U2 Joshua Tree Tour 2017 / 2019 **No Ticket Sales**

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Ticket sales for the Australian and New Zealand gigs are pretty terrible.
The second night in Auckland will be a ghost town ,they've sold less than 30% of the seats .
In Adelaide they have moved the stage up the pitch to shorten the standing area and closed sections of seats .
The initial ticket prices were outrageous ,they have slashed prices in alot of venues to shift seats ,some seats that were 362 AUD are now 66 AUD.
The band obviously havent learnt their lesson from the previous US leg of the tour .

The locals are not happy with the self appointed lunatics giving out line numbers ,they started their bull**** queue on Sunday ,5 days before the concerts.

Saw the Adelaide stage move:
https://mobile.twitter.com/U2start/status/1191463798839791616?s=19

On the other hand, 5 of the 15 gigs on the tour, are all sold out, so its not all bad news. Auckland night 2 seems to be the worst sales.

When bands play “large scale“ over that side of the world, its not that relevant that gigs sell out, but they pay the overheads. Many of the Stadiums are quite large capacities as they are cricket grounds. The distances between gigs are also logistically challenging, which places restrictions that don’t happen in Europe or the U.S.
Sydney to Perth for example is 4,000 kms distance, a little shorter than New York to San Francisco.

fafy wrote: »

Saw the Adelaide stage move:
https://mobile.twitter.com/U2start/status/1191463798839791616?s=19

Smaller show, better gig.

EverythingGood wrote: »

Just signed into U2.com to renew my sub, which is due to end 31 Jan, to notice that they have extended it to 29 Feb - anyone else get a "free" month? If I wait to renew for a new month, I presume my membership will remain at its current status

They were due to make an announcement about the new subscriber gift this week so it looks like they have extended memberships to allow more time for it.

kennyu272 wrote: »

The new subscriber gift is the DVD of the final E&I show in Berlin.

https://www.u2.com/news/title/experience--innocence--live-in-berlin

Nice. Shame it’s not hd but still... nice
Happier I renewed now.

A little revisit to July 2017 from Croker.

Hopefully people will enjoy the audio upgrade.

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Its being released in 4k and 5.1 surround sound later this month ,for U2 subscribers
https://www.u2.com/news/title/streaming-for-subscribers

Hadn't seen this, cheers. I splashed out on the sub for this DVD anyway. The tour left a massive impression on me, and in the end it was only 30 odd euro anyway.

PTH2009 wrote: »

A tour celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Achtung Baby in 2021 similar to the JT revisited tour

Is it realistic or could you say the E&I tour was kind of it with some of the material that was played

Can't see it . Even if they were thinking of it I'd say covid has put a stop to it especially the way the US is. These yours take a lot of advance planning I'd imagine

They have overtoured, and need a long, long break.

Adam interviewed in Rolling Stone the other day, saying a Zoo TV Tour remained a possibility, but i can ‘t see them playing live again until 2022.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/adam-clayton-quarantine-life-u2s-siriusxm-channel-future-plans-1022148/

fafy wrote: »

They have overtoured, and need a long, long break.

Adam interviewed in Rolling Stone the other day, saying a Zoo TV Tour remained a possibility, but i can ‘t see them playing live again until 2022.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/adam-clayton-quarantine-life-u2s-siriusxm-channel-future-plans-1022148/

They havent over toured Europe ,quite the opposite I'd say.
They have completely over toured the US though .

The 12 year contract with LiveNation expired in April so the band arent under any pressure to tour .
That contract was the reason for the Joshua Tree tour ,Livenation demanded the band do another tour to fill their coffers.

With Covid-19 about ,alot of the big acts will take a break until 2022.
I'd like to see the band move away from Livenation and get rid of that snake oil salesman Guy Oseary that they have as manager.
Money talks though .

Incidentally Zooropa was released this day 27 years ago .

daithi7 wrote: »

One of the weakest U2 albums imho.... some serious gash on it!!

One of my favourites! One or two weaker tunes alright but some bangers on there. Pop aside, its better than anything they've released since.

I'd very much welcome a new, scaled down version of U2, now that they are free from live nation's money vomiting contract.

I was surprised by the energy of them and the buzz from the e+I shows however. The I+e and jt30 shows left me somewhat cold. Great in the moment, but not seismic the way a U2 show was prior to the 360 tour.

No more greatest hits tours though please. I'd rather them wait and try and see if they've anything left creatively, and build the tour around that.

I had a feeling after the live BBC show in the songs of experience promotion tour that it'd be epic to see them tour with an orchestra. It would embrace the idea of growing old gracefully. Twined with the best of their acoustic work. But like I said, the energy of e+I surprised me. Just a lot of the content seemed tired.

RolandGoose wrote: »

I'd welcome an Achtung Baby anniversary tour with open arms!

Zoo TV would be hard to beat ,I still rate it as their most impressive tour visually .
The outside leg was groundbreaking for the time ,introducing the B stage to the industry among other things.
The topics the tour introduced are more relevant that ever today .

Edge said this last week

At some point, I’d love to do something again with the Zoo TV idea. It’s weird how it’s come around. It was very prescient. We had no ideas at the time that the world was going to become…that was all about cable news and that overload. Now look where we are. It’s like times a thousand. It’s like Moore’s Law as applied to data. But not the quality, unfortunately, that’s the thing that is really shocking. There’s really little quality information out there. So much of it is corrupted.