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After selling out countless arenas this decade, U2 are heading
outdoors this year with their first U.S. stadium tour since 1997′s
PopMart Tour. The band members, who release No Line on the Horizon on
March 3rd, haven’t yet announced dates for the tour or details about
what they’ll play.
But they hope to keep ticket prices unusually low,
and they’re already planning an innovative setup that will allow for
360-degree seating around the stage, which will be moved closer to the
center of the field than in any other stadium show. “It’s an
engineering feat that creates this real physical proximity to the
crowd,” Bono tells Rolling Stone, adding that the band wants to
maximize space in the enormous venues to accommodate the many young
fans it has made this decade with hits such as “Vertigo.” “We’re going
outdoors to try to meet that audience.
“We want to play for each other as much as we want to play for the
crowd this time,” Bono adds. “You just don’t know how long you will be
going to be doing this. I just sat everyone down the other day,
because some concerns about the tour had come up, and nobody wants to
be away from their families. I just said, ‘This is an unbelievable and
rare opportunity to be in this band and to play at this level. You
don’t know what is around the corner, you don’t know if you will be up
for it or the audience will be up for it.
Right now, we are perfectly riding across those two thoughts and every single night should be the
best night of your life. If not, then we are just the worst of those
Seventies dinosaur bands that felt it was enough to just turn up and
play and that people were lucky to be in their presence.’”
- RollingStone
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