The tour is being sponsored by Blackberry and is the band's first since the Vertigo Tour in '05-'06. The group’s 2005-’07 Vertigo tour grossed close to $400 million, second only to the Rolling Stones’ Bigger Bang jaunt.
On their last tour, the band played indoors in the
This will be the first tour under a 12-year deal with Live Nation for touring, merchandising and digital rights, though the band's relationship with the company's Global Music head Arthur Fogel dates back to a show at the El Mocambo in
The band just performed four of the new songs in a five-night stint on the David Letterman show last week, and topped it off with a live performance last Friday (3/6) on
No Line on the Horizon is already #1 in the U.K., Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Japan and the Czech Republic.
U2 360° will visit 14 cities across Europe including dates in Milan, Gothenburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Nice, Dublin, Chorzow, Berlin, Gelsenkirchen, London, Sheffield and Glasgow before finishing at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on August 22. This is the first tour U2 has undertaken since signing a reported $100 million-plus 12-year deal with Live Nation for touring, merchandising and digital rights.The groundbreaking tour will feature a production that includes a 360° audience configuration, elaborate staging and a cylindrical video screen.
Long-time U2 Show Director Willie Williams and architect Mark Fisher have created the set, which you can see at www.u2.com.
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No longer keeping his diss-tance. (5/13a)
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Post, Morgan and the ever-popular POETS (5/13a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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