Paul McGuinness, U2‘s manager and founder of Principle Management Limited, told Hot Press that the Irish mega-group is looking at a massive stadium tour in support of the recently release No Line on the Horizon. More specifically, McGuinness told the Irish publication that U2 is looking to announce a football stadium tour.
“This is going to be a very big tour, the biggest shows we’ve ever done,” he told Hot Press. “We’re going to play stadiums only. Football stadiums. That excludes, for instance, baseball stadiums because the production that we’ve designed is 360 degrees. It’s a stage with the audience on all sides.”
This fits very well with the rumor we revealed on Feb. 24 concerning the band possibly considering Duke’s Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham as a site for this highly anticipated tour.
As for the date, McGuinness said an announcement should be made on March 9 with the North American tour beginning sometime late summer.
“We are going to start in Europe, and basically do six weeks in Europe, take a logistical break and then six weeks in North America,” McGuinness said.
Putting the North American tour at the end of the summer could pose a problem with scheduling football stadium stops considering college football begins in early September while NFL preseason begins in August. David Menconi of On the Beat said on Feb. 25 that Duke’s athletic department indicated some issues with bringing the massive tour to Wallace Wade.
“Word from Duke’s athletic department is that the date the band wanted wouldn’t fit between football home dates,” Menconi writes. “There have reportedly been conversations about UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kenan Stadium; but the home football schedule is apparently not cooperating there, either.”
If a stop is indeed scheduled for the Triangle, it would be U2′s first show in the area since the band’s April 23, 1983 performance at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill. In 1997 the band was scheduled to perform at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, however the show was canceled due to damage to a video backdrop that was sustained the previous night in Washington, D.C.
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