Saxon Concert History

Saxon is an English heavy metal band formed in 1977 in Barnsley. Originally called Son of a Bitch. As leaders of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM), they had eight UK Top 40 albums in the 1980s including four UK Top 10 albums and two Top 5 albums. They had numerous singles in the UK Singles Chart and chart success all over Europe and Japan, as well as success in the United States. During the 1980s, Saxon established themselves among Europe's most successful metal acts.

Saxon Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2024 - 2025) (Page 14)

Date Concert Venue Location
Sep 22, 2017
UFO / Saxon / Jared James Nichols

UFO / Saxon at The Newton Theatre

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The Newton Theatre Newton, New Jersey, United States
Aug 12, 2017
Alcatraz Metal Festival
"Alcatraz Metal Festival" / Saxon / Obituary / Testament / Iced Earth / Death Angel / Last In Line / Rage / Abbath / Sleep / Brant Björk / Wolves In the Throne Room / High On Fire / Monkey 3 / King Hiss / Venom / Sweet Savage
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Sport Campus Lange Munte Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
Aug 11, 2017 –
Aug 13, 2017
Alcatraz Hard Rock & Metal Festival 2017
Korn / Trivium / Ghost / Amon Amarth / Saxon / Sleep / Iced Earth / High On Fire / Paradise Lost / Morbid Angel / Obituary / Krokus / Death Angel / Venom / Enslaved / Moonspell / Wolves In the Throne Room / Rage / Life Of Agony / Doro / Brant Bjork / Pretty Maids / Sacred Reich / Raven / Asphyx / Hell / Abbath / Monkey3 / Last In Line / Dr. Living Dead / Sweet Savage / Dirkschneider / Carnation / King Hiss / Blaas of Glory / Dyscordia / UFO / Denner-Shermann / Evil Invaders Show all bands
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Alcatraz Metal Festival Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
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Aug 05, 2017
Skogsrojet
"Skogsrojet" / Apollo / Miss Behaviour / Imperial State Electric / Pretty Maids / Ugly Kid Joe / Backyard Babies / Krokus / Blind Guardian / The Darkness / Black Star Riders / Saxon / Sonata Arctica
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Skogsrojet Festival Grounds Rejmyre, Sweden
Aug 03, 2017
Russkaja / Saxon / Alice Cooper

20. Jubileumi FEZEN Fesztivál (Csütörtök)

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MÁV Előre Stadion Székesfehérvár, Fejér, Hungary
Jul 30, 2017
Steelhouse Festival
"Steelhouse Festival" / Saxon / Broken Witt Rebels / Last In Line / British Lion / King King (UK) / Wayward Sons / Jared James Nichols / TEXAS FLOOD / Rival Sons
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Hafod-Y-Dafal Farm Ebbw Vale, United Kingdom
Jul 29, 2017 –
Jul 30, 2017
Steelhouse Festival 2017
Rival Sons / Skindred / Saxon / Monster Truck / King King / Inglorious / Stone Broken / Jared James Nichols / Last In Line / Broken Witt Rebels / Wayward Sons / Florence Black / British Lion / Trucker Diablo / TEXAS FLOOD / Tequila Mockingbyrd / Hand of Dimes Show all bands
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Hafod-y-Dafal Farm Ebbw Vale, UK
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Jul 28, 2017
"Ramblin' Man Fair" / Saxon / Y & T / Last In Line / Graham Bonnet Band

Ramblin' Man Fair 2017

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Mote Park Maidstone, United Kingdom
Jul 15, 2017
Masters Of Rock Festival
"Masters Of Rock Festival" / Crematory / Kreator / Saxon / Delain / Pretty Maids / Equilibrium / TrollfesT / Serenity / Dark Gamballe
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R. Jelinek Distillery Vizovice, Zlín, Czechia
Jul 13, 2017
Bang Your Head!!!
"Bang Your Head!!!" / Saxon / Satyricon / Venom / Slaughter / Orden Ogan / Gloryhammer / Toxik / Crystal Viper / Sepultura / Manegarm / Demon / Eclipse
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Messegelande Balingen, Germany
Jul 01, 2017
Rock Fest Barcelona
"Rock Fest Barcelona" / Alice Cooper / Blue Oyster Cult / Deep Purple / Carcass / Dirkschneider / Emperor / Exciter / Gloryhammer / Gotthard / Rosendo / Saratoga / Saxon / 77 / Sodom
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Parc de Can Zam Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Catalonia, Spain
Jun 30, 2017 –
Jul 02, 2017
Rock Fest Barcelona 2017
Jotnar / Udo Dirkschneider / Astray Valley / Gotthard / W.A.S.P. / Saurom / Alter Bridge / Running Wild / Queensrÿche / Europe / Blue Öyster Cult / Hammerfall / Crisix / Sodom / In Extremo / 77' / Metal Church / Reincidentes / Sepultura / Imperial Jade / Inconscientes / GOD SAVE THE QUEEN / Ñu / Eclipse / Decapitated / Ensiferum / Soziedad Alkoholika / Angelus Apatrida / Airbourne / Avantasia / Deep Purple / Carcass / Rosendo / Rage / Abbath / Exciter / Gloryhammer / Emperor / Pretty Maids / Alice Cooper / Lords of Black / Saratoga / Aerosmith / Paradise Lost / Saxon / Black Star Riders / Killcode Show all bands
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Parc de Can Zam Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Catalonia, Spain
Jun 28, 2017
Saxon / Graham Bonnet Band / Y & T

Ramblin Man Fair

Mote Park Maidstone Maidstone, England, United Kingdom
Jun 22, 2017 –
Jun 24, 2017
Copenhell 2017
Slayer / System of a Down / Five Finger Death Punch / Prophets of Rage / Rob Zombie / In Flames / Europe / Airbourne / Opeth / Saxon / Ministry / Overkill / Carcass / Red Warszawa / Invocator / DevilDriver / Myrkur / Candlemass / Every Time I Die / Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes / Lost Society / The Black Dahlia Murder / Motionless In White / RISING / Inglorious / Architects / Baroness / The Dillinger Escape Plan / Powerwolf / Hatesphere / Black Star Riders / Psychotic Waltz / Nothing More / Batushka / Memoriam / Huldre / The Raven Age / GHOST IRIS / BAEST / Seven Thorns Show all bands
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Copenhell Festival Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark
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Jun 17, 2017
Hellfest
"Hellfest" / Aerosmith / Airbourne / Steel Panther / Ugly Kid Joe / Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons / The Dead Daisies / Apocalyptica / Saxon / Kreator / W.A.S.P. / Pretty Maids / Jorn / Slydigs / Ultra Vomit / Jared James Nichols / Opeth / Pain of Salvation / Soilwork / Decapitated / Chelsea Grin / Beyond Creation / Crypt Sermon / Wardruna / Deafheaven / Alcest / Turisas / Ereb Altor / Primitive Man / Primus / Chelsea Wolfe / Mars Red Sky / Blood Ceremony / Bongripper / Monkey 3 / Los Disidentes Del Sucio Motel / Suicidal Tendencies / Agnostic Front / Comeback Kid / zeke / D.R.I. / Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes / No Turning Back / Insanity Alert Show all bands
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Val de Moine Sport Complex Clisson, Pays de la Loire, France
Jun 16, 2017 –
Jun 18, 2017
Hellfest 2017
Linkin Park / Aerosmith / Five Finger Death Punch / Deep Purple / Rob Zombie / Blue Öyster Cult / Slayer / Of Mice & Men / Rancid / Primus / Apocalyptica / Alter Bridge / In Flames / The Devil Wears Prada / Opeth / Motionless In White / Queensrÿche / Ministry / Suicidal Tendencies / Clutch / The Damned / Steel Panther / DevilDriver / Airbourne / Every Time I Die / The Bouncing Souls / Chelsea Grin / Sabaton / The Dillinger Escape Plan / Behemoth / Animals as Leaders / Helmet / Ugly Kid Joe / Monster Magnet / Baroness / W.A.S.P. / Skindred / Saxon / Chelsea Wolfe / While She Sleeps / Kreator / Alestorm / Hawkwind / Red Fang / Electric Wizard / Deafheaven / Soilwork / Ill Niño / Prophets of Rage / Northlane / Devin Townsend Project / Comeback Kid / Obituary / Agnostic Front / Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes / Alcest / Decapitated / Avatar / Perturbator / Powerwolf / D.R.I. / Turisas / Leftöver Crack / Wardruna / Trust / Pentagram / Týr / Nails / Pain of Salvation / Betraying The Martyrs / Metal Church / The Dead Daisies / Marduk / Deez Nuts / Equilibrium / Belphegor / Cryptopsy / Evergrey / trapped under ice / Ufomammut / Textures / Igorrr / Crippled Black Phoenix / Pretty Maids / Exhumed / Jorn / Bongripper / zeke / Krisiun / Mars Red Sky / Autopsy / Corvus Corax / Blood Ceremony / Trap Them / Hate Eternal / Integrity / Beyond Creation / Myrath / SubRosa / Sanctuary / Candiria / Ghoul / Ultra Vomit / Slo Burn / Inglorious / Coroner / Deluge / The Vintage Caravan / SHVPES / Primitive Man / Ghost Bath / No Turning Back / Hirax / Jared James Nichols / Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons / Tagada Jones / Wormed / Dodheimsgard / The New Roses / Noothgrush / Scour / Slydigs / Les Ramoneurs de menhirs / Seven Sisters Of Sleep / Skepticism / Ereb Altor / Sidilarsen / Valkyrja / Vodun / Regarde Les Hommes Tomber / Emptiness / Crypt Sermon / Nostromo / Arkhon Infaustus / Insanity Alert / Bright Curse / Welicoruss / Monolithe / Monarque / Harm Done / Los Disidentes Del Sucio Motel / Komintern Sect / Verdun / Monkey 3 / Mortuary / Carcariass / deathcode society / Ray Brower / True Black Dawn / Sick Of Stupidity / Putrid Offal / Verbal Razors / Vortex of End / Booze and Glory Uk / The Decline! (FR) / Prong Wakrat / Emperor / Gérard Baste / Black Star Riders Show all bands
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Val de Moine Sport Complex Clisson, Pays de la Loire, France
Jun 10, 2017
Sweden Rock Festival 2017 - Day 4
In Flames / Treat / Venom / Saxon / Rhapsody / Sweden Symphony Orchestra / Candlemass / Thunder / Amorphis
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Norje Festival Grounds Norje, Blekinge, Sweden
Jun 07, 2017 –
Jun 10, 2017
Sweden Rock Festival 2017
Aerosmith / Scorpions / In Flames / Ratt / Running Wild / Alter Bridge / Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul / Kansas / Steel Panther / Rival Sons / Clutch / Saxon / Doro Pesch’s Warlock / Primus / Ministry / Venom / Ian Hunter & The Rant Band / Apocalyptica / Mustasch / Iced Earth / Edguy / Kix / Gottard / Rhapsody / Carcass / Black Star Riders / Candlemass / Kings Of The Sun / Great King Rat / King's X / Metal Church / Thunder / Amorphis / Wishbone Ash / Fates Warning / Helix / Voivod / Grave Digger / Sator / Phil Campbell & the Bastard Sons / The Dead Dasies / Black Ingvars / Artch / Lionheart Show all bands
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Sweden Rock Festival Grounds Norje, Blekinge, Sweden
May 05, 2017
Karmoygeddon Metal Festival
"Karmoygeddon Metal Festival" / Ne Obliviscaris / Saxon / Septicflesh / Primal Fear / Artillery / Aspherium
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Karmoygeddon Metal Festival Grounds Kopervik, Norway
May 04, 2017 –
May 06, 2017
Karmøygeddon Metal Festival 2017
Green Carnation / Satyricon / Saxon / Backstreet Girls / Ross The Boss / Art of Deception / Bullet / Thyrfing / Dark Tranquillity / Primal Fear / Aspherium / Evig Natt / Borknagar / Moonspell / Blodhemn / Eluveitie / Marduk
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Karmoygeddon Metal Festival Grounds Karmøy, Norway
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Saxon / Armored Saint / Mindmaze
Sep 13, 2015
 Portland, Maine, United States
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UFO / Saxon / Jared James Nichols
Oct 1, 2017
 Portland, Maine, United States
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Weather trends, Hellfest 2024 on Jun 27, 2024 [016-small]

Weather trends

Hellfest 2024
Jun 27 - 30, 2024
 Clisson, Pays de la Loire, France
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Stage Design

Hellfest 2024
Jun 27 - 30, 2024
 Clisson, Pays de la Loire, France
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Running order (Sunday), Hellfest 2024 on Jun 27, 2024 [012-small]

Running order (Sunday)

Hellfest 2024
Jun 27 - 30, 2024
 Clisson, Pays de la Loire, France
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Running order (Saturday), Hellfest 2024 on Jun 27, 2024 [011-small]

Running order (Saturday)

Hellfest 2024
Jun 27 - 30, 2024
 Clisson, Pays de la Loire, France
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Running order (Friday), Hellfest 2024 on Jun 27, 2024 [010-small]

Running order (Friday)

Hellfest 2024
Jun 27 - 30, 2024
 Clisson, Pays de la Loire, France
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Running order (Thursday), Hellfest 2024 on Jun 27, 2024 [009-small]

Running order (Thursday)

Hellfest 2024
Jun 27 - 30, 2024
 Clisson, Pays de la Loire, France
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Hell Stage poster, Hellfest 2024 on Jun 27, 2024 [297-small]

Hell Stage poster

Hellfest 2024
Jun 27 - 30, 2024
 Clisson, Pays de la Loire, France
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Gig Poster

Hellfest 2024
Jun 27 - 30, 2024
 Clisson, Pays de la Loire, France
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Latest Setlist (08/24/2024):

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  2. Hell, Fire and Damnation
  3. Motorcycle Man
  4. Power and the Glory
  5. Madame Guillotine
  6. Heavy Metal Thunder
  7. Dallas 1 PM
  8. Never Surrender
  9. Strong Arm of the Law
  10. 1066
  11. Sacrifice
  12. The Eagle Has Landed
  13. Broken Heroes
  14. And the Bands Played On
  15. Denim and Leather
  16. 747 (Strangers in the Night)
  17. Wheels of Steel
  18. Crusader
  19. Princess of the Night

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Concerts Per Year:

2025 17 concerts
2024 68 concerts
2023 16 concerts
2022 39 concerts
2021 7 concerts
2020 2 concerts
2019 25 concerts
2018 65 concerts
2017 58 concerts
2016 62 concerts
2015 66 concerts
2014 57 concerts
2013 76 concerts
2012 14 concerts
2011 88 concerts
2010 27 concerts
2009 82 concerts
2008 50 concerts
2007 82 concerts
2006 18 concerts
2005 9 concerts
2004 9 concerts
2003 7 concerts
2002 8 concerts
2001 6 concerts
2000 7 concerts
1999 8 concerts
1998 3 concerts
1997 4 concerts
1996 1 concert
1995 8 concerts
1994 1 concert
1993 3 concerts
1992 5 concerts
1991 8 concerts
1990 7 concerts
1989 2 concerts
1988 8 concerts
1987 7 concerts
1986 29 concerts
1985 14 concerts
1984 25 concerts
1983 30 concerts
1982 39 concerts
1981 25 concerts
1980 38 concerts
1979 9 concerts

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Saxanon Nov 23, 2022

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

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