Brave New World Tour

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{{short description|2000–2002 concert tour by Iron Maiden}}

{{Infobox concert

| concert_tour_name = Brave New World Tour

| image = Brave_New_World_Tour_Poster.jpg

| image_size = 220px

| image_caption = Official tour advertisement for the band's performance in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, 6 June 2000

| artist = Iron Maiden

| album = Brave New World

| start_date = 2 June 2000

| end_date = 21 March 2002

| number_of_shows = 83 (92 scheduled)

| last_tour = The Ed Hunter Tour
(1999)

| this_tour = Brave New World Tour
(2000–2002)

| next_tour = Give Me Ed... 'Til I'm Dead Tour
(2003)

}}

The Brave New World Tour by Iron Maiden began on 2 June 2000 and ended on 19 January 2001 (Three concerts shows scheduled at Brixton Academy in 2002). It supported their 2000 album Brave New World that marked the return of vocalist Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith. In Europe, the tour was called Metal 2000. The initial batch of dates included just one in Iron Maiden's homeland. "Everybody in the band would like to do a thirty-date tour of 1,500-2,000-seaters," maintained Bruce Dickinson, "but we've got a tour booked in Europe this summer and we will be playing to over two million people in two months. Newbridge Memorial Hall will have to wait for a while!"{{cite magazine|title=Donington's a goner|magazine=Classic Rock #12|date=March 2000|p=6}}

On 19 January 2001, the band recorded Rock in Rio in front of an audience of 250,000,{{cite book | author=Wall, Mick | author-link=Mick Wall | title=Iron Maiden: Run to the Hills, the Authorised Biography | edition = 3rd | publisher=Sanctuary Publishing | year=2004 | isbn=1-86074-542-3 |page=349}} their second-largest crowd in Rio de Janeiro (the largest crowd being their 1985 Rock in Rio performance during the World Slavery Tour).{{cite video|date= 4 February 2008|title=Live After Death|chapter=The History of Iron Maiden part 2|medium=DVD|publisher=EMI}}

The Madison Square Garden concert on 5 August sold out in two hours. Three dates scheduled for Germany, Bulgaria and Greece in mid-July 2000 were cancelled so guitarist Janick Gers could recover after an accident at Mannheim, Germany, on 8 July: he slipped, fell off the stage, sustained a concussion and sprained his back.{{cite web|url = http://www.guitar.com/musicnews/shownews.asp?newsID=558 | title = Janick Gers Injured in Mannheim Stage Fall | access-date = 30 November 2011 | publisher=Guitar.com | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20030321035023/http://guitar.com/musicnews/shownews.asp?newsID=558 | date=10 July 2000 | archive-date = 21 March 2003}}