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Joshua Tree Tour 2019
 Legs (1): New Zealand, Australia and Asia
Shows: 15
  2. Hoping someone can help here. I was due to fly to NZ for night 2, but I wasn't able to fly. I'm absolutely heartbroken but I now have a U2 ticket I can't use and the Ticketmaster resale site for NZ only allows NZ residents to sell. It's a GA ticket so only available when logged in to my account. Does anyone with more local knowledge know if there's any way of selling it?
  3. Originally posted by cookoman:Remy thought this would be best posted here so hopefully those attending all shows can see it.

    There seems to be some issues already unfolding ahead of show 1 in NZ. In NZ and Australia if we want the front row we show up early on concert day. We will not honour any fan made system of checking in days ahead of the concert.

    We go to work, go to school and have waited 9 years to see U2 in our country.

    Your system may work in the US, UK and Europe but please be prepared to form an orderly queue early on concert day in Australia and New Zealand.
    Good on you. I've been stirring up a few of the Americans on FB. Last one was looking for locals to help run a check-in line for Sydney (sounds like that Tziporah Rachel woman, who's posting a lot on the FB groups, is keen to assist with the lines). This is what I wrote in response to the original request,

    are you actually planning on staying in line for most of that time? Or expecting to check-in once every day or two? Don't think the US check-in system was used here in 2010. You joined the line & waited. If you're going to do that, & are happy to wait it out in line for 2-3 days in advance good luck to you.

    Don't think he was too impressed, & (probably correctly) said camping won't be allowed.

    Herein lies the problem. If security says there's no camping & they'll hand out wristbands at 8am, how do you organise who gets those wristbands? There could be 100's of people by 8am. If they say no arrivals before 8 you could have 100 people arriving right on 8. A solution could be a lottery, but that's not going to happen.

    If camping's allowed, great! First in, best dressed, earn your spot the fairest way to organise things. As people won't camp out for days on end, show after show, we wouldn't see the same crazy people at the front show after show. They'll need to get a decent night sleep in a proper bed, spend some time seeing the sights of this great country.

    I'm happy to camp out for the occasional show, and hope that's what occurs. But if there's no camping, no lottery (obviously), & no fair way to organise people when security arrives to set up, then I will probably end up joining the check-in system, as "if you can't beat them join them".
  4. Originally posted by ddarroch:[..]
    Good on you. I've been stirring up a few of the Americans on FB. Last one was looking for locals to help run a check-in line for Sydney (sounds like that Tziporah Rachel woman, who's posting a lot on the FB groups, is keen to assist with the lines). This is what I wrote in response to the original request,

    [..]

    Don't think he was too impressed, & (probably correctly) said camping won't be allowed.

    Herein lies the problem. If security says there's no camping & they'll hand out wristbands at 8am, how do you organise who gets those wristbands? There could be 100's of people by 8am. If they say no arrivals before 8 you could have 100 people arriving right on 8. A solution could be a lottery, but that's not going to happen.

    If camping's allowed, great! First in, best dressed, earn your spot the fairest way to organise things. As people won't camp out for days on end, show after show, we wouldn't see the same crazy people at the front show after show. They'll need to get a decent night sleep in a proper bed, spend some time seeing the sights of this great country.

    I'm happy to camp out for the occasional show, and hope that's what occurs. But if there's no camping, no lottery (obviously), & no fair way to organise people when security arrives to set up, then I will probably end up joining the check-in system, as "if you can't beat them join them".
    100 people might arrive at roughly the same time but whether it’s minutes or seconds there will be a slight difference and whoever is standing at the front first is first. It’s that simple. Or at least that’s how the fair proper queuing system would work.
  5. Originally posted by cookoman:Remy thought this would be best posted here so hopefully those attending all shows can see it.

    There seems to be some issues already unfolding ahead of show 1 in NZ. In NZ and Australia if we want the front row we show up early on concert day. We will not honour any fan made system of checking in days ahead of the concert.

    We go to work, go to school and have waited 9 years to see U2 in our country.

    Your system may work in the US, UK and Europe but please be prepared to form an orderly queue early on concert day in Australia and New Zealand.


    We don't have work or any schools.
  6. Oh well. Just go and see how you do.
  7. I experienced the wristband system for the first time at Twickenham 1 2017 - we arrived at about 10:00/10:30, and our numbers were in the mid-800s if I remember correctly. The first 1000 fans got wristbands and had their own queueing section, and everyone else just queued in the normal queue around the stadium - it worked like an absolute dream, so it shouldn't matter if you have 100 people turning up at 8am, as they will all get wristbands and at a concert where you're expecting 50,000+ people, 100 at once shouldn't be a big deal, surely? Maybe I'm just sheltered cos my one experience went really well, but there weren't any problems with this in 2017 as far as I remember.... the first 1000 that got a wristband barely covered the floor either, we were in the 2nd row at the B stage with numbers in the mid-800s so I don't think this should really be a big deal.... the one benefit was being in with the really hardcore fans in our own section and being able to go get food and come back w our spot saved
  8. A little bit.

    I felt as if the stage had been reduced.

    Is it an optical illusion?
  9. I don’t think it looks smaller but perhaps the width of the stadium at the end of the stage is making it appear that way to you. It does look like quite a wide open bit where the stage is at.
  10. •Sunday Bloody Sunday
    •New Year’s Day
    •Bad
    •Pride (In the Name of Love)
    •Where the Streets Have No Name
    •I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
    •With or Without You
    •Bullet the Blue Sky
    •Running to Stand Still
    •Red Hill Mining Town
    •In God’s Country
    •Trip Through Your Wires
    •One Tree Hill
    •Exit
    •Mothers of the Disappeared
    •Angel of Harlem
    •Elevation
    •Vertigo
    •Even Better Than The Real Thing
    •Every Breaking Wave
    •Beautiful Day
    •Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
    •Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way

    and "One" ?

    Full Rehearsal setlist

    I am generally satisfied

    But

    "Even Better Than The Real Thing"
    => "You're The Best Thing About Me"

    I hope to replace it.


    And the absence of "one" song in a divided country means that...

    Does it really make sense?


    "KFC Without Chicken"

    Or

    The absence of Messi on the Argentine national team,

    It means the same thing.
  11. Real Thing to Every Breaking Wave.. they should ditch EBW and keep up the tempo!!
  12. And honestly I wouldn't mind One taking a break
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