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July 18, 1997 – Rotterdam, Netherlands – Feyenoord Stadium

Posted by SPun2U on Jul 18, 1997 in Popmart - 2nd Leg - Europe, Popmart Tour | Comments Off

Opening Act(s): Skunk Anansie
Setlist:
Mofo, I Will Follow, Gone, Even Better Than The Real Thing, Last Night On Earth, Until The End Of The World, New Year’s Day, Pride (In The Name Of Love)-Neon Lights, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, All I Want Is You, Staring At The Sun, I Love You Love, Miami, Bullet The Blue Sky, Please, Where The Streets Have No Name. Encore(s): Discothèque, If You Wear That Velvet Dress, With Or Without You, Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me, Mysterious Ways, One-MLK, Rain.

Boston Globe: With millions sold, can U2’s ’PopMart’ be a flop?

Posted by SPun2U on Jul 3, 1997 in News & Rumors | Comments Off

With millions sold, can U2’s ’PopMart’ be a flop? By Jim Sullivan, Globe Staff

Is U2’s "PopMart" tour the Hindenberg of the summer rock season?

Entertainment Weekly, the layman’s pop-culture/industry bible, certainly thinks so. In the current issue, cartoonist Barry Blitt has U2’s "PopMart" topping his "Obit" List, beating out the Macarena and Soundgarden. In Boston, the last stop on the band’s North American tour, U2 played two shows to more than 100,000 people – but three shows were projected. In Los Angeles, Bono and the boys took to KROQ-FM for five hours to sell the concert. This week, Billboard’s sister publication, Amusement Business, printed sales figures for eight dates, including three at Giants Stadium in New Jersey. The tally: 308,741 tickets sold of a possible 355,444, or about 87 percent. This is failure?

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Business Wire: U2 PopMart Webcast gives visitors control of concert cameras

Posted by SPun2U on Jul 2, 1997 in News & Rumors | Comments Off

From Business Wire:

U2 PopMart Webcast gives visitors control of concert camerasTCG CERFnet, MRD New Media Entertainment deliver vital link.

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July 2, 1997 – Foxboro, Massachusetts, USA – Foxboro Stadium

Posted by SPun2U on Jul 2, 1997 in Popmart - 1st Leg - North America, Popmart Tour | Comments Off

Opening Act(s): Fun Lovin’ Criminals
Setlist:
Mofo, I Will Follow, Gone, Even Better Than The Real Thing, Last Night On Earth, Until The End Of The World, New Year’s Day, Pride (In The Name Of Love), I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For-Stand By Me, All I Want Is You, Staring At The Sun, Suspicious Minds, Miami, Bullet The Blue Sky-America-The Message, Please, Where The Streets Have No Name. Encore(s): Discothèque, If You Wear That Velvet Dress, With Or Without You, Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me, Mysterious Ways, One-MLK, Rain.
Remarks:
Fun Lovin’ Criminals join The Edge on stage to sing ‘Suspicious Minds.’ Bono adds a bit of MLK to the end of One, and then sings a bit of ‘Rain’ after that. The crowd wants more, so one by one, the rest of the band joins in and they play a full version of the song, an appropriate choice considering the weather tonight. When ‘Rain’ ends, the crowd still yells for more, but Bono jokingly tells them ‘that was our last song. F–k off.’

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YouTwo.net: Matt Groening confirms U2 appearance on ’The Simpsons’

Posted by SPun2U on Jul 1, 1997 in News & Rumors | Comments Off

Source : YouTwo.net

As reported by a fellow fan:

"Reading an interview with Matt Groening today (UK "night and day" Sundaymagazine), the script for the 200th Simpsons episode includes U2 playing agig in Springfield. Apparently some gentle ribbing is planned too – at onepoint Bono launches into an eco-rant while Edge and Larry look skywards andslope off for a pint. Sounds pretty realistic to me ."