The Future Past World Tour


The Future Past World Tour was a concert tour by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, in support of their seventeenth studio album Senjutsu, which is part of their tour's theme, along with their 1986 album Somewhere in Time. Following 2005's Eddie Rips Up the World Tour, 2008–2009's Somewhere Back in Time World Tour and the Maiden England World Tour in 2012–2014, this is the band's fourth concert tour to focus on a particular part of their history. The tour featured "Alexander the Great", which was performed for the first time. The tour was set to continue into 2024. The tour started on 28 May 2023 in Ljubljana and concluded on 7 December 2024 in Sao Paulo. It was the final concert tour to feature Nicko McBrain before his retirement from touring, and the band announced it shortly before the concert at São Paulo, Brazil, which is the final date of the tour.

Background

All thirty-three shows of the European leg were commercial and artistic successes with more than 750,000 fans in attendance. Mostly indoor events attracted record numbers of spectators, and according to critics, the band showed its best form in many years. The 2023 leg of the tour ended with the group's performance at the Wacken Open Air festival, which they headlined for the fourth time in their career. Drummer Nicko McBrain participated in the tour after suffering a stroke in January 2023. On 6 October, the band performed at Power Trip, which was attended by 100,000 people and became their largest performance as a festival headliner in the United States. In mid-October, shows planned for 2024 were announced. Already at the pre-sale stage, a second concert at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago was added. In a short period, over 100,000 tickets were sold for both concerts combined, setting another record in the history of the band. The first concert in Bogota in 13 years at the El Campin stadium was sold out at the pre-sale stage in 20 minutes. The band broke all previous records of ticket sales for Colombian concerts by a foreign artist, set by icons such as The Rolling Stones, Madonna, The Weekend, Ed Sheeran, and Coldplay.
The first of two concerts at the Allianz Parque stadium in São Paulo was sold out in two minutes, the band set a sales record for a group representing heavy rock music. In Argentina, over 50,000 tickets for a stadium concert in Buenos Aires were sold in three hours. it's happened for the first time in the band’s career to sell out a show in Argentina so quickly. 44 shows scheduled for 2024 attracted more than one million people across Asia, Oceania and both Americas. The band performed 81 shows for almost two million fans throughout the tour.
The visual setting of the stage referred to the cyberpunk style associated with the classic sci-fi movie "Blade Runner". The overall design brought to mind a dystopian city of the future, topped with ramps of lights arranged in the shape of a pyramid. For the first time, the band used additional screens placed symmetrically deep inside the stage to present visualizations and music videos, deepening the three-dimensional effect.

Opening acts

2023

  1. "Caught Somewhere in Time"
  2. "Stranger in a Strange Land"
  3. "The Writing on the Wall"
  4. "Days of Future Past"
  5. "The Time Machine"
  6. "The Prisoner"
  7. "Death of the Celts"
  8. "Can I Play with Madness"
  9. "Heaven Can Wait"
  10. "Alexander the Great"
  11. "Fear of the Dark"
  12. "Iron Maiden"
Encore
  2. "Hell on Earth"
  3. "The Trooper"
  4. "Wasted Years"

    Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenue
1 September 2024PerthAustraliaRAC Arena
4 September 2024AdelaideAustraliaAdelaide Entertainment Centre
6 September 2024MelbourneAustraliaRod Laver Arena
7 September 2024MelbourneAustraliaRod Laver Arena
10 September 2024BrisbaneAustraliaBrisbane Entertainment Centre
12 September 2024SydneyAustraliaQudos Bank Arena
13 September 2024SydneyAustraliaQudos Bank Arena
16 September 2024AucklandNew ZealandSpark Arena
22 September 2024ToyotaJapanSky Hall Toyota
24 September 2024OsakaJapanOsaka-jō Hall
26 September 2024TokyoJapanTokyo Garden Theater
28 September 2024YokohamaJapanPia Arena MM
29 September 2024YokohamaJapanPia Arena MM
4 October 2024Chula VistaUnited StatesNorth Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
5 October 2024Las VegasUnited StatesMichelob Ultra Arena
8 October 2024InglewoodUnited StatesKia Forum
9 October 2024PhoenixUnited StatesFootprint Center
12 October 2024 SacramentoUnited StatesDiscovery Park
14 October 2024PortlandUnited StatesModa Center
16 October 2024TacomaUnited StatesTacoma Dome
18 October 2024Salt Lake CityUnited StatesDelta Center
19 October 2024DenverUnited StatesBall Arena
22 October 2024Saint PaulUnited StatesXcel Energy Center
24 October 2024RosemontUnited StatesAllstate Arena
26 October 2024TorontoCanadaScotiabank Arena
27 October 2024Quebec CityCanadaVideotron Centre
30 October 2024MontrealCanadaBell Centre
1 November 2024PhiladelphiaUnited StatesWells Fargo Center
2 November 2024BrooklynUnited StatesBarclays Center
6 November 2024WorcesterUnited StatesDCU Center
8 November 2024PittsburghUnited StatesPPG Paints Arena
9 November 2024NewarkUnited StatesPrudential Center
12 November 2024BaltimoreUnited StatesCFG Bank Arena
13 November 2024CharlotteUnited StatesSpectrum Center
16 November 2024Fort WorthUnited StatesDickies Arena
17 November 2024San AntonioUnited StatesFrost Bank Center
20 November 2024Mexico CityMéxicoEstadio GNP Seguros
24 November 2024BogotáColombiaEstadio El Campín
27 November 2024SantiagoChileEstadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos
28 November 2024---
1 December 2024Buenos AiresArgentinaEstadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó
2 December 2024Movistar Arena--
6 December 2024São PauloBrazilAllianz Parque
7 December 2024---