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U2 2015 Dates!
Rolling out its first wave of tour dates, U2 is targeting 19 cities in North American and Europe with multiple nights in arenas. Tickets go on sale next week for Los Angeles, Montreal, Chicago, London, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and other destinations.
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Announced by Live Nation, U2’s iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE tour 2015 launches in Vancouver, British Columbia, May 14. As you probably already guessed, the band will be supporting Songs Of Innocence, the new album U2 gifted to the world via Apple’s iTunes, reaching more than half a billion of the online music service’s customers.
Apparently the band might be planning on varying the game plan each evening.
“We are going to try to have a completely different feeling from night one to night two and have some fun playing with the idea of innocence and experience,” Bono said. “More to be revealed!”
The folks at Live Nation are also pretty doggone excited.
“The anticipation for a U2 tour is always extraordinary, as it should be,” said Arthur Fogel, LN President – Global Touring and Chairman – Global Music. “Following the record-setting 360° Tour, I’m amazed that they still want to be ground-breaking, this time on a more intimate scale.”
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Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa
In other U2 news, due to Bono’s recent bicycle injuries, the band will not appear at Los Angeles radio station KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas concert at The Forum Dec. 14. U2’s The Edge called the station’s “Kevin & Bean Show” to deliver the bad news.
“He managed to come out of it with what you can only describe as injuries from a car crash, literally multiple fractures of bones in his elbow and his back,” the guitarist said. “But he’s doing OK. We’re kind of lucky he was wearing a helmet, so he didn’t actually break Central Park. He’s made of tough stuff and he’s bouncing back.
“He’s so upset about the fact that unfortunately as we’re about to announce, we’re not going to be able to do the Acoustic Christmas. He’s been told by his doctors to stay put. He’s back in Dublin right now and he basically can’t move for the next couple of months.”
But Bono should be ready to rock come May. Here are the dates:
May 14-15 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Rogers Arena
May 18-19 – San Jose, Calif., SAP Center At San Jose
May 22-23 – Phoenix, Ariz., US Airways Center
May 26-27 – Inglewood, Calif., Forum
May 30-31 – Inglewood, Calif., Forum
June 12-13 – Montreal, Quebec, Bell Centre
June 24-25 – Chicago, Ill., United Center
July 6-7 – Toronto, Ontario, Air Canada Centre
July 10-11 – Boston, Mass., TD Garden
July 18-19 – New York, N.Y., Madison Square Garden Arena
July 22-23 – New York, N.Y., Madison Square Garden Arena
Sept. 4-5 – Torino, Italy, Palaolimpico
Sept. 8-9 – Amsterdam, Netherlands, Ziggo Dome
Sept. 16-17 – Stockholm, Sweden, Ericsson Globe
Sept. 24-25 – Berlin, Germany, O2 World
Oct. 5-6 – Barcelona, Spain, Palau Sant Jordi
Oct. 13-14 – Merksem, Belgium, Antwerps Sportpaleis
Oct. 17-18 – Cologne, Germany, Lanxess Arena
Oct. 25-26 – London, United Kingdom, The O2 – London
Oct. 29-30 – London, United Kingdom, The O2 – London
Nov. 6-7 – Glasgow, United Kingdom, The SSE Hydro
Nov. 10-11 – Paris, France, Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy