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  1. Well I don't really know about the US but in Europe it was definitely a real hard business to get tickets to any 360°show. So we can't say that there is no demand for stadium shows.

    Just imagine, if they did small theatre shows with 2-3000 seats capacity...

    As regards to adding 'special' songs to the setlist, why would it mean it's a farewell tour???? They just try to fresh it up a bit, nothing else in my opinion.

    As to playing hits, well, that's what the casual concert goers need don't they?? For them U2 is With Or Without You, Beatiful Day and Sunday Bloody Sunday. That's all.

    Edge is 50 so surely he can't look like a 20 year old?

    You folks who are brooding right now thinking this is the end etc. are just like those people who see half glass of water as a glass that is half empty and not half full if you know what I mean.
  2. I do NOT want U2 to stop touring. AT ALL. It's just that I've seen certain things that lead me to think (against my own wishes, once again) that we might be near the end.


  3. huh? Do we mean the same Europe (the one with Italy, France, Germany and stuff?). It never was easier to score tix than for 360, imho.

    Nevertheless, I don't see any sign why this should be their last big tour or even farewell. They're gonna watch the music scene for a while and come up with a copied but optimized concept of what other acts do.
  4. I agree also that tix were easy to get. The end of 360 is no bad thing but one more shindig in Dublin to end it all would be nice.
  5. But I dont see them touring in theaters or something like that, theaters are to small for Bono's ego
  6. I don't think this is it for U2 - for a few reasons....

    1) With this tour they have proved that they can do shows to huge numbers of people with less dates. Keeping legs to 20 gigs means they can spend more time on other projects and with family. Gives them more energy and time.

    2) They have a contract with Live Nation to perform for like another 9 years or something I think. It takes them up to their 60th B'day and I think it might include another 2 albums and a best of.
  7. So, bottom line from the Edge interview: Tour will end after Moncton, no new album in sight.

    edit:

    Originally posted by Scott_McD:
    2) They have a contract with Live Nation to perform for like another 9 years or something I think. It takes them up to their 60th B'day and I think it might include another 2 albums and a best of.


    Albums aren't part of the LN deal.
  8. Originally posted by yeah:So, bottom line from the Edge interview: Tour will end after Moncton, no new album in sight.

    edit:

    damit .. Was hoping for one more show!

    just have to live wth the memoies
  9. It's just ridiculous to think that will be the last album of their career or something like that. Take it easy guys, take a nap or something.

    I'm hugely disappointed by Edge's words that there will be no album anytime soon, that was their chance to make something great. By delaying the album for another year or two, they will again get into comfort zone and that cannot be too good.

    And I can just agree that it was very easy to get tickets for European shows, except for Wien.
  10. it is easy .. work on spiderman kills all U2 album and tour plans... so I am (for the first time ever) angry to the Edge and Bono.... no 100% work for U2 band and their tour this year.... why they were talking about new album release at the end of last year then new one date of album release for May 2011 and now ... no album release at all? I think spiderman is wrong work for U2 at wrong time.

    But it has some positives, big 360 tour will end and next tour will be new, smaller, sooner... maybe early 2013


  11. + Zagreb. It seems then I only tried the hard ones.
  12. I wouldn't put too much stock in U2's contract with LiveNation. Contracts are made to be broken & if Principal and/or U2's private companies don't have a football team full of lawyers they could put to work on cutting them loose any time they're sick of touring, I'd be hugely surprised. They will tour exactly as long as suits them and no longer, IMO.
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