Steve Harris slipped and fell on stage during IRON MAIDEN‘s concert in Leeds, England late last month.
The incident occurred during the second track of MAIDEN‘s 15-song set on June 28 at First Direct Arena when the bassist was trying to make his way to the front of the stage between stage monitors. In a video uploaded by YouTube user First To The Barrier, Harris can be seen losing his footing and falling to the stage before recovering quickly and continuing to play the song. According to First To The Barrier, “Steve finished out the set with no issues and put on an excellent show for all the fans”.
The Leeds concert was part of the U.K. leg of IRON MAIDEN‘s “The Future Past Tour”, which kicked off on June 26 in Glasgow.
“The Future Past Tour” features previously unperformed songs from the band’s most recent studio album, “Senjutsu”, along with a focus on 1986’s “Somewhere In Time” LP, plus other classic cuts.
As was the case at all the previous gigs on this tour, IRON MAIDEN‘s set at the First Direct Arena included “Days Of Future Past”, “The Time Machine”, “Death Of The Celts” and “Hell On Earth” from “Senjutsu”, along with “Alexander The Great” from “Somewhere In Time”.
“Senjutsu” came out in September 2021. It marked MAIDEN‘s second consecutive double album behind 2015’s “The Book Of Souls” which is the longest MAIDEN album, with a running time of 92 minutes.
IRON MAIDEN‘s first album in six years, “Senjutsu” was recorded in 2019 in Paris with longstanding producer Kevin Shirley and co-produced by bassist Steve Harris. It features three tracks whose running time exceeds 10 minutes each.
For “Senjutsu” — loosely translated as “tactics and strategy” — the band once again enlisted the services of Mark Wilkinson to create the spectacular Samurai-themed cover artwork, based on an idea by Harris.
“Senjutsu” bowed at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, charting higher than even the band’s early classics like “Powerslave” and “The Number Of The Beast”. Nearly 90 percent of the LP’s 64,000 equivalent album units earned came from pure album sales. The critically acclaimed double album debuted one place higher than 2015’s “The Book Of Souls” and 2010’s “The Final Frontier”, which both peaked at No. 4.
“Senjutsu” was MAIDEN‘s 13th album to top in the Top 40 in the U.S.