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  1. Originally posted by hoserama:They kicked around the idea a bit in rehearsals in 2015 on No Line and Moment of Surrender...but wimped out. They were soundchecking No Line periodically in the US leg of 2015.
    Where abouts in the setlist were they going to be?
  2. NLOTH will treated like Pop in future tours
  3. No idea, never made it to the dress rehearsal phase. U suspect the wildcard slots on the e stage would have been it.
  4. It’s already been treat much worse. The I&E, E&I and JT anniversary tours have all come and gone, 10 years since the end of 360 as well with only 1 performance from NLOTH since. Pop at least was well represented on the elevation tour, Discotheque was played twice on the vertigo tour which is still more than NLOTH was represented since the tours after 360 and Staring At The Sun got played on half of E&I.
  5. Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
    It’s already been treat much worse. The I&E, E&I and JT anniversary tours have all come and gone, 10 years since the end of 360 as well with only 1 performance from NLOTH since. Pop at least was well represented on the elevation tour, Discotheque was played twice on the vertigo tour which is still more than NLOTH was represented since the tours after 360 and Staring At The Sun got played on half of E&I.
    Interesting point. I know that 360 eventually dropped a lot of NLOTH by 2011, but it's ironic that the biggest-selling tour of all time originally promoted an album that the band now seem content to ignore completely.

    I'm sure this has been asked and answered before but I'm also wondering: was the concept for 360 envisioned before work on NLOTH ever began?
  6. The concept of playiing on a moving stage or playing as close as posdible to a stadium audience was discussed as far back as before the Popmart Tour, if I remember correctly.
  7. Originally posted by Papo:The concept of playiing on a moving stage or playing as close as posdible to a stadium audience was discussed as far back as before the Popmart Tour, if I remember correctly.
    It was, an idea to have moving trucks around the stadium as well as a concept of a huge crashing wave, etc.
  8. ZooTv, Popmart and Elevation where 'connected' to the albums that were toured, concept-wise.

    The B-stage, which they introduced with ZooTv, the moving Lemon at Popmart, the heart at Elevation, many others ideas they tossed with over the years led to 360.

    I believe that the 360 concept was developed over a time-span of maybe 10-15 years, with no connection to any specific album they were working on.

    But although others had played in the round - mostly indoors where the PA could be hung -, to pull it off in a stadium was difficult.

    Once it could be done, they did it.
  9. To be honest the songs weren't really cut out for the 360 tour,it would probably have worked better with big hitters,No Line was quite ambient in parts,I really liked 2009 legs of the tour and was disappointed they dropped it but the Zoo stuff seemed more in synch with what the tour was about.
    I'd rather they toured an album than a visual extravaganza though.
  10. I’ve been listening a lot to the remastered NLOTH recently. Much better dynamics, less hash to the ears. I still think it’s a great LP, but could’ve worked better as two EPs and maybe without the middle part (could’ve been b-sides) but including Winter/Soon/North Star. NLOTH, MoS and Breathe are stellar songs though.
  11. MOS is u2s best song up until The Little Things