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2018-05-15 - Inglewood
 Tour: Experience and Innocence tour
Songs played: 28
Audio recordings: 4
Videos: 1
  1. Originally posted by Chrisedge:[..]
    I was right behind Maddy and she showed us that after the show and it was great. I got a shot of Tom during one of the songs rocking out! He must be a big fan.
    Loved your videos man, they look really good!! Nice to have some good stuff on that front as well.
  2. Originally posted by Chrisedge:[..]
    I was right behind Maddy and she showed us that after the show and it was great. I got a shot of Tom during one of the songs rocking out! He must be a big fan.


    Actually, they can have a "technical" sellout even if all the tickets are not sold. I believe if they sell a certain percentage of the tickets it is considered a sellout even if there are tickets available. Yes, it is sort of a PR thing, but I believe it is kind of an industry standard not just a U2 thing.

    Also, I saw the Detroit Zoo TV Outside Broacast show. This was obviously U2 at one of their career pinnacles. Almost the entire upper deck of the Silverdome was empty. A few other stadium shows on Zoo TV were similiar as well. Just saying. If anything the ticket sales are due to a stadium tour less than a year ago saturating the market and some of the ticket pricing.
  3. Sellout is set when a contract is written and they agree on what number of tickets will be sold. They can refer to the show as "sold out" once it hits that number, since that's how many tickets they were planning on selling.

    If the venue opens up more tickets, it's still technically a "sold out" show for financial reasons.
  4. Originally posted by Blue_Room:[..]


    Actually, they can have a "technical" sellout even if all the tickets are not sold. I believe if they sell a certain percentage of the tickets it is considered a sellout even if there are tickets available. Yes, it is sort of a PR thing, but I believe it is kind of an industry standard not just a U2 thing.

    Also, I saw the Detroit Zoo TV Outside Broacast show. This was obviously U2 at one of their career pinnacles. Almost the entire upper deck of the Silverdome was empty. A few other stadium shows on Zoo TV were similiar as well. Just saying. If anything the ticket sales are due to a stadium tour less than a year ago saturating the market and some of the ticket pricing.
    Yes to everything. I mentioned "technical sold-outs" a few posts back too.

    Outside Broadcast had a good few ticket fiascos besides Detroit, De La Parra documented it pretty well. I seem to remember San Diego and Columbia were particularly poor (I don't have the book on hand).
  5. They clearly "fudged" some of the 360 numbers also. Most of this is nothing new. I don't think 360 or Zoo TV were considered failure tours. Really, Popmart wasn't a failure either, like it is made out to be anyway. They still sold a ton of tickets and it was the highest grossing tour that year. It really is all relative for the most part.
  6. Originally posted by deanallison:[..]

    I don’t think the order matters to me as much as the fact they’ve brought beautiful Day back to its best orginal form. I didn’t dislike the JT style version but putting beautiful Day early in the set in the way it was played last night keeps the energy high. The order doesn’t bother me too much because I think I will Follow and Gloria also keep the energy high.


    I was thinking this last night at the show , how much I liked this version of BD instead of the JT tour... I remember really being annoyed with that version. I feel the same about Vertigo and Elevation.... I really didn't enjoy those as much, either on the JT17 or the I&E show... but feel they work better this tour.
  7. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
    Yes to everything. I mentioned "technical sold-outs" a few posts back too.

    Outside Broadcast had a good few ticket fiascos besides Detroit, De La Parra documented it pretty well. I seem to remember San Diego and Columbia were particularly poor (I don't have the book on hand).


    Yep, and even some of the shows in the likes of Alabama that were favoured less. It was going to happen on a stadium tour of three months. Let's not even get started on Popmart...
  8. Originally posted by Blue_Room:They clearly "fudged" some of the 360 numbers also. Most of this is nothing new. I don't think 360 or Zoo TV were considered failure tours. Really, Popmart wasn't a failure either, like it is made out to be anyway. They still sold a ton of tickets and it was the highest grossing tour that year. It really is all relative for the most part.
    Popmart gets made to be a failure because only around a sixth of the shows sold out, yet, like you said, loads of people still went and it performed well enough. I think they were just a bit optimistic. I remember they put a second Pittsburgh date on sale and it was quickly cancelled because it only sold a handful of tickets. Same with Indianapolis, one date was scheduled but demand was really low.
  9. Originally posted by KieranU2:[..]


    Yep, and even some of the shows in the likes of Alabama that were favoured less. It was going to happen on a stadium tour of three months. Let's not even get started on Popmart...
    LOL. I was at both Columbia and Birmingham (Alabama) Both great shows. No fiascos to report on my end... smooth sailing all the way! Both seemed pretty full, but then again, within the 1st 10 rows for both shows, I really wasn't looking back over my shoulders all that much.


  10. Love this! Seeing Audioslave live back in 2005 was actually a bigger priority for me than catching the Vertigo Tour, as my U2 fandom hadn't quite taken off to the level it eventually got to. Regret that a little bit, but man did Audioslave rock. Tom is a legendary player.

    This also makes me excited to see Pride performed live again. Sounds great just from this clip and others I've heard.
  11. Originally posted by KieranU2:[..]
    Popmart gets made to be a failure because only around a sixth of the shows sold out, yet, like you said, loads of people still went and it performed well enough. I think they were just a bit optimistic. I remember they put a second Pittsburgh date on sale and it was quickly cancelled because it only sold a handful of tickets. Same with Indianapolis, one date was scheduled but demand was really low.
    Did they not lose money with every popmart show.
  12. From what I understand the margins were slim based on how expensive the production was to tour - and the fact that is routinely thrown around is that they made more on merchandise sales than they did on ticket sale profits.
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