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  1. Originally posted by cmkuz1:I don’t know if it’s just me but here’s what my plan would be. HTDAAB Anniversary Tour next year. I know it sounds ridiculous but it’s one of my favorite albums and I would love to hear some of the rarer songs played. So they do a tour summer of 2025 if Larry is able to and then they release the new album in December and do that tour in 2026. Everyone would be happy then, 2 tours in 2 years and also new album!
    worst idea ever
  2. could we just stop with nostalgic stuff? the band might be reading this forum
  3. I know right.

    Keep it down, people!
  4. Originally posted by cmkuz1:I don’t know if it’s just me but here’s what my plan would be. HTDAAB Anniversary Tour next year. I know it sounds ridiculous but it’s one of my favorite albums and I would love to hear some of the rarer songs played. So they do a tour summer of 2025 if Larry is able to and then they release the new album in December and do that tour in 2026. Everyone would be happy then, 2 tours in 2 years and also new album!

    Well the band have been in full nostalgia mode for the last few years so it's not something that they wouldn't consider ,I'm sure Live Nation want their Golden Goose back on the road as soon as possible and would float various ideas at them to persuade them to go on tour providing that's what they want to do .
  5. With all this delay on the new album, I wonder what would it be like if they just surprised everybody and dropped it unannounced, or with very short notice... I mean, not in a "messy" way like they did with SOI in 2014, but it could be interesting if done properly and in a less invasive way (I remember I was very excited to find out there was a new album when I was expecting nothing at the time).

    I'm not even sure I'd like it, but it just occurred to me that releasing the so-called "unreasonable guitar record" with a bang, just out of the blue (maybe after releasing a single without saying anything else about it), could have the right impact, even more so than any previous announcement could achieve. Besides, nowadays the focus is on the digital market and music has become easily accessible, so it's not like people need previous notice to get in line and buy a physical copy to start enjoying it.

    Anyway, with that, a 2025 tour would still be doable, and they could even make it a big one like Zoo TV or Vertigo, spanning it over two years (25/26) and starting with an indoor setup, which would allow for autumn dates in the northern hemisphere, thus rendering the whole "busy summer schedule" talk completely pointless. Start with a 1st leg in Europe then move to a 2nd leg in the US, all from august/september till december. In 2026 debut the outdoor configuration for the 3rd leg in Latin America around february/march, starting south and getting up to Mexico to wrap things up no later than April, then at the 4th leg have the long-anticipated summer stadium tour in Europe from june up to late july/early august, move it to US stadiums for a 5th leg from late august/early september till the end of october, and then finish in november/december with a 6th and final leg on asia and oceania, like the JT2019 run (but finishing in Australia this time, for a change).

    There you have it! Tell me it's not feasible. I dare you, I double dare all of you!!!

    P.S.: That way it seems to me that all the main issues would be addressed and solved, namely:

    1) time to release the album and still have a tour next year (the surprise release could take place up until may, perhaps even june, I guess);
    2) being able to tour next year, considering stadiums already taken for the summer period, plus the Oasis concerts;
    3) touring only with a new album of fresh material (which I agree, no more anniversary tours/residencies for now);
    4) having a huge tour once more (last one with many legs and over a hundred concerts was 360, last one with both indoor and outdoor configuration was Vertigo), covering "the whole world" (yeah, no Africa, I know, but not a big market, let's face it);
    5) having a run of stadium concerts in Europe during summer (without 2025 being a blank/gap year);
    6) having a big tour going on to celebrate their 50th anniversary as a band in 2026

    And to think all of that could be ours, if only Bono was 14% less insecure...
  6. The whole reason we don’t have a new album now is because Larry is still not able to tour. That’s all. They’re just using this HTDAAB reissue as a stalling technique, and to have something out there.

    They are old fashioned and set in their ways. Plus they are U2 and they always take forever. They could release an album now and just tour it whenever they can, but that’s not how they work.
  7. Originally posted by gil_vox:With all this delay on the new album, I wonder what would it be like if they just surprised everybody and dropped it unannounced, or with very short notice... I mean, not in a "messy" way like they did with SOI in 2014, but it could be interesting if done properly and in a less invasive way (I remember I was very excited to find out there was a new album when I was expecting nothing at the time).

    I'm not even sure I'd like it, but it just occurred to me that releasing the so-called "unreasonable guitar record" with a bang, just out of the blue (maybe after releasing a single without saying anything else about it), could have the right impact, even more so than any previous announcement could achieve. Besides, nowadays the focus is on the digital market and music has become easily accessible, so it's not like people need previous notice to get in line and buy a physical copy to start enjoying it.

    Anyway, with that, a 2025 tour would still be doable, and they could even make it a big one like Zoo TV or Vertigo, spanning it over two years (25/26) and starting with an indoor setup, which would allow for autumn dates in the northern hemisphere, thus rendering the whole "busy summer schedule" talk completely pointless. Start with a 1st leg in Europe then move to a 2nd leg in the US, all from august/september till december. In 2026 debut the outdoor configuration for the 3rd leg in Latin America around february/march, starting south and getting up to Mexico to wrap things up no later than April, then at the 4th leg have the long-anticipated summer stadium tour in Europe from june up to late july/early august, move it to US stadiums for a 5th leg from late august/early september till the end of october, and then finish in november/december with a 6th and final leg on asia and oceania, like the JT2019 run (but finishing in Australia this time, for a change).

    There you have it! Tell me it's not feasible. I dare you, I double dare all of you!!!

    P.S.: That way it seems to me that all the main issues would be addressed and solved, namely:

    1) time to release the album and still have a tour next year (the surprise release could take place up until may, perhaps even june, I guess);
    2) being able to tour next year, considering stadiums already taken for the summer period, plus the Oasis concerts;
    3) touring only with a new album of fresh material (which I agree, no more anniversary tours/residencies for now);
    4) having a huge tour once more (last one with many legs and over a hundred concerts was 360, last one with both indoor and outdoor configuration was Vertigo), covering "the whole world" (yeah, no Africa, I know, but not a big market, let's face it);
    5) having a run of stadium concerts in Europe during summer (without 2025 being a blank/gap year);
    6) having a big tour going on to celebrate their 50th anniversary as a band in 2026

    And to think all of that could be ours, if only Bono was 14% less insecure...
    EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING

  8. Er what? The plan was 2021 but the pandemic happened.
  9. In 2017, the plan was to play only a few shows in US, but LN saw how much money could be made and directed it to a complete worldtour and extended it even more in 2019. Welsh_Edge is absolutely right
  10. Jt 30 tour. I am talking about AB30
  11. Right but no doubt if there was an actual tour for AB30 it would be a huge thing not a limited thing to a few cities.
  12. Originally posted by Zwervervriend:[..]
    In 2017, the plan was to play only a few shows in US, but LN saw how much money could be made and directed it to a complete worldtour and extended it even more in 2019. Welsh_Edge is absolutely right


    In the initial plans I saw, October 2016, they had plans to do shows in both North America and Europe. I have the early list around here somewhere, but it included Toronto, Vancouver, New Jersey, Pasadena, Chicago, Seattle and Boston. And I think most of the plans for the early European cities stayed in place, but it grew to two shows in most. I think it was 7-8 shows for each side of the ocean originally. They added quite a bit to the first leg before it was ever announced.

    2019 wasn't necessarily a Live Nation push. The band wanted to do those shows and my impression was Live Nation was pushing them to do another North American leg instead as they felt Asia was a losing money proposition.