Check out some of the comments to them playing at glastonbury on the guardian site, almost every comment is negative, can the band do anything right anymore?
- Band is upset about their Dublin shows in 2009: slow ticket sales, trouble with the protesting neighborhood at Croke Park, they were fined for being too loud, partly poor audience....
I don't believe the band is upset about their Dublin shows. I believe the opposite is true. I completely agree with your other comments
Hang on has Bono not said for quite a few years that he has always wanted to play the festival? but yes turn it round so its something to do with his ego instead.
There's still big gaps in the tour calendar. 6-15 Sept and 23-29 Sept - so hopefully some more dates. So we know not Eire or the UK.
Why do people think definite no Dutch shows?
Everybody says they want to play Glastonbury, I think they've flirted with the idea in the past but the timing here is key. Something aint quite right with 360 IMO, and I saw a lot of shows in the summer.
I am sorry but i really do not get what you mean by "something aint quite right with 360", the show has been getting amazing reviews by fans and media alike.
Playing Glastonbury is the last logical step in Bono's obsession with being "universal".
He wants to play to a new crowd. He's bored with the same faces. He's bored with us...
It will be very, very interesting to see how this plays out. The UK press could well slaughter this performance. Much of the Glastonbury audience will despise U2 being there, they have long been the whipping boys of the alternative/indie scene in the UK... While that indie/commercial divide isn't as strong as it once was, there's still a lot of Glastonbury goers that have been brought up to see U2 as everything that is wrong with music... They can't get away with it like other big headliners. McCartney was in the Beatles, Springsteen is cool, Radiohead have indie roots. U2 are none of those things.... And they aren't playing on their own stage.
Biggest risk to their reputation in a long long while IMO...
The reviews have been pretty much the same as they where for HTDAAB though? the shows have also been getting some great reviews, and IMHO Cardiff was the best U2 show i have been to,
guess we will just have to wait and see, but there already seems to be so much negativity about the band, despite the fact that many fans are rating NLOTH as one of their top 5 albums.
as for sales, its the second biggest selling album of the year,
McCartney sucks.
Cardiff was easily the best show I attended and I did most of the UK shows. It was exceptional IMO. I dunno, maybe I'm totally off the mark and the band think that the whole campaign has been a runaway success, but reviews aside, I'm just not sure they do right now...
Well **** you U2, you could at least have let us know you wouldn't be coming back to the UK when the other shows went on sale. Adding to the fact that Glastonbury has already sold out, how the hell are your British fans that can't afford hundreds of pounds for a holiday abroad going to see you next year?! I really feel badly let down by the band now.
The band is not returning to the UK because they have already exhausted demand there. Demand was less to see U2 this time than it was on the Vertigo tour which had its shows sellout in hours. There were still tickets available for 3 of the 5 UK 360 shows the day before the show.
So...tell me...what do they owe Canada, Spain, Germany and France, that they all get revisited?
I reserve the right, having loyally followed the band for longer than you been alive, to moan about this!
The London Vertigo shows soldout the day they went on sale, they could have sold more in London for Vertigo but had to move on. For 360, they soldout the first show, but the 2nd show they took a long time to fill. Plus, on 360, they played less shows outside London which naturally increases the demand for London.But how can you say they have exhausted demand? i mean there was more people who went to see them at wembley than there was at the london vertigo shows, more people at cardiff than vertigo, .
i am still pretty sure they could have done 2 shows at don valley but probably still wouldnt have matched city of manchester due to stadium size, the only one that really seemed slow was scotland IMO, i mean i remember being able to pull tickets up for the shows a week before on the vertigo tour, and that wasnt during the credit crunch
Ticket demand and number of shows explains everything. If the UK shows had soldout the day they went on sale, then the UK would be getting more shows this year.
Well, Canada is buying tickets at a rate that is faster and higher than the United Kingdom. Everything in France soldout within hours UNLIKE the United Kingdom. Germany and Spain only got two shows each last year, UNLIKE the United Kingdom which got 5.
Ticket demand and number of shows explains everything. If the UK shows had soldout the day they went on sale, then the UK would be getting more shows this year.
no it did not!!....I picked up tickets off ticketbastard, which were readily available on many other sites about a month before the show, after my mate was scammed on ebay, thinking it was the only way left to get tix!.
Plus the Vertigo show in Scotland soldout within hours.
Ticket demand and number of shows explains everything. If the UK shows had soldout the day they went on sale, then the UK would be getting more shows this year.
Eh...just to pull you up on something...dont forget...The UK = 4 seperate countries!
no it did not!!....I picked up tickets off ticketbastard, which were readily available on many other sites about a month before the show, after my mate was scammed on ebay, thinking it was the only way left to get tix!
Don't forget also that the UK dates this year were bang in the middle of the school summer holidays which wasn't the case with the Vertigo tour. They probably lost at least 10% of their audience as a result. I know loads of people with school age kids who had already booked their summer hols by the time the tour dates were announced and couldn't change their plans. They were banking on UK tour dates in 2010 but looks like that won't happen now.