General discussion about this tour here.
There's no way they'll play four songs from SOI, given that they'll probably play six from SOE. That's almost half the show on songs a good number of people in the audience will not even want to hear.
I would be stunned if they played more than one SOI song. I do agree that they'll probably play more 90's songs (vs. 80's) this time around.
I'm not complaining about the US getting more shows, but it seems like they are really saturating certain areas, and a lot of other places haven't gotten a show since 360 or before. I'm kind of surprised there's nothing in Edmonton and Winnipeg, representing a giant chunk of Canada that hasn't had a show since 2011. Both cities could easily sell out 2 arenas shows. Tulsa, St. Louis and Nashville show us that they're not above doing single nights in smaller markets, so why leave out places like Salt Lake City, Portland, Omaha, Milwaukee, etc. Meanwhile NYC will get 6 shows on this tour. They'll definitely sell them all out, but the mentality seems to be "why play a show in Portland when we'd make more money just adding another date in NYC?". Just an observation, this tour schedule seems to be a little lean and retreading the same ground they did in 2015 and 2017. With the likely addition of 2nd shows, it seems this leg will be 28-29 shows, depending on how many they add in LA.
Any of you guys have any educated guesses on which cities might get more shows?
Any of you guys have any educated guesses on which cities might get more shows?
Any of you guys have any educated guesses on which cities might get more shows?
All cities will get extra shows except Tulsa, St. Louis and Nashville. The answer is in the gaps between dates. Not sure what the demand is like in Vegas, but I would imagine the INTENTION is to have 2 shows.
Also, someone was spreading rumours this morning on a FB group I co-moderate about them announcing an Autumnal Euro run? .
So no second leg for N.A. and EU ?Just 1 leg each,just like the I&E tour?
But I am surprised they're running through so much flyover country again when we thought JT30 was getting that out of the way so they could just focus on the main markets.
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The million dollar question: buy tickets for the listed weeknight LA show or wait until a second show (or third?) gets added and hope it's on a weekend.
U2 listed these countries in their announcement-
UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Italy and Holland.
That tells me that only these countries will be getting shows in 2018. Lots of countries left out that didn't get shows in 2015 or 2017, or before. Switzerland. Austria. Finland. Norway. Poland. Czech Republic. Russia. Greece. Yugoslavia area. Hungary. Latvia (Riga
I assume by 'flyover' country you mean Tulsa, St Louis and Nashville?
My reasoning for it has to do with 'debts' if you will. St Louis had that unfortunate last minute cancellation in September (I was there. Sadly), so that was a priority. Tulsa is only 300 miles from Missouri, so I'm sure that had to with that one.
Same with ATL. Hasn't had a show since 360, and Nashville is 250 miles away.
For example your so called ''yugoslav area'' could be covered with this arena
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_Zagreb
it can hold up to 24k people (more than alpitur in torino)