1/4/2024 0 Comments My photos 2017 to 2019![]() The Rahmans remained on stage to perform the last song of tour, One support artist Noel Gallagher also came on stage for this song. Rahman, the co-author, and his daughters, who contribute vocals on the studio version, performed the song with U2. U2 performed the live debut of their new single Ahimsa. Or will we be enjoying this lark again in 2027 for the fortieth anniversary? Only time will tell. It is harder, perhaps, to say which songs will obtain that unfortunate distinction. ![]() It is quite likely that this will be the last time some songs from the Joshua Tree album are ever performed live. This show is also the last of the Joshua Tree Tour 2019. It makes India the 39th country in which U2 have performed a concert. This show in Mumbai, therefore, is U2's first in India. They got to Australia and New Zealand in 1984 to start the Unforgettable Fire Tour, but India fell by the wayside. So they pared back their original plans for 1983. Initially, this tour was also meant to go to Australia, New Zealand, and India, but U2 were exhausted-they had toured almost continuously since they formed, rarely taking even a month away from the stage. The final leg of the War Tour in 1983 went to Hawaii and Japan. It took 36 years since U2 originally made plans to tour India, but they finally made it. Now, 42 years to the day of the Boy Tour's start, we present to you what we believe is currently the most accurate and comprehensive overview of the Boy Tour to date. ![]() Our conclusions are speculation but we make them by building on what we know for certain, anecdotes from the band and media, and U2’s own future touring habits. The information presented here is all available to anyone who searches long enough. Twisting this, it is not a joke to say that we know more about how much was charged for admittance each night – and even how many attended – than we do about what was played.īut even with all of this considered, enough information peeks through for us to make what we can consider to be reasonably accurate guesses about the content of the tour. A famous saying is that we know more about the surface of the moon than about the depths of the ocean. Where we do have a set added it is usually incomplete in some way or another. Many of our entries for a Boy Tour setlist are blank. But the most important part (for us) – WHAT they played – is poorly documented. We know with certainty where they played. But even though it was such an important moment in U2’s history there is a lot we don’t actually know about the Boy Tour. In that ten-month period they would perform a mammoth 155 times. Their first truly international tour, which would see them cross the Atlantic between continental Europe and North America several times, lasted from 6 September 1980 to 9 June 1981. Until the Boy Tour began, U2 had performed almost exclusively in Ireland. The second leg of the 11 O’Clock Tick Tock Tour returned to England for 20 concerts between May and July 1980. The Come Out to Play Tour in early 1980 featured just one night outside of Ireland when they played in Newry, Northern Ireland. U2-3 was promoted at 12 shows in 18 days in southern England, a no doubt chaotic moment that featured one show being cancelled, another almost joining it, and at least two times where they were such a late addition to the bill that they weren’t even advertised at all (U2Songs has an excellent article on that hectic two-and-a-half weeks). ![]() What a monumental moment in the time of everyone’s favourite band.
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