IRON MAIDEN: Finnish Date Added To Upcoming Tour
November 12, 2007According to a posting on the IRON MAIDEN fan site MaidenNorway.com, MAIDEN has added another Finnish date to its previously announced Scandinavian tour. The group's Nordic schedule is now shaping up as follows:
July 16 - Stockholm, Sweden - Stockholm Stadium
July 18 - Helsinki, Finland - Helsinki Olympic Stadium
July 19 - Tampere, Finland - Ratinan Stadion (new)
July 22 - Trondheim, Norway - Lerkendalstadium
July 24 - Oslo, Norway - Valle Hovin
July 26 - Gothenburg, Sweden - Ullevi Stadium
July 27 - Horsens, Denmark - Horsens Gods Bane Pladsen
Tickets for the Tampere show go on sale on Friday, November 16 at 9:00 a.m.
According to Pollstar.com, Live Nation international chairman Thomas Johansson believes IRON MAIDEN's summer tour will break Nordic records by playing to more than 250,000 people across seven shows.
Apart from beating BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND, which played to just short of that figure in 2003, it will be the first time any act has played both of Sweden's major outdoors — Stockholm Stadium and Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium — during the same Scandinavian run.
Johansson and his Nordic colleagues in Denmark, Finland and Norway expect the shows to sell out, although he's not prepared to estimate how long it will take.
"We're going into Trondheim Lerkendalstadium in Norway and Horsens Gods Bane Pladsen in Denmark, which are both something of an unknown for us with IRON MAIDEN. In that respect we're taking something of a risk but IRON MAIDEN is the sort of act that gives promoters the confidence to take risks," Johansson explained.
Read more at Pollstar.com.
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