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  1. Originally posted by ahn1991: is the fact that indoor arenas are, for the most part, a North American phenomena. They mentioned that for Elevation and Vertigo, they essentially had to design two stages and two shows, one for the indoor arena gigs in NA and another for the outdoor gigs in Europe.

    Now I don't think Europe got a ton of indoor arenas in the past few years, so wouldn't this still be an issue for them?

    I don't know where or who does that info come from, but it is wrong. Europe has as many arenas as the United States, if not more. Only in Madrid there are 3 suitable ~15.000 capacity arenas. There are a few others around Spain, and the same goes for France, Germany, France, etc etc. That info is wrong or badly put into context.

    They designed two different Vertigo stages because they were touring Europe in only one leg and it was summer, while they were doing 2 legs in North America and it was spring/autumn so outdoors stadiums were perfect for Europe and indoor arenas for North America. That's the reason for designing and building two different stages, not any lack of European arenas. There are a lot of these (see the European Elevation tour, 33 shows and only one was held at an outdoor stadium, the Turin one).
  3. It'll be a mostly an arenas tour: U2360 can't be topped, as many have pointed out. But this doesn't mean the next tour won't be awesome. It'll of course all depend on so many things: the next album, but also which old songs they're going to play. There's a lot more to U2 than Pride, WOWY and Streets -- they need to understand that too. Especially in Arenas, a lot of stuff that's never been played -- e.g. some great B-sides from 1987-1992 -- could work really well.
  4. ZooTV couldn't be topped.
    PopMart couldn't be topped.
    360 can't be topped?

  5. In terms of gross, attendance and worldwide spread, no, it can't.
  6. More photo's from Julian Lennon:







  7. 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.
  8. 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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    This?
  9. 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
  10. Ah, I don't know then. I only remember that quote above because I posted it a few months ago.
  11. Yes, the "smaller tour, lesser known songs" is old news by now.

    Let's hope it becomes true.
  12. 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.
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