What's the theme of this tour?

[HansaTonImbiss]

I believe Bono had said “It’s something to do with kissing the future and fucking the past…”

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They're just quoting his fantastic one liner from the Sarajevo concert...legendary.

 

[bizkitgto]

Does anyone know officially if the band has said what the theme will be? So far it's just us fans speculating.

 

[BVS]

When has the band ever officially said what the theme is?

 

[bizkitgto]

When has the band ever officially said what the theme is?

I know for POPmart they were shooting for a spectacle, saying it had somethig to do with the excesses of rock stars and POP-Art of the 90's (Andy Warhol was involved I think)....I heard somewhere one of the band member's was talking about 360 being a new experiment/spectacle...something like that, but I forgot where I heard it.

 

[BVS]

I know for POPmart they were shooting for a spectacle, saying it had somethig to do with the excesses of rock stars and POP-Art of the 90's (Andy Warhol was involved I think)....I heard somewhere one of the band member's was talking about 360 being a new experiment/spectacle...something like that, but I forgot where I heard it.

Warhol died in 87.

Warhol was big in the pop art movement so I'm sure he inspired them, but he wasn't involved. Not even the best drugs could make that happen.

Yes, the band will hint at themes during interviews usually after the tour has started, but it's not like there's ever been an official released theme.

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

The tour theme is in a way not different to the years before:

YouTube - Pet Shop Boys "Opportunities" (2nd version)

 

[propagandau2boy]

The tour theme is in a way not different to the years before:

clever!

 

[adypole]

well, 360 degree of course.

zooTV had media
Popmart had pop culture
360 will have circles. haha. or at least, a theme of endlessness (no start or end to a circle, no physical border on the horizon, a metaphor for an unseeable future.)

 

[nirniva]

What will the new tour focus around? Obama? Resolving Gaza or the Iraq war?

ObaMART?

(Obviously, they'd have to play "The Fly," as a tribute to his flyswatting skills. )

EDIT: If they went with the second idea, I'd expect a lot of songs from their third album.