RIP, U2's summer tour

[TheSportsPredictor]

Bono has been discharged from the Munich hospital where he had a back operation last week, and now faces a minimum of two months of physical rehabilitation.

As a result, and in what should come as a surprise to no one, U2 has postponed upcoming tour dates in the U.S. and U.K.

The 16-date U.S. leg of their tour, scheduled to kick off June 3, will now be rescheduled to take place in 2011.

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[NoOneLikesUs]

Probably just an excuse to bail on the tour due to weak ticket sales.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

The second leg of the highest grossing tour in history? I think they're doing just fine.

Probably a little more tied to the fact that Bono just got out of the hospital after having emergency back surgery.

 

[mustangj17]

Dammit! I just finished a huge freelance peice on summer concerts. The focus was the U2 tour stop. ****!

 

[steveu]

Mustang, did you already turn it in and has it run already? If it did, no one can foresee what happened.

Now if it hasn't run yet, then ya... a different angle would be good.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Blackeyed Peas were opening. I can't imagine that tour was having any trouble selling tickets.

 

[spnited]

My cousin and I were just discussing Sunday whether we wanted to spend about $165 per ticket at the Meadowlands Stadium in July.

 

[WolvEagle]

Sounds like Bono is stuck in a moment he can't get out of.

(Sorry, it was too easy - and, yes, I'm a U2 fan.)

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Blackeyed Peas were opening. I can't imagine that tour was having any trouble selling tickets.

Blue font?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Blackeyed Peas were opening. I can't imagine that tour was having any trouble selling tickets.

Blue font?

Not at all. U2 is known for usually having really good opening acts. I saw Public Enemy and the Sugarcubes open for them once. I've also seen Kings of Leon, Garbage, Smashmouth and PJ Harvey open for them.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Blackeyed Peas were opening. I can't imagine that tour was having any trouble selling tickets.

Blue font?

Not at all. U2 is known for usually having really good opening acts. I saw Public Enemy and the Sugarcubes open for them once. I've also seen Kings of Leon, Garbage, Smashmouth and PJ Harvey open for them.

I saw the Blackeyed Peas open for U2 in Glendale. Not my thing, but the crowd loved 'em. It was clearly a big draw.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Blackeyed Peas were opening. I can't imagine that tour was having any trouble selling tickets.

Blue font?

Not at all. U2 is known for usually having really good opening acts. I saw Public Enemy and the Sugarcubes open for them once. I've also seen Kings of Leon, Garbage, Smashmouth and PJ Harvey open for them.

I saw the Blackeyed Peas open for U2 in Glendale. Not my thing, but the crowd loved 'em. It was clearly a big draw.

On a road trip about a month or two ago, we were listening to one of the popular music channels on Sirius and we would count to see how many songs would be played in between Black-Eyed Peas songs and I don't think we ever got to more than 8 or 9.

 

[Huggy]

Seen U2 three times. First time in 1984, the opener was The Waterboys, a great underrated band. Second time, 1985, it was Lone Justice and on The Joshua Tree tour it was Los Lobos. Good stuff, there.

 

[finishthehat]

Wasn't the first leg of the tour barely profitable (in U2 terms) because of the giant set and production? Sold out everywhere, but the nut was outrageous.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Wasn't the first leg of the tour barely profitable (in U2 terms) because of the giant set and production? Sold out everywhere, but the nut was outrageous.

It was massively expensive, but I think they still cleared upwards of $75 million.

First time I saw U2 was 1983 on the War tour. The Alarm opened, before they had even released a single in the US. Great show.

 

[steveu]

Saw U2 on The Joshua Tree tour in 1987. Awesome show. I'll go again next year.

 

[terrier]

Tell me about U2 opening acts. In Providence, Lone Justice and the Pixies (saw them at a small college between U2's Boston and Providence gigs on their last pre-breakup tour). A few years ago, they picked up Arcade Fire for the Canuckistan swing. And this year, they had Interpol scheduled for a bunch of dates.
Interpol is playing Lupo's in late July. Yikes. Last time they were around here, they played the 7.000-plus Taj Agganis at my alma mater.

 

[JayFarrar]

Kanye West opened for them when I saw U2 a few years back in St. Louis.

It was kinda cool and kinda weird all at the same time.

 

[Pencil Dick]

Speaking of odd opening acts ...

I have a good friend who was attending what's now Rhodes College in Memphis in, I think, the fall of 1981 or 1982. Big music fan, one of the first people I knew who was listening to U2 regularly. In fact, I'd never heard of U2 before he made me aware of them.

He saw U2 that year in Memphis as the opening act for ... the J. Geils Band, which was riding high with the "Love Stinks" LP.

 

[Batman]

Sounds like Bono is stuck in a moment he can't get out of.

(Sorry, it was too easy - and, yes, I'm a U2 fan.)

Just Walk On, WolvEagle.