The Joshua Tree Tour 2017
| World tour by U2 | |
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| Location | North America, Europe |
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| Associated album | The Joshua Tree (30th anniversary) |
| Start date | 12 May 2017 |
| End date | 1 August 2017 |
| Legs | 2 |
| No. of shows | 33 total
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| U2 concert chronology | |
The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 is an upcoming worldwide concert tour by rock band U2. It will be staged to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the band's 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. The tour will visit stadiums in 2017 across two legs: North America from May to July, and Europe from July to August. The band intends to play The Joshua Tree in its entirety on each date of the tour, including the first live performance of the song "Red Hill Mining Town". The tour was announced on 9 January 2017. Pre-sale tickets were first offered to U2.com subscribers starting on 11 January before going on sale to the general public on 16 January (for European shows) and 17 January (for North American shows). As part of the tour, U2 will be headlining the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee in June.
The inspiration for the tour came in September 2016, while U2 were rehearsing for headlining appearances at the iHeartRadio Music Festival and Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference. Initially, the band was interested in marking the 30th anniversary of The Joshua Tree with one show in the United States and Europe each, before eventually deciding to expand it into a full tour.
In explaining the reason for revisiting the album with an anniversary tour, guitarist the Edge cited the 2016 US presidential election and other world events for what he judged to be renewed resonance of The Joshua Tree's subject matter. He said that in looking at the record's anniversary, "things have kind of come full circle, if you want. That record was written in the mid-Eighties, during the Reagan–Thatcher era of British and U.S. politics. It was a period when there was a lot of unrest. Thatcher was in the throes of trying to put down the miners' strike; there was all kinds of shenanigans going on in Central America. It feels like we're right back there in a way. I don't think any of our work has ever come full circle to that extent. It just felt like, 'Wow, these songs have a new meaning and a new resonance today that they didn't have three years ago, four years ago.'"
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