A day after drummer Nicko McBrain introduced that he can be retiring from touring with Iron Maiden, the enduring metallic band has revealed that Simon Dawson can be taking on behind the equipment in 2025.
McBrain performed his closing live performance with Maiden final night time (December seventh) in São Paulo, Brazil, the final present of the band’s “Future Previous Tour.” Hours earlier, he disclosed that he would not tour with the band after 42 years as a result of he wished to “step again from the grind of the intensive touring life-style.”
Dawson already has robust 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 exhibits 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 equipment for 2025 is a reputation acquainted to lots 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 numerous subsequent excursions within the US, UK, Europe, Australia, Japan, New Zealand &, most just lately, each Mexico and South America.
Iron Maiden have a good time 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 available here.
In McBrain’s assertion on Saturday, the drummer famous that he would stay within the Maiden household in some capability.
Throughout final night time’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 taking part in dwell with us anymore.” The frontman referred to 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 closing present with the band from final night time.
