{"id":137109,"date":"2025-05-27T23:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/137109\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T23:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:06:12","slug":"iron-maiden-launch-50th-anniversary-tour-setlist-and-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/137109\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Maiden Launch 50th Anniversary Tour: Setlist and Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iron Maiden<\/a> launched their Run for Your Lives 50th anniversary tour<\/a> on Tuesday (May 27) at Papp\u00a0Laszlo Sportarena in\u00a0Budapest, Hungary, dusting off several classics that they hadn’t\u00a0performed live in decades.<\/p>\n

You can see the setlist and videos from the performance below.<\/p>\n

As promised, the Run for Your Lives\u00a0tour kickoff focused on Iron Maiden’s first nine albums, from 1980’s\u00a0Iron Maiden<\/a> through 1992’s\u00a0Fear of the Dark<\/a>. Following a taped intro of “The Ides of March,” they\u00a0opened the show with a blistering three-song volley off\u00a0Killers, playing “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “Wrathchild” and “Killers” in quick succession.\u00a0It was the first time they played the title track since 1999.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: The Paul Di’Anno Iron Maiden Song Bruce Dickinson Doesn’t Want to Sing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Other goodies included “Phantom of the Opera,” played for the first time since 2014; “The Clairvoyant,” played for the first time since 2013; “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” played for the first time since 2009; and “Seventh Son of a Seventh Son,” for the first time since 2014.<\/p>\n

Following these deeper cuts, Iron Maiden ended their set with a flurry of time-honored classics, including a three-song encore of “Aces High,” “Fear of the Dark” and “Wasted Years.”<\/p>\n

Iron Maiden Debut New Drummer Simon Dawson<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s\u00a0concert marked Iron Maiden’s show with drummer Simon Dawson<\/a> and first without Nicko McBrain<\/a>\u00a0since 1982.\u00a0McBrain announced his retirement from touring<\/a> last December, revealing that his playing had not fully recovered since he\u00a0suffered a stroke<\/a> in January 2023.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Ranking the Opening + Closing Songs on Every Iron Maiden Album<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dawson is no slouch behind the kit, having played with artists ranging\u00a0from the Outfield to short-lived NWOBHM outfit Deep Switch. Most crucially, he’s played with Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris<\/a>‘ other band, British Lion<\/a>, since 2013.<\/p>\n

Iron Maiden’s\u00a0Run for Your Lives European tour\u00a0is scheduled to conclude on Aug. 2 in Warsaw, Poland, with more international dates to be announced well into 2026.<\/p>\n

Iron Maiden \u2013 5\/27\/25, Budapest, Hungary Setlist + Video<\/p>\n

1. “The Ides of March” (prerecorded intro)<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. “Murders in the Rue Morgue” (first\u00a0performance since 2005)<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. “Wrathchild” (first performance since 2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. “Killers” (first performance since 1999)<\/strong><\/p>\n

5. “Phantom of the Opera” (first performance since 2014)<\/strong><\/p>\n

6. “The Number of the Beast”<\/strong><\/p>\n

7. “The Clairvoyant” (first performance since 2013)<\/strong><\/p>\n

8. “Powerslave” (first performance since 2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n

9. “2 Minutes to Midnight” (first performance since 2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n

10. “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (first performance since 2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n

11. “Run to the Hills”<\/strong><\/p>\n

12. “Seventh Son of a Seventh Son” (first performance since 2014)<\/strong><\/p>\n

13. “The Trooper”<\/strong><\/p>\n

14. “Hallowed Be Thy Name”<\/strong><\/p>\n

15. “Iron Maiden”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Encore:<\/strong><\/p>\n

16. “Aces High”<\/strong><\/p>\n

17. “Fear of the Dark”<\/strong><\/p>\n

18. “Wasted Years”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Iron Maiden Albums Ranked<\/p>\n

See how we ranked all 17 Iron Maiden albums from worst to best.<\/p>\n

Gallery Credit: Joe DiVita<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iron Maiden launched their Run for Your Lives 50th anniversary tour on Tuesday (May 27) at Papp\u00a0Laszlo Sportarena…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[30365,77,3981,269,12,453,59867,16,15,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-137109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-concerts","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-metal","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-rock","14":"tag-setlists","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-videos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114582309004770780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}