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).
