Big Star Promotion in association with Phantom Music Management and K2 Agency  is proud to announce that Greece will be part of Iron Maiden’s spectacular SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME WORLD TOUR 2008.

Iron Maiden are confirmed to perform at the Terra Vibe Park  in Athens on Saturday 2nd August 2008.

Steve Harris says, “This is a great venue to play. We played there back in 2005 and I remember it being unbearably  hot but the fans were just wild and gave us a fantastic reception. I have to say that fans in Greece are as loud and responsive as any anywhere in the world. Thats the major reason why we have always tried hard to have Greece in out tour itinery although it can be tough geographically!! We also enjoy Athens culturally and we have all made more than one visit to the Acropolis and other beautiful relics.And the food is terrific!!”
This tour, aptly entitled ‘SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME’, will revisit the band’s history by focusing almost entirely on the 80’s in both choice of songs played and the stage set, which will be based around the legendary Egyptian Production of the 1984-85 ‘Powerslave Tour’.

This will arguably be the most elaborate and spectacular show the band have ever presented, and will include some key elements of their Somewhere In Time tour of 1986/7, such as the Cyborg Eddie.

The ‘SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME’ World Tour  opens in Mumbai India on Feb 1st, continuing through Australia and Japan before arriving in Los Angeles.  The entourage then fly to Mexico then onto Maiden’s first ever visits to Costa Rica and Colombia, then on to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Puerto Rica and New York, before finishing in Toronto, Canada, on March 16th. For this first leg the band have their own customised Boeing 757 carrying band, crew and equipment and to be flown some 60,000 miles round the world by singer and Astraeus Airline Captain Bruce Dickinson.

The second leg of the tour will be in mid-May to mid-June in North America while the final third leg, where Greece is included,  takes place in July and August in stadiums and major festivals around Europe.

In total the band are expected to play to well in excess of one and a half million fans around the world  during the whole tour.  Tickets having been selling incredibly quickly in all cities where they are already on sale. Three stadium shows in Sweden and Finland completey sold out 125,000 tickets within 2 hours of going on sale and in Bogota the first days ticket sales were the highest of any musical ever in Columbia.

The stage of Terra Vibe Park – one of the largest ones in Europe –  impressive, visible from all angles and able to lift 130 tons of equipment, will be perfect to host all the elements of the great show.

Tickets go on sale to the public at 10.00am on Tuesday December 18th, but members of the Iron Maiden fan club will get special and exclusive first access to purchase tickets on Monday 17th December.  Watch the www.ironmaiden.com and www.didimusic.com  for further information!