SAXON to celebrate 40 years with a UK tour with special guest Krokus, Diamond Head and Girlschool

Saxon are one of the giants of British Heavy Metal and forty years and twenty two studio albums on from the start of their journey to legendary status in the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal days of 1979 they hit the road again in the UK to play three celebratory fortieth anniversary shows. For the first time since the 1980s they will return to headlining London's Hammersmith 'Odeon' and Manchester Apollo, together with their largest Scottish show to date at Glasgow's Braehead Arena in October 2019, with a mega show featuring staples of Saxon shows past, the castle set in its enormity together with the classic Eagle lighting rig. In addition to the announcement of these shows, the band will release another chapter in the 'The Eagle Has Landed Live' series of albums with 'The Eagle Has Landed 4' out on general release on August 2nd 2019 via Silver Lining Music. Renamed 'The Eagle Has Landed 40' to commemorate the anniversary, the album will be a double CD set (available on other formats including a special box set) containing forty songs spanning the bands career.
