This has been grumbled about a bit since the news last week regarding the album delay, but let's really chew into it. Bono says 2009 is "our year." Whatever. But one thing is for sure, they aren't following standard op procedure for the last few drops, leaving the field wild open to anticipate their moves. Here is what we've seen on last few drops:
Fall album drop
Spring North America arena tour (guessing because only NorthAm has enough good sized indoor arenas to support a tour while the weather is unreliable?)
Summer Europe (weather reasons and to be commuting distance to Ez)
Fall North America arena tour (see above speculation)
Spring and late summer of following year some combo of Latin America, Asia, Down Under
So....if album drops in either Feb or March, will they keep specualtive plans to start the tour in NorthAm at end of March and go on tour so soon? Will they start the 1st leg of the tour in the summer in Europe and spend fall and next spring in North Am arenas before doing early summer in LatinAm/Asia etc? Someone already guessed NorthAm stadiums early summer, Europe stadiums late summer, NorthAm arenas in fall, etc.
Let the games begin....
Fall album drop
Spring North America arena tour (guessing because only NorthAm has enough good sized indoor arenas to support a tour while the weather is unreliable?)
Summer Europe (weather reasons and to be commuting distance to Ez)
Fall North America arena tour (see above speculation)
Spring and late summer of following year some combo of Latin America, Asia, Down Under
So....if album drops in either Feb or March, will they keep specualtive plans to start the tour in NorthAm at end of March and go on tour so soon? Will they start the 1st leg of the tour in the summer in Europe and spend fall and next spring in North Am arenas before doing early summer in LatinAm/Asia etc? Someone already guessed NorthAm stadiums early summer, Europe stadiums late summer, NorthAm arenas in fall, etc.
Let the games begin....