HIGHLY ANTICIPATED RETURN WITH SELECT RUN OF STADIUM SHOWS
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Tour Kicks Off in New Zealand on 8th November with Australian Dates Starting 12th November; Tickets On Sale Starting 11th June
Plus 2 Shows Confirmed for Tokyo on 4th and 5th December To Be Followed by a Concert in Seoul on 8th December
Tour Will Also Visit Singapore With Local Details To Follow
First Time Ever – All Stadium Floor Tickets in New Zealand & Australia will be Paperless
“Electrifying” – Daily
Telegraph, 5/5 stars
“In scale, ambition or impact… U2 are bulletproof” – The Independent
“Still masters of stadium rock” – Mail On Sunday
“The stuff of encores… Had Twickenham had a
roof, it would surely have been blown off…”
– London
Evening Standard, 5/5 stars
“They are a live act simply without peer… [U2] kicked
the crowd into a whole other gear of euphoria” – Rolling Stone
“A generationally important band…
empathy, hope and, ultimately, exaltation”
– The New
York Times
Live
Nation is excited to confirm that U2 will bring their acclaimed Joshua Tree Tour to New Zealand, Australia,
Japan, Singapore and South Korea later this year.
The
band broke the news directly to fans this morning via Twitter. See https://twitter.com/U2
Following
the highly successful 2017 tour in celebration of the band’s seminal album, The Joshua Tree Tour 2019 will see the
band make a much anticipated return to New Zealand and Australia for the first
time since the record-shattering U2 360° Tour in 2010, as well as the first
Tokyo shows since the Vertigo Tour in 2006. The Joshua Tree Tour 2019 will also bring U2 to Singapore and Seoul – for the first time
ever – with what promises to be very special concerts from “the biggest
band in the world” (The Guardian).
Special
guest Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
is confirmed as support for the dates
in New Zealand and Australia with Noel saying, “We,
NGHFB, are beside ourselves. The Joshua Tree 2017 Tour was some of the most fun
we ever had. It will be both an honour and a pleasure to share the stage with
our friends and comrades once again. It’s gonna be a ripper!!!!!”.
Bono said “It’s only taken me 30 years to learn how to sing
these songs and it’s great to be able to say that I’ve finally caught up
with the band. Our audience has given the Joshua Tree a whole new
life on this tour. Doing these shows has been very special for us, a lot of
emotion… From the despair of how relevant some of the dark songs still are, to
the joy, pure fun of the staging… it’s quite a ride. And now we get to do it
all over again. Auckland, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney,
Tokyo, Singapore, Seoul… We’re coming for you”.
“We really, REALLY wanted to bring
The Joshua Tree to New Zealand, Australia and Asia” added The Edge. “We promised we
would and finally, now we can say that we will see you in November… It’s
going to feel like a homecoming and we are very excited”.
The Joshua Tree Tour
2019 kicks
off in Auckland on 8th
November and will visit Brisbane,
Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth,before moving on to Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul. Tickets
for the NZ/AU shows go on sale on Tuesday 11th June 2019 (times vary per city). U2.com subscribers
will have first opportunity to purchase tickets starting Tuesday 4th
June through Thursday 6th June with a 4 ticket limit (see www.U2.com
for details).
In a
first for any artist performing in New Zealand and Australia, and to ensure
fans have the best access, stadium floor tickets for all the band’s NZ/AU shows
will be paperless with delivery via mobile
devices 72 hours prior to the applicable show.There will be an 8 ticket limit for general public sales.
In Japan
reservations for U2.com subscribers will begin on Tuesday 4th June. Pre-orders
via PIA and ePLUS begin Friday 14th June, and general sale for both
performances will begin Saturday 20th July.
There will be a 4 ticket limit for subscribers and an 8 ticket limit for
public sales.
In
Seoul, the ticketing presale for U2.com
subscribers will begin on Monday 10th June with tickets on general sale
Wednesday 12th June. There will be a 4 ticket limit for subscribers
and an 8 ticket limit for public sales.
Date
and venue information for the Singapore
show soon to be announced.
NEW
ZEALAND / AUSTRALIA / JAPAN / SOUTH KOREA 2019 TOUR DATES:
8
November Auckland, NZ Mt. Smart Stadium
12
November Brisbane, AU Suncorp Stadium
15
November Melbourne, AU Marvel Stadium
19 November Adelaide,
AU Adelaide
Oval
22 November Sydney,
AU Sydney Cricket Ground
27 November Perth,
AU Optus Stadium
04 December Tokyo,
JP Saitama Super Arena
05 December Tokyo,
JP Saitama Super Arena
08 December Seoul,
KR Gocheok Sky Dome
For complete tour and ticket information,
visit: www.u2.com
U2:
The Joshua Tree Tour is produced by Live Nation Global Touring.
Press materials
available at: www.u2.com/rmpphoto
U2 Tour publicity:
RMP
Brídín Murphy Mitchell
/ Régine Moylett
[email protected]
+44 20 8749 7999
For Universal Music Group, contact:
Thom Wrafter
[email protected]
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About
The Joshua Tree Tour:
The
Joshua Tree Tour isa celebration of
the original album and tour of the same name undertaken by U2 in 1987 and features
the complete album played in sequence along with a selection of highlights from
U2’s extensive catalogue of songs. The innovative staging includes a specially
commissioned series of haunting and evocative films from Dutch photographer,
film-maker and longtime collaborator
Anton Corbijn – whose iconic photography accompanied the original
recording – in brilliant 8k resolution
on a 200 x 45 foot cinematic
screen, the largest high-res LED screen ever used in a touring show.
The Joshua Tree Tour
2017, produced by Live Nation Global Touring, opened to rave reviews in Vancouver, Canada in May 2017 – the first of 20 sold out stadium
dates across North
America. The sold out Eureopean run kicked off in London’s Twickenham
Stadium on 8th July
and saw
the Dublin band return home to play to 78,000 fans in Croke Park, almost 30
years to the day after they played the
legendary Dublin venue on the original Joshua Tree tour. The band hit the road again that September, taking in dates in
Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile and São Paulo, as well as a
historic first ever visit by U2 to Bogotá, Colombia for an unforgettable show
at the city’s Estadio El Campin. Having
played to over 2.7 million fans in just 51 shows across North and South
America, the UK and Europe, and Mexico in 6 months, The Joshua
Tree Tour 2017was the most
successful tour of the year.
About
The Joshua Tree album:
Released
to universal acclaim on 9th March 1987 and featuring hit singles
“With Or Without You”,“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” and “Where
The Streets Have No Name”, The Joshua
Tree went to #1 in the U.K, Ireland and around the world, selling in excess
of 25 million albums, and catapulting Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry
Mullen Jr “… from heroes to superstars” (Rolling Stone).
Time
Magazine put U2 on its cover in April 1987, proclaiming them “Rock’s Hottest
Ticket” in a defining year for the band that saw their arena dates roll into
stadium shows to accommodate escalating demand – setting them on course to
become one of the greatest live acts in the world today. The 12 months that followed saw the band
create now-iconic moments: the traffic-stopping Grammy Award-winning music
video on the roof of a Los Angeles liquor store, winning a BRIT Award and two
Grammys – including Album of the Year – their first of 22 received to date,
distinguishing U2 as the most awarded rock band in Grammy history; as well as a
triumphant return home for four unforgettable shows in Belfast, Dublin and Cork
in the summer of 1987.
U2’s
fifth studio album The Joshua Tree
was produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, and featured iconic artwork which
cemented the career of photographer and director Anton Corbijn. Recording took
place in Dublin at Windmill Lane Studios and Danesmoate, the house which
subsequently became bassist Adam Clayton’s home.
“The title befits a record that concerns itself with resilience in the
face of utter social and political desolation…The Joshua Tree is an appropriate response to these times, and a picture bleaker than
any U2 has ever painted: a vision of blasted hopes, pointless violence and
anguish… Music of great sadness but also of unutterable compassion, acceptance
and calm.” – Rolling Stone, 1987
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