When U2 Concert Tour?
Among the most adored and financially successful rock bands in the world is U2 Comprising Bono for vocals, The Edge for guitars, keyboards, and vocals, Adam Clayton for bass, and Larry Mullen Jr for drums, the band was founded in Dublin, Ireland in 1976. Since more than 20 years ago, U2 has been releasing albums; their discography features 14 studio releases and several worldwide performance tours.
The band's first tour occurred in 1980 to support their debut album, "Boy". Called the "Boy Tour," it was essentially a run of events around the UK and Ireland. Their concerts grew more complex in scope as the group started to draw a lot of attention. Conducted in 1983, their first world tour—known as the "War Tour—saw them performing both in Europe and their first events in the United States. Their main "The Unforgettable Fire" album from 1984 was published, and on this tour, the band visited bigger venues in the USA and arenas throughout Europe.
With 1987's The Joshua Tree Tour, named for their critically and commercially successful album, U2's travels reached a whole new degree. With a hundred-plus performances overall, it was their first North American tour as fully realized stadium rock icons. The tour served simply to confirm their rank as among the biggest bands in the world. Their live CD Rattle and Hum, which captured some of the events during the 1988 marathon tour, clearly showed this.
After a brief break to re-establish their musical direction, U2 debuted the "Zooropa Tour" in 1992 in honor of the albums "Achtung Baby" and "Zooropa". They performed enormous theatrical concerts of folderol the audience had not anticipated using multimedia technologies and extravagant costumes on a tour. The tour known as "Zoo TV" continued into other areas like Australia and Japan the next year.
Another problem U2 addressed while on their 1997-1998 "PopMart Tour" was millennium anxiety. The concerts also featured pyrotechnics reflecting the band's sarcastic perspective of a consumer society on an extravagant stage design akin to a vulgar supermarket. With venues ranging from stadiums and parks in Las Vegas, Mexico, and Israel, the "PopMart Tour" broke all previous records in terms of biggest grossing and most attended rock tour thus far.
For most of 2000 the band went under low profile; but, in 2001 the band started touring with the Elevation Tour, named for a song from their Grammy-winning "All That You Can't Leave Behind" album. Reversing the bombast of their 1990s performances, the "Elevation Tour" returned to the core for an intense 9/11 response during emotionally charged stadium events throughout North America and Europe. The "Elevation Tour" carried on, and in 2002 the band made their first-ever performances in South America.
U2's 2005 tour, which got its name from a pulsating rocker off its "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" was far more extensive than the band had planned. Over 131 shows on five continents, the band performed live to more 4 half a million people. Ranked among the most often visited and most highly grossing tours of all time is this one. The first-ever live concert in 3D was caught and shown on the concert video U2 3D.
The 2009–2011 "U2 360° Tour turned out to be the largest and most profitable concert tour in the band's and the whole musical business's history at the time." Together with the modern avant-garde stage design with the pyrotechnical and lighting effects, the stage itself was a circular four-legged construction that gave the fans a whole 360-degree view of the band's performance. The band showed its performance in "U22; they put on more than 110 shows for 7,1 million fans worldwide.
Since 2011 when Bono suffered an accident, U2 has not started a major tour. The band has been occupied working on Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. For the 30th anniversary edition of the record, they conducted what they dubbed "The Joshua Tree Tour 2017," a stadium tour. Recognizing that audiences still treasure their masterwork, they returned in 2019 with the much more subdued and personal "The Joshua Tree Tour 2019."
U2 is reportedly scheduled to tour once more in 2023 with a run of events in arenas, stadiums, and festivals across the Americas, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. It will be the first world tour of U2 in more than ten years. Emphasizing their popular Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, they want to sing songs from their vast catalog. The still-untitled tour will feature enormous technological innovations in lighting, video, and possibly even augmented/virtual reality to provide the fans with a show they have never seen before — an idealistic and emotive concert showcasing the band's music.
