Most impressive tour lighting and stage set up?

[Zoots]

Strictly speaking about stage set up and lighting and NOT songs or performances, which tour is everyone's favorite?

Vertigo/Elevation/Popmart/ZooTV/Lovetown/RedRocks/Other?

The only one I've been to is Vertigo so I have no other first hand experience to compare with.

Of course from what I've seen of Popmart and ZooTV on video, they were really impressive!

But technology wise, Vertigo's light curtains, intricate setup and the circling ellipse lights looked too cool...

Your thoughts?

 

[Zoots]

More pics for comparisons...

 

[MrBrau1]

All that, and tunes to match.

 

[LyricalDrug]

A very hard choice, but I've got to go with PopMart.

 

[Canadiens1131]

Technically, Popmart. When everything was working of course (eyes the broken bits of the big screen and the Lemon door)....

 

[Carek1230]

Hands down to Vertigo. That's my vote. All the tours are different but Vertigo is my personal favorite for a lot of reasons.

 

[Queen Bee]

Popmart

 

[Aygo]

I think there's got to make difference between Vertigo in arenas and Vertigo in the european stadiums. There's lot of differences.
The Vertigo in NA was more intimate but the european shows were more impressive and the feeling of stadium was there. The European stage was bigger and it had a big scenario like Popmart

But I go with Popmart... It was the most impressive

 

[Chizip]

holy crap this picture is awesome

the problem with the vertigo tour is when the curtains aren't being used, which is like 80% of the time, it looks exactly like the elevation tour. plus, i dont thinkt he curtains are thaaaat impressive looking.

so i'd go with popmart, then zootv

 

[Chizip]

ive never seen the spotlights used during popmart like that. it looks like the beginning of streets, that must have been fucking amazing.

 

[Chizip]

 

[Queen Bee]

Popmart shits all over Vertigo's production.

 

[Axver]

I think I'll go with Popmart.

 

[Miricale_Drug]

Popmart it shoed everything rock n roll

 

[ponkine]

Pop Mart

 

[blueyedpoet]

more pics

 

[U2girl]

Strictly lighting, Vertigo is my favorite. The ellipse, the stage and the arena balconys lit up, the lightbulb curtain...

Stage setup, probably Zoo TV.

 

[WildHoneyAlways]

I could actually see these lights from my house when they were at Soldier Field on the night I didn't go to the show.
I know they used them during Bullet but this does look like Streets.

 

[neutral]

Popmart

 

[angelordevil]

I have a fascination with Zoo-era shows. If I could transport myself back in time, that's the tour I'd want a ticket to. I love the media commentary theme of it all, and how it was such a break with U2's past, both musically and astectically.

I did have a ticket for Popmart in Toronto, but I was too wrapped up in university to go *beats self with large rock*

Of the two shows I have seen, Elevation and Vertigo, I'll give the nod to the latter. It just seems more gutsy and not aiming to please like Elevation.

 

[AtomicBono]

I have a fascination with Zoo-era shows. If I could transport myself back in time, that's the tour I'd want a ticket to. I love the media commentary theme of it all, and how it was such a break with U2's past, both musically and astectically.

agreed

I can't decide between Popmart and ZooTV. That big screen is so fucking stunning, but I love the rather chaotic setup of ZooTV.

So I guess those two first, Vertigo second. Vertigo looks fantastic and I am really not getting the Elevation comparisons. It's a lot more visually impressive than Elevation.

 

[Zoots]

ive never seen the spotlights used during popmart like that. it looks like the beginning of streets, that must have been fucking amazing.

Yeah, that pic caught me by surprise too! How fucking exhilirating would it have been with those huge lights beaming into the sky and the screen brimming red and the Streets riff just about to start?!!!

 

[LMP]

ohhh man, I was going to say ZooTV all the way but with all of these orgasmic PopMart pix

I don't know anymore

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

while one pay prefer vertigo... no one can honestly make a comparison between the impressiveness of the tour production between popmart and vertigo.

popmart blows all away... i dream that they do a tour like that again.

 

[Eliv8]

Outdoor Zoo
Indoor Zoo
Pop
Outdoor Vertigo
Indoor Vertigo
Elevation

 

[WalkOn21]

popmart blows all away... i dream that they do a tour like that again.

Let's go start writing them letters, asking them to do a Popmart-like tour!

 

[dudeman]

all these pictures are amazing guys! popmart is pretty impressive, but i think i'll have to go with zootv. it really rubs me the right way...

 

[namkcuR]

I refuse to choose between Popmart and ZooTV.

They were both so incredible that I have in the past said, and still say, I'd give my left nut to go back and see either one of them, to have that experience.

 

[vervex]

The only show I've seen was Vertigo and I loved a lot the setting When you are there and you see it with your eyes, you're like "wahhh!".

But when I look at the pics, I see that Popmart looked great too. Too bad I was too young to assist to that show

 

[pepokiss]

to hell with this... OCTOBER TOUR