Run For Your Lives World Tour
Iron Maiden Knebworth 2026
8.5 / 10
An 8.5 for a recording that puts the band in unusual close-up, held back by a flat, narrow sound stage and a crowd that barely registers.
// The bootleg
The bass is very clearly audible, the guitars are well separated and the vocals come through cleanly. The drums sit a little further back. The sound is somewhat flat and not very spacious, but everything is nicely audible.
There is not much crowd in the mix, and that costs the recording some of that bootleg atmosphere. That is why it gets an 8.5, despite how well you can hear the band.
// Full facts
The show
- Date
- 2026-07-11
- Venue
- Knebworth Park
- Location
- Knebworth, UK
- Tour
- Run For Your Lives World Tour
The recording
- Source
- AUD
- Format
- FLAC 16-bit / 44.1 kHz
- Running time
- 128:47
- Equipment
- SP-CMC-8 microphones > Sony PCM-A10
- Lineage
- SP-CMC-8 > Sony PCM-A10 > master WAV 24-bit / 48 kHz > Audacity / Adobe Audition / iZotope RX / vocalremover.org splitter / iZotope Ozone 11 > dBpoweramp > WAV 16-bit / 44.1 kHz > Trader's Little Helper (fixing SBEs) > CD Wave Editor (track splits) > dBpoweramp > FLAC level 8
Credits
- Taper
- mats666
- Mastering
- mats666
// Tracklist
Disc 1
- 01 Pre Intro - Doctor Doctor 5:15
- 02 Intro - The Ides of March 1:57
- 03 Murders in the Rue Morgue 4:22
- 04 Wrathchild 2:56
- 05 Killers 7:13
- 06 Phantom of the Opera 7:36
- 07 The Number of the Beast 6:10
- 08 Infinite Dreams 6:11
- 09 Powerslave 7:28
- 10 2 Minutes to Midnight 6:10
- 11 Rime of the Ancient Mariner 14:32
Disc 2
- 01 Run to the Hills 4:35
- 02 Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 12:32
- 03 The Trooper 4:29
- 04 Hallowed Be Thy Name 7:40
- 05 Iron Maiden 7:28
- 06 Churchill's Speech 1:43
- 07 Aces High 5:09
- 08 Fear of the Dark 7:54
- 09 Wasted Years 7:27
// Cover art
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// The night
EddFest was Iron Maiden's own two-day festival at Knebworth Park on 10 and 11 July 2026. The band closed the Saturday main stage after The Almighty, Airbourne, The Hu and The Darkness, with around 50,000 people on site in temperatures well over 30C. The night also carried unfinished business. On 22 June in Paris, at a La Défense Arena show filmed for a cinematic release, a total power cut near the end of '2 Minutes to Midnight' stopped everything, and the night ended without the encores that have closed every show on this tour: 'Aces High', 'Fear of the Dark' and 'Wasted Years'. What Paris cost the film was that footage, so the band came to Knebworth to complete it, and setlist.fm notes this show was professionally filmed and recorded for the tour film. 'Infinite Dreams' was the one change from last year's setlist, and Bruce Dickinson told the crowd it was the first time in 38 years before correcting himself about a Lisbon show days earlier. He joked about the football match kicking off during the show, and carried the Union Jack and then the St George's flag through 'The Trooper'. It was Iron Maiden's only UK concert of the year, and the promoters billed it as their last UK show until at least 2028.
Sources Iron Maiden announce EddFest at Knebworth Park Iron Maiden on filming EddFest after the Paris power cut Run For Your Lives World Tour 2026 official dates Setlist.fm: Knebworth, July 11, 2026 Louder: Eddfest review At The Barrier: Eddfest live review Record Collector: Iron Maiden rock Knebworth Far Out: Iron Maiden's only UK concert of the year
// What the press said
Iron Maiden won't be here in another 50 years' time, but their legacy will.
Fifty years in and counting, they're acting like a gang with everything still to prove.
Festivals do not come any bigger or better than this.
A potent Run to the Hills causes mass karaoke that I'm sure was audible in Stevenage.
// In their words
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You all know what happened in Paris, we all know what happened in Paris, so we're gonna finish it off at Knebworth, and we'll see you there.
Steve Harris, announcing the EddFest filming · source -
We're not going to lose what we did in Paris but we're going to add to it with some amazing stuff from Knebworth. So Knebworth, be on ya best behaviour!!
Bruce Dickinson, announcing the EddFest filming · source -
This is the first time we've played this song in 38 years. Well... technically it's the first time since Tuesday night in Lisbon, but don't worry about that.
Bruce Dickinson, on stage before 'Infinite Dreams' · source