IRON MAIDEN Bassist's BRITISH LION Launch UK Winter Tour; "The Reactions Are Good, Really Really Good," Says STEVE HARRIS (Video)
November 22, 2021, 3 years ago
British Lion, the ‘up close and personal’ side project band of Iron Maiden bassist & founder Steve Harris, launched their UK headline club & pub tour on November 18 at The Crown in Hornchurch. The band have released this video:
The dates listed below are confirmed for November/December.
November
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. There will be no support in London. Tickets are on-sale now and available here.
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: