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  1. http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/7581001/u2-turn-360-degrees-towards-perth/

    Achtung, Perth – Irish supergroup U2 is coming to town.

    Bono and the boys are expected to announce their Australasian tour, including their first Perth shows since 1998, next month when their spectacular 360 Degrees tour resumes in Europe.

    While the team behind the blockbuster tour, international touring company Live Nation and Australian promoter Michael Coppel, would not comment yesterday, The West Australian understands U2 is pencilled in to play at Subiaco Oval in mid-to-late December.

    The 360 Degrees tour, which features the rockers playing “in the round” under a 50m tall four-legged stage rig known as "The Claw", was the highest grossing tour in the world last year with 44 gigs raking in more than $350 million.

    With the Australasian dates and another North American leg set for next year, 360 Degrees is tipped to become the highest grossing tour in music history by the time The Edge finally packs away his guitar.

    U2 was forced to pull out of English festival Glastonbury and postpone North American dates last month after Bono injured his back, but the band are expected to hit the road again in Europe from August 6.

    The second European leg of the 360 Degrees tour, launched last year in support of U2's latest album No Line on the Horizon, will conclude in October with the band due in New Zealand the following month.

    While U2 skipped Perth on the Vertigo tour in 2006, this time it is Adelaide's turn to miss out with the band also playing Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney in December.

    The veteran quartet last visited in February 1998 when their PopMart tour of Australia kicked off at Burswood Dome.

    U2 will be the biggest name in massive month of music that already includes Perth shows from megastars Bon Jovi, the Eagles, Muse and Jack Johnson.
    And there are more stars lining up to visit WA, with rumours of imminent tours from Police frontman Sting and Damon Albarn's cartoon pop outfit Gorillaz.
  2. Ok, Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane will get shows in "december" but....... December? 2010 or 2011, that's the question! Thanks for the info, though, some people over here will calm down their "Aussie Expectations" a bit with that
  3. Originally posted by LikeASong:Ok, Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane will get shows in "december" but....... December? 2010 or 2011, that's the question! Thanks for the info, though, some people over here will calm down their "Aussie Expectations" a bit with that


    Yes, thanks Yeah for the info. I think they mean this December, since they also say that they're supposed to hit New Zealand after the end of the second European leg in November. So it looks as if they may play a few shows in NZ and AUS between November and December 2010.

    I'm glad if this comes true, though I'm getting a bit worried about SOA. Will they ever find time to pull it out by the end of the year, always on the road?
  4. Originally posted by JuJuman:[..]
    I'm glad if this comes true, though I'm getting a bit worried about SOA. Will they ever find time to pull it out by the end of the year EVER, always on the road?





  5. Fuck living in Adelaide


  6. Well, I guess we'll have to be (very) patient... One reason to be optimistic is that U2 may perhaps not want to play new songs live and publish them on a CD years later. One reason to be pessimistic is that, if the album isn't ready now (and it certainly isn't), it won't be ready in December either.

    I think March/April 2011 may be the earliest feasible time for SOA to see the (public) light.

    Anyway, let's cut this crap out. If all goes well, in two weeks we will be posting about the rehearsals in Turin.

    Perhaps 1 or 2 new songs. Possibly a new opener. Some more live songs from NLOTH. Possibly other changes in the setlist. And Acrobat live, who knows...

    In any event, (hopefully) something to be looking forward to .
  7. Originally posted by JuJuman:
    Anyway, let's cut this crap out. If all goes well, in two weeks we will be posting about the rehearsals in Turin.

    Perhaps 1 or 2 new songs. Possibly a new opener. Some more live songs from NLOTH. Possibly other changes in the setlist. And Acrobat live, who knows...

    Amen!
  8. Great news to all those Auzzies! Thanks Yeah. Any news about them touring in Mexico?
  9. They'd damn well better come to Adelaide. They forget about Popmart and Pop conveniently, but make sure to go to the place where they did that tour - fucking Perth. That's it...if this is true, I'm going to Sydney or Melbourne. And then next tour, next round, they'll conveniently forget Australia exists like they did on a certain tour in 2001 - and Aerosmith too.

    Of course Guns N Roses decided they're doing Australia and likely Adelaide like they have on their Chinese Tourforevertour - I mean, Guns N Roses - as much as I like them still, but not bloody U2? If Axl can do it, so can U2. And Alice Cooper does all the states since the BP tour, so if an old fart like him can, surely four younger farts such as U2 can too. And Santana too. Three other guys that can, so what's the issue?

    If they do come to Adelaide, they'd better damn well play somewhere actually in Adelaide and not Football Park, 'cos have you ever tried to get in that damn carpark or even on a damn bus there? Worse than the AC/DC show down at Adelaide Oval - and there's another one; AC/DC. How old are they and they're damn well popular and they bothered to come, y'know. U2 got 60 000 people out in 2006, surely 60 000 tickets...is that enough? Rant over and it might not even be true, but y'know, just how I feel about the certain rumours, which surely of course will be true.
  10. Does the chance of U2 come to Brazil gets bigger when they go to Australia? I hope so!

    And as I said before, It's always great to see U2 going down (talking about the hemisfere, of course!)

  11. According to the Australian radio Triple M, U2 will visit Australia and Japan at the beginning of 2011

    http://www.u2place.com/newsdett.asp?idN=4429

    The tour plans should be officially announced at the beginning of August.

    This should be good nows for our friends down under, and it would also make it more likely - or at least slightly less unlikely... - that U2 will pull out a new album by the end of the year. A nice Christmas present?

    Fingers crossed!
  12. That's coherent with the last rumours compiled in U2gigs:


    They state that Live Nation has been working with local promoters and venues on the basis of the following provisional itinerary: Japan and South Korea in early February 2011; Australia and New Zealand in late February; Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru in March; and then Mexico and the rescheduled US and Canadian dates in April and May.
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