{"id":5557,"date":"2015-09-15T05:41:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T05:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/09\/15\/iron-maiden-starts-the-book-of-souls-world-tour\/"},"modified":"2015-09-15T05:41:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T05:41:06","slug":"iron-maiden-starts-the-book-of-souls-world-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/09\/15\/iron-maiden-starts-the-book-of-souls-world-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Maiden starts the Book Of Souls world tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/ed\/IronMaidencollage2.jpg\/250px-IronMaidencollage2.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"219\" height=\"249\" \/><br \/>Iron Maiden has announced the first run of dates for its 2016 Book Of Souls\u00a0world tour.\u00a0 The metal veterans on Monday shared the itinerary for its trek of  Australia and New Zealand, and mapped-out details of a global tour which  will kick off in the U.S. in late February and will make first-ever  stops in China and El Salvador and\u00a0work its way through Canada, Mexico,  Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Japan and South Africa before  embarking on an\u00a0&#8220;extensive&#8221; run of European countries.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>So far, Maiden has announced just the seven arena shows for Down  Under in April and May, with tickets going on sale Sept. 24 (earlier for  fan club members).<\/p>\n<p>Dickinson has reportedly made a full recovery after undergoing  surgery and treatment for throat cancer following the recording sessions  for the new album.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot wait to get back out on tour,&#8221; he says in a statement.  &#8220;When we start in the USA in late February it will be 19 months since  our last show at Sonisphere in the U.K. so we are raring to go. Maiden  thrive on touring and getting out to our fans, it\u2019s what we do best, so  it will be a great feeling to board our new Jumbo Ed Force One with the  crew and the gear and head round the globe and get back on stage for you  guys,\u201d Dickinson adds. \u201cWe haven\u2019t played in Australia and New Zealand  for a number of years so it will be a pleasure to play for our  Antipodean cousins again, irrespective of who wins the dates with  destiny at Twickenham in a few weeks\u2019 time!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<br \/>Image: Creative Content License<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron Maiden has announced the first run of dates for its 2016 Book Of Souls\u00a0world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}