Overview

• Iron Maiden launched its Run For Your Lives tour in Budapest on May 27 as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations.
• Manager Rod Smallwood thanked concertgoers for keeping phones down, saying it restored the live atmosphere and energized the band on stage.
• The tour features a setlist drawn exclusively from Iron Maiden’s first nine studio albums and marks the debut of drummer Simon Dawson.
• Smallwood joked he wished a “very sore arm” on the few fans who continued filming against the band’s request.
• Iron Maiden will press on through Europe and the UK until August and will release an unrestricted 50th anniversary documentary later this year.