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Joshua Tree Tour 2019
 Legs (1): New Zealand, Australia and Asia
Shows: 15
  1. As often with "inside" jokes, it's impossible to explain in a few lines, but it comes down to the very resiliant rumour that Larry once signed up to this website and even posted.

    Yeah. I know...
  2. Originally posted by BigGiRL:[..]
    As often with "inside" jokes, it's impossible to explain in a few lines, but it comes down to the very resiliant rumour that Larry once signed up to this website and even posted.

    Yeah. I know...
    how did this rumor even come up? what did he apparently “post?”
  3. Originally posted by deanallison:https://www.atu2.com/news/u2-manager-delighted-to-bring-stage-show-full-circle.html

    This link seems to suggest it took them a bit fewer than 50 shows for 360 as Paul McGuinness mentioned it would be some time before the end of the 2nd leg so maybe closer to 40 shows, I did read elsewhere that they had almost broke even by Pasadena so no exact number but there’s guides there. I agree with Welsh_Edge though that JT17 shouldn’t cost as much per day as 360, plus as I said this tour is already 3 legs in really when we count 2017 so they’ve already paid for all the start up costs. It’s just the daily costs now.


    360 Tour cost around £30m before the band had played a note to the public. The design, construction and sourcing of 3 huge stages, the 60+ trucks, and logistics of hiring Camp Nou + their crew of 50ish people for three weeks rehearsals made the show only profitable when they got to 40 or so shows.

    The day to day running of a tour is relatively cheap once you get past the initial investment. For PopMart the per-day cost was around £100k whether there was a show or not.

    TJT2019 will be a cheap tour to run. There is no stage to build, design, or construct. All of that entered profitability in 2017. The only costs then will be logistics, a couple of days full rehearsal in the stadium to adapt any elements for any changes, and so on. Therefore, the band would probably be running 100 people and 30ish trucks for say 6 weeks funded by 17 or so shows. It will be a very profitable tour.
  4. Originally posted by markreed:[..]


    360 Tour cost around £30m before the band had played a note to the public. The design, construction and sourcing of 3 huge stages, the 60+ trucks, and logistics of hiring Camp Nou + their crew of 50ish people for three weeks rehearsals made the show only profitable when they got to 40 or so shows.

    The day to day running of a tour is relatively cheap once you get past the initial investment. For PopMart the per-day cost was around £100k whether there was a show or not.

    TJT2019 will be a cheap tour to run. There is no stage to build, design, or construct. All of that entered profitability in 2017. The only costs then will be logistics, a couple of days full rehearsal in the stadium to adapt any elements for any changes, and so on. Therefore, the band would probably be running 100 people and 30ish trucks for say 6 weeks funded by 17 or so shows. It will be a very profitable tour.
    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.
  5. Wild theory #37 - the delay is a result of someone at Live Nation realising from our discussions that they booked the wrong stadium in Sydney and that ANZ won't be closed for renovations. "You had one job!"
  6. Originally posted by markreed:[..]


    360 Tour cost around £30m before the band had played a note to the public. The design, construction and sourcing of 3 huge stages, the 60+ trucks, and logistics of hiring Camp Nou + their crew of 50ish people for three weeks rehearsals made the show only profitable when they got to 40 or so shows.

    The day to day running of a tour is relatively cheap once you get past the initial investment. For PopMart the per-day cost was around £100k whether there was a show or not.

    TJT2019 will be a cheap tour to run. There is no stage to build, design, or construct. All of that entered profitability in 2017. The only costs then will be logistics, a couple of days full rehearsal in the stadium to adapt any elements for any changes, and so on. Therefore, the band would probably be running 100 people and 30ish trucks for say 6 weeks funded by 17 or so shows. It will be a very profitable tour.
    How do you know there is no stage to build they haven't announced anything yet they might go with a different design they may want to upgrade the screen like they did for the E&I tour and change the layout of the production, if you are going by what U2 songs have been saying they told us the tour would be announced last month so everything at this point is unclear.
  7. Seeing tweets from U2songs now, saying the delay is nothing to do with sponsorship.

    Getting painful now
  8. Well it's after 9am here on the East Coast of Oz and still nothing.... let's look towards next week I suppose (or the week after as someone has suggested)
  9. 722am Tues in Perth, today is the day people. All the guessing will end today and then the GA grab will commence. I can feel it.
  10. Originally posted by bradperth:722am Tues in Perth, today is the day people. All the guessing will end today and then the GA grab will commence. I can feel it.
    Your word in god's ear
  11. Originally posted by Sydney_MIke:Wild theory #37 - the delay is a result of someone at Live Nation realising from our discussions that they booked the wrong stadium in Sydney and that ANZ won't be closed for renovations. "You had one job!"
    Love it!!
  12. New member here from auckland, have been a member of u2.com for a while but this will be my first u2 gig, is it worth getting the presale through the codes they give you or will it all be same type of tickets through a live nation presale. Any info would be great
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