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The Maiden England World Tour was a concert tour by Iron Maiden, which began on 21 June 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina and ended on 5 July 2014 with a performance at the Sonisphere Festival at Knebworth, UK. The tour's setlist was largely based on the original 1989 concert video of the same name, shot during the Seventh Tour of a Seventh Tour in 1988, which was re-released in 2013. Because of this, the tour's setlist consisted almost entirely of the band's 1980s material, with a particular focus on their 1988 album, ''Seventh Son of a Seventh Son''. The stage show was also based on the original tour and featured numerous pyrotechnic effects in addition to multiple appearances by the band's mascot, Eddie. Following 2005's Eddie Rips Up the World Tour and 2008-2009's Somewhere Back in Time World Tour, this was the group's third and final tour inspired by a particular period of their history. The opening section of the world tour took place in North America from June to August 2012. With 34 dates in its opening leg, this was Iron Maiden's most extensive tour of North America in over 12 years and was subject to critical and commercial success. In 2013, the band continued the tour with worldwide dates, encompassing Europe and North and South America, before concluding in 2014 with a final European leg. Over three years, 100 shows were undertaken in 32 countries before an estimated audience of over 2 million people. Throughout the tour, consistent praise was received from music critics, with the band's performances and the stage show receiving particular acclaim. From the 58 performances tallied by ''Billboard'' magazine, the group grossed US$69,243,543 in box office revenue. The tour featured a number of notable performances from the band, with the South American leg including their third show at the Rock in Rio festival in Brazil and their first concert in Paraguay. During their 2013 European leg, they became the first rock group to confirm an appearance at Stockholm's national stadium, Friends Arena, which sold out in record-setting time. In addition, Iron Maiden returned to Download Festival for their record-breaking fifth headline concert at Donington Park, 25 years after their first show at the venue during 1988's Seventh Tour of a Seventh Tour. To mark the occasion, the band's set began with a Spitfire flyover, an event which was mirrored at the tour's final concert at Knebworth, which was preceded by a First World War air display, organised and featuring vocalist Bruce Dickinson. ==Background== The band's intention to continue touring following 2010-2011's The Final Frontier World Tour was first mentioned by lead singer Bruce Dickinson in an interview with ''The Sun'' in August 2010, during which he stated that the group intends to undertake "a big resumé tour — an unashamed tour with all the greatest hits." The tour was officially announced with a press release on 15 February 2012, which stated that the shows would be based around the 1989 video of the same name, which bassist Steve Harris later reported would be re-released in the first half of 2013. On 12 February 2013, the band announced that the original concert footage would be released on DVD, CD and LP under the title ''Maiden England '88'' on 25 March. It was Iron Maiden's third concert tour to take a retrospective look at a particular period in the group's history, following 2005's Eddie Rips Up the World Tour and 2008-2009's Somewhere Back in Time World Tour,〔 with Dickinson confirming that it would be the band's last to do so in December 2013.〔 In addition to the 29 dates included in the tour's first press release, the band went on to announce festival appearances at Milwaukee's Summerfest, Cadott's Rock Fest, and Ottawa Bluesfest, as well as a concert in Sacramento, California, and an extra night in Irvine, California. With 34 dates in its first leg, this was the band's most extensive North American tour in over a decade. In their list of the Top 200 North American Tours of 2012, Pollstar revealed that, from 30 shows, Iron Maiden sold 285,866 tickets and grossed US$16.1 million. Following the 2012 tour of the United States and Canada, the tour continued with worldwide shows in 2013, as confirmed in the band's initial announcement. Speaking to ''Kerrang!'' in August 2012, Steve Harris confirmed that the band still intended to extend the tour into 2013, during which they will "be doing European festivals and all kinds of other stuff." On 20 September, the band disclosed that they would be performing at Download Festival on 15 June 2013, marking their record-breaking fifth headline appearance at Donington Park 25 years after their first concert at the venue which they headlined in 1988 where Monsters of Rock was originally held. To commemorate this, their show began with a flypast by a Spitfire TE311 from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight aerial display group, which is based at RAF Coningsby. On 25 September, Iron Maiden became the first rock band to confirm a performance at Stockholm's national stadium, Friends Arena. The concert sold out in record-breaking time, with Wales Online reporting that 50,000 tickets were sold in 49 minutes. Following the performance in Stockholm, ''Aftonbladet'' reported that hundreds of fans were demanding their money back, citing poor sound quality during the concert. After a complaint was filed with the Swedish National Board for Consumer Complaints, Live Nation, the concert's promoter, conducted an investigation and decided not to offer a refund, arguing that "sound experience during a concert is () subjective judgement". A local sound engineer, Linnéa Carell, commented that Friends Arena is extremely unsuitable for concerts, as the stadium's design causes the sound to echo badly. From October 2012 to March 2013, the band revealed dates in Paris, Germany, Malmö, Sweden, Amsterdam, Zurich, Poland, Russia, Lisbon, Helsinki, Prague, Zagreb, Bilbao, Bucharest, and Istanbul. During the group's appearance at Donington, Dickinson announced that the 2013 European leg would conclude with a concert in London, although an additional performance was confirmed after the initial show sold out in 12 minutes. As previously stated by Harris, the band also headlined several European festivals, with appearances made at Graspop Metal Meeting in Dessel, Belgium, Seerock festival in Graz, Austria, Topfest in Piešťany, Slovakia, and Sonisphere Festival shows in Amnéville, France, Milan, Madrid and Barcelona. On 16 October 2012, Iron Maiden revealed that, following the 2013 European leg, they would take the Maiden England World Tour to South America with a performance at the Rock in Rio festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Further South American dates in Buenos Aires, Santiago, São Paulo, Curitiba and Asunción, which marked their debut appearance in Paraguay, were announced in April. The São Paulo show, originally slated to take place at the Jockey Club, had to be moved to Anhembi Arena due to sound restrictions at the original venue. In April, the band also announced that, prior to the South American leg, they would play seven US shows, which included headlining a special event at San Bernardino, entitled "The Battle of San Bernardino", which was immediately followed by a concert in Mexico City. Santiago, the final date of the 2013 tour,〔 reportedly attracted 60,105 fans, which local newspaper ''La Tercera'' cited as "the largest audience by a British band ever (Chile )". Overall, the group played 46 concerts in 2013 to an estimated attendance of 1.2 million. In their list of the Top 100 worldwide tours of 2013, Pollstar revealed that, from 34 of their shows that year, the band sold 705,250 tickets and grossed US$46.8 million. On 2 December 2013, Iron Maiden announced that the tour would finish with a number of European shows in the summer of 2014, encompassing previously confirmed dates at the Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals in Germany, with the final concert taking place at Sonisphere Knebworth on 5 July. This was followed throughout December 2013 by the disclosure of a number of festival dates, including Hellfest in Clisson, France, Greenfield Festival in Interlaken, Switzerland, Nova Rock Festival in Nickelsdorf, Austria, FortaRock Festival in Nijmegen, Netherlands, Bråvalla Festival in Norrköping, Sweden, Copenhell in Copenhagen, Denmark, Rock in Idro in Bologna, Italy, and Main Square Festival in Arras, France. Throughout February and March 2014, the band announced arena shows in Sofia, Bulgaria, Budapest, Hungary, Brno, Czech Republic Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, Poznań, Poland, Belgrade, Serbia, Barcelona and Bilbao, Spain, and an appearance at the Bergen Calling festival in Norway. On 4 March, the group's Luxembourg concert was moved to Herchesfeld, the Rock-A-Field Festival Ground, in Roeser, after tickets at the initial venue sold out in less than two hours. On 29 May, it was announced that a portion of the revenue from the band's Belgrade concert would be donated to the relief effort following the 2014 Southeast Europe floods. Following the Spitfire flypast which preceded their performance at Download festival the previous year, Dickinson, piloting a Fokker Dr.I, joined the Great War Display Team in a "dogfight tribute" in honour of The First World War's 100th anniversary, which took place above the Sonisphere Knebworth site prior to Iron Maiden's appearance at the festival. Overall, the tour saw the band perform 100 shows in 32 countries, with a reported attendance of over 2 million people. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maiden England World Tour」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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