marik
Refugee
Anyone have any insight into U2's venue choice in Dublin?
Lets start with UF tour. U2 were playing stadiums. One in Croke Park. Joshua Tree resulted in 2 night at Croke Park.
Then the decision was made to do 4 nights at Point Depot for LoveTown. I would assume that the nature of the Christmas/new years shows in their hometown led them to want to play more intimate shows, so they moved down to arena level but had to play 4 nights to compinsate.
ZooTv (weirdly enough NO Dublin shows were scheduled for the inital Europe run in arenas), but they ended the Zooropa leg with 2 nights in RDS arena. After having just played Stadium shows at Wembley the very week before, I have always wondered why the scaled back arena shows for their hometown?
PopMart had 2 shows at Lansdowne Road. I am not familiar with this venue. IS it comparable to Croke? Any knowledge of why this spot was chosen?
Elevation featured 2 nights at Slane Castle. Was their any reason other than the novelty of "20 yrs ago..." that Slane was chosen over Croke?
Vertigo had 3 nights at Croker. I assumed the move back to Croke was cuz Slane was already booked (only 1 or 2 shows a year allowed at the Castle i believe)
was the break from Croke all those years due to reno's or issues with the venue? I'd be interested in any insight into these venue choices over the years
Lets start with UF tour. U2 were playing stadiums. One in Croke Park. Joshua Tree resulted in 2 night at Croke Park.
Then the decision was made to do 4 nights at Point Depot for LoveTown. I would assume that the nature of the Christmas/new years shows in their hometown led them to want to play more intimate shows, so they moved down to arena level but had to play 4 nights to compinsate.
ZooTv (weirdly enough NO Dublin shows were scheduled for the inital Europe run in arenas), but they ended the Zooropa leg with 2 nights in RDS arena. After having just played Stadium shows at Wembley the very week before, I have always wondered why the scaled back arena shows for their hometown?
PopMart had 2 shows at Lansdowne Road. I am not familiar with this venue. IS it comparable to Croke? Any knowledge of why this spot was chosen?
Elevation featured 2 nights at Slane Castle. Was their any reason other than the novelty of "20 yrs ago..." that Slane was chosen over Croke?
Vertigo had 3 nights at Croker. I assumed the move back to Croke was cuz Slane was already booked (only 1 or 2 shows a year allowed at the Castle i believe)
was the break from Croke all those years due to reno's or issues with the venue? I'd be interested in any insight into these venue choices over the years