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It doesn’t always give you tickets. Remember the Vertigo Tour fiasco much? That was just a waste of cash if there ever was one.

I mean, way to just make stuff up? Lorde literally said she refused to do arenas again and she sold out half an arena here BEFORE the album came out very quickly. Arcade Fire easily could fill up an arena. They do multiple nights here at the half-arena including selling out the first night at...

Way to misread my post. I meant opening the tour, as in the earliest dates of SOE. My number of 13 was wrong though as they played “only” 12 songs from those shite albums on opening night (and 11 thereafter). Because it’s a real bright idea to perform that many new songs from records the public...

There’s no “too big” for amphitheaters. Tons of acts like Lorde and Arcade Fire have purposely downgraded from arenas because they feel the experience doesn’t allow for connectivity with their fans. And as someone who goes to basically every venue in the Bay Area, I can definitely say that...

I think anyone arguing thar U2 SHOULD be opening a tour with 13 songs from SOI/SOE is a lost cause and up the band’s arse. So the sycophant tag should remain.

The difference is that SOI was the weakest received album of their career at that point. Any critics’ aggregate or user score aggregate around the web confirms that (and as far as critics are concerned, U2 has a MASSIVE edge with mainstream, legacy publications that give them 4 or 5 stars no...

Um, what? That was some pretty A-list shit. Kendrick and Eminem are bigger worldwide stars than U2 (certainly streamed more) and the former may very well be a bigger concert draw in the US at this exact moment. And that’s just those two. May not be what you’re into, but it was a cool way to...

Yep. Saps it of all its power. The longer the intro, the worse it is. “Get out your phones and text” for Vertigo was probably the worst.

Good lord…anyway, I’m about as easy going as it gets when it comes to live shows. As long as people aren’t talking through the music next to me or singing loudly in my ear at a quieter, folky show - I’m all good. Yet U2’s fanbase has somehow annoyed me so darn much! That says a lot!

Super Bowl purposely said they’re moving away from white legacy rock acts and have shifted to more younger appealing, urban stuff in recent years. U2 isn’t going to play the Super Bowl. A lot of it has to do with “going viral” and the kids aren’t going to Tweet “OMG Pride!”

AB was a mega popular, critically acclaimed album with an endless string of hits that people actually wanted to buy unlike what was lassoed to their phones. Pop has a ton of highs regardless of your overall opinion of the album. It’s kind of a weird generalization to just say someone isn’t...

They need to not soften demand by touring US or at least the west coast or whatever. New arena will have a lot of selling points and that alone could probably get them to fill the place up for five nights to locals alone and U2 could advertise it to their fans as “a spectacle you won’t see...

I’m just giving some of my honest experiences. It’s a fanbase with millions and there are a lot of bad apples, particularly among the hardcore lot. I’ve seen arena shows with similar contemporaries and never really experienced this sort of thing. Pearl Jam fans are pretty chill even if they’re...

Calling someone a casual for disliking some new material is…something. I loathed those plodding numbers when I first heard them and nothing changed that for me. Frankly, I just don’t care about the visuals. Joshua Tree with its gorgeous Anton Corbijn footage projected onto a massive Drive-In...

Setlist will certainly impact my decision, that’s for sure. Pointless to go in blind and have to sit through all that mediocrity. Kind of bizarre that No Line was full of bangers and the new songs got cut down to almost nothing by the end of the tour yet these guys insisted on playing so many...

Bono’s always hugging warmongers and Epstein connected billionaires, so I wouldn’t quite say he’s right about social issues. Capitalism sure as fuck ain’t the answer. Neither is the biggest war hawk in the Obama administration one to applaud on anything.

I+E was static sets with the aforementioned rotational segments allowing them to hit a lot of songs. But otherwise it was the same 19 songs you had sit through every night which was anything but ideal if going to multiple shows. I agree they’ll want to play the new record and it will be as...

Referring to the general stage setup. Not reliant on video screens or choreography like I&E, etc. Will point out that the setlists near the end of that tour were undoubtedly the most career encompassing, Greatest Hits-y ever and probably what both the casuals and diehards most want.

Exactly. Bono and Hillary are very similar ideologically and annoy the shit out of everyone.

Well, it was real embarrassing either way. :lol: There’s a much bigger picture to focus on and Trump is just an end result, not a cause. And U2 used to be aware of that.

They can just play the fucking songs and then have a light show behind them. It doesn’t need to be goddamn choreography. 360 was a good example of basically just songs being played with an added light/visual spectacle. Yes, they’ve been stubborn in the past but that’s in part BECAUSE so much...

I respectfully watch shows without talking or filming during any of the acts, including openers and I’m affable and make a lot of friends who I then go to more shows with and hang out with. So yeah, I’d say I’m fun and neoliberals and/or yuppies suck shit. At U2 shows I’ve witnessed line Nazis...

I don’t think Achtung Baby heavy is an issue. When it’s basically represented by the awful live song that is One and a moldy new reinterpretation of Acrobat, you’re going to have issues. I think they finally put together a decent set near the end of that tour with all those 90s cuts, nothing...

We can basically all agree that Bad and Streets are Thing 1 and Thing 2. I’ll go out on a limb and throw out Beautiful Day (gets the casuals screaming) but, moreso, City of Blinding Lights. COBL gets an insane reaction night in and night out and never really gets old. If you had to go to a U2...