MAIDEN MANIA IN SWEDEN, FINLAND AND COLOMBIA AS TICKETS GO ON SALE FOR THE BAND'S SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME WORLD TOUR. ........EXTRA STADIUM SHOW IN FINLAND ADDED

When tickets went on sale yesterday morning for Iron Maiden's three stadium shows in Sweden and Finland the box offices were inundated and all 123,500 tickets were quickly sold out -- over nine months in advance of the concert dates.

The two Swedish shows, July 16 at Stockholm Stadium and July 26 at Ullevi Stadium, Gothenburg, with respective capacities of 31,500 and 50,500, sold out in less than two and a half hours.

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Tickets also went on sale in Colombia and Phil Rodriguez, the promoter for the show at the 30,000 capacity Simon Bolivar Stadium in Bogota, stated that it was the fastest and biggest first day box office of any music event ever in Colombia; "Box Office records were broken from the very start and Maiden mania is sweeping Colombia. We sold over 12,000 on just the first day. Nobody has ever done this, it's fantastic -- this is usually a "slow" market for ticket sales. But even though this is the first time the band have ever played here it does not particularly surprise us -- Maiden are just huge in all of South America, the kids worship them. This is a massive event for the hordes of Maiden fans here"

Manager Rod Smallwood comments; "We are delighted by the incredible response of our fans Worldwide to next year's tour. The reaction in Sweden and Finland is overwhelming, and also in Colombia, where we have never played before. Everywhere tickets have gone on sale so far we have had a tremendous response at the box office.