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  1. I think that view about JT17 being a money grab is probably not as common as some would think. Most fans are just happy when the band are playing near them and just want to enjoy the music. I feel like the most critical comments and judgement I read about the tour were on here tbh. I’ll never be able to agree with it or understand it. Because bono made a comment years ago about not becoming a nostalgia act or whatever they shouldn’t do an anniversary tour or a greatest hits tour? Nonsense. It’s great when u2 release new material and there is an extra layer of excitement about seeing them play a brand new tour but that shouldn’t stop fans from enjoying a tour that celebrates the past as well.


  2. That was the closest they have come to that but I think they pulled it off without it being a full on nostalgia fest. As they said, it was a birthday party, but the inclusion of Little Things, Best Thing, and the impending of SoE kept it forward looking for me anyway.
  3. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:Part of the reason I still wonder if this tour will turn out to be nothing but false rumours is because I can't see what the "theme" would be, and how it could be viewed as something other than a major money grab. It's different when they're promoting an album, because it's an easy reason to give for a tour.


    It's been covered that they aren't likely to make their fortunes off taking this tour to Australia and Asia. The travel distances will kill them in Asia, and the depressed dollar will kill them in Australia. If they wanted to do a money grab they'd do another round of The Joshua Tree in the USA. Or an Achtung Baby tour somewhere. While they likely won't lose money going to Australia, I don't think they'll make their fortunes there either.

    They've been trying to get to Australia for a while from all suggestions and it hasn't worked out. They were supposed to go at the end of 2017, and then were looking at doing it in 2018 and just didn't get there for whatever reason. So they pushed it out. By many indications it will be a continuation of The Joshua Tree in some way, even if not named that.

    And Australia was won over by two huge tours in the 80s. Under Australian Skies brought the band there to critical acclaim. LoveTown is almost mythical down in those parts. It's the 35th anniversary of one and the 30th anniversary of the other. Under Australian Skies was done because the band couldn't get there on the War tour and felt they had to postpone the commitments they had made. (Although often labeled as the first leg of The Unforgettable Fire tour, the tour used War merchandise, and they played few songs off the new album.) Love Town happened because the band couldn't get there on the Joshua Tree tour, and felt like they wanted to get down there. They've certainly set their own precedent for making it up to Australia when they haven't been able to get there earlier.
  5. I have it from a member close to the band that it will be called “The Joshua Tree” and the final date is Macau on Saturday the 14th of December. The tour will not be extended beyond this.
  6. Originally posted by avtech:I have it from a member close to the band that it will be called “The Joshua Tree” and the final date is Macau on Saturday the 14th of December. The tour will not be extended beyond this.
    Cool, Joshua Tree Tour 32.5... makes sense.
  7. Originally posted by deanallison:Throwing another theory out there. So I suggested a while ago they could release a couple of new songs to help promote the tour. I’m now thinking about the possibility of them releasing a greatest hits album and since TJT17 dvd hasn’t been released yet perhaps the JT section of the gig will be on a dvd like the u218 singles thing where they put the vertigo Milan dvd with the deluxe edition. It just would seem strange of them to either not release a JT dvd at all or to release it around the same time as a different tour was about to start/be promoted. So I’m thinking this tour could be a greatest hits tour and labelled as such.


    Another Greatest Hits? NO. The Best Of 1980-90, 90-00 and U218 in quick succession were very close to exploitative and unneccessary - another hits would be pointless, and they'd start becoming as bad as The Stones for sticking out endless Hits comps.

    Especially when they have the TJT17 tour film yet to come out! Release that, and play the a TJT32.5 tour to mark the launch of the tour DVD / BR.
  8. We are yet to get 2000-10 which would be nice, especially if it included bonus tracks like Mercy
  9. No way... 2000 songs were on 1991-2000, 2004 songs were on U218 so we would have a best of with Boots, Crazy and Magnificent!!!
  10. I guess they should reissue the two best of compilations with the tracks that are also on U218 removed too? No sense in keeping them on there anymore by that logic
  11. Originally posted by avtech:I have it from a member close to the band that it will be called “The Joshua Tree” and the final date is Macau on Saturday the 14th of December. The tour will not be extended beyond this.
    the biggest show in macau would be Cotai arena which has only capacity up to 15000 people... so either joshua tree tour thing or macau is false ....
    may be both ??
  12. Probably both?
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