A day after drummer Nicko McBrain introduced that he could be retiring from touring with Iron Maiden, the long-lasting metallic band has revealed that Simon Dawson will likely be taking up behind the package in 2025.
McBrain performed his last live performance with Maiden final evening (December seventh) in São Paulo, Brazil, the final present of the band’s “Future Previous Tour.” Hours earlier, he disclosed that he would now not tour with the band after 42 years as a result of he needed to “step again from the grind of the intensive touring way of life.”
Dawson already has sturdy ties to Iron Maiden, having performed in bassist Steve Harris’ different band British Lion for 12 years. Maiden’s full announcement reads as follows:
“As The Future Previous Tour concludes after 81 reveals to over 1.4 million followers, from Ljubljana to the Coachella Valley and from Western Australia to Sao Paulo, Iron Maiden are delighted to announce that stepping in behind the package for 2025 is a reputation acquainted to a lot of our followers – Simon Dawson, a former session drummer and Steve’s rhythm part accomplice of the previous 12 years with British Lion. A local of Suffolk, England, Simon first teamed up with Steve Harris again in 2012. He debuted on three tracks on the primary British Lion album and all the second critically acclaimed ‘The Burning’, plus the various subsequent excursions within the US, UK, Europe, Australia, Japan, New Zealand &, most lately, each Mexico and South America.
Iron Maiden have fun their fiftieth Anniversary subsequent yr with The Run For Your Lives Tour beginning in Budapest on Might twenty seventh.”
As talked about within the assertion, Maiden will kick off their “Run for Your Lives” tour with a European/UK tour in late Might. The outing will discover the metallic veterans performing songs from their first 9 albums, with tickets out there right here.
In McBrain’s assertion on Saturday, the drummer famous that he would stay within the Maiden household in some capability.
Throughout final evening’s present in São Paulo, singer Bruce Dickinson gave an onstage speech about McBrain’s retirement from touring, saying, “He’s not leaving the band however he’s simply not enjoying reside with us anymore.” The frontman known as for the remainder of the present to be a “celebration” of Nicko as the group chanted the drummer’s title.
See Iron Maiden’s announcement of Simon Dawson as their new drummer, in addition to footage of Nicko McBrain’s last present with the band from final evening.