IRON MAIDEN Confirmed For Hungary's SZIGET Festival

March 2, 2008

IRON MAIDEN, DIE ÄRZTE and R.E.M. are the first confirmed bands for this year's Sziget festival, set to take place August 12-18 in Budapest, Hungary. More confirmations will be announced soon.

IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson will air a MAIDEN "tour special" during the March 7 edition of his weekly BBC 6 Music radio show, aptly named "The Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show". The show will feature interviews with Steve Harris (IRON MAIDEN),Lars Ulrich (METALLICA),Ronnie James Dio and Kerry King (SLAYER),along with extracts from Bruce's own audio diary. Listen to the program live via the Internet between 10:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. U.K. time at BBC.co.uk.

IRON MAIDEN has announced it is coming back for more major USA concerts this summer which will take it to a number of cities it has not played in many years along with a return to the Los Angeles area with two nights at the 16,000-capacity Verizon Amphitheatre on Friday, May 30 and Saturday, May 31. Tickets for the majority of these shows will go on sale to the public on Saturday, March 1. A special pre-sale will be made available exclusively to members of the IRON MAIDEN fan club, who will also be eligible to enter to be "First to the stage barrier."

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