Boo! Stadium Shows Suck!

It’s just been revealed that U2‘s new world tour, Kiss The Future, will be playing stadiums around the world beginning this summer.
The tour, which is in support of their shiteous latest album, No Line on the Horizon, starts in Barcelona on June 30th and will continue worldwide into 2010.
U2’s show will also include a 360-degree audience setup with a cylindrical video screen.
Sounds familiar?
The Edge said, “We’re very excited about the idea to go on the road with this album. It’s an album that I think is going to translate so well to the live context. The songs we’ve tried in rehearsal are sounding fantastic, so that’s got everyone really fired up.”
Live Nation global music chairman Arthur Fogel said committing to a global stadium tour is ├óΓé¼┼ôobviously a major undertaking on a bunch of different levels. On the last tour it basically broke down indoors in America and stadiums outside of America.”
They should have done stadium shows again in the U.S.!
Adds the promoter, “Both shows were pretty different and they were both incredible, but I think the general feeling, and certainly mine, was the experience of U2 in a stadium is special and unique, and it would be great for North America to experience that the way the rest of the world did the last time around.├óΓé¼┬¥
Yea, and it also means they can increase capacity by about 15%-20% due to a larger venue. And considering they’ll be doing potentially as many as 90-100 shows over the next two years, that’s a lot of money to be made!
Estimates also have U2’s tour set to become one of the highest-grossing tours ever.
Further details about the tour will be released next week.