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U2 Australian Tour: Concert dates, times, how to get there, parking

U2 fans are preparing for the Irish supergroup’s massive Joshua Tree Australian stadium tour. Here’s everything you need to know before heading to the concert.

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U2 fans are preparing for the Irish supergroup’s massive Joshua Tree Australian stadium tour.

After fan petitions and desperate entreaties to the Irish rock supergroup to include Australia on one of their world tours over the past four years, the band has finally booked stadium concerts which kicked off at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium on November 12.

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Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr and their epic production then head to Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium on November 15, Adelaide Oval on November 19, the Sydney Cricket Ground on November 22 and 23 and Perth’s Optus Stadium on November 27.

Bono’s best mate Noel Gallagher and his High Flying Birds will open for U2 at their Australian and New Zealand shows.

The Joshua Tree record, released in March 1987, catapulted the band to superstar status, selling more than 25 million copies worldwide and generating enduring hits including With Or Without You, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For and Where The Streets Have No Name.

U2 will perform the album in full, plus a collection of their biggest and most loved hits.

Here’s what you need to know

15 November

Marvel Stadium

Gates Open:

Gate 3 & 7 Ticket Windows Open: 3:30pm

General Admission Entry Gates Open: 5:00pm

Reserved Seat Entry Gates Open: 5:30pm

How to get there

Public transport: For full timetables and maps visit ptv.vic.gov.au/

Parking: Prebooked at https://parking.marvelstadium.com.au for $35 or $40 at the gate

19 November

Adelaide Oval

Parking: Open from 4.30pm

East Car Park: Adelaide Oval permit parking only

North Car Park: Adelaide Oval permit parking only

University Lane: Limited casual parking ($20 fee payable upon entry, parking is subject to capacity – access via Pennington Terrace)

22-23 November

Sydney Cricket Ground

Public transport: The stadium is a 20-minute walk from Central Station. Public transport schedules can be found here: http://www.transportnsw.info/

There is a taxi rank in the Entertainment Quarter on Errol Flynn Boulevard.

Parking in the Moore Park precinct is available under the current provisions.

EP2 – Gold and Platinum Members can park in a section of EP2 for $15 until the allocation is exhausted.

EP2 and EP3 – Public parking on event days only ($25 fee per car).

Entry to EP2 (Kippax) and EP3 (Showground) via Driver Avenue.

Driver Avenue

The centre portion of Driver Avenue is closed for larger events. Access to MP1 and EP2 is from Moore Park Road and the Eastern Distributor in the north and EP3 via Lang Road and Anzac Parade in the south.

Entertainment Quarter

Public parking (fees apply). Entry to the Entertainment Quarter parking via Lang Road.

Sydney Boys High School

Public parking for selected events only (fees apply). Entry to Sydney Boys High School via Cleveland Street.

Sydney Girls High School

Public parking for selected events only (fees apply). Entry to Sydney Girls High School via Anzac Parade and Cleveland Street.

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U2 Talk Climate Change, Blast the Hits on ‘Joshua Tree Tour’ Opener In Australia

On Tuesday night, U2 touched down in Brisbane for the first night of a six-date national stadium trek, their first tour of the territory in almost a decade.

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Good things, it is often said, come to those who wait. Australian fans of U2 have waited. 

It’s been nine long years since the rockers visited these shores with their 360° trek, officially the most successful tour of all time . 

The Experience + Innocence jaunt followed , and never headed Down Under. The Joshua Tree Tour kicked off in 2017, and finished the year as the biggest grossing tour on the planet. Still, Aussie fans waited. 

On Tuesday night, when the band touched down in Brisbane for the first night of a six-date national stadium trek, that patience paid off.

The Joshua Tree Tour was imagined as a 30-anniversary tour for the Irish foursome’s blockbuster 1987 album. When the record dropped with Anton Corbijn’s iconic black & white artwork featuring the superstars-to-be posing in Death Valley, the band already had its place in millions of hearts around the globe. “Pride (In The Name of Love)” from 1984’s The   Unforgettable Fire was so hot, you thought it would melt your stereo. “New Year’s Day” from 1983 had an evergreen presence on radio, often played at year’s end. Clever. And “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” a fierce, politically-charged calling card which inspired drum patterns everywhere. 

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Hits help. And with a memorable performance at 1985’s Live Aid, U2 were being hailed as the world’s biggest cult group. With The Joshua Tree , they became the world’s biggest group . Period. 

The second half of the ’80s absolutely belonged to U2. The Joshua Tree was the record that blasted the barriers down. The U.S. of A. was now fully in love with the band and the record was the first of seven chart-topping LPs on the Billboard 200. Its first three singles “Where the Streets Have No Name,” “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” and “With or Without You” were smashes, everywhere. They were again on Tuesday night at Suncorp Stadium.

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U2 never does things by halves. The stage for their 360°-tour, which visited the same venue back in 2010, weighed 400 tons. Some 1,000-plus staff work each tour date and their traveling crew numbers more than 500. 

You just knew you were in for something large when Noel Gallagher appeared on stage with his High Flying Birds as the support act. When a Gallagher brother is the warm-up guy, watch out. A near-full-house sang along as Noel ripped out some of his classics with Oasis : “Little by Little,” “Stop Crying Your Heart Out.”

“What’s going on in Brisbane anyway, apart from f— all. A bit of surfing. Water sports.” Noel hasn’t lost any of his charm. 

The Manc went extra-large. He rolled out Oasis’ signature song, “Wonderwall,” singalong standard “Don’t Look Back In Anger,” and wrapped things up with The Beatles ’ “All You Need Is Love.” 

On an ordinary night, this would have been a case of peaking too early. Not tonight. 

Dublin’s finest started in the round with a four-pack of pre- Joshua Tree blasts. The opener, “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” was both a kick in the pants and a timely reminder that we’ve always lived in strange days.

U2 and politics are fused at the hip, and the audience got the message loud and clear. More than once. During “Bad,” the band worked-in the chorus of Midnight Oil’s anthem “Beds Are Burning,” a song about injustices against indigenous Australians.  

“New Year’s Day” and “Pride” was a band showing off what they’ve got. 

“It’s good to be around such greatness. Thank-you Brisbane for letting us back in to your life in lives. Thank-you Australia for letting us back in your country,” Bono called out. “All we want from this event…is an epic night of rock ‘n’ roll.” It’s never too much to ask for. 

Warm-up done, 40,000-plus Queenslanders buckled in as Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton took us on a fast round down memory lane. The Edge’s jangly, digitally-delayed arpeggios cutting through in album-opener “Streets” and earning roars from the crowd, one of many for the night.

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The band walked us — no, paced us — through the album, from start to finish. “Here’s a gospel song. For those of you who don’t like gospel,” Bono said with a laugh. A distant voice yelled from the audience, “but I do like gospel.” And the band played “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” Soon after, “Bullet The Blue Sky” rang through. And “Running to Stand Still”. Grown men in the audience cried. Grown Australian men. 

Throughout the show, the backdrop splashed with beautiful scenery, of deserts, mountains. Nothing Queenslanders haven’t seen before, but never with U2 standing before it.

The “landscape of a country can change,” Bono explained. “Physically, spiritually, you know what I mean?” 

When the lads from the Emerald Isle had exhausted all the material from that famous album, Bono reminded us of the precise moment where you flipped the tape or record. And then, they rolled back the years and the big numbers. 

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Summer has come early in Australia, and the eastern seaboard of Australia is currently battling vast, deadly bushfires. Back in 1993, when U2 played their Zoo TV tour at Brisbane’s QSAC (formerly ANZ Stadium or QE II), The Edge pulled a magic trick by making it rain as he hit a high note during the encore. It sure felt like a magic trick. Brisbane needs rain and U2 couldn’t bring it on tonight, but Bono did the next best thing. He led a call to arms. 

“The way we live in one place, affects life in every other place, None of us is really an island,” Bono said. “From rising sea levels in one country to catastrophic fires in yours, big crisis, global crisis but we can put out these fires if we act together as one.’’

A seven-song encore wrapped up with “Beautiful Day,” “Ultraviolet (Light My Way),” “Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way” and “One”. 

After two-and-a-bit hours of nostalgia, politics and hits, U2 left Brisbane fans hoping they won’t have to wait another decade. That said, they’re good at waiting. 

Produced by Live Nation, the tour moves on to Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium this Friday (Nov. 15), followed by dates at Adelaide Oval, Sydney Cricket Ground and Perth’s Optus Stadium. 

By the time it reaches India on Dec. 15, The Joshua Tree Tour will have played to almost 3 million fans in just 66 shows across Europe, North and South America, Mexico, New Zealand and Asia, including first-ever U2 shows in Singapore, Seoul, Manila and Mumbai.

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U2 announce Australian tour

Live Nation Global Touring and Michael Coppel have today confirmed that U2 will end the year with live dates in New Zealand and Australia. The U2 360° Tour will visit Auckland, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and the tour also includes U2's first Perth date since Popmart in 1998. “U2 has always been at their best when surrounded by their audience, and this extraordinary production makes that happen in stadiums, says U2’s manager Paul McGuinness “It was important to the band that we were able to bring the whole 360° production to Australia and New Zealand so fans could experience the latest of U2's legendary productions." The U2 360° Tour kicked off again in Turin, Italy this month and will visit 17 cities, including Moscow and Istanbul, before finishing at the Olympic Stadium in Rome on 8th October. By the time it reaches New Zealand and Australia, U2 360° will have been seen by over 4 million fans. With a cylindrical video system of interlocking LED panels, and a steel structur...

Live Nation Global Touring and Michael Coppel have today confirmed that U2 will end the year with live dates in New Zealand and Australia. The U2 360° Tour will visit Auckland, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and the tour also includes U2 's first Perth date since Popmart in 1998. “ U2 has always been at their best when surrounded by their audience, and this extraordinary production makes that happen in stadiums, says U2 ’s manager Paul McGuinness “It was important to the band that we were able to bring the whole 360° production to Australia and New Zealand so fans could experience the latest of U2 's legendary productions." The U2 360° Tour kicked off again in Turin, Italy this month and will visit 17 cities, including Moscow and Istanbul, before finishing at the Olympic Stadium in Rome on 8th October. By the time it reaches New Zealand and Australia, U2 360° will have been seen by over 4 million fans. With a cylindrical video system of interlocking LED panels, and a steel structure rising 150 feet from the floor over a massive stage with rotating bridges, the band has truly created an intimate 360º experience for concert goers. Long-time U2 Show Director Willie Williams has worked again with architect Mark Fisher ( ZooTV , PopMart , Elevation and Vertigo ), to create an innovative 360 design, which affords an unobstructed view for the audience. “To have an in-the-round transportable stadium production is something that the touring industry has been trying to figure out for some time. The extra capacity U2 360° gives us means that there are a large number, several thousand in fact, of low priced tickets at every show”, said U2 tour producer/promoter Arthur Fogel, CEO of Live Nation Global Touring. In keeping with the concept that this tour is more about a unique staging configuration with excellent sight-lines tickets in all 5 cities will be available starting at $39.90 with general admission floor tickets available at $99.90. Additional reserved seat tickets also available starting at $99.90. Tickets for the U2 performances in Australia and New Zealand will go on sale Friday, September 3rd at all usual outlets. U2.com subscribers will be able to buy tickets ahead of the public on-sale. Full details at: www.u2.com The Australian and New Zealand dates are produced by Live Nation Global Touring in association with Michael Coppel and Live Nation Australia. Australia & New Zealand Tour Dates Nov. 25 - Mt. Smart Stadium, Auckland Dec. 01 - Etihad Stadium, Melbourne Dec. 08 - Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane Dec. 13 - ANZ Stadium, Sydney Dec. 18 - Subiaco Oval, Perth

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Under Australian skies: U2's history with Australia

It's no secret that u2 fans in australia and new zealand have been blessed with a lesser amount of live u2 than their counterparts in the northern hemisphere. nonetheless, we have been graced with six tours over the band's lifetime, and they have all been seen a band at the top of their game. ahead of the 2019 joshua tree tour, this slideshow tells the story of a love tale between u2 and australia spanning more than 30 years., under australian skies (1984).

After three studio albums, one live album and four years of pent up demand, U2 finally made their first appearance in Australia and New Zealand in August and September of 1984. Plans to visit this area of the world were discussed in previous years but did not come to fruition due to band exhaustion. The huge demand for tickets was in large part due to the highly successful "Under A Blood Red Sky" release the previous year, which showed U2 as a live force to be reckoned with. Music television channels in Australia played their videos and had the Red Rocks performance of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" on high rotation.

Learning the songs

U2 started out in sports arenas in this part of the world and the initial batch of shows sold out instantly. Several more dates were added, resulting in a staggering five each in Sydney and Melbourne, unheard of for a debut visit. The tour's timing was rather strange, with it being squeezed in between finishing the new album "The Unforgettable Fire" and its release. In fact, the band had been so focused on finishing the album that Edge had forgotten how to play a lot of their back catalogue and had to buy copies of U2 albums to learn the songs again.

Rave reviews

The shows were met with rave reviews, and audiences were very enthusiastic. Perhaps TOO enthusiatic at some shows, with several audience scuffles and several stage crashers. However, for one of the Melbourne shows Bono allowed a huge bald man to crash the stage and pick him up bodily before dancing with him. Whilst in Auckland for the first shows of the tour, the band met a stage hand by the name of Greg Carroll, who would go on to be a great friend of theirs, Bono in particular. After Carroll tragically died in a motorcycle accident in 1986, Bono wrote "One Tree Hill" for him, and the band would perform this song on each subsequent visit to New Zealand.

Lovetown (1989)

With The Joshua Tree catapulting U2 the top of the music world, U2 originally planned to visit Australia in the first few months of 1988. Due to exhaustion caused by touring most of 1987, recording new songs and also working on the film for Rattle And Hum, it was decided to postpone the shows to a later date. The Australian and New Zealand ultimately visit didn't happen until September 1989, after a well-earned break following the movie's release. With B.B. King recruited as their support act, the tour was a separate entity from The Joshua Tree tour, entitled Lovetown, and was mostly exclusive to the Pacific. For Australia the shows were played in arenas, with stadiums used for New Zealand. Adam almost put the tour in jeopardy when he had to appear in court on drug charges and nearly had his travel visa revoked. Thankfully, Adam kept his travel visa and the tour could continue.

Massive hype

The hype surrounding the tour was insane. After the massive success of both The Joshua Tree and Rattle And Hum (which is to date the band's highest selling studio album in Australia) U2 fever was at an all-time high, more so than anywhere else in the world. Shows sold out instantly, with demand so great that eventually 27 shows were booked for Australian and New Zealand, including 7 in Melbourne and 8 in Sydney. To this day a large percentage of fans claim Lovetown to be U2 at their live peak, but despite the high calibre of the shows performed, the band have mentioned that during this tour they began to feel like a traveling jukebox. The shows were met with unanimous acclaim from fans and the setlists did in fact vary quite a lot from night to night, in contrast to subsequent tours.

Hawkmoon 269

Everything did not go smoothly, though. Part way through the Australian shows, and after suffering some vocal problems, Bono was diagnosed with laryngitis. He described the experience as catching "psychadelic germs". This resulted in the final 3 Sydney shows being postponed until the next month. Footage from the return visit to Sydney was broadcast in an Australian television special, but to date there has been no official Lovetown concert video release, which has baffled fans. A highlight of the tour for many was a reconfigured "Hawkmoon 269", which has not been played since. This version included some haunting slide guitar work by the Edge. The tour finished at the beginning of 1990 after more vocal issues caused shows in Europe to be postponed.

Zoomerang (1993)

The Australasian and Japanese leg of ZOO TV took place in November and December of 1993, after a two and a half month break. The tour was given a different name for each country - Zoomerang, New Zooland and Zoo TV Japan, respectively. It was their first stadium tour of Australia and the rave reviews from the US and Europe did not go unnoticed. Tickets sold well, with second shows being added in Melbourne and Sydney, and the Zooropa album was a huge success, spending four months in the top ten. The setlist for the Pacific leg partially changed from Europe due to the introduction of more songs from Zooropa (Daddy's Gonna Pay, Lemon, and Dirty Day in place of Desire, Ultra Violet and Bad). Fans attending these shows were lucky in that respect, as these songs would subsequently disappear from future setlists, either forever, or in Dirty Day's case not reappearing until 25 years later.

The famous Sydney show

The first Sydney show remains the only time ever that U2 has played without one of its members, Adam Clayton being - as Bono announced from the stage - "very sick". The exact details surrounding his absence have never exactly been clarified - nor should they be - but it is believed Adam reacted badly to issues regarding his personal life. This debacle couldn't have come at a worse time, with the show being a practice run for a worldwide broadcast the next night for show number two. The band considered a few contingency plans. One was having Edge play bass and guitar tech Dallas Schoo play guitar, but that was quickly vetoed. Another option was canceling the show, but it was too late for that, with the audience already in the venue. At the last moment, Adam's bass tech Stuart Morgan stepped in for him and played the gig, hanging in the shadows for most of the show. Rumours began to circulate that Adam was leaving the band. However this was all just nonsense - the second night went ahead as originally planned, with Adam back on stage and the broadcast going out to the world.

Popmart (1998)

With the southern hemisphere once again being visited at the end of a tour, the Australian leg of the Popmart tour was announced in October 1997, with only four shows on the itinerary and the band surprisingly skipping New Zealand altogether. Similar to some other shows around the world, ticket sales were a bit sluggish, with only a single show in each city. The Pop album and its promotion had seemingly confused or alienated fans as much in Australia as the United States. Maybe it was the choice of Discotheque as first single, and it's accompanying wacky video, or maybe people just didn't take to the more experimental tone of the album, but either way there was a less hysterical rush to see the band live. Taking place in February 1998 at the tail end of summer, the shows themselves were very good, the band playing at their best after nearly a year on the road. By the end of the American leg the previous year they had been feeling a bit down about the whole tour but after visiting South America just before Australia they had rediscovered the thrill of playing live.

A gigantic stage indoors

Kicking off the leg, Perth was the only show of the entire Popmart tour to be performed indoors, at the 14,000 capacity Burswood Dome. The gigantic stage nearly filled the venue, and the 30 metre high cocktail stick and olive were unable to be set up inside the building! This led to audience members getting their own miniature cocktail stick to hold in front of their eyes as a substitute! Bono noted at a press conference after this show that the front rows were full of corporate people who had bought the seats through the casino and were very lackluster during the concert. He also became visibly deflated when the very first question asked by a reporter was about the show's tribute to the recently deceased Michael Hutchence, and he struggled to talk about it. With the death of his great friend still fresh, Bono would dedicate "One" to Hutchence, and the outro music after U2 left the stage was INXS's "Never Tear Us Apart".

The last ever at Waverley Park

The Melbourne show was notable for the fact that the band soundchecked new music for an hour before the gig. Unsurprisingly, this was recorded and quickly made the rounds online, but it's not known if any of the new music ended up being a part of future albums. It was also the last concert to ever be performed at Waverley Park, which was an odd choice for a venue, being far out in the suburbs. A few days after unidentified members of U2 were refused entry to a club in Noosa for inappropriate footwear, the Australian leg finished with a rainy show in Sydney. Humorously, the mirrorball lemon from which the band usually emerged for the encore was not working for this show. During "One", Bono ordered the lights off and the band performed in complete darkness with lightning flashing around the stadium. Family of Michael Hutchence were at this show.

Vertigo (2006)

By late 2005, after two very commercially successful new albums, lots of radio play, and eight years since their last visit of Australia, the demand to see U2 in concert had once again reached staggering heights. Originally scheduled to begin in March 2006, ticket sales for U2's return to Australia were impressive, selling more than ZOO TV and Popmart combined. The Adelaide show was the biggest ever concert to be held in that city, and all other cities also sold out too. And then something rather bad happened at the eleventh hour. With less than two weeks before the Australian leg was to commence, it was postponed. Rumours had leaked a few weeks earlier that a close family member of one the band members was seriously ill with the tour being in jeopardy, and the band confirmed this as the reason. With no immediate word regarding a rescheduled timeframe, fans began to fear that the tour would just be canceled.

Over 200,000 fans in Sydney

Bono, who had already reached Australia at the time of the postponement, was interviewed on television by Andrew Denton the following week and declared the band would likely be back in November. This turned out to be accurate - the rescheduled dates were eventually announced in July, and a third Sydney show was added. This show took the total Sydney attendance to well over 200,000, a staggering result. The shows went off without a hitch, the band in fine form after a break of 8 months, and Bono in particular seemed to be performing the best he had in a very long time. By this point of the tour there were only four regular songs from HTDAAB still in the setlist (it was two years old by this point). Otherwise, the show was largely unchanged from the earlier legs but included a special version of Kite, performed with an extra musician onstage playing an Aboriginal Australian instrument called a didgeridoo. It also contained an extended guitar solo during which Bono would fly a kite from one of the satellite stages. A Sydney performance of this song was included on the "Window In The Skies" CD single.

Guest appearances

The compilation U2 18 Singles was released during the Australian tour, and one of the new tracks "The Saints Are Coming" (recorded as a joint effort with Green Day) was played through this leg. "Window In The Skies" would not appear until the Japanese shows a few weeks later, and to date has never been played since. Bono made a guest appearance onstage at Kylie Minogue's concert in Sydney to sing the duet "Kids", and the band briefly combined with Pearl Jam to become what Bono refered to as "U-Jam" for a "Make Poverty History" concert in Melbourne, performing "Rockin' In The Free World". The Vertigo tour finished the following month in Hawaii, with U2 again teaming up with Pearl Jam.

360 Tour (2010)

The Australasian leg of the gargantuan 360 tour was announced in August 2010 for the following December, Bono back to being healthy again after severely injuring his back earlier in the year. Kicking off in Auckland and finishing in Sydney, the shows sold quite well, with second shows added for each city. Despite cheap prices for general admission and for "behind" the stage, Redzone and some seated tickets were in the range of AUS $300. This was very expensive for a stadium show, but given the size and cost of the stage and production the high prices were hardly surprising, and the band did turn a profit. With the band skipping Adelaide this tour, the city of Perth was played again after a 12 year absence. Fans showed up in force, outselling the much larger cities of Melbourne and Sydney and ending the tour on a high note with great shows.

Many setlist surprises

The addition of famous rapper Jay-Z as support act no doubt helped boost sales, and he was received far better by audiences than Kanye West on the previous tour. He also joined U2 on stage to perform Sunday Bloody Sunday with them for a few shows. With the start of the tour now eighteen months in the past, the setlist had changed quite a lot from earlier shows, particular in the first half. The band were no longer opening with a barrage of songs from No Line On The Horizon - in fact there were only 3 regular songs from that album still in the setlist. By this point U2 had begun to realise that the album had not been quite the hit they had hoped for. They did not play greatest hits shows, however. Instead they walked onstage with the lights on performing "Return Of The Stingray Guitar", a song never released but whose guitar riff ended up in the song Lucifer's Hands 4 years later. Other unreleased songs performed were "Mercy" and "North Star".

A surprise gig

While in Melbourne U2 make a surprise appearance at the farewell show by Australian radio hosts Hamish & Andy and perform Vertigo and Desire. They walk on stage while Hamish & Andy are playing a humorous song boasting that they are better than U2. A few interesting setlist notes on the Australian shows: the second Brisbane show was one of only two times Moment of Surrender was cut from the setlist during the whole 360 tour, on this occasion due to time constraints, and the second Sydney show saw the tour debut of "Love Rescue Me". Reappearing after an absence of over 20 years, it would only be played very sparingly for the rest of the 360 tour. Also in Sydney, Bono was interviewed at the Opera House by Oprah Winfrey for her show. The 360 tour finished in mid-2011 with another run through North America, then the band disappeared for a few years before embarking on three world tours that would not visit Australia and New Zealand.

The wait is over!

I spoke to Bono when I was in London for the I+E tour in 2015. Acting as a conduit for my fellow fans down under I asked the expected question: "When are you coming to Australia again?" Bono looked up from the CD booklet he was signing for me, held my gaze and declared "We're working on it. We love playing Australia." He gestured with his hands while looking off into the distance, trying to find the right words to say. "It's something about the people there. They get us and we love them.". Unfortunately, band members and crew members have been making a lot of promises of coming to Australia for the last four years, a recurring thing that has tested the patience of many fans Down Under. How long must we wait, many Australian fans kept wondering. Fortunately, the long wait is now over, fans are ready for The Joshua Tree anniversary tour to (finally) hit Australia and New Zealand. And if we look at U2's history with Australia, this tour promises once again to be something special.

The New Year's eve gig on the Lovetown tour was officially released as part of that digital boxset when they released the iPod. But there hasn't been a show which i'd love to see, and many fans also. Great summary i particularly enjoyed reading about PopMart in Australia.

Great summary of their history down under and I'm very flattered that you included one of my photos from 1984. One other memorable moment I have from Lovetown was being evacuated from the Sydney Entertainment Centre just before the show started due to a bomb scare. This being in the days when the IRA was active and not too long after Bono's "f**k the revolution" appeared in R&H.

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• 1989-09-16 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Sydney Harbour (1 song)
• 1989-10-21 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Triple M Studios (1 song)
• 2006-11-12 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Entertainment Centre (1 song)
• 2006-11-17 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Sidney Myer Music Bowl (1 song)
• 2010-12-03 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Sidney Myer Music Bowl (2 songs)
• 1984-09-04 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Entertainment Centre (4 songs)
• 1984-09-05 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Entertainment Centre (21 songs)
• 1984-09-06 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Entertainment Centre (18 songs)
• 1984-09-08 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Entertainment Centre (21 songs)
• 1984-09-09 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Entertainment Centre (20 songs)
• 1984-09-14 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Sports And Entertainment Centre (19 songs)
• 1984-09-15 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Sports And Entertainment Centre (20 songs)
• 1984-09-17 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Sports And Entertainment Centre (21 songs)
• 1984-09-18 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Sports And Entertainment Centre (21 songs)
• 1984-09-21 - Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Apollo Entertainment Centre (21 songs)
• 1984-09-23 - Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Entertainment Centre (19 songs)
• 1984-09-24 - Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Entertainment Centre (20 songs)
• 1989-09-21 - Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Entertainment Centre (22 songs)
• 1989-09-22 - Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Entertainment Centre (19 songs)
• 1989-09-23 - Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Entertainment Centre (18 songs)
• 1989-09-27 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Entertainment Centre (19 songs)
• 1989-09-28 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Entertainment Centre (18 songs)
• 1989-09-29 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Entertainment Centre (18 songs)
• 1989-10-02 - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Entertainment Centre (18 songs)
• 1989-10-03 - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Entertainment Centre (19 songs)
• 1989-10-04 - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Entertainment Centre (20 songs)
• 1989-10-07 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - National Tennis Centre (20 songs)
• 1989-10-08 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - National Tennis Centre (20 songs)
• 1989-10-09 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - National Tennis Centre (22 songs)
• 1989-10-12 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - National Tennis Centre (23 songs)
• 1989-10-13 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - National Tennis Centre (22 songs)
• 1989-10-14 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - National Tennis Centre (20 songs)
• 1989-10-16 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - National Tennis Centre (20 songs)
• 1989-10-20 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Entertainment Centre (21 songs)
• 1989-10-21 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Entertainment Centre (17 songs)
• 1989-10-27 - Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Memorial Drive Park (19 songs)
• 1989-10-28 - Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Memorial Drive Park (18 songs)
• 1989-11-17 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Entertainment Centre (21 songs)
• 1989-11-18 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Entertainment Centre (19 songs)
• 1989-11-19 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Entertainment Centre (20 songs)
• 1993-11-12 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Melbourne Cricket Ground (22 songs)
• 1993-11-13 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Melbourne Cricket Ground (23 songs)
• 1993-11-16 - Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Football Park (22 songs)
• 1993-11-20 - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - ANZ Stadium (22 songs)
• 1993-11-26 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Sydney Football Stadium (22 songs)
• 1993-11-27 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Sydney Football Stadium (22 songs)
• 1998-02-17 - Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Burswood Dome (22 songs)
• 1998-02-21 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Waverley Park (22 songs)
• 1998-02-25 - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - ANZ Stadium (22 songs)
• 1998-02-27 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Sydney Football Stadium (23 songs)
• 2006-11-07 - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Queensland Sports And Athletics Centre (22 songs)
• 2006-11-10 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Telstra Stadium (22 songs)
• 2006-11-11 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Telstra Stadium (22 songs)
• 2006-11-13 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Telstra Stadium (22 songs)
• 2006-11-16 - Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - AAMI Stadium (22 songs)
• 2006-11-18 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Telstra Dome (22 songs)
• 2006-11-19 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Telstra Dome (23 songs)
• 2010-12-01 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Etihad Stadium (24 songs)
• 2010-12-03 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Etihad Stadium (24 songs)
• 2010-12-08 - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Suncorp Stadium (24 songs)
• 2010-12-09 - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Suncorp Stadium (23 songs)
• 2010-12-13 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - ANZ Stadium (24 songs)
• 2010-12-14 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - ANZ Stadium (24 songs)
• 2010-12-18 - Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Subiaco Oval (24 songs)
• 2010-12-19 - Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Subiaco Oval (25 songs)
• 2019-11-12 - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Suncorp Stadium (24 songs)
• 2019-11-15 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Marvel Stadium (25 songs)
• 2019-11-19 - Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Adelaide Oval (24 songs)
• 2019-11-22 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Sydney Cricket Ground (25 songs)
• 2019-11-23 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Sydney Cricket Ground (25 songs)
• 2019-11-27 - Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Optus Stadium (25 songs)
• Pride (In the Name of Love) ( 61 times )
• New Year's Day ( 60 times )
• Where the Streets Have No Name ( 53 times )
• With or Without You ( 51 times )
• I Will Follow ( 50 times )
• Bullet the Blue Sky ( 44 times )
• I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For ( 43 times )
• Angel of Harlem ( 40 times )
• Sunday Bloody Sunday ( 36 times )
• Bad ( 35 times )
• One ( 31 times )
• Running To Stand Still ( 30 times )
• Desire ( 29 times )
• 40 ( 26 times )
• Love Rescue Me ( 25 times )
• All Along The Watchtower ( 23 times )
• Until the End of the World ( 23 times )
• When Love Comes To Town ( 23 times )
• All I Want Is You ( 22 times )
• Vertigo ( 22 times )
• Beautiful Day ( 21 times )
• Elevation ( 21 times )
• Mysterious Ways ( 21 times )
• October ( 21 times )
• Gloria ( 20 times )
• God Part II ( 20 times )
• MLK ( 18 times )
• The Unforgettable Fire ( 18 times )
• Even Better Than The Real Thing ( 16 times )
• City of Blinding Lights ( 15 times )
• Miss Sarajevo ( 15 times )
• Party Girl ( 15 times )
• One Tree Hill ( 13 times )
• Out of Control ( 12 times )
• Surrender ( 12 times )
• The Fly ( 12 times )
• An Cat Dubh ( 11 times )
• Into the Heart ( 11 times )
• Seconds ( 11 times )
• Two Hearts Beat as One ( 11 times )
• In God's Country ( 10 times )
• People Get Ready ( 10 times )
• The Cry ( 10 times )
• The Electric Co. ( 10 times )
• Ultraviolet (Light My Way) ( 10 times )
• Walk On ( 10 times )
• Zoo Station ( 10 times )
• Van Diemen's Land ( 9 times )
• 11 O'Clock Tick Tock ( 8 times )
• A Day Without Me ( 8 times )
• Get on Your Boots ( 8 times )
• Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me ( 8 times )
• I Threw a Brick Through a Window ( 8 times )
• I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight ( 8 times )
• In a Little While ( 8 times )
• Magnificent ( 8 times )
• Return of the Stingray Guitar ( 8 times )
• Scarlet ( 8 times )
• Exit ( 7 times )
• Hawkmoon 269 ( 7 times )
• I Fall Down ( 7 times )
• Kite ( 7 times )
• Love and Peace or Else ( 7 times )
• Moment of Surrender ( 7 times )
• Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own ( 7 times )
• Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of ( 7 times )
• The Saints Are Coming ( 7 times )
• Can't Help Falling In Love ( 6 times )
• Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car ( 6 times )
• Dirty Day ( 6 times )
• Lemon ( 6 times )
• Love Is Blindness ( 6 times )
• Mothers Of The Disappeared ( 6 times )
• Numb ( 6 times )
• Red Hill Mining Town ( 6 times )
• Satellite Of Love ( 6 times )
• Stay (Faraway, So Close!) ( 6 times )
• Trip Through Your Wires ( 6 times )
• Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World ( 6 times )
• Every Breaking Wave ( 5 times )
• Discothèque ( 4 times )
• Gone ( 4 times )
• If You Wear That Velvet Dress ( 4 times )
• Last Night On Earth ( 4 times )
• Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way ( 4 times )
• Mofo ( 4 times )
• Please ( 4 times )
• Staring at the Sun ( 4 times )
• Help ( 3 times )
• Stand By Me ( 3 times )
• Twilight ( 3 times )
• A Sort Of Homecoming ( 2 times )
• Knockin' on Heaven's Door ( 2 times )
• Mercy ( 2 times )
• North Star ( 2 times )
• Wire ( 2 times )
• Yahweh ( 2 times )
• Dancing Queen ( 1 time )
• Interview ( 1 time )
• Kids ( 1 time )
• Lucille ( 1 time )
• Rockin' In The Free World ( 1 time )
• Slow Dancing ( 1 time )
• The First Time ( 1 time )
• Wake Up Dead Man ( 1 time )
• You're The Best Thing About Me ( 1 time )
• In the Midnight Hour ( 22 times )
• Exodus ( 16 times )
• Hear Us Coming ( 14 times )
• Not Fade Away ( 14 times )
• Shine Like Stars ( 12 times )
• Never Tear Us Apart ( 11 times )
• So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star ( 10 times )
• Amazing Grace ( 9 times )
• Like A Hurricane ( 9 times )
• Sexual Healing ( 9 times )
• All You Need Is Love ( 7 times )
• Ruby Tuesday ( 7 times )
• Sunday Bloody Sunday ( 7 times )
• The Hands That Built America ( 7 times )
• Two Tribes ( 7 times )
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home ( 7 times )
• All I Want Is You ( 6 times )
• America (West Side Story) ( 6 times )
• Blackbird ( 6 times )
• Eeny Meeny Miny Moe ( 6 times )
• Relax ( 6 times )
• Send in the Clowns ( 6 times )
• The Star-Spangled Banner ( 6 times )
• Unchained Melody ( 6 times )
• Walk On The Wild Side ( 6 times )
• Wise Blood ( 6 times )
• You'll Never Walk Alone ( 6 times )
• I Feel Love ( 5 times )
• Love Will Tear Us Apart ( 5 times )
• Need You Tonight ( 5 times )
• Neighbours Theme Song ( 5 times )
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ( 5 times )
• Singin' In The Rain ( 5 times )
• Whole Lotta Love ( 5 times )
• California (There Is No End To Love) ( 4 times )
• Candle In The Wind ( 4 times )
• Devil Inside ( 4 times )
• Here Comes The Sun ( 4 times )
• Waltzing Matilda ( 4 times )
• 11 O'Clock Tick Tock ( 3 times )
• Anthem ( 3 times )
• Give Peace a Chance ( 3 times )
• Highway To Hell ( 3 times )
• I Should Be So Lucky ( 3 times )
• It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) ( 3 times )
• My Sweet Lord ( 3 times )
• Norwegian Wood ( 3 times )
• Rain ( 3 times )
• She Loves You ( 3 times )
• Spinning Around ( 3 times )
• Van Morrison's Gloria ( 3 times )
• You've Got To Hide Your Love Away ( 3 times )
• Beds Are Burning ( 2 times )
• Black Betty ( 2 times )
• Can't Stand The Rain ( 2 times )
• Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car ( 2 times )
• Dear Prudence ( 2 times )
• Funky Town ( 2 times )
• Get Up Stand Up ( 2 times )
• God Save The Queen ( 2 times )
• Heartland ( 2 times )
• I Got You Babe ( 2 times )
• In My Life ( 2 times )
• Into My Arms ( 2 times )
• Invisible ( 2 times )
• Movin' On Up ( 2 times )
• Rock The Casbah ( 2 times )
• Stayin' Alive ( 2 times )
• Streets of Your Town ( 2 times )
• The Black Hills of Dakota ( 2 times )
• Torna A Surriento ( 2 times )
• (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction ( 1 time )
• 1969 ( 1 time )
• 40 ( 1 time )
• America ( 1 time )
• Atomic ( 1 time )
• Break On Through ( 1 time )
• Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft ( 1 time )
• Can't Get You Out Of My Head ( 1 time )
• Congratulations ( 1 time )
• Creep ( 1 time )
• Dazed and Confused ( 1 time )
• Discothèque ( 1 time )
• Do They Know It's Christmas ( 1 time )
• Give Me the Moonlight ( 1 time )
• Glittering Prize ( 1 time )
• Gloria ( 1 time )
• Gold Digger ( 1 time )
• Hallelujah ( 1 time )
• Happy Xmas (War Is Over) ( 1 time )
• Hello, Goodbye ( 1 time )
• Here Comes The Rain Again ( 1 time )
• Heroes ( 1 time )
• I Just Called To Say I Love You ( 1 time )
• I Love Rock 'n' Roll ( 1 time )
• I'll Stand By You ( 1 time )
• In a Little While ( 1 time )
• Independent Women ( 1 time )
• Instant Karma! ( 1 time )
• Life During Wartime ( 1 time )
• Love To Love You Baby ( 1 time )
• Many Rivers To Cross ( 1 time )
• Michelle ( 1 time )
• Miss You ( 1 time )
• My Way ( 1 time )
• No Regrets ( 1 time )
• Oliver's Army ( 1 time )
• Party Girl ( 1 time )
• Pump It Up ( 1 time )
• Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head ( 1 time )
• Rebel Rebel ( 1 time )
• Rockaway Beach ( 1 time )
• Sealed With A Kiss ( 1 time )
• She's A Mystery To Me ( 1 time )
• Show Me The Way To Go Home ( 1 time )
• Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) ( 1 time )
• Slide Away ( 1 time )
• Suspicious Minds ( 1 time )
• Sympathy For The Devil ( 1 time )
• Take Your Partner By The Hand ( 1 time )
• Teenage Kicks ( 1 time )
• Thunderstruck ( 1 time )
• Young Americans ( 1 time )
• Cover songs ( 11 songs )
• The Joshua Tree ( 11 songs )
• Achtung Baby ( 9 songs )
• Pop ( 8 songs )
• Rattle And Hum ( 8 songs )
• Boy ( 7 songs )
• All That You Can't Leave Behind ( 6 songs )
• The Unforgettable Fire ( 6 songs )
• War ( 6 songs )
• Zooropa ( 6 songs )
• How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb ( 5 songs )
• October ( 5 songs )
• Unreleased Songs ( 5 songs )
• No Line on the Horizon ( 4 songs )
• B-Sides ( 3 songs )
• Non-album songs ( 2 songs )
• Songs of Experience ( 2 songs )
• Passengers: Original Soundtracks 1 ( 1 song )
• Songs of Innocence ( 1 song )
• Where the Streets Have No Name ( 11 )
• Gloria ( 8 )
• Return of the Stingray Guitar ( 8 )
• Hawkmoon 269 ( 7 )
• City of Blinding Lights ( 7 )
• Zoo Station ( 6 )
• Sunday Bloody Sunday ( 6 )
• Out of Control ( 3 )
• Bullet the Blue Sky ( 3 )
• In God's Country ( 1 )
• Stand By Me ( 1 )
• Vertigo ( 1 )
• Moment of Surrender ( 7 )
• Can't Help Falling In Love ( 6 )
• With or Without You ( 5 )
• Love Rescue Me ( 3 )
• Pride (In the Name of Love) ( 2 )
• Desire ( 1 )
• Wake Up Dead Man ( 1 )

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