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Joshua Tree Tour 2017
 Legs (3): Leg 1 - North America, Leg 2 - Europe, Leg 3 - The Americas
Shows: 52
  1. Some of the B sides would be cool too. I could live without Race against time but Silver & gold and Spanish eyes would be nice to get
  2. Originally posted by treasure:[..]
    My first show was Cork '87 but it was 30 years ago so I'd love to see Trip, Exit & God's country again. I haven't seen One tree hill since '89. I'd love to see Mothers & of course Red Hill would be amazing but I'm not holding my breath !!
    That's the songs I'd like to see as well, since I've never seen any of them live. Wish I'd been to some of the shows you have, got through a fair few of the 'album tracks' that are classics.
  3. Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
    That's the songs I'd like to see as well, since I've never seen any of them live. Wish I'd been to some of the shows you have, got through a fair few of the 'album tracks' that are classics.
    Yes one of the great things about U2 is that when they tour an album they play a good amount of the album tracks but then they disappear. By going to so many tours I've been lucky enough to see many of them. I missed the Zoo TV tour so I've never seen Arms around the world or Love is blindness :-(
  4. Bit annoyed how they're probably not doing Glasgow, suppose I can wait until the Innocence and Experience tour comes around again, even though it'll be about two years away. But what can you do
  5. Originally posted by treasure:Some of the B sides would be cool too. I could live without Race against time but Silver & gold and Spanish eyes would be nice to get
    Spanish eyes is beautiful live. I'd love to see luminous times or walk to the water.
  6. aiming to go to london and dublin... and maybe either amsterdam or berlin, IF any of these happen.
  7. Oh my word, just catching up on the rumours. A U2 show opening with Streets again is something I have to see. What are the chances of them playing in England other than London? Manchester Etihad/LCCC perhaps?
  8. Just heard from a friend in Dubln that Dublin may now be 7th and 8th of July not sure if credible or not
  9. Originally posted by DMMacdonald:Bit annoyed how they're probably not doing Glasgow, suppose I can wait until the Innocence and Experience tour comes around again, even though it'll be about two years away. But what can you do
    Watching Glasgow when the shows were on Periscope they seemed to be the best Euro concerts of the SOI tour and best setlist too


  10. Article with many of the rumours we've read already. Only new thing is that it states that the Trump presidency is making U2 tour again so they can use it to critisise him. Same as they did with Reagan in 1987.
  11. Originally posted by DMMacdonald:Bit annoyed how they're probably not doing Glasgow, suppose I can wait until the Innocence and Experience tour comes around again, even though it'll be about two years away. But what can you do
    Get on a train

    I'll probably have to get on a plane, & travel half way around the world, so probably too much this time around.
  12. Irish Times:
    http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/u2-to-outline-tour-dates-for-the-joshua-tree-on-monday-1.2929263

    "........................It’s an unexpected move given that the band - in their 40 year long career - have never before toured a catalogue album; they have only ever gone out on the back of a new release.
    U2 are also currently putting the finishing touches to their new album, Songs of Experience which now seems to have been put back until Autumn 2017.
    But the political climate in the US may have forced their hand. The Joshua Tree album was part written as a rebuke of the then US Republican president Ronald Reagan and the band used their tour of the album to criticise the policies of the Reagan administration.
    As very vocal critics of President-Elect Donald Trump, they may be revisiting this approach this time around.
    It is believed that the Joshua Tree 30th Anniversary tour will kick off in Vancouver on May 12th and will travel around stadiums in the US before arriving in Europe in July. It is expected that Noel Gallagher will be the supporting act on the European dates...............................

    A new single from the original Joshua Tree sessions is expected to be released shortly to tie-in with the tour. By a strange coincidence, this could be a song called Beautiful Ghost/Introduction to Songs of Experience which was supposed to go on the original 1987 album but was cut for space.
    But the smart money here is on the track Red Hill Mining Town which the band feel is one of the strongest moments on the Joshua Tree album; oddly it’s a U2 song that has never been played live.
    Red Hill Mining Town would be appropriate as it was written about the stress felt and disputes caused by a political event (the bitter 1984 UK miners strike) and how it fractured and polarised a country.
    The show will be more than just the complete Joshua Tree album, but it remains to be seen how much of the new Songs of Experience album will also be played.
    Very much a political album (by the band’s standards) on its release in March 1987, The Joshua Tree was going to be a double album called The Two Americas right up until the last moment.
    The album was a love/hate letter to America detailing the band’s strong appreciation of American culture (music, film and literature specifically) but also their abhorrence at the US government’s illegal military intervention in Central American countries.
    What happened to the band during the original Joshua Tree tour has eerie echoes with what is happening today in the US.
    A white nationalist threatened to shoot Bono on stage if the band continued to give their vocal support to the honouring of Martin Luther King day (a holiday to celebrate the civil rights leader)...........................................

    Before the recent US election, Bono described Donald Trump as “dangerous” and “the worst idea America ever had”.
    Two years ago, the Joshua Tree album was deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” by the US Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry which “represents America’s culture and history” - the only Irish musical work to be so honoured. "
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