1. After the Cleveland show in 2017, I swore I'd never do GA floor in a stadium again. It's not fun try to watch a concert through a sea of moving arms holding up their phones. I don't have the desire to wait in a line anymore for a good spot. I don't go to many concerts anymore, so I'll just spend the BIG MONEY on good seats.

    Hoping to take my son to his first concert next year, so that'd be the best way for him to experience it anyway. He'll be 11 or maybe 12 by then.
  2. Originally posted by MoFoNYR15:I swore off stadium shows after MetLife in 2017. Didn’t even show up for night 2. Nothing to do with u2, the place is a giant piece of shit. Disappointing if they don’t do some MSG shows.


    It's in the middle of nowhere
  3. Will I finally get a home show? Probably not.
  4. Wales has got to be in the running when it’s stadiums. Didn’t skip you on vertigo or 360 and JT was a very short run in Europe so I wouldn’t look into the omission there too much. I hope the principality stadiums is included anyway because I’ll be going if it is.
  5. Originally posted by podiumboy:After the Cleveland show in 2017, I swore I'd never do GA floor in a stadium again. It's not fun try to watch a concert through a sea of moving arms holding up their phones. I don't have the desire to wait in a line anymore for a good spot. I don't go to many concerts anymore, so I'll just spend the BIG MONEY on good seats.

    Hoping to take my son to his first concert next year, so that'd be the best way for him to experience it anyway. He'll be 11 or maybe 12 by then.
    The good seats in stadiums aren’t good enough for me to justify the money. Would rather just get pretty close in GA, had amazing shows in Singapore and Twickenham on the JT anniversary tours. Only way I’ll consider seats is if I do a lot of nights in a short time, which is the plan actually, and the stage is set up on a long stand and I can get a seat at the stand across, not paying big money when the stage isn’t directly in front of me and not sitting at the far end to get a face on view either.
  6. Originally posted by podiumboy:After the Cleveland show in 2017, I swore I'd never do GA floor in a stadium again. It's not fun try to watch a concert through a sea of moving arms holding up their phones. I don't have the desire to wait in a line anymore for a good spot. I don't go to many concerts anymore, so I'll just spend the BIG MONEY on good seats.

    Hoping to take my son to his first concert next year, so that'd be the best way for him to experience it anyway. He'll be 11 or maybe 12 by then.
    I was at that Cleveland show, too. Know what you mean about too many arms up holding phones but I still would do GA again, just without waiting in line for a long time. Showing up an hour or two before the doors open still guarantees a pretty decent spot, I've found.

    My oldest daughter will be 10 next year, so I'm also hoping to take her to her first show!
  7. Not sure if I can stomach another stadium tour. Most bands that tour stadiums or amphitheaters in Florida make certain that it is only June-August so it can be 95-100 or even hotter, and I can't take the heat anymore. For Tampa 360, we had a October heat wave, and it was 98 or so when Muse hit the stage, and as the final notes of Moment of Surrender played, it was still 90 at 11:00 PM, which is highly unusual to be that hot that late at night, but I just can't do the Summer outdoor shows anymore. Of course, if it rains all day, I'll find a way to get there lol, as that usually means cooler show. I will ask around to see if any rumors for a Florida Stadium show.
  8. Originally posted by Sydney_MIke:
    For those of us in the Southern Hemisphere the question is will it be a genuine world tour or just another North America and Europe tour? We missed out on the i&e / e&i arena tours but got the JT19 stadium tour, so it would be nice to have some arena shows. I’ve said it before but I think U2 really need to learn from P!nk who comes down to Australia for 3 months and sells out dozens of Arena shows. They did it with Lovetown but everything since has been stadiums over a 2-3 week period.

    Originally posted by EdgeMedia72:[..]
    I highly doubt they will make their way back downunder anytime soon if at all again. They know where their bread is buttered and that's in the States and Europe. I would love the NSW GOV throw the sorta money they are talking at U2 instead of Bruno Mars for the opening of the new Alliance Stadium in Sydney later this year.

    Originally posted by deanallison:
    When they do stadiums Australia is usually included. There must be enough appeal for them to go there and play. It’s the same strategy usually, get any Europe and North American gigs out the way, which is the easy money on the tour without so much of the logistics to worry about then South America is probably in there as well and you’ve got Australia, japan and maybe even some of the other Asian countries they did they could add in. Not saying I’d be too confident but I’d at least say there was a chance with stadiums. An all arena tour I think there’s no chance they’re going outside of Europe and North America. You’d need to go back to the original JT tour for a tour they played a stadium leg but didn’t include a rest of the world leg.

    It would be around 5 years between shows for Oz, if they continued on to tour Oz/NZ in 2024. Not sure if that's long enough between tours to build up demand again, after a reasonably disappointing Oceania leg of the JT tour I suspect, in terms of ticket sales.

    In '06, after a 9 year hiatus - & on the back of a #1 album & popular lead single - the Vertigo tour sold well over 500,000 tickets in Australia & NZ.

    In '10, after only 4 years away - on the back of the CLAW not a popular album - suprisingly 360 also managed to sell around 500,000 tickets in Australia & NZ.

    In '19, after 9 years away - with no popular albums for a long time, on the back of a classic album - JT19 managed to sell around 330,000 tickets. Disappointing I suppose, but not surprising.

    Very much doubt Australia/NZ would sell well in stadiums in '24. Unless the new album had some huge selling singles, which is pretty unlikely.

    So doubt we'll see stadium shows in Oceania this time around.

    In saying that, stadiums always do well in Europe & South America, but I'm not sure the US can support a stadium tour either.

    Not sure how the JT 2017 US leg sold, but I remember empty sections being curtained off on the US leg of e+i. Pretty bad if you can't sell out single arena shows. Though that was when demand had well & truely been met, with 4 US tour legs in 4 years. It will be 5 years since the last US show, so you'd hope shows would sell well. But who knows, with the pandemic still lingering. COVID is still a big unknown I suppose. Have other concerts been selling very well in the US?

    So will be interesting to see if the US is all stadiums, with the exception of MSG Sphere. Or whether it's mainly/all arenas, with nothing coming from the Soldier Field & Sofia bookings. Or whether it's a true hybrid tour, with a mix of stadiums & arenas, like Rolling Stones have done in the past (they did even smaller venues too).

    Like Mike, I'd love U2 to bring an arena show down under, it's been a long time between drinks

    Maybe they'll enjoy a mini-residency in Vegas, & consider it elsewhere.

    Sydney usually sells around 100,000 tickets. 85,000 for JT 2019 in a crappy venue for seats (giant oval cricket ground with 45,000 seats). 110,000 for 360, & 210,000 for Vertigo! So you'd hope they could support 5-6 shows in their 21,000 seat arena. Melbourne maybe 5 shows in their 17,000 seat arena.

    But hey, I think they'd like to sell the most tickets possible, doing the least number of shows, which is understandable. That means stadiums.

    It's just a bit infuriating when you see them doing arena shows at places like Tulsa, performing to empty seats & blackout curtains. Certainly not maximizing the number of tickets per show

    End rant
  9. They played Tulsa because it was the cheapest arena to rent out for 8 days leading into the E and I tour Premiere.
  10. Originally posted by podiumboy:After the Cleveland show in 2017, I swore I'd never do GA floor in a stadium again. It's not fun try to watch a concert through a sea of moving arms holding up their phones. I don't have the desire to wait in a line anymore for a good spot. I don't go to many concerts anymore, so I'll just spend the BIG MONEY on good seats.

    Hoping to take my son to his first concert next year, so that'd be the best way for him to experience it anyway. He'll be 11 or maybe 12 by then.
    Totally agree with the phone thing. It's so annoying!

    But the problem with just about every stadium, even the closest seat are miles away! Sure, U2's stages & screens are always impressive, but I'd want to be much closer to the action.

    If I didn't want to wait too long, & was happy to spend big money, I'd probably do Red Zone. Either with some waiting for a nice rail spot close to the action (the problem is the nutter fans are even going crazy with their check-in lists for RZ), or arrive late, hang back & move around Red Zone.

    Here'a a picture from behind the corner of Red Zone, showing tonnes of room to move around, further back in Red Zone.
  11. But I'm usually too cheap for Red Zone, would rather do multiple shows. Only did RZ on 360 when it was auctioned & very cheap.

    So if I wanted to be reasonably close to the action for the JT30/32 tour, but wasn't keen to wait too long, I'd have chosen that GA rail at the corner behind Red Zone. You could usually get this spot with an arrival not long before the gates opened. Recommended it to friends with kids, & they had the time of their lives!

    Same for 360, with decent rail spots behind RZ for those that didn't want to wait too long, or spend the big bucks.