Eyup Kinz,Manchester Apollo is a good venue,i saw Priest in 1981 there after seeing them the night before in my beloved city of Hull.That was the Point Of Entry tour and it rocked.I am lucky really having Manchester,Sheffield and Newcastle not far from where i live to get to see a good gig.We chose Newcastle for the last tour to see Priest as we planned a great pub crawl on route to the gig.
Going back to tt600  original question regarding a big tour in the UK,I reckon the production of Nostradamus will be massive and will only be played in large halls.It looks like it will be in 2009. I read somewhere that they would like to play the Royal Albert Hall in London which would be great.