U2 THE JOSHUA TREE TOUR 2017
BIGGEST TOUR OF THE YEAR SURPASSES 2.4 MILLION TICKETS SOLD
FIRST NORTH AMERICAN LEG WRAPS TO RAVE REVIEWS HAVING PLAYED TO MORE THAN 1 MILLION FANS
NEW SHOWS SELLING OUT IN NORTH AMERICA, MEXICO & SOUTH AMERICA
Photo Credit: Danny North
NEW
YORK, NY (Thursday, July 6th, 2017) – 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.
The Tour stops at The Dome at America's Center on September 16, with special guest Beck.
Tickets are available at www.livenation.com
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