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13-Mar-2020 22:24
The effect is that there is no room for anything from The Joshua Tree.
This may also be a question of value – they have, after all, just done a huge tour in which every track from that historic album was played every night. Live Nation and MCD today confirm shows in Dublin and Belfast on U2’s upcoming e XPERIENCE i NNOCENCE Tour with tickets on sale from 2nd February.
Bono reaches out to her on the screen but she slips away, out of his grasp, to the stars.
It is a deeply moving glimpse into the heart of an artist, delving plaintively into the past.
It is much more than that, of course – but there are elements of musical theatre here, as if the band were playing around with the shape of the show that might eventually go on the road when they have foresworn on the travails which large scale touring imposes.
There is a traceable, compelling narrative running through the songs, emphasising the links not just between the e XPERIENCE and i NNOCENCE records but also back to the roots of the band, in the early neo-Punk days.
But hold on, there’s the real Bono, why aren’t I looking at him?Our man in Tulsa: Pat Carty According to designer Willie Williams, and The Edge, and everyone else who was talking in Tulsa over the past few days, the e XPERIENCE i NNOCENCE tour was initially supposed to follow promptly on the heels of i NNOCENCE e XPERIENCE jaunt, or even be part of the same bill.