{"id":26865,"date":"2025-08-17T13:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26865"},"modified":"2025-08-17T13:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:04:18","slug":"saxons-biff-discusses-his-recent-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26865","title":{"rendered":"Saxons Biff discusses his recent Cancer battle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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FRONTMAN BIFF BYFORD ANNOUNCES HIS BATTLE WITH CANCER AND UPCOMING TREATMENT IN A SPECIAL POST TO FANS<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
In a special post on the band\u2019s social media channels, SAXON<\/strong> frontman and singer Biff Byford discusses battling cancer following his recent diagnosis after the band\u2019s Japanese Tour in late April and his upcoming ‘mopping-up’ chemotherapy treatment.

 Biff also discusses the postponement of SAXON<\/strong>\u2019s imminent French and Spanish shows until April and May of next year while he undergoes a short period of chemotherapy but has been told by doctors that his prognosis going forward is positive. All tickets will remain valid for the new rescheduled dates which will be announced on SAXON<\/strong>\u2019s socials imminently.
 
Sadly, Biff\u2019s treatment also impacts on the band\u2019s forthcoming festival performances at both Trutnoff Open Air<\/em>, with the band\u2019s appearance later this month having to be cancelled, and Neuborn Open Air<\/em>, also later this month, now postponed until the festival\u2019s 2026 edition. Biff would like to reassure fans that both the band\u2019s special Hell, Fire and Steel UK & Ireland Tour<\/em> this November will be going ahead as planned along with SAXON<\/strong>\u2019s headline performance at Metal Hammer Paradise in L\u00fcbeck, Germany.  The band\u2019s Hell Fire and Steel UK Tour<\/em> is currently close to being SOLD OUT, so fans are advised to grab the last few tickets quickly to avoid disappointment, as this will be the last opportunity to see SAXON<\/strong> this year in UK and Ireland and to hear the band\u2019s classic Wheels of Steel<\/em> album played in full for the last time from start to finish.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Upcoming Shows:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOV 4 \u2013 Ulster Hall, Belfast (UK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOV 5 \u2013 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin (Ireland )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOV 7 \u2013 O2 Apollo, Manchester (UK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOV 8 \u2013 Octagon Centre, Sheffield (UK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOV 9 \u2013 O2 Glasgow Academy (UK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOV 11 \u2013 O2 City Hall, Newcastle (UK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOV 13 \u2013 Beacon, Bristol (UK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOV 14 \u2013 Civic Hall, Wolverhampton (UK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOV 15 \u2013 Hammersmith Apollo, London (UK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOV 16 \u2013 Great Hall, Cardiff (UK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOV 28 \u2013 Metal Hammer Paradise, L\u00fcbeck (Germany)

For more information and last tickets for all shows go to www.saxon747.com\/tourdates<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Follow SAXON <\/strong>on: <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.facebook.com\/SaxonOfficial\/<\/a> 
www.instagram.com\/saxon.official<\/a>
www.twitter.com\/SaxonOfficial<\/a> 
www.youtube.com\/PlanetSaxon<\/a> 
www.saxon747.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FRONTMAN BIFF BYFORD ANNOUNCES HIS BATTLE WITH CANCER AND UPCOMING TREATMENT IN A SPECIAL POST TO FANS In a special post on the band\u2019s social media channels, SAXON frontman and singer Biff Byford discusses battling cancer following his recent diagnosis after the band\u2019s Japanese Tour in late April and his upcoming ‘mopping-up’ chemotherapy treatment.  Biff also discusses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3491,1681,3490],"class_list":["post-26865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-biff-byford","tag-rpmnews1","tag-saxon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26868,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26865\/revisions\/26868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}