The Virtual XI Tour was a concert tour by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden from 22 April 1998 to 12 December 1998. As with their previous tour, several of the band's U.S. shows had to be cancelled after vocalist Blaze Bayley had issues with his voice, this time reportedly from an allergic reaction to pollen and dust while the group were in Nevada and Arizona. The band later made up the Los Angeles and San Diego dates. This would be Iron Maiden's last tour with Bayley as then former vocalist Bruce Dickinson would return to the group the following year.
Following the more basic stage sets that they had been using following 1988's Seventh Tour of a Seventh Tour, the band returned to a more elaborate stage set in 1998. The tour also saw the group make their first visits to Turkey and Malta.
Tour dates + List of 1998 concerts Date City Country Venue 22 April 1998 Norwich England The Oval P.H. 26 April 1998 LilleFrance Zénith de Lille 27 April 1998 Nancy Le Zénith 29 April 1998 GenovaItaly Palasport 30 April 1998 Florence Palasport 2 May 1998 Pesaro BPA Palace 3 May 1998 Rome PalaEur 5 May 1998 Milan PalaVobis 6 May 1998 Trieste Palasport 8 May 1998 BöblingenGermany Sporthalle 9 May 1998 Hanover Music Hall 10 May 1998 Düsseldorf Philips Halle 12 May 1998 Paris France Le Zénith 13 May 1998 Leuven Belgium Brabanthal 14 May 1998 Rotterdam Netherlands Ahoy Hall 16 May 1998 London England Brixton Academy18 May 1998BarcelonaSpainPavello de La Vall D'Hebron 19 May 1998 Madrid Palacio de los Deportes 20 May 1998 Cascais Portugal Pavilion 22 May 1998 OurenseSpain Campo de Futbol Os Remedios 23 May 1998 Laguna de Duero Bullring 24 May 1998 San Sebastian Velodromo 26 May 1998 Valencia Velodromo Luis Puig 28 May 1998 Montpellier France Le Zénith 30 May 1998 Ta' Qali Malta Open Air 26 June 1998 ChicagoUnited States Riviera Theater 27 June 1998 Columbus Brewery District Pavilion 28 June 1998 Hamilton Canada Copps Coliseum 30 June 1998 KalamazooUnited States Wings Stadium 1 July 1998 Clarkston Pine Knob Music Theater 2 July 1998 Cleveland Nautica Theater 4 July 1998 MontrealCanada Stade du Maurier 5 July 1998 Quebec City L'Agora 7 July 1998 New York CityUnited States Roseland Ballroom 10 July 1998 San Antonio Blue Bonnet Palace 11 July 1998 San Benito The Road House 12 July 1998 Dallas Starplex Amphitheater 14 July 1998 Phoenix Club Rio 15 July 1998 Paradise The Joint19 July 1998San FranciscoMaritime Hall22 July 1998DenverParamount Theatre24 July 1998MedinaMedina Entertainment Center25 July 1998MilwaukeeModjeska Theater26 July 1998CincinnatiBogart's28 July 1998Washington, D.C.The Capitol Ballroom29 July 1998Glen BurnieMichael's Eighth Avenue31 July 1998PhiladelphiaElectric Factory1 August 1998HartfordWebster Theater 2 August 1998 Universal City Universal Amphitheater 4 August 1998 San Diego S.D.S.U. Open Air Theater 5 August 1998 Melbourne Wickham Park Amphitheater 7 August 1998 MonterreyMexico Auditorio Coca-Cola 9 August 1998 Mexico City Palacio de los Deportes 4 September 1998 AthensGreece Lycabettus Theatre 5 September 1998 Thessaloniki Forrest Theatre 7 September 1998IstanbulTurkeyCemil Topuzlu Açıkhava8 September 1998 9 September 1998 Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina Skenderija 11 September 1998 Budapest Hungary E-Klub 12 September 1998 Katowice Poland Spodek 13 September 1998 Prague Czech Republic Malá sportovní hala 15 September 1998 MunichGermany Colosseum 16 September 1998 Fürth Stadthalle Fürth 18 September 1998 Erfurt Thüringen Halle 19 September 1998 Hamburg Sporthalle 20 September 1998 Copenhagen Denmark Vega 23 September 1998 Helsinki Finland Helsingfors ishall 25 September 1998 Stockholm Sweden Isstadion 27 September 1998 EssenGermany Grugahalle 28 September 1998Berlin Colombia Halle 29 September 1998 Halle Easy Schorre Club 1 October 1998 Offenbach am Main Stadthalle 2 October 1998 Winterthur Switzerland Eulachalle 3 October 1998 MulhouseFrance Phoenix 5 October 1998 Besançon Palais des Sports 6 October 1998 Lyon Le Transbordeur 8 October 1998 ZaragozaSpain Pabellón Principe Felipe 9 October 1998 Albacete Bullring 10 October 1998 Dos Hermanas Campo de Fútbol 13 October 1998 NiceFrance Théâtre de Verdure 14 October 1998 Pau Le Zénith 15 October 1998 Clermont-Ferrand Maison des Sports 17 October 1998 ManchesterEngland Apollo Theatre 18 October 1998 Newcastle City Hall 19 October 1998 Glasgow Scotland Barrowlands 21 October 1998 NottinghamEngland Royal Concert Hall 22 October 1998 Wolverhampton Civic Hall 23 October 1998 Newport Wales Centre 25 October 1998 SheffieldEngland City Hall 26 October 1998 Portsmouth Guildhall 18 November 1998 TokyoJapan Shibuya Kokaido 20 November 1998 Nagoya Club Diamond Hall 21 November 1998 Osaka IMP Hall 22 November 1998 Tokyo Nakano Sun Plaza Hall 2 December 1998 Rio de JaneiroBrazil Metropolitan4 December 1998CampinasBrinco Da Princesa 5 December 1998 São Paulo Anhembi 6 December 1998 Curitiba Pedreira Paulo Leminski10 December 1998SantiagoChileVelodromo 12 December 1998 Buenos AiresArgentina José Amalfitani Stadium
This was a secret concert that the band performed under the name "The Angel and the Gamblers".
External links Virtual XI World Tour dates
References
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