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Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember reading Bono or Adam say like mid-360 that the next tour would be way smaller and they would be playing fan-favourite songs and other songs that aren't normally and haven't been played at all.

Bono: "We don't know what we want to do next," he says. "It feels a bit like 1990, where we have to dig a very deep well. I'm very proud of our last album. It was very rich. I want to go airborne on the next one. But we have to have very good reasons to put out a new U2 album. There are 150 million of them out there. Why would anyone want another one? I don't know if it will be a year or five years."

Don't expect an encore, Edge says: "We can't do anything bigger than 360. You can't top it for sheer size and audacity."

Bono predicts the band will head indoors next time. "I wouldn't be surprised if we go out with one light bulb."

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RattleandHum1988

12 years

I remember that coming out around the same time, but I swear I remember reading an interview where one of them was commenting on songs like Scarlet and One Tree Hill saying that the next tour would be songs that they seldom play and even some that they've never played. I remember us all wondering what songs they'd try, and of course Acrobat came up.

Wish I could find it

iTim

12 years

Ah, I don't know then. I only remember that quote above because I posted it a few months ago.

LikeASong

12 years

Yes, the "smaller tour, lesser known songs" is old news by now.

Let's hope it becomes true.

ahn1991

12 years

Smaller as in arena shows as opposed to stadiums, correct? I also recall them toying with the idea of being on the road for longer stretches while releasing mini EPs every so often.

LikeASong

12 years

Originally posted by ahn1991:Smaller as in arena shows as opposed to stadiums, correct? I also recall them toying with the idea of being on the road for longer stretches while releasing mini EPs every so often.

Yes, 15k arenas instead or +60k stadiums. I'd love to see U2 in an arena, I have seen them thrice and really up close but in stadiums, never in an indoor venue. It has to be an amazing experience too

clover68

12 years

this and a killer instinct is what it's needed and everything could happen .. stadiums or arenas

RattleandHum1988

12 years

I'd say any ideas of them being on the road for longer while releasing EPs along the way is way too unlikely with U2. They probably want the opposite, the least amount of material and a smaller tour, but with moderate success, something like All That You Can't Leave Behind. They're getting on in their years, and even Adam said sometime during the last tour (probably around the time Bono messed up his back) that now that they're getting older these huge world tours are starting to become a health issue just as much as a time issue, meaning that they're not young and spry anymore.

No, I'd be willing to bet we see one or two more tours both of them being moderately small in terms of dates and venues, and just the scale. They probably never want to have to have 2-3 different stages to set up while the others are being taken down again, and on top of that they got rained on so many times during the last tour they probably feel like staying dry for this one