marietta
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Axver said:
That's what baffles me too! An arena tour would be viable, would actually sell out in Brisbane, and could visit other places such as Newcastle, Adelaide, and even the bloody Gold Coast (which would be dumb, but I'm saying it could). And it would be far less expensive to take it across the Tasman and play to what is arguably U2's most devoted audience in terms of concert attendance.
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timothius said:
The only problem with taking Arenas to NZ is that you have no venues. North Shore Events Centre? Please, it holds about 5,000.
If they took stadiums to NZ however, you could quite concievably sell out Auckland twice, Wellington, Christchurch - Duniden (if during Uni) and Hamilton. NZ get carried away with things, I look at the Auckland Warriors phenomenen in 1995 - that was apeshit insane, the Americas Cup, Lovetown. We tend to love & embrace it when the outside world acknowledges our existance, wheras other countries in the Pacific Rim expect it and are slightly lax towards it all.
Axver said:
Perth isn't exactly the most fantastic place to go for venues. February's cricket season and there goes your stadium. Beli may be able to offer more perspective on why they made the venue choice on Popmart they did. Perth's so out of the way that I honestly don't see why they went there to play what was pretty much assurred to be the smallest, least attended concert on the tour.
Sken said:The reason for the hold up is simple. Promoters are not happy with the setlist and are waiting for them to get it right before allowing them access to our country.
namkcuR said:Australia deserves some shows. Surely fans elsewhere in the world can wait six months longer for new material so that the good U2 fans down under can have the experience of seeing the band live, right?
namkcuR said:Australia deserves some shows. Surely fans elsewhere in the world can wait six months longer for new material so that the good U2 fans down under can have the experience of seeing the band live, right?