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Sat Jul 8 London UK Twickenham Stadium
Wed Jul 12 Berlin DE Olympic Stadium
Sat Jul 15 Rome IT Olympic Stadium
Tue Jul 18 Barcelona ES Olympic Stadium
Sat Jul 22 Dublin IE Croke Park
Tue Jul 25 Paris FR Stade De France
Sat Jul 29 Amsterdam NL Amsterdam Arena
Tue Aug 1 Brussels BE Stade Roi-Baudoin
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Most likely leaving some gaps in case demand is high in Europe. Big album. It may expand. Plus they have a new LP coming out so who knows, they may do 2 tours this year.
Then again, it may be smart to not over do it.
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Most likely leaving some gaps in case demand is high in Europe. Big album. It may expand. Plus they have a new LP coming out so who knows, they may do 2 tours this year.
Then again, it may be smart to not over do it.
Smart, but no way it doesn't grow and I do think unless they want to be out all year they'll probably not tour twice this year. Here's the thing with U2: its a lose-lose. Either they just do this tour this year and people say "so now you're just an oldies act jumping on the nostalgia train" or they put out a new album and do a second tour this year to please nostalgics and fans that want new music and people say "look at U2, hammering us over the head all god damn year. Go away you spotlight hoggers."
Oh no, and didn't mean to imply that. I believe everyone in U2land has agreed the expected timeline of the year is this Joshua Tree tour, then a new album, then a tour for that new album. This tour till August, new album in September or October, tour starts either immediately or in November or December (or announced before the end of the year). I could easily see those two new things being postponed, because just knowing U2 and the public, they always like less from them, not more.Quote
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Most likely leaving some gaps in case demand is high in Europe. Big album. It may expand. Plus they have a new LP coming out so who knows, they may do 2 tours this year.
Then again, it may be smart to not over do it.
Smart, but no way it doesn't grow and I do think unless they want to be out all year they'll probably not tour twice this year. Here's the thing with U2: its a lose-lose. Either they just do this tour this year and people say "so now you're just an oldies act jumping on the nostalgia train" or they put out a new album and do a second tour this year to please nostalgics and fans that want new music and people say "look at U2, hammering us over the head all god damn year. Go away you spotlight hoggers."
No chance they release a new album before the JTT IMHO. Probably not before late 2017/ early 2018.
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Sat Jul 8 London UK Twickenham Stadium
Wed Jul 12 Berlin DE Olympic Stadium
Sat Jul 15 Rome IT Olympic Stadium
Tue Jul 18 Barcelona ES Olympic Stadium
Sat Jul 22 Dublin IE Croke Park
Tue Jul 25 Paris FR Stade De France
Sat Jul 29 Amsterdam NL Amsterdam Arena
Tue Aug 1 Brussels BE Stade Roi-Baudoin
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Berlin again? Only 1 1/2 years after four arena shows there this is pretty surprising. Don't think there will be two shows, maybe in London, Paris. And there will be more shows probably. An eight gigs tour makes no sense.
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Sat Jul 8 London UK Twickenham Stadium
Wed Jul 12 Berlin DE Olympic Stadium
Sat Jul 15 Rome IT Olympic Stadium
Tue Jul 18 Barcelona ES Olympic Stadium
Sat Jul 22 Dublin IE Croke Park
Tue Jul 25 Paris FR Stade De France
Sat Jul 29 Amsterdam NL Amsterdam Arena
Tue Aug 1 Brussels BE Stade Roi-Baudoin
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Berlin again? Only 1 1/2 years after four arena shows there this is pretty surprising. Don't think there will be two shows, maybe in London, Paris. And there will be more shows probably. An eight gigs tour makes no sense.
They should play Erfurt. Damn.
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They had Red Hill Mining Town set up for the first single... yet they've never played it live.
A few bands have done the 'play the whole album' kind of tours in recent years. I think that's a great concept, because then you get to hear songs live that have never been played live before or you've never heard them play live before because of songs being added during tour legs and the tour had already come through your town (fortunately I was able to see the STEEL WHEELS tour when they had added a couple more songs). I saw The Cult do ELECTRIC in its entirety (sans the stupid cover song) a few years back and it was awesome!
It's really too bad the Stones didn't do STICKY FINGERS in its entirety for every show on that tour, whatever that one was, ZIP CODE or whatever.
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Iron Maiden, on the other hand, decided to play their NEW album in its entirety, and fans were less than pleased, as it was all new material and not many people had time to digest it. It ended up being an exhausting show with only five "greatest hit" songs tacked on at the end.
I think it really depends on the band, the album in question, and the fanbase. To be honest, I'm not sure if it would work with the Stones. They don't challenge their fans, and so they always expect the greatest hits jukebox every time out, whereas Springsteen constantly throws curveballs to his fans, who in turn crave and want that challenge.
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The dude is hard headed when it comes to understanding things fans would like to hear instead of going by some formula of what's popular that is ridiculous.
I don't get it. Why not give some other songs a chance?
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Prices for Barcelona:
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Prices for Barcelona:
I think all shows will be sold out immidietely.
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That was easy. Just won 2 tickets for the Rose Bowl show via KLOS.