IRON MAIDEN Bassist's BRITISH LION Announce UK Winter Tour
October 21, 2021, 3 years ago
British Lion, the ‘up close and personal’ side project band of Iron Maiden bassist & founder Steve Harris, have announced that the UK headline club & pub shows listed below have been confirmed for November/December 2021.
November
18 - Hornchurch, UK - The Crown
19 - Dover, UK - Booking Hall *
21 - Gravesend, UK - Leo’s Red Lion
22 - Bristol, UK - The Fleece
23 - Southampton, UK - Engine Rooms
25 - Leeds, UK - Warehouse
26 - Buckley, UK - Tivoli
28 - Nuneaton, UK - Queens Hall
29 - Manchester, UK - Rebellion
30 - Newcastle, UK - Riverside
December
2 - Grimsby, UK - Yardbirds
3 - Wolverhampton, UK - KK’s Steel Mill
4 - London, UK - Underworld **
6 - Reading, UK - Sub 89
7 - Milton Keynes, UK - The Craufurd Arms
8 - Colchester, UK - Arts Centre
Support act for the tour is Airforce, except for Dover where it will be Wicked Stone.* There will be no support in London.**
Tickets are on-sale now and available here.
Tickets for Hornchurch - There is no online facility to purchase tickets for the show in Hornchurch, so these will be available for purchase at the venue from Saturday, October 23.
Says the band: "We would like to thank our agent for the exceptional work in putting together this tour at such short notice and we’re delighted that we will be able to play some shows this year!"
British Lion previously announced a European club tour for summer 2022.
Says the band: "We're thrilled to announce a nine date European headline club tour in summer 2022, in addition to the three festival shows already announced for Finland, England and Belgium, working in conjunction with the routing for Maiden’s 2022 Legacy Of The Beast tour. Five of the cities are there to make up for the shows that were cancelled back in 2020."
Tickets are on-sale now, here.
Dates:
June
3 - Hyvinkaa, Finland - Rockfest Festival
10 - Donington, England - Download Festival
17 - Dessel, Belgium - Graspop Festival
19 - Prague, Czech Republic - Lucerna Theatre
25 - Paris, France - Trabendo
July
1 - Cologne, Germany - Kantine
3 - Berlin, Germany - Hole 44
8 - Stuttgart, Germany - LKA Longhorn
19 - Bremen, Germany - Aladin
23 - Warsaw, Poland - Progresja
25 - Frankfurt, Germany - Batschkapp
30 - Lisbon, Portugal - LAV Lisboa ao Vivo
The support for each show will be advised shortly.
British Lion's official video for "Bible Black", the fifth single from their 2020 album, The Burning, can be seen below: