Tour Rumors Thread

Rock superstars U2 will not have a Vienna live comeback appearance this year as a Jehovah's Witnesses' event is blocking the stadium on the band's preferred days.

The Irish four-piece reportedly planned to return to Austria on 7 or 8 August to perform at Vienna's 51,000-seat Ernst Happel Stadium. However, the religious group has already leased the venue to hold a mass christening on both those days.

It is now looking unlikely the band will perform in Austria this year since all the other 120 concert dates of the upcoming tour are already in the planning stage.

Tickets for U2's Vienna concert in summer 2005 were sold out within minutes.

U2 will release their 12th studio album "No line on the horizon" on 27 February. According to singer Bono Vox, the band stepped into unknown territory with their new material. He said: "The new songs sound different than anything we have done in the past – they are simply better."

(c) Austrian Times, 2009.

Originally posted by yeah:[..]

Originally posted by germcevoy:If its all stadiums then the attendance figures should be huge for the whole tour.

Originally posted by Hans23:[..]

oh yeah, completely forgot about that, will probably be bigger than Vertigo then

Originally posted by germcevoy:If its all stadiums then the attendance figures should be huge for the whole tour.

Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

Average of 50,000 each night for 120 nights equals a cool 6 million people paying 50 quid a ticket equals a cooler 'number too large to display' (the calculator on my phone actually said that lol)

Originally posted by Doc32:[..]

Have they confirmed that it is going to be stadiums in North America though, unless theyre going to wait to come here until summer 2010 it seems tough to me to play stadiums in the winter in North America

Originally posted by U2sBiggestFan:[..]

sounds like you need a better phone

Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

Average of 50,000 each night for 120 nights equals a cool 6 million people paying 50 quid a ticket equals a cooler 'number too large to display' (the calculator on my phone actually said that lol)

Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

Nokia E71 is the best phone ever made so I think not. 6 million times 50 is a big number

Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

Average of 50,000 each night for 120 nights equals a cool 6 million people paying 50 quid a ticket equals a cooler 'number too large to display' (the calculator on my phone actually said that lol)