Sam Beam, better known as Iron and Wine has announced a string of three dates around the UK for mid May, ahead of his appearance at the ATP festival in Minehead on Saturday and Sunday 17th and 18th May.

Manchester and Sheffield tickets are £13.50 each, London tickets go on sale tomorrow (Friday 15th February) at 9am.

Tuesday 13th May – Manchester Ritz
Wednesday 16th May – Sheffield Leadmill
Friday 16th May – London Forum

Heavy rockers Iron Maiden have announced details of a UK stadium show for next summer as part of an extensive world tour.

They’ll play London’s Twickenham Stadium on Saturday 5th July next year.

Apparently the tour will be one of a kind: the “Somewhere Back In Time – World Tour 08″ will focus almost entirely on the 80s in terms of song choices. The stage set will also be based around the Egyptian-themed ‘Powerslave’ 1984-85 tour.

Speaking about the tour, frontman Bruce Dickinson said: “Looking at the list of places we would like to play we have always had problems joining up the dots. But without having sea containers all over the place slowing down the whole touring process and by having our own plane it has made it far easier to tour distant places like Australia for the first time in 15 years.”

Ticket will go on sale next Friday, 20th November at 9am. Members of the Iron Maiden fan club will be able to purchase tickets from 28th November at 9am. For details go to ironmaiden.com.