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Re: U2

#81 Post by Pandemonium » Mon Jan 09, 2017 2:39 pm

U2 announced the dates for their Joshua Tree 30th anniversary tour today. As in previous tours, most of the floor/field is GA and is reasonably priced around $80 although they will also have some type of pit probably with seats that will feature premium pricing.

They plan on playing the album in it's entirety but it's not set in stone they will play the songs in the album's running order, especially considering the first 4 songs are among their most popular and played to death tunes.

Perhaps most telling, The Edge mentioned in a new Rolling Stone interview that the delayed new studio album was pushed back because of the band's now-typical second guessing in light of the US election, Brexit and other recent world events. It's going to be fun going to the LA show and hearing Bono whine about Trump after the huge pass they gave Bush Jr during the 2001 and 2005 tours.

The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 North America

Fri. May 12 Vancouver, BC BC Place Stadium
Sun. May 14 Seattle, WA CenturyLink Field
Wed. May 17 San Francisco, CA Levi's Stadium
Sat. May 20 Los Angeles, CA Rose Bowl
Wed. May 24 Houston, TX NRG Stadium
Fri. May 26 Dallas, TX AT&T Stadium
Sat. June 3 Chicago, IL Soldier Field
Wed. June 7 Pittsburgh, PA Heinz Field
Sat. June 11 Miami, FL Hard Rock Stadium
Wed. June 14 Tampa, FL Raymond James Stadium
Sun. June 18 Philadelphia, PA Lincoln Financial Field
Tue. June 20 Washington, DC FedEx Field
Fri. June 23 Toronto, ON Rogers Centre
Sun. June 25 Boston, MA Gillette Stadium
Wed. June 28 E. Rutherford, NJ MetLife Stadium
Sat. July 1 Cleveland, OH First Energy

The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 Europe

Sat. 8 July London, UK Twickenham Stadium
Wed. 12 July Berlin, DE Olympic Stadium
Sat., 15 July Rome, IT Olympic Stadium
Tue. 18 July Barcelona, ES Olympic Stadium
Sat. 22 July Dublin, IE Croke Park
Tue. 25 July Paris, FR Stade De France
Sat. 29 July Amsterdam, NE Amsterdam Arena
Tue. 1 Aug. Brussels, BE King Baudouin Stadium

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Re: U2

#82 Post by Artemis » Mon Jan 09, 2017 2:53 pm

I might go to this show. It's been 20 years since I last saw U2 - PopMart tour 1997.
Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers and OneRepublic will alternate opening for U2 on the North American leg. Tickets go on sale on Jan 17, but earlier for subscribers to the band's website.
I might be mixing them up, but aren't One Republic a boy band??

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#83 Post by Pandemonium » Mon Jan 09, 2017 4:55 pm

Artemis wrote:I might go to this show. It's been 20 years since I last saw U2 - PopMart tour 1997.
Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers and OneRepublic will alternate opening for U2 on the North American leg. Tickets go on sale on Jan 17, but earlier for subscribers to the band's website.
I might be mixing them up, but aren't One Republic a boy band??
No, you're probably thinking of One Direction, lol. All three of these bands are mostly watered down Kings Of Leon/Coldplay lightweights probably chosen to bring in the Starbucks hipsters for the North American dates. I'm not a big fan of Oasis and I don't have a clue what Noel Gallagher's solo stuff is like but I'd prefer to see him open by about eleventy billion times over any of the acts opening for the NA dates.

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Re: U2

#84 Post by Artemis » Tue Jan 10, 2017 9:33 am

Pandemonium wrote:
Artemis wrote:I might go to this show. It's been 20 years since I last saw U2 - PopMart tour 1997.
Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers and OneRepublic will alternate opening for U2 on the North American leg. Tickets go on sale on Jan 17, but earlier for subscribers to the band's website.
I might be mixing them up, but aren't One Republic a boy band??
No, you're probably thinking of One Direction, lol. All three of these bands are mostly watered down Kings Of Leon/Coldplay lightweights probably chosen to bring in the Starbucks hipsters for the North American dates. I'm not a big fan of Oasis and I don't have a clue what Noel Gallagher's solo stuff is like but I'd prefer to see him open by about eleventy billion times over any of the acts opening for the NA dates.
Yes, I was thinking of One Direction. :lol:
I saw Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds in 2015. I thought they were quite good;they definitely have that pop rock sound. Noel's voice is distinctive and in top form. The band Noel's assembled is really tight too. One of the things I really liked about the show I went to was Noel's hilarious commentary between songs. He's a really funny and down to earth guy. You can tell he really loves what he's doing because he's not just running through the songs.

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Re: U2

#85 Post by elportosurfer9 » Tue Jan 10, 2017 2:06 pm

I have always liked U2. JT is a solid album, among the B-sides. Pop mart had some of the best U2 songs during that period. I was taking about shows with my cousin, and he actually saw U2 at the Roxy in 1980. That would of been cool. :thumb:

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#86 Post by kv » Tue Jan 10, 2017 3:49 pm

1980 at the Roxy? I call bullshit :nod:

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#87 Post by elportosurfer9 » Tue Jan 10, 2017 8:05 pm

Maybe 1981? :eyes:

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#88 Post by kv » Tue Jan 10, 2017 10:36 pm

Time wise it just sounded wrong...plus the Roxy is tiny, nothing against you, I'm sure your buddy just forgot when/where...I know I have enough times
Even the band's first L.A. show in 1981 was at the old Country Club in suburban Reseda – a venue with about twice the capacity of the Roxy.
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#89 Post by Pandemonium » Tue Jan 10, 2017 11:32 pm

U2 never played The Roxy until 2015 on a day off inbetween a multi-night stand at the nearby LA Forum.

The only small venues they played in SoCal was the Reseda Country Club (which I saw), a tiny dump in Anaheim called The Woodstock and The Santa Monica Civic all in '81. They played The Hollywood Palladium on their second album tour in '82 and played arenas and stadiums ever since.

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#90 Post by kv » Wed Jan 11, 2017 1:21 am

Civic was fun, floor would bounce and place was louuuud...That's cool you saw them at the county club...Good to know my bullshit detector still works from time to time...I'm sure the guy just forgot where he saw them...A couple months back was talking about some band with a friend...I mentioned I saw them way back when at the whisky with a mutual friend...To which he replied I was with him and it was at the troub :lolol: they all kinda blend...You keep a log or just stayed off the drugs? :wink:

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#91 Post by kv » Wed Jan 11, 2017 1:38 am

Hey panda...I always wished I had all my ticket stubs...But I clubbed so much last minute a ton of my shows were just wrist bands or stamps....Remember stamps? Where you could lick the back of your hand and get someone in free after they "came back after their cig" just thought of that shit..Lol "hey dude, five bucks if you lick your hand" :lolol:
Or banging on clubs back doors till you annoyed a patron enough to open it lol...Or some clubs used colored wrist bands they cycled...Once you had all the colors no more sold out shows

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Re: U2

#92 Post by Pandemonium » Wed Jan 11, 2017 2:55 pm

kv wrote:Civic was fun, floor would bounce and place was louuuud...That's cool you saw them at the county club...Good to know my bullshit detector still works from time to time...I'm sure the guy just forgot where he saw them...A couple months back was talking about some band with a friend...I mentioned I saw them way back when at the whisky with a mutual friend...To which he replied I was with him and it was at the troub :lolol: they all kinda blend...You keep a log or just stayed off the drugs? :wink:
A combo of both, plus I have a pretty sharp memory. Because I was usually the driver when a bunch of friends would got to shows, I rarely got hammered. Although clubs were a different story, lol.

When my friends and I were regularly hitting Hollywood clubs on weekends between about '85 - '90, BAM magazine and the LA Times Sunday calender section were like my tour guide to what bands and clubs I'd wanna check out. BAM magazine was how I first got clued into Janes and caught one of their last Scream club shows. Starting in late '89, I occasionally DJ'd at local live rock club The Marquee in Garden Grove which was a couple miles away and could come and go without paying cover even if the place was at capacity. I can't guess how many forgettable mostly metal and punk bands I saw during this period.

The Santa Monica Civic was a fun place to see bands. With the exception of the Pretenders, everyone I saw there were metal bands like Motorhead, Megadeth, Motley Crue, etc. The thing about was it was a big concrete walled box so the sound had a really hard high end that would wreck the hearing for days afterwords.

Up until the early 90's, I always kept a tiny day planner/phonebook/diary on me at all times, something I picked up in High School to stay organized. Since the early 90's, I just compile and write stuff on what is essentially a huge 25 year old text/word document I keep adding on to.

And yeah, I kept and still have most of my ticket stubs going all the way back to the late 70's.

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#93 Post by nausearockpig » Sun Jan 15, 2017 9:33 pm

I hope you've backed up that text doc, and scanned all those tix....

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Re: U2

#94 Post by Bandit72 » Mon Jan 16, 2017 2:14 am

I think I'm the only person on this forum who doesn't like U2.

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#95 Post by kv » Mon Jan 16, 2017 2:25 am

I haven't liked u2 since the 80's

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#96 Post by nausearockpig » Mon Jan 16, 2017 3:15 am

I've never liked U2.

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Re: U2

#97 Post by Bandit72 » Mon Jan 16, 2017 3:27 am

Hooray!

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#98 Post by Japhy » Mon Jan 16, 2017 6:53 am

nausearockpig wrote:I've never liked U2.
Ditto. Obviously not to make a deal of it in a thread that is clearly about people liking U2 but I've never had the slightest inclination to listen to them. Probably my loss but there you go.

On a loosely related note to this thread, any time Panda and KV wanna release a book about gigs they've been to, i'll buy a copy!

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#99 Post by kv » Mon Jan 16, 2017 4:13 pm

Pandemonium wrote:
When my friends and I were regularly hitting Hollywood clubs on weekends between about '85 - '90, BAM magazine and the LA Times Sunday calender section were like my tour guide to what bands and clubs I'd wanna check out. BAM magazine was how I first got clued into Janes and caught one of their last Scream club shows. Starting in late '89, I occasionally DJ'd at local live rock club The Marquee in Garden Grove which was a couple miles away and could come and go without paying cover even if the place was at capacity. I can't guess how many forgettable mostly metal and punk bands I saw during this period.
For me it was Sunday times and def LA weekly for the most part but I'd skim through a bam whenever I got home from a tower...Think an OC Sunday paper too...Was strange how like coach house and stuff wasn't in like the la weekly (gonna guess I was at that concrete blond show I see on top of your stub pile as I fucking loved Johnette) a lot of the shows I went to I'd hear about on kxlu and go places I'd never heard off... one thing I can't say for sure is if I saw a scream show of Jane's...I just can't place one for sure...First show I can place Jane's for sure was at fenders in Long Beach...Used to think first time I saw perry was at the golden bear but it doesn't jive with know shows unless it was psi com but that's a lil too early for me...Maybe a lost show, maybe not :noclue:

I think if we'd had every stub you must have seen far more concerts and I far more shitty club shows...I'd like to know how many bands I saw coming up that became big that I have no clue I saw now...Or how many shows we saw together gotta.be tons..I can only write the late 80's to 2000 section...I hardly ever see shows now, unless they are friends for the most part as I'd much rather play music with my spare time then watch it...Saw hellride on Sat and ended up playing all night after because I fucking had to after seeing them...So you get all the metal chapters (I can footnote a thing or two) and for the 21 century half of the book I'll just illustrate lol..Working title: "WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" Or "Blowing thousands on shows and all I got was this crappy tinnitus"

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#100 Post by Pandemonium » Mon Jan 16, 2017 8:52 pm

kv wrote:
Pandemonium wrote:
When my friends and I were regularly hitting Hollywood clubs on weekends between about '85 - '90, BAM magazine and the LA Times Sunday calender section were like my tour guide to what bands and clubs I'd wanna check out. BAM magazine was how I first got clued into Janes and caught one of their last Scream club shows. Starting in late '89, I occasionally DJ'd at local live rock club The Marquee in Garden Grove which was a couple miles away and could come and go without paying cover even if the place was at capacity. I can't guess how many forgettable mostly metal and punk bands I saw during this period.
For me it was Sunday times and def LA weekly for the most part but I'd skim through a bam whenever I got home from a tower...Think an OC Sunday paper too...Was strange how like coach house and stuff wasn't in like the la weekly (gonna guess I was at that concrete blond show I see on top of your stub pile as I fucking loved Johnette) a lot of the shows I went to I'd hear about on kxlu and go places I'd never heard off... one thing I can't say for sure is if I saw a scream show of Jane's...I just can't place one for sure...First show I can place Jane's for sure was at fenders in Long Beach...Used to think first time I saw perry was at the golden bear but it doesn't jive with know shows unless it was psi com but that's a lil too early for me...Maybe a lost show, maybe not :noclue:

I think if we'd had every stub you must have seen far more concerts and I far more shitty club shows...I'd like to know how many bands I saw coming up that became big that I have no clue I saw now...Or how many shows we saw together gotta.be tons..I can only write the late 80's to 2000 section...I hardly ever see shows now, unless they are friends for the most part as I'd much rather play music with my spare time then watch it...Saw hellride on Sat and ended up playing all night after because I fucking had to after seeing them...So you get all the metal chapters (I can footnote a thing or two) and for the 21 century half of the book I'll just illustrate lol..Working title: "WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" Or "Blowing thousands on shows and all I got was this crappy tinnitus"
I'm gonna start a thread about this.......

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#101 Post by nausearockpig » Mon Jan 16, 2017 9:37 pm

Yeh do it, that way I can post all my Regurgitator tickets.

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Re: U2

#102 Post by Pandemonium » Mon May 22, 2017 2:44 pm

5/21 – Los Angeles, CA – Rose Bowl

01 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
02 - New Year's Day
03 - Pride (In the Name of Love)
04 - Where the Streets Have No Name / California (There is No End to Love) [snippet]
05 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
06 - With or Without You
07 - Bullet the Blue Sky
08 - Running to Stand Still
09 - Red Hill Mining Town
10 - In God's Country
11 - Trip Through Your Wires
12 - One Tree Hill
13 - Exit / Wise Blood (snippet) / Eeny Meeny Miny Moe (snippet)
14 - Mothers of the Disappeared
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15 - Miss Sarajevo / The New Colossus (snippet)
16 - America (snippet) / Bad
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17 - Beautiful Day / City of Stars (snippet)
18 - Elevation
19 - Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
20 - One / Hear Us Coming (snippet)
21 - The Little Things That Give You Away

This was my 29th U2 show, having seen them every tour (except Lovetown) dating back to 1981. I had previously seen 3 shows on the original Joshua Tree tour (LA Sports Arena 4/18, 4/22 and LA Coliseum 11/18/87), the 4/22 show I still consider to be the best U2 show I've ever seen to date.

I left early late afternoon for the Rose Bowl knowing what a hassle it is getting into the lot once you're off the freeway. Still, it took me nearly 1 1/2 hours to get parked what seemed 1/2 mile from the stadium at the far North end of the golf course parking lot. The plus side, parking out in the sticks served me well as I was able to get out and back on the freeway in about 15 minutes after the show.

Add to that, due to a ticket snafu (my CC wouldn't scan and they had my ticket under my first name, not last), another hour plus just to get it sorted at both the ticket "resolution" booth and will call before I finally got my Red Zone ticket. Virtually everyone working the Rose Bowl was utterly clueless and made a messy situation far worse and more stressful. However, I finally got in and took a good position in the Red Zone only 15 minutes before U2 started.

The Red Zone imo, is worth the $360+ simply because it's not jammed tight, the sound is good, you have elbow room and you have a pretty good view of both the main and b-stages although the main stage is huge and set pretty far back even if you're right up front. There's no chairs in the Red Zone however that metal baracades have little stoops you can sit on to give your legs a rest. There's no dedicated bathrooms, you still have to exit the Red Zone and walk out to wherever restrooms may be outside the stadium. I didn't notice a dedicated bar/drink/merch stand inside the Red Zone but to be honest, I didn't have time to look around.

U2 started around 8:45 with Larry on drums on the B-Stage followed by The Edge, Bono and Adam and slammed into a strong version of Sunday Bloody Sunday. This was followed by New Years Day and a somewhat lethargic performance of Pride before the band went up to the main stage for the Joshua Tree segment. I was really bummed they skipped A Sort Of Homecoming (even with the terrible canned sequencer arrangement this tour), probably *the* song outside the JT deep cuts I was most looking forward to hearing.

That said, I thought up through Bullet The Blue Sky, the show had a lot of energy and great pacing. Once they got into Running To Stand Still and the rather uninspired reworking of Red Hill Mining Town, the energy especially with the audience dropped. I was rather surprised how "thin" In Gods Country came off live - one of the few times Bono's previous guitar playing actually added to the original 80's live version. Trip Through Your Wires and One Tree Hill (dedicated to Chris Cornell and family) were both solid, faithful renditions that went over very well. One of the highlights of the show was how well Exit was played. Basically a straight, very tight, intense performance like the original Joshua Tree tour that should make the band rethink why it shouldn't be included in future tours. Mothers Of The Disappeared capped the JT set and the band took a few minute break before coming back with the honestly lame version of Miss Sarajevo.

A strong performance of Bad was a welcome addition in the following slot and overall, I think rearranging the encore for this set works much better then previous shows this tour. Ultraviolet wasn't quite as strong as the 360 tour version and certainly nowhere near as emotionally powerful as the ZooTV tour version. The new "electronic-y" arrangement of Beautiful Day with the Daft Punk vox effects is not very good but Elevation still is a major crowd pleaser. While the band spent most of the set after the pre-JT on the main stage, Bono did come down to the B Stage again during the encore.

By "One," people were starting to stream out of the stadium in droves and as I've mentioned elseware, putting "The Little Things That Give You Away" as the final song in the set does it no favors, especially considering imo, it's not a very strong tune comparing with non-LP songs like Electrical Storm and Windows In The Sky.

Overall, I think it was a good show, not great, certainly not a patch on any original JT shows I saw back in the day. Musically, the band still seems strong although their age is showing in how much less the move around on stage these days. I really didn't hear any issues with Bono's voice although using the canned Pavarotti vox on MS when Bono used to impressively sing the part himself live really saps that song of any drama it used to have on the Vertigo tour. I know a number of people have complained about Bono's "preaching" but honestly, aside from the speech preceding Ultraviolet and the frankly obnoxious, distracting video (really, politically correct equating someone like Ellen D or Hillary Clinton with real pioneering, courageous woman like Malala Yousafzai?) for the song, it wasn't anything more or less then usual "preaching" for post Y2K U2.

The sound was very good, not quite as powerful and sharp as the 360 tour and certainly not as painfully loud as the IE tour. Solid, deep bass when it was needed. The huge video screen that makes up the main stage backdrop featured crystal clear video. Often, especially during the first half of the JT set, short films like travelogues of the desert and staged montages of people doing things like putting on helmets or (Edge's wife dressed like a cowgirl) painting a shack with the American flag dominated the tiny figures of the band. Often it was like a band performing in front of an IMAX nature documentary which probably sucked for those in the nosebleed seats. It wasn't until later in the set that the screen was used more for traditional close-up images of the band members performing.

I will say being my 3rd unpleasant Rose Bowl experience out of 3 (Rolling Stones 1995, U2 2009, last night), I will never see anyone at this stadium again. The place is just a traffic and logistics nightmare and the staff is uniformly the most clueless of any venue I've been to. I'll take the LA Coliseum or Anaheim Stadium any day of the week if I gotta deal with a stadium show.

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#103 Post by Larry B. » Mon May 22, 2017 5:36 pm

Cool, cheers for that review. I'm sorry it wasn't as great as other U2 shows you've seen.

29... fucking hell.

I think I've already mentioned it, but after seeing U2 in Glasgow in late 2015, I was amazed by how the made their shittiest songs sound good live. They just made the "experience" really beautiful. I always said, before attending that show, that it was probably going to be my last time seeing them. I had already seen them 3 times in Chile and 1 time in Argentina, and we went to the Glasgow show basically because my wife had never seen them before. But after that show, I can't not go if they confirm a date in Chile for this anniversary tour.

I won't have to worry about the traffic either, as my new flat is a 25 minute walk to the national stadium.

I was a bit disappointed by the lenght of this JT show, only 22 songs... but then I double-checked and it seems like a pretty standard lenght for a U2 show. Maybe it's just the fact that the show is split in 3-4 songs, then JT, and then 6-7 songs, that it seems (on paper) a bit shorter.

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#104 Post by Pandemonium » Mon May 22, 2017 8:34 pm

Larry B. wrote:Cool, cheers for that review. I'm sorry it wasn't as great as other U2 shows you've seen.

29... fucking hell.

I think I've already mentioned it, but after seeing U2 in Glasgow in late 2015, I was amazed by how the made their shittiest songs sound good live. They just made the "experience" really beautiful. I always said, before attending that show, that it was probably going to be my last time seeing them. I had already seen them 3 times in Chile and 1 time in Argentina, and we went to the Glasgow show basically because my wife had never seen them before. But after that show, I can't not go if they confirm a date in Chile for this anniversary tour.

I won't have to worry about the traffic either, as my new flat is a 25 minute walk to the national stadium.

I was a bit disappointed by the lenght of this JT show, only 22 songs... but then I double-checked and it seems like a pretty standard lenght for a U2 show. Maybe it's just the fact that the show is split in 3-4 songs, then JT, and then 6-7 songs, that it seems (on paper) a bit shorter.
Up until the ZooTV tour, their standard set was about 16-20 songs tops and almost always well under 2 hours long.

I will say last night's show seemed to move along pretty quickly at least up until the post-JT encore section. They really move through the Joshua Tree segment pretty efficiently. IMO, some of the classic burnout songs they play every tour like With Or Without You and Sunday Bloody Sunday sound a lot better this time around then the past few tours. Opening with SBS played pretty much straight like the album version at a decent tempo is like a blast of fresh air after that laughably bad version they were playing on the last tour. Exit kicks ass.

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#105 Post by Pandemonium » Tue Jun 06, 2017 8:11 am

Hey Larry, here you go. U2.com has confirmed more NA and SA dates will be added for Sept and Oct. It is rumored that single Atlanta and Anaheim dates may be added in the gap between the St Louis and San Diego shows if they sell well. Dates officially confirmed so far include:

Sun Sep 3 - Detroit, MI Ford Field
Tue Sep 5 - Buffalo, NY New Era Field
Fri Sep 8 - Minneapolis, MN US Bank Stadium
Sun Sep 10 - Indianapolis, IN Lucas Oil Stadium
Tue Sep 12 - Kansas City, MO Arrowhead Stadium
Sat Sep 16 - St. Louis, MO The Dome At America’s Center
Fri Sep 22 - San Diego, CA Qualcomm Stadium

The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 Mexico & South America
Tue Oct 3 - Mexico City Mexico Foro Sol
Sat Oct 7 - Bogota, Columbia Estadio El Campin
Tue Oct 10 - Buenos Aires, Argentina La Plata
Sat Oct 14 - Santiago, Chile Estadio Nacional
Thur Oct 19 - Sao Paulo, Brazil Morumbi Stadium

(from U2.com)
Ticket prices start at $35.00 with general admission floor tickets at $70.00. There will be an exclusive priority presale for U2.com subscribers starting Thursday, June 8th (10am) through Saturday, June 10th (5pm) local times for subscribers who may have missed out on the previous presale opportunity along with new subscribers. There will be a 4 ticket limit for subscriber purchases and a 6 ticket limit commencing with public sales. In North America, all floor tickets will be paperless unless otherwise noted. Special guest for the North America concert dates to be announced.

In Mexico and South America, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds have been confirmed as special guest for all dates. Tickets will go on sale Wed. June 14th in Mexico City, June 15th in Bogota, Buenos Aires and Santiago and Friday June 16th in Sao Paulo. There will be an exclusive priority presale for U2 Subscribers at U2.com starting Thursday, June 8th (10am) through Saturday, June 10th (5pm) local times for U2.com. All times local. (Subscribers will be emailed more information ahead of the presales.)

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