Here is what Iron Maiden performed to kick off ‘Run For Your Lives’ tour

Iron Maiden have kicked off their European and UK ‘Run For Your Lives’ tour – see footage, the entire setlist and extra under.

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Final evening (Could 27), the legendary British heavy steel band carried out in Budapest to start their ‘Run For Your Lives’ tour. Moreover marking their first gig of the yr, it additionally served because the band’s first present with new touring drummer Simon Dawson.

Dawson’s involvement within the band follows the touring retirement of long-term sticksman Nicko McBrain, who introduced final yr he could be stepping away from touring after struggling a minor stroke in 2023 which left him partially paralysed on his proper facet from the shoulder down.

Moreover, the tour would even be a particular one for followers, as it might see the band carry out songs solely from the acclaimed first seven albums. The band carried out 17 songs, 9 of which have been carried out for the primary time in quite a few years.

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To kick off their set, Iron Maiden carried out ‘Murders In The Rue Morgue’ off 1981’s ‘Killers’ album, marking the primary time they’ve performed it stay since 2005. They adopted that up with their first efficiency of ‘Wrathchild’ since 2017, and their first time taking part in ‘Killers’ since 1999.

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Different songs they carried out that hadn’t been a part of their setlists for a number of years embrace ‘Phantom of the Opera’, ‘The Clairvoyant’, ‘Powerslave’, ‘2 Minutes To Midnight’, ‘Rime of the Historic Mariner’ and ‘Seventh Son of a Seventh Son’.

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Take a look at extra footage from the present and their full setlist under.

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Iron Maiden’s ‘Run For Your Lives’ European and UK 2025 setlist is:

‘Murders within the Rue Morgue’ (first time since 2005)
‘Wrathchild’ (first time since 2017)
‘Killers’ (firs time since 1999)
‘Phantom of the Opera’ (first time since 2014)
‘The Variety of the Beast’
‘The Clairvoyant’ (first time since 2013)
‘Powerslave’ (first time since 2017)
‘2 Minutes To Midnight’ (first time since 2019)
‘Rime of the Historic Mariner’ (first time since 2009)
‘Run To The Hills’
‘Seventh Son of a Seventh Son’ (first time since 2014)
‘The Trooper’
‘Hallowed Be Thy Title’
‘Iron Maiden’
‘Aces Excessive’
‘Worry of the Darkish’
‘Wasted Years’

Forward of the tour’s kick-off, the band shared a message with followers, urging them to “severely restrict using their cellphone cameras out of respect for the band and their fellow followers”, with with frontman Bruce Dickinson beforehand teasing that the band would “be doing stuff we’ve by no means, ever completed earlier than”.

Throughout Nicko McBrain’s ultimate present with the band final yr, Dickinson additionally made positive to remind followers that McBrain has not left Iron Maiden. He'll nonetheless be with the band, and can monitor with them on upcoming albums, however will not be touring attributable to his medical situation.

In the meantime, Iron Maiden have introduced an “unrestricted” new documentary movie – together with the late Paul Di’Anno’s ultimate interview. The movie, which can have fun 50 years of the band, is because of drop later this yr.

Together with appearances from longtime followers and names comparable to Javier Bardem, Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich and KISS’ Gene Simmons, uncommon archival footage and all-new animated sequences of the band’s legendary mascot, Eddie, will all be included too.

Elsewhere, Dickinson not too long ago introduced a graphic novel made with soil from William Blake’s grave, and opened up concerning the Di’Anno period track he can not sing.