ascender_RS
Refugee
I actually think it's more perception. U2 is an arena/stadium band. If they want to do a cool one off theater show like the Apollo gig, that awesome because it's totally exclusive and gets attention. But I really don't think they want to do a tour of theaters. Can you imagine the coverage from Pitchfork and Stereogum?
U2 goes from biggest tour of all time to touring 2000 seat theaters!! LOL!!!
All the geniuses on Twitter that had to go on anti-depressants after getting a free album would also be buzzing.
IMO, if they were to do anything for ZooTV 30 (which i firmly believe they should NOT)
they should do multiple nights in arenas in big markets and leave it at that. Get back to the studio.
I think we're all agreed it'll never happen, but they could easily do it if they wanted-to and it wouldn't be seen as "U2 can't sell out stadiums anymore" because they could just easily say "we wanted to get out and play some live music, play this album in full & celebrate it while we work on other stuff". I guarantee you they'd get great reviews - U2 show they can still do it even without massive video screens etc.
JT tour was a unique set of circumstances. Given their age and how long they take to do anything, I really hope there's nothing similar in the future as its just keeping them out of the studio. If we're not getting a new album for a couple of years, then things like recording these acoustic arrangements and releasing them sound like a great thing to do as again, I think we all know they won't just record music and release it as they go.