Saxon Concert History

Saxon are an English heavy metal band formed in Barnsley in 1975. As one of the key acts of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM), they achieved significant commercial success during the 1980s, including eight UK Top 40 albums, four UK Top 10 albums, and two Top 5 albums. The band also released numerous hit singles on the UK Singles Chart and achieved international success in Europe, South America, Japan, the United States, and Canada. They have sold more than 23 million records worldwide and remain an active touring band.

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Saxon Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2026 - 2027)

Date Concert Venue Location
Feb 27, 2027
Upcoming
Saxon

Gods of Thunder World Tour Part 1 (Castles & Eagles Production)

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Eventim Apollo London, England, United Kingdom
Feb 25, 2027
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Saxon O2 Guildhall Southampton Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Feb 24, 2027
Upcoming
Saxon Bristol Beacon Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Feb 23, 2027
Upcoming
Saxon
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Great Hall, Cardiff University Students' Union Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Feb 21, 2027
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Saxon Irwin Mitchell Oval Hall Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Feb 20, 2027
Upcoming
Saxon O2 City Hall Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Feb 19, 2027
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Saxon O2 Apollo Manchester Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Feb 17, 2027
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Saxon 3Olympia Theatre Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Feb 16, 2027
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Saxon Telegraph Building Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Feb 14, 2027
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Saxon O2 Academy Glasgow Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Feb 13, 2027
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Saxon Civic Hall, University of Wolverhampton at The Halls Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom
Aug 13, 2026
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Saxon

Summer Breeze

Flugplatz Dinkelsbühl-Sinbronn Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria, Germany
Aug 12, 2026 –
Aug 15, 2026
Upcoming
Summer Breeze Open Air 2026
Helloween / In Flames / Arch Enemy / Eisbrecher / Saxon / Lamb Of God / Airbourne / Alestorm / Versengold / The Ghost Inside / Thy Art Is Murder / Testament / Amorphis / Imminence / Paleface Swiss / Alcest / The Butcher Sisters / Orbit Culture / Kim Dracula / Soulfly / Paradise Lost / Deicide / Brothers of Metal / Northlane / dArtagnan / Betontod / Terror / Deafheaven / Future Palace / Soen / Der Weg Einer Freiheit / Miracle of Sound / Mushroomhead / TrollfesT / Municipal Waste / Saor / Nanowar of Steel / From Fall to Spring / Unprocessed / Misery Index / Cryptopsy / Brainstorm / Parasite Inc. / Excrementory Grindfuckers / OUR PROMISE / Illdisposed / ten56. / 200 Stab Wounds / Groza / Manntra / Haggefugg / Blood Command / Cabal / Mittel Alta / Luna Kills / Blackbraid / Alien Ant Farm / Das Lumpenpack / Thundermother / Deserted Fear / Bloodred Hourglass / Grand Magus / SETYØURSAILS / Møl / Slomosa / Nytt Land / Soulbound / Wucan / FILTH! / Erdling / Brymir / Rectal Smegma / Stam1na / Zerre / 802 / Aesthetic Perfection / Avalanche Effect / Backstabbed / Bizarrekult / Blacktoothed / Born Hanged / Broken by the Scream / Castle Rat / Cân Bardd / Decapitated / Dethroned / Die Habenichtse / Eivør / Fireborn / Fit For An Autopsy / Fulci / Ghetto Justice / Green Lung / Hackneyed / Hatebreed / Heaven.exe / Heavysaurus / Hopsydian / Hæresis / I Am Your God / Inhuman Nature / Inner Space / Kadavar / Katerfahrt / King Nugget Gang / Kllsignl / Lost in Hollywood / Massive Wagons / Minus Youth / Motorjesus / Neckbreakker / Ochmoneks / Perchta / Persecutor / Phantom Corporation / Plume / Pridian / Randale / Rodscha aus Kambodscha / Sanguisugabogg / Serpents PL / Skeleton Pit / Skindred / Speed / Sun Eater / The Narrator / THE SONS OF HUENS / Thormesis / URNE / Vulvarine / WARFIELD / Waves Like Walls / Wolves in the Throne Room Show all bands
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Flugplatz Dinkelsbühl-Sinbronn Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria, Germany
Aug 10, 2026 –
Aug 14, 2026
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Midgardsblot Festival 2026
Arthur Brown / Vreid / Einherjer / Gehenna / Mawiza / Skáld / Sólstafir / Venom / Turbonegro / Arachno / Songleikr / Cutthroat / Voidspire / Bærzerk / Mortal Fear / Blotsyngel / Angell / Nebala / Trio Oro / Backstreet Girls / Saxon / I Am Morbid / Danefae / Nargaroth / Vėlių namai / Astralseid / Between Two Worlds / Mira Ceti / Hexxen / Nytt Land / Wolves in the Throne Room Show all bands
Midgard Vikingsenter Horten, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Aug 09, 2026
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Alcatraz Metal Festival 2025 Day 4 (Sunday)
Powerwolf / Lamb Of God / Saxon / The Ghost Inside / Satyricon / Nevermore / decide(US) / Rose Tattoo / Paleface Swiss / Of Mice & Men / Fit For An Autopsy / Warkings / Rise of the Northstar / Gutalax / Northlane / Death Angel / Kylesa / Vovoid / Bloodbound / Misþyrming & Nergal / Animals as Leaders / Blackbraid / Sanguisugabogg / Firespawn / Mortal Sin / Deceased / Internal Bleeding / Nefarious / Izegrim / Luna Kills / Hemelbestormer / Encounters / Turpentine Valley / Steengruis / Breakout / Anaal Nathrakh Show all bands
Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
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Aug 08, 2026
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Saxon

Keep It True Legions

EventhalleEventzentrum Strohofer Geiselwind, Germany
Aug 06, 2026
Upcoming
Saxon

Bloodstock Open Air (Day 1 of 4)

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Catton Park Walton upon Trent, England, United Kingdom
Aug 06, 2026 –
Aug 09, 2026
Upcoming
Alcatraz Open Air 2026
200 Stab Wounds / Alcest / Alestorm / Alien Ant Farm / Amenra / Amorphis / Anaal Nathrakh / Animals as Leaders / Arch Enemy / Armored Saint / Aura Noir / Biohazard / Blackbraid / Bleed From Within / Bloodbound / Body Count / Breakout / Brutal Sphincter / Carach Angren / Castle Rat / Channel Zero / Chelsea Grin / Combichrist / Coroner / Crimson Glory / Deceased / Deicide / Der Weg Einer Freiheit / Enthroned / Firespawn / Fit For An Autopsy / Graceless / Gutalax / Hate / Hatebreed / Heidevolk / Igorrr / Ill Niño / Imminence / Immolation / Internal Bleeding / Kittie / Kylesa / Lamb Of God / Luna Kills / Mantah / Merauder / Metal Church / Midnight / Mikkey Dee / Miracle of Sound / Monolord / Mortal Scepter / Municipal Waste / Mushroomhead / Nevermore / Northlane / Of Mice & Men / Orbit Culture / Paleface Swiss / Powerwolf / Psychonaut / Ratos De Porao / Revocation / Rise of the Northstar / Rose Tattoo / Sacred Reich / Sanguisugabogg / Satyricon / Savatage / Saxon / Slaughter To Prevail / Soen / Soulfly / Terror / Testament / The Ghost Inside / The Ruins of Beverast / Thy Art Is Murder / Udo Dirkschneider / Vacuous / Vended / Voivod / Warkings / Warrior Soul / A thousand sufferings / Aeveris / Coven / Cowboys & Aliens / Crowbar / Cyclone / Divided / Encounters / Firewind / Funeral Dress / Graphic Nature / HEALTH / Hemelbestormer / Hope Erodes / Insanity Alert / Izegrim / Jungle Rot / Left To Die / Masterplan / Misbyrming & Nergal / Modder / Mortal Sin / Nefarious / Poseydon / Primus / Ronker / Sons Of Lioth / Steengruis / Tailgunner (UK) / The Troops of Doom (BR) / Turpentine Valley / Wings of Steel / Witch Club Satan / Your Highness / Dead Serious Show all bands
Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
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Aug 04, 2026
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Saxon Z7 Konzertfabrik Pratteln, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
Jul 29, 2026
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Saxon

Wacken Open Air

Wacken Festival Grounds Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Jul 29, 2026 –
Aug 01, 2026
Upcoming
Wacken Open Air 2026
Powerwolf / In Flames / Running Wild / Emperor / Def Leppard / Sepultura / Lamb Of God / Airbourne / Any Given Day / Blood Command / Blood Fire Death / ALLT / Broken by the Scream / Einherjer / Europe / Faun / Future Palace / Gutalax / Grand Magus / Insanity Alert / H-Blockx / Kupfergold / Luna Kills / Mantar / Nevermore / Orbit Culture / Paleface Swiss / Pig Destroyer / The Gathering / The Hardkiss / Ad Infinitum / Alestorm / Alfahanne / Anaal Nathrakh / Angelus Apatrida / Arch Enemy / Black Label Society / Castle Rat / Bleed From Within / Blood Red Throne / Brunhilde / Chaosbay / Corrosion Of Conformity / Craft / Crimson Glory / Danko Jones / Divlje Jagode / Dritte Wahl / Dubioza kolektiv / Electric Bassboy / Eläkeäiset / Employed To Serve / Firespawn / Guilt Trip / Hackneyed / Hardline / Hatebreed / Heavysaurus / Hämatom / Judas Priest / Katerfahrt / Kim Dracula / Kittie / Lagwagon / Life Of Agony / Misery Index / Mr. Hurley & Die Pulveraffen / Municipal Waste / OUR PROMISE / P.O.D. / Paradise Lost / Ricky Warwick / Rose Tattoo / Savatage / Saxon / Skynd / Spectral Wound / Storm Seeker / The Butcher Sisters / The Haunted / Therapy? / Thrown / Thundermother / Thy Art Is Murder / Triptykon / Turbonegro / Vanir / Vended / Vogelfrey / 5th Avenue / 9mm Headshot / Alcest / Alien Ant Farm / Alien Rockin' Explosion / Animals as Leaders / Arroganz / Ashed Winter / Asrock / Battlecreek / Bear McCreary / Blaas of Glory / Black Tish / Blanket Hill / Born Broken / Cowgirls From Hell / Crematory / Cruachan / Crypt Sermon / Cursed abyss / Dead By April / Deafheaven / DEFLAG / Diabolisches Werk / Dieter "Maschine" Birr / Dirty Shirt / E.N.D. / ELCHIVO / Evil Jared x Krogi / Expellow / Finsterforst / Fit For An Autopsy / Force / Gagor / Gidora / Given by the Flames / Haine / Heartless Human Harvest / I see red / Kadavar / Kärbholz / Lacuna Coil / Lovebites / Mambo Kurt / Manntra / Maschine's Late Night Show / Metaklapa / Midhaven / Minotaurus / Misþyrming & Nergal / Morphide / Novelization / Phantom / Poison The Preacher / Sabaton / Sacred Steel / Sagenbringer / Saviourself / Sinamort / Skyline / Sót / Speak in Whispers / Stonem / Temple Of The Absurd / Svbway to Sally / The Crescent's Call / The Limit / Unzucht / The Other / The Troops Of Doom / Thomas Nicholas Band / Trold / tuXedoo / Velvet Rush / Visions of Atlantis / Vreid / Wacken Firefighters / Wüstenberg / Wytch Hazel / Year of the Goat / Yngwie Malmsteen / Zeltinger Band / Anneke van Giersbergen / PRESIDENT / Uli Jon Roth / Würstenberg / Focus. (DE) / ten56. Show all bands
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Wacken Festival Grounds Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Jul 18, 2026
Maid Of Stone Festival
Saxon / Doro / Danko Jones / Tailgunner / Girlschool / Haxan / The Virginmarys / Battle Born / S8nt Elektric
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Mote Park Maidstone, United Kingdom

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Apr 13, 2018
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Jul 29 - Aug 1, 2026
 Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Jun 3 - 6, 2026
 Gdańsk, Pomerania, Poland
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Jul 18, 2026
 Maidstone, United Kingdom
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 Maidstone, United Kingdom
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Jul 18, 2026
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Genres:

Rock
Metal
Hard Rock
British
UK
Album Oriented Rock (AOR)
Heavy Metal
Speed Metal
Glam Metal
Power Metal
NWOBHM
J-Metal
New Wave Of British Heavy Metal
Mythology
History
Japanese Heavy Metal
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Latest Setlist (07/16/2026):

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  1. The Prophecy
  2. Hell, Fire and Damnation
  3. Power and the Glory
  4. Dogs of War
  5. And the Bands Played On
  6. Madame Guillotine
  7. Sacrifice
  8. Solid Ball of Rock
  9. The Eagle Has Landed
  10. Heavy Metal Thunder
  11. Dallas 1 PM
  12. Strong Arm of the Law
  13. Motorcycle Man
  14. Denim and Leather
  15. Never Surrender
  16. 747 (Strangers in the Night)
  17. Wheels of Steel
  18. Crusader
  19. Princess of the Night

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Concerts Per Year:

2027 11 concerts
2026 33 concerts
2025 61 concerts
2024 77 concerts
2023 43 concerts
2022 56 concerts
2021 8 concerts
2020 6 concerts
2019 37 concerts
2018 87 concerts
2017 65 concerts
2016 75 concerts
2015 86 concerts
2014 65 concerts
2013 89 concerts
2012 24 concerts
2011 116 concerts
2010 35 concerts
2009 84 concerts
2008 57 concerts
2007 93 concerts
2006 32 concerts
2005 39 concerts
2004 41 concerts
2003 42 concerts
2002 32 concerts
2001 42 concerts
2000 47 concerts
1999 40 concerts
1998 45 concerts
1997 46 concerts
1996 13 concerts
1995 62 concerts
1994 7 concerts
1993 29 concerts
1992 27 concerts
1991 84 concerts
1990 73 concerts
1989 14 concerts
1988 52 concerts
1987 28 concerts
1986 111 concerts
1985 43 concerts
1984 77 concerts
1983 80 concerts
1982 96 concerts
1981 95 concerts
1980 115 concerts
1979 46 concerts
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Comments & Reviews:

Nov 23, 2022

SAXON deliver a full throttle masterclass in metal. Giants! 1979-2022 and still accelerating....magnificent!

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