IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson has introduced his first solo live performance of 2025: September 7, 2025 at The City competition in São Paulo, Brazil. Extra reveals are anticipated to be introduced quickly.
Bruce performed the ultimate present of his 2024 solo tour on July 21 on the Launch competition in Athens, Greece.
On his 2024 solo tour, Dickinson‘s 16-song set opened with “Accident Of Start” and closed with “The Tower”. There was additionally the inclusion of a few tracks from Bruce‘s new solo album “The Mandrake Undertaking”, amongst them the newest single “Rain On The Graves”.
After enjoying two warm-up reveals on the Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, California, Dickinson formally kicked off his first solo tour in additional than 20 years on April 15, 2024 at The Observatory in Santa Ana, California.
Becoming a member of the IRON MAIDEN singer on the trek was his present backing band, that includes Dave Moreno (drums),Mistheria (keyboards) and Tanya O’Callaghan (bass),alongside the group’s newest additions, Swedish guitarist, songwriter and multi-platinum-credited producer Philip Näslund and Swiss session and touring guitarist Chris Declercq (who performed on Dickinson‘s “Rain On The Graves” single). Bruce‘s longtime guitarist and collaborator Roy “Z” Ramirez isn’t a part of the touring lineup.
Previous to the April 12 Whisky A Go Go present, Bruce final carried out along with his solo band on in August 2002 on the legendary Wacken Open Air competition in Germany.
Throughout an look on the April 16 episode of SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”, Bruce was requested if there are plans for him to stage a full U.S. tour in help of his just lately launched solo album “The Mandrake Undertaking”. He responded: “I introduced the [booking] brokers and the promoters, and everyone got here down and noticed the Whisky present [in West Hollywood, California over the weekend], and now they know what they have to cope with when it comes to doing a U.S. tour. So, we’re it, we’re planning it.
“I completely wanna do a full U.S. tour with ‘The Mandrake Undertaking’,” he added. “I clearly cannot do one for the remainder of this yr [due to commitments in other parts of the world and MAIDEN‘s upcoming touring activities], however there’s ’25 and there is quite a few alternatives that can crop up. So the reply to that’s sure, in fact, we wanna come and do the U.S.”
Roy performed guitar on Dickinson‘s 1994 album “Balls To Picasso” and went on to supply, co-write and carry out a number of devices on Bruce‘s subsequent three solo albums, “Accident At Start” (1997),“The Chemical Marriage ceremony” (1998) and “Tyranny Of Souls” (2005).
O’Callaghan is an Irish musician who joined WHITESNAKE in 2021 and toured with the David Coverdale-fronted outfit the next yr. She additionally hit the street with Dickinson final yr as a part of a efficiency of Jon Lord‘s “Concerto For Group And Orchestra” on almost a dozen dates in Europe and South America.
Californian drummer Moreno beforehand performed on “Tyranny Of Souls” and has labored with BODY COUNT, Jizzy Pearl, Dizzy Reed and Steve Stevens, amongst others.
Italian keyboard wizard Mistheria has collaborated with an array of artists stay and within the studio, together with Rob Rock, Mike Portnoy, Jeff Scott Soto and Joel Hoekstra.
“The Mandrake Undertaking” arrived on March 1 through BMG.
Bruce and Roy recorded “The Mandrake Undertaking” largely at Los Angeles’s Doom Room, with Roy doubling up as each guitarist and bassist. The recording lineup for “The Mandrake Undertaking” was rounded out by Mistheria and Moreno, each of whom additionally featured on Bruce‘s final solo studio album, “Tyranny Of Souls”, in 2005.
Dickinson made his recording debut with IRON MAIDEN on the “Quantity Of The Beast” album in 1982. He stop the band in 1993 with the intention to pursue his solo profession and was changed by Blaze Bayley, who had beforehand been the lead singer of the metallic band WOLFSBANE. After releasing two conventional metallic albums with former MAIDEN guitarist Adrian Smith, Dickinson rejoined the band in 1999 together with Smith.
Photograph credit score: John McMurtrie
