Billboard: How long will it take to get into the black?
McGuinness: When do we hit the break-even point? We haven't hit it yet. But we will sometime between now and the end of this leg.
Billboard: So next year is gravy?
McGuinness: Not exactly gravy, because whether we're playing or not, the overhead is about $750,000 daily. That's just to have the crew on payroll, to rent the trucks, all that. There's about 200 trucks. Each stage is 37 trucks, so you're up to nearly 120 there. And then the universal production is another 50-odd trucks, and there are merchandise trucks and catering trucks.
Originally posted by dylbagz:Thoughts:
Show was very very good in the first half. Best one yet. Crowd was into it and the band was tight. Second half started ok with invisible and even better and mysterious ways always makes me nauseous. Saw the guitar come out for elevation and lost all enthusiasm for the show. Ordinary love with gaga was actually close to the highlight of the second half for me. Every breaking wave was nice and crowd sung loud. Back to bullet straight after suggested a DVD show to me. Crowd loved with or without you as usual. Bono read most of streets off the prompter, another pointer to some sort of DVD show for me. Streets with the mostly correct lyrics and a loud crowd was my second half highlight. Noticed edge had something on the end of his guitar in the first half every couple songs that looked like a camera too, never noticed before. Show needed bad or 40 and suffered from it.
Highlights
Gloria
Whole first half
Streets
Invisible
Ordinary love
Overall show ranking now
Chicago 5
New York 1
New York 4
Boston 3
New York 5
New York 2
New York 3
Chicago 4
Toronto 1
Originally posted by ahn1991:To be fair, the encore for the first leg of 360 had zero variation. We always got Ultraviolet, WOWY, and MOS. Even the first portion of the second half was still set at HMTMKMKM, WOWY, and MOS. It wasn't until the later portion of the second NA leg that we saw Ultraviolet and HMTMKMKM on rotation.
The root of this issue is Streets being the penultimate song.
, but it doesn't add anything)