Iron Maiden return to Greece – Announce live at OAKA in May

Iron Maiden are returning to Europe successful 2026 to proceed their 50th-anniversary “Run For Your Lives” satellite tour. Specifically, arsenic announced, Bruce Dickinson, Dave Murray, Steve Harris, and the remainder of the boys volition instrumentality to OAKA successful Athens for different large unrecorded amusement connected May 23, 2026.

With a setlist featuring songs from each the astir iconic albums of the archetypal decades of their career, they contiguous their astir spectacular amusement to date.

Iron Maiden person announced the archetypal dates of a precise packed 2026 schedule, starting with a summertime instrumentality to Europe to execute chiefly astatine festivals, arsenic good arsenic successful stadiums successful countries and regions they did not sojourn successful 2025. It volition beryllium a engaged year, truthful determination volition beryllium nary Maiden concerts successful 2027 aft this tour.

Greece is, successful fact, the archetypal European state they volition sojourn arsenic portion of this tour. On May 23, they volition play astatine OAKA, followed by Sofia, Bucharest, Bratislava, Hanover, Amsterdam, Milan, Paris, Lyon, and Lisbon, according to the accusation released truthful far.

Bassist Steve Harris, a starring subordinate of the set since 1976, says astir the Iron Maiden tour:

“We each emotion the RUN FOR YOUR LIVES tour. The fans person been amazing, the setlist is cleanable for the 50th anniversary, the amusement is astir apt our champion yet, and summons request has been incredible, with astir each amusement sold retired and implicit a cardinal attendees successful total. So we each thought we should play a fewer much shows successful Europe earlier heading to different parts of the satellite aboriginal successful the year.”

“Of course, Simon Dawson volition beryllium backmost with america connected drums, and some helium and the full set would similar to convey our fans for the fantastic reception they gave him successful the archetypal leg. We person ever enjoyed playing astatine festivals, particularly arsenic it gives america the accidental to execute to audiences that aren’t exclusively ours, and we emotion that challenge! So we decided to sojourn arsenic galore large metallic festivals arsenic imaginable during this period. Additionally, we volition besides play successful stadiums successful Greece, Romania, Slovakia, and Bulgaria, wherever we didn’t execute this twelvemonth and wherever we ever emotion playing successful beforehand of our passionate fans.”