some real epics including my particular favourite ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and ‘Seventh Son’ … We are doing them all and more. I mean, who wouldn’t for a 50th birthday party!”
Dickinson will be joined in the band by bassist Steve Harris (the only co-founder remaining; Dickinson became a member in 1981); guitarist Dave Murray (a member since 1976); guitarists Adrian Smith and Janick Gers; and drummer Simon Dawson. Drummer Nicko McBrain is still considered a band member though he no longer participates in tours.
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