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Joshua Tree Tour 2017
 Legs (3): Leg 1 - North America, Leg 2 - Europe, Leg 3 - The Americas
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  1. Originally posted by deanallison:I actually really enjoyed Glastonbury, I think festivals will always have a worse atmosphere than normal gigs for u2 as there more die hard fan base is lost in all the casual fans as well as the stage designs being missing from the festival too. Performance wise though I couldn't complain much and thought the setlist was good, except I heard the band were thinking of doing New Year's Day instead of boots which would have made sense.
    It would make sense if they first did some festivals, following a tour leg in canada/usa.
  2. Originally posted by ahn1991:I'd definitely like to see U2 revamp their festival performance strategy. You can't treat festivals like a standard gig, which is what I think U2 did during Glastonbury.

    This makes no sense whatsoever, Alex. They absolutely did not face it as if it was an standard gig, not with the performance and definitely not with the setlist either. The proof is that they actually changed their standard 360 set in Anaheim (a gig you attended btw) a couple of days earlier as a rehearsal for Glastonbury.
  3. Same basic setlist format, even better through to Moment with a bonus. Same tour clothes, same screen footage.

    Tibet gig in June 97 was a proper festival feel.
  4. Originally posted by zooropa93:Same basic setlist format, even better through to Moment with a bonus. Same tour clothes, same screen footage.

    Tibet gig in June 97 was a proper festival feel.
    For u2's standard though there was quite a bit of change in the setlist, the fly only had its 360 debut at the Anaheim gig, Bad was hardly played on the tour but made it in the Glastonbury set, stay hasn't exactly been a standard inclusion since elevation tour either and even moving streets was quite a big move for them, i still consider Glastonbury performance wise to be one of the best shows of the 360 era.
  5. I want to make a response as to why I wasn't totally blown away by their Glastonbury performance, but it's more of a gu feeling thing as opposed to concrete observables. I guess I'm not convinced they are comfortable playing outside of their home field, so they tried to bring in their own furniture, if that makes more sense.
  6. Originally posted by ahn1991:I want to make a response as to why I wasn't totally blown away by their Glastonbury performance, but it's more of a gu feeling thing as opposed to concrete observables. I guess I'm not convinced they are comfortable playing outside of their home field, so they tried to bring in their own furniture, if that makes more sense.
    I agree the band prefer doing things there way and that includes staging and all the other minor details. There's no doubt that as a spectacle 360 blows Glastonbury out the water, I just enjoyed the actual playing of the songs, thought they were pretty tight apart from the obvious mistake at the beginning of EBTTRT. I'm also a big achtung baby and zooropa fan so that helped setlist wise. But there's a good possibility that if I actually attended the gig I wouldn't have been blown away like I was at the Brussels shows I attended.

  7. Ooh , Brussels was light years ahead of the Glastonbury set. The amazing downpour included. Poor Band.
  8. very big rumor that U2 will play Pinkpop 2017 at Sunday June the 4
  9. I was very lucky with that gig, literally just picked a city that had cheap enough flights and decent priced hotel then got tickets for both nights when I got there. I thought hearing mercy and North Star the first night was cool as they don't usually experiment too much in Glasgow (where I'd normally see them) but then the second night there was something special happening, Bad was incredible.
  10. Let's hope it will be Monday the 5th.... the 4th i will be in London for Depeche Mode!
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