U2 The Joshua Tree Tour 2017; Biggest Tour Of The Year Will Reach 2.4 Million Fans

The reviews of The Joshua Tree Tour 2017's opening weekend set a tone that intensified throughout a North American run featuring 20 sold out stadium dates and U2's first ever U.S. festival headline June 9th at Bonnaroo. Reviews for the shows have been consistently excellent, with some more recent highlights including:

"The thing about U2 is that, in almost any of their forms these past four decades, they always offer some degree of transcendence. They can't help it... This is also what makes them what they are — legends, an institution, well beyond the levels of even some of our biggest stars today... These are songs that reminded you how many different kinds of people across countries and generations one artist, one voice can impact — and, in turn, they are songs that remind you that fighting for a better world, even when it zigs and zags over thirty years, might just be worth it."—STEREOGUM

"U2's Two-Hour Pep Talk is Exactly What We Need Right Now… The best U2 songs cast life as a garden of possibilities while pushing back at forces that seek to limit them. This Joshua Tree tour wisely plays just those songs. It is a two-hour pep talk. It is a technological spectacle. It is a warm bath for the soul. It will knock you on your ass."—VULTURE

"I have left every U2 concert feeling like some measure of my humanity had been restored after being worn down by the blistering winds of the daily shit storm we call living. Last night was no exception."—PHAWKER

"An uplifting return to Joshua Tree — and much more… Sunday's sold-out concert at Gillette Stadium commemorated the album's 30th anniversary by playing it in full, and it served as both a reminder of and reckoning with the power that fell into U2's grasp at that moment in its history."—BOSTON GLOBE

U2's The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 heads to the UK and Europe where it kicks off with two nights in London on July 8th & 9th followed by concerts in Berlin , Rome , Barcelona , Dublin , Paris , Amsterdam and Brussels . It will then relaunch in North America September 3rd with a return to Detroit – the city where U2 played its first ever headline stadium show back on April 30th, 1987 at the Silverdome on the original Joshua Tree Tour.  The tour's limited return to North America will include stops in Buffalo , Minneapolis , Indianapolis , Kansas City , New Orleans , St. Louis , Phoenix and San Diego . The tour will then head to Mexico City followed by concerts in Bogota , Buenos Aires , Santiago and Sao Paulo .

Beck will be special guest for the upcoming North American dates. In Mexico and South America , Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have been confirmed as special guest.

U2 The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 is produced by Live Nation Global Touring. UPS is the Official Logistics Provider of the tour.

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