NEW YORK, July 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Having played
to more than one million fans, the first North American leg of U2's
The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 came to a triumphant close July 1st at the FirstEnergy Stadium in
Cleveland. With ticket sales
surpassing 2.4 million across North and South America, the UK and Europe, and Mexico, The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 has
reaffirmed its standing as the most commercially and critically
successful tour of the year.
The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, produced by Live Nation Global
Touring, opened May 12th at BC Place
in Vancouver and made its U.S.
debut May 14th at CenturyLink Field
in Seattle—the latter kicking off some of the most enthusiastic
critical notes in the history of U2's relationship with America.
Rolling Stone hailed the band as "a live act simply without peer,"
USA Today noted "Thirty years
can't dull searing music, hopeful lyrics or the captivating Irish
band behind them," while The New York
Times added "For the performance of The Joshua Tree... the band members took places on
the full-sized stadium stage. They were ascending the way their
career did… The band was dwarfed, but the music wasn't.
Larry Mullen Jr. on drums,
Adam Clayton on bass and the Edge on
guitar tore into the urgent rhythmic flux of 'Where the Streets
Have No Name.' Against the craggy postpunk groove of 'Bullet the
Blue Sky,' both Bono's falsetto and the Edge's guitar leads were
keening sirens."
The reviews of The Joshua Tree Tour 2017's opening weekend set a
tone that intensified throughout a North American run featuring 20
sold out stadium dates and U2's first ever U.S. festival headline
June 9th at Bonnaroo. Reviews for the
shows have been consistently excellent, with some more recent
highlights including:
"The thing about U2 is that, in almost any of their forms these
past four decades, they always offer some degree of transcendence.
They can't help it... This is also what makes them what they are —
legends, an institution, well beyond the levels of even some of our
biggest stars today... These are songs that reminded you how many
different kinds of people across countries and generations one
artist, one voice can impact — and, in turn, they are songs that
remind you that fighting for a better world, even when it zigs and
zags over thirty years, might just be worth it."—STEREOGUM
"U2's Two-Hour Pep Talk is Exactly What We Need Right Now… The
best U2 songs cast life as a garden of possibilities while pushing
back at forces that seek to limit them. This Joshua Tree tour wisely plays just those
songs. It is a two-hour pep talk. It is a technological spectacle.
It is a warm bath for the soul. It will knock you on your
ass."—VULTURE
"I have left every U2 concert feeling like some measure of my
humanity had been restored after being worn down by the blistering
winds of the daily shit storm we call living. Last night was no
exception."—PHAWKER
"An uplifting return to Joshua
Tree — and much more… Sunday's sold-out concert at Gillette
Stadium commemorated the album's 30th anniversary by playing it in
full, and it served as both a reminder of and reckoning with the
power that fell into U2's grasp at that moment in its
history."—BOSTON GLOBE
U2's The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 heads to the UK and Europe where it kicks off with two nights in
London on July 8th & 9th followed by concerts in
Berlin, Rome, Barcelona, Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels. It will then relaunch in
North America September 3rd with a return to Detroit – the city where U2 played its first
ever headline stadium show back on April
30th, 1987 at the Silverdome on the original Joshua Tree
Tour. The tour's limited return to North America will include stops in
Buffalo, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Kansas
City, New Orleans,
St. Louis, Phoenix and San
Diego. The tour will then head to Mexico City followed by concerts in
Bogota, Buenos Aires, Santiago and Sao
Paulo.
Beck will be special guest for the upcoming North American
dates. In Mexico and South America, Noel
Gallagher's High Flying Birds have been confirmed as special
guest.
U2 The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 is produced by Live Nation Global
Touring. UPS is the Official Logistics Provider of the tour.
UPCOMING TOUR
DATES:
|
|
EUROPE:
|
|
|
SUPPORT:
|
July 8
|
London, UK
|
Twickenham
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
July 9
|
London, UK
|
Twickenham
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
July 12
|
Berlin, DE
|
Olympic
Stadium
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
July 15
|
Rome,
IT
|
Olympic
Stadium
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
July
16
|
Rome,
IT
|
Olympic
Stadium
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
July
18
|
Barcelona,
ES
|
Olympic
Stadium
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
July
22
|
Dublin,
IE
|
Croke
Park
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
July
25
|
Paris,
FR
|
Stade de
France
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
July
26
|
Paris,
FR
|
Stade de
France
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
July
29
|
Amsterdam,
NE
|
Amsterdam
Arena
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
July
30
|
Amsterdam,
NE
|
Amsterdam
Arena
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
August
1
|
Brussels,
BE
|
Stade Roi
Baudouin
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
|
|
|
|
FALL
TOUR:
|
|
|
SUPPORT:
|
Sept. 3
|
Detroit,
MI
|
Ford
Field
|
Beck
|
Sept.
5
|
Buffalo,
NY
|
New Era
Field
|
Beck
|
Sept.
8
|
Minneapolis,
MN
|
US Bank
Stadium
|
Beck
|
Sept.
10
|
Indianapolis,
IN
|
Lucas Oil
Stadium
|
Beck
|
Sept.
12
|
Kansas City,
MO
|
Arrowhead
Stadium
|
Beck
|
Sept.
14
|
New Orleans,
LA
|
Mercedes Benz
Superdome
|
Beck
|
Sept.
16
|
St. Louis,
MO
|
The Dome At America's
Center
|
Beck
|
Sept.
19
|
Phoenix,
AZ
|
University of Phoenix
Stadium
|
Beck
|
Sept.
22
|
San Diego,
CA
|
Qualcomm
Stadium
|
Beck
|
|
|
|
|
Oct.
3
|
Mexico City,
Mexico
|
Foro
Sol
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
Oct.
4
|
Mexico City,
Mexico
|
Foro
Sol
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
Oct.
7
|
Bogota,
Colombia
|
Estadio El
Campin
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
Oct.
10
|
Buenos Aires,
Argentina
|
La
Plata
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
Oct.
11
|
Buenos Aires,
Argentina
|
La
Plata
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
Oct.
14
|
Santiago,
Chile
|
Estadio
Nacional
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
Oct.
19
|
Sao Paulo,
Brazil
|
Morumbi
Stadium
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
Oct.
21
|
Sao Paulo,
Brazil
|
Morumbi
Stadium
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
Oct.
22
|
Sao Paulo,
Brazil
|
Morumbi
Stadium
|
Noel Gallagher's High
Flying Birds
|
For complete tour and ticket information, visit: www.u2.com
& www.livenation.com
About Live Nation Entertainment
Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) is the world's leading
live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders:
Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media &
Sponsorship. For additional information, visit
www.livenationentertainment.com.
To view the original version on PR Newswire,
visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/u2-the-joshua-tree-tour-2017-biggest-tour-of-the-year-surpasses-24-million-tickets-sold-300483891.html
SOURCE Live Nation Entertainment