"IRON MAIDEN, with their crew and many tons of equipment, will onceagain be boarding Ed Force One in February 2011 to fly 50,000 milesround the globe on their continuing mammoth Final Frontier World Tour,playing 29 shows and visiting 26 cities in thirteen countries across 5continents with Bruce again in the pilot's seat, and heading into morenew Frontiers of uncharted Maiden territory!!! The first show will be on Feb 11th in Moscow's Olympic Stadium, afterwhich the Boeing 757, which will have new designs to tie in with thenew album and tour, will fly the band to Singapore and Indonesia forMaiden's first ever shows there, before arriving in Australia toheadline two arena dates and five Soundwave Festivals. Ed Force Onethen turns its attention briefly to the Northern Hemisphere with afirst show ever in South Korea and two shows in Tokyo, before headingall the way across the Pacific, a journey which (believe it or not!)is 6660 miles for two shows in Mexico. An extensive series of stadiumshows through five South American countries follows, including a firstvisit to Belem, Northern Brazil, and, via Puerto Rico, the band willplay the final show on this leg of the tour in Tampa, Florida, USA onApril 17th, exactly 66 days after Moscow! (full dates below) Says Bruce, "We were taken aback by the fantastic reaction fromeveryone to Ed Force One during the 2008/09 World Tour. As our fansall know from the "Flight 666" film, which documented the trials andtribulations we underwent in order to get the whole project literallyoff the ground, the end result was well worth all the effort andcomplex logistics we had to deal with! The band and crew enjoyedthemselves so much travelling that way, it seemed only logical to setup this part of The Final Frontier tour in the same way so we couldget to see as many fans as possible all over the World, only this timewe're pushing the boundaries even further and going to more placesMaiden has never been before... in true Frontier style!! We very muchlook forward to playing in Singapore, Indonesia and South Korea forthe first time, as well as revisiting our fans everywhere else. "The set list will be different to this year's tour. Of course wewill play more songs from the new album and some other recentmaterial, but we will include a healthy dose of older fan favouritesas we will be playing to so many new faces who we know will want tohear those songs live for the first time. We will cram into the planeas much of the production we used this year as is physically possible,including of course Eddie, and intend to replicate the spectacularlight show in as many places as we are able. All in all it promises tobe a fantastic trip for everyone!! So see you all soon". Since its release in August on EMI (UME in the US), "The FinalFrontier" -- the band's 15th studio album - has proved their mostsuccessful chart album to date, registering the #1 sales chart slot in28 countries around the globe; from Lebanon, Arabia and India in theEast, to Canada in the West, New Zealand down South, throughout UK andEurope and across Latin America, as well as reaching No.1 inBillboard's European, Tastemaker and Rock Charts, and No.4 in the USA,which is the band's highest position ever there. Having already played an extensive 25 date North American Tour andsome selected European shows this year, Maiden will undertake a fullEuropean Tour in the summer of 2011. Some dates (as below) havealready been announced but keep an eye on this site over the next fewweeks and months for many more announcements. "
