This may put a damper on things, but who knows for sure. Obama might have the US economy fixed by then.
No, and Mickey G would be unlikely to bet on that. But I think U2 could conceivably pull off a (smaller) U.S. stadium tour. No PopMart, but they could do something successfully.
I think this entire tour will be stadiums.
A tour is only as good as the album. Let's hope they can truly re-invent themselves again, Achtung Baby style.
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Confirmed tonight by Bono, Adam and Sam O'Healiry.
I don't find this to be true at all... I've seen many tours that were better than the album and vice versa, it all depends on the band.
But, I'll assume for a second you only mean U2 and they can even turn some of their weaker albums into a great tour...
Sam O'Healiry? Who the heck is that?
Are we to assume this means Sam O'Sullivan? Or Joe O' Herlihy?
But IS it really also as much fun if you are not that close to the stage?? Or has your experience always been close up front? I am just asking - never done a stadium show, and now that i live in Europe chances are I will have to if I want to see them here. I was never overly too thrilled thinking that i could be hundreds of meters away from the stage....
the tix? or the story?
Sorry to say that but... "shit happens" to those smaller US cities. Portugal is just a little european country, but it has some cities over 50000 habitants (besides Lisboa and Porto), and it's not because of that that U2 only plays one single show every tour here and always in Lisboa... when there are several big names that played in other cities (Rolling Stones, Alanis Morrisette, George Michael, Depeche Mode) here...U2 could do US stadiums in September/October. They did it during Joshua Tree and Zoo TV. Plus the US has lots of indoor stadiums they could play in the colder months (3rd leg of Popmart tour). Also, the US has a lot of "mini-stadiums" we'll call them, used for Soccer and minor league baseball. These hold between 20-30,000, and could be options as well.
If the show they are designing is intended for stadiums, it'd be a shame for them to have to do a scaled down (aka lame) version of it for the US arenas. However, a city like St. Louis could not sell out a stadium. But they could easily sell out Scottrade Center or whatever it's called now. Should they deny those 17,000 people a show just because they all couldn't get 3 people to come with them to sell out Busch Stadium? I'd hope not.
I think this entire tour will be stadiums.
U2 could do US stadiums in September/October. They did it during Joshua Tree and Zoo TV. Plus the US has lots of indoor stadiums they could play in the colder months (3rd leg of Popmart tour). Also, the US has a lot of "mini-stadiums" we'll call them, used for Soccer and minor league baseball. These hold between 20-30,000, and could be options as well.
If the show they are designing is intended for stadiums, it'd be a shame for them to have to do a scaled down (aka lame) version of it for the US arenas. However, a city like St. Louis could not sell out a stadium. But they could easily sell out Scottrade Center or whatever it's called now. Should they deny those 17,000 people a show just because they all couldn't get 3 people to come with them to sell out Busch Stadium? I'd hope not.
Do you guys think it's possible for U2 to tour in Stadiums:
end June/ July/ part Aug Europe
end Aug/ Sept/ early Oct North America
Nov/ Dec Australasia
end Jan/ Feb 2010 South America
Mar/ April/ May North America
June/ July Europe
.... This sounds like a possibility to me. Provided the album is at least 'good' and ticket sales are ok in USA.
From what I heard about the very preliminary planning of the tour several months ago, I do think that people in cities like St. Louis and secondary markets may be disappointed, the word was that they are not going to be traveling all over the place for single shows this time but base themselves in the big cities and do more shows in them. So under that scenario, they can do stadiums with no arenas. Things could have (and probably have some) changed in the months since I heard this, but I think people in those areas should brace themselves for the prospect of traveling to someplace like Chicago, Houston, Atlanta or Toronto if they're wanting to see them this tour...
If the show they are designing is intended for stadiums, it'd be a shame for them to have to do a scaled down (aka lame) version of it for the US arenas. However, a city like St. Louis could not sell out a stadium. But they could easily sell out Scottrade Center or whatever it's called now. Should they deny those 17,000 people a show just because they all couldn't get 3 people to come with them to sell out Busch Stadium? I'd hope not.
i saw them at the Stade De France on Vertigo. Poor seats 3/4 of the way back in a 80,000 capacity stadium.
it was an unbelievable experience, better than any other U2 show i have seen