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  1. Hey people, don't panic. The time will come...
  2. Originally posted by bonoschild:[..]
    LOL, post almost reads like a list of reasons why they shouldn't play down under. Don't get me wrong tho- I hope all the rumors are true!


    I just think it's a bit of reverse psychology with this poster Constant negativity surrounding the tour rumours.
  3. Originally posted by popmarter:[..]
    Some good points made here I don't get why they toured the US in 2018 after touring extensively there the previous year and in 2015 surely they knew that the Americans have over dosed on them and it showed as they struggled to fill venues in certain areas, obviously the powers that be look at the US market as a sure filled money maker,
    since the retirement of McGuinness they have been badly advised and managed he even admitted recently he would never of allowed them do the Apple gate fiasco and would have offered members a code to download the album instead of forcing it on people.
    Huh, I hadn't heard that - that's interesting.

    But yeah, agreed, it's super odd that U2 decided to tour the same cities three tours in a row, so close together. Especially given that the third of those tours was the same as the first in so many ways...........YEAH I SAID IT.
  4. Originally posted by DanialGowans:if nothing is announced next week i am completely over this BS fanciful 'rumor'!

    It's bad enough as Aussies we have had to sit back and watch them troop thru 3 x Nth Americain tours since they last ventured to our shores with 360!

    The band don't realise how close they are to extinction among Aussies & NZs and with the end so near it would be a travesty for them to drop of the musical landscape all for the perusal of fatter wallets with numerous Northern Hemisphere tours.

    Australia used to be a fantastic solid base for the band ( per capita i would have thought right up there with the best in the world ) their music was played on all of the radio stations here from 'easy listening' right thru to "alternate' stations such as JJJ (who in the 90s loved them) and everything in between TripleM, 2Day, NOVA , 96.1 and so on!

    Triple M played more U2 than any other station and where unabashed card carrying paid up members, however these days u would hardly hear u2 on the station or for that fact any station bar the odd spin of "The Sweetest Thing" on the Easy Listening Stations!

    If this tour falls thru i for one will be handing in my 'unabashed card carrying membership' back. I will quietly delete all their music from my devices and find inspo elsewhere (as have in recent times with Dave Gilmour and his last couple of tours).

    Touring and the visual element of seeing a band like u2 is what inspires and make us as fans 'dream out loud' and continue to burn the embers inside to enable us to hang in there for that next album, or to defend the band when ur mates start to rip in to you for stupid mistakes like the 'free apple album' (which unfortunately happened to be their worst album) and old favs like 'Bonos tax evasion' and his Narcissistic ways!
    As a fan of theirs for well over 30 years and 15 odd concerts spanning 6 tours it pains me to say all this. With each passing month and each tick of the clock, and no tour announcement their musical legacy is slipping further and further down the rabbit hole into oblivion.

    This is the grave reality they face should they once again snub us, the band have be warned!!!


    Chin up Danial, you can always spend your money on cricket instead....
  5. Speculation is pointless before any announcements.
  6. Don't let the b******s grind you down Danial.
    Until we get to late April without an announcement I'm remaining absolutely convinced that this tour will definitely probably go ahead...maybe. Seriously mate, hold on a bit longer.
  7. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
    Huh, I hadn't heard that - that's interesting.

    But yeah, agreed, it's super odd that U2 decided to tour the same cities three tours in a row, so close together. Especially given that the third of those tours was the same as the first in so many ways...........YEAH I SAID IT.
    Hey, in fairness, quite a few of the 2018 locations in North America weren’t played in 2015, and several didn’t have any shows close by (Tulsa, Nashville, Atlanta...)

    Still doesn’t make up for the long absence from non-Euramerican (Oldredcontinental? I digress majorly...) markets. I suppose I can see not taking every tour to Oceania or Latin America, but 9 years is too long. Chin up, Australia - they’ll be coming sometime soon. This year or next, surely. The band made mention in 2018 that they know it’s been too long.
  8. After the 360 tour there was a very clear intent to scale down touring I can understand after so long crossing the globe multiple times that they'd want to spend less time on the road ,I get the impression that either Larry or Adam may have said for them to remain in the band that the tour schedules would need to be dramatically reduced ,Bono did hint at that in an interview with Q magazine last year that “It’s never been a given between the four of us that this would go on forever,”
    “U2 is a fast car. It’s not meant to be cruising.
    “It’s perfectly sensible for people to say ‘Y’know what? I can’t give it anymore. I can’t stay at this level. I need some time with my kids or my friends.’
    “I could not hold that against anyone or myself.”
  9. Originally posted by Sydney_MIke:Don't let the b******s grind you down Danial.
    Until we get to late April without an announcement I'm remaining absolutely convinced that this tour will definitely probably go ahead...maybe. Seriously mate, hold on a bit longer.
    Hold on tightly, this love lasts forever.
  10. Don't worry folks you've only got five days to wait before this and any other forum, twitter or facebook is flooded with fake dates for April fools day.
  11. Originally posted by DanialGowans:[..]
    i am warning them as a 'fan' , you know that word 'fan'?

    A 'fan' like millions of other 'fans' who have paid for their amazing lifestyles and provided them with wealth and riches that individually they couldn't spend in a lifetime.

    Fans though are also fickle bunch. Fans turn easily into critics, critics who then start to question things like history and legacy. Its these Fans turned Critics i speak of who are the ones who are warning them , and that 'fandom' is growing!

    When U2 are long retired who is left to hold the fort? To speak for and against. To attack or defend. To listen to and watch. To argue for or against.

    When this moment in time arrives post U2 you need all the 'fans' you can get,
    not those the ones who turned critic!

    I am that 'fan' and i suspect there are many more who they need on their side , not against them!

    I think it was Bono who said once "your only as good as ur last record"! Prophetic!!!
    I am very sure everyone in the U2 camp really appreciate your comment/warning/rant.
  12. no more rumours so far...
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