Vertigo tour

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Vertigo tour
Cover
from U2
Presentation album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Beginning of the tour March 28, 2005
End of the tour December 9, 2006
Concerts in total 131
U2 tour chronology
Elevation Tour
(2001) 		Vertigo Tour
(2005-06) 		U2 360 ° Tour
(2009-11)

The Vertigo Tour of the Irish band U2 accompanied the 11th studio album from U2, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004). It began on March 28, 2005 in San Diego , USA and ended on December 9, 2006 in Honolulu , Hawaii .

The tour is divided into four tour sections, so-called legs. All concerts were sold out. The tour lasted over a year and a half, albeit with a very long break.

The stage

The stage was designed by Willie Williams , who has also worked on previous U2 shows.

Indoor stage

The main element of the stage is a catwalk that protrudes into the auditorium in the form of an ellipse. There is space for up to 300 people within this ellipse. On the main stage itself there are seven LED screens that can also be rolled up during the show. Various animations run on the LED screens during the show. In the floor of the stage and the ellipse there are also lamps that are attached in a circle. There are four screens above the stage, each showing a member of the band in close-up.

Outdoor stage

At the outdoor shows, the screens are replaced by a gigantic LED wall that stands behind the band, similar to the stage set up on the Popmart Tour . On both sides of the LED wall are the loudspeakers in the "Vertigo colors" black and red striped. There is an LED display above each of the loudspeaker towers, each showing two band members in close-up. On the stage, the ellipse has been replaced by two non-interconnected catwalks at each end of which there is a small, round B-stage. These B-stages also protrude into the auditorium.

The show and setlist

The most noticeable thing about the Vertigo tour are probably the variable set lists, as they were last seen on the Lovetown tour . At the indoor concerts, especially in the first leg of the tour, up to three different openers were used ( City of Blinding Lights , Love and Peace or Else and Vertigo ). Even so, the set lists are very different, hardly an identical set list for the first leg of the tour. In addition to the different openers, the different closers also stand out ( Vertigo , Bad , With or Without You , Love Is Blindness , All I Want Is You , Instant Karma! ( John Lennon Cover) and the classic 40 , with Adam and The Edge exchange their instruments). In addition to the variability, the rarity of some songs is also noticeable: U2 play many songs that they haven't played for years / decades or haven't played at all ( Miss Sarajevo ), especially the songs from their debut album Boy . These rarities include An Cat Dubh / Into the Heart and The Ocean (the latter was last played in 1982). These and other rarities were mainly played in the first leg of the tour. The set lists at the European outdoor shows (Leg 2) looked rather inflexible. In addition, every European concert was started and ended with Vertigo (exception: Dublin III, Amsterdam III and Lisbon). This was a kind of homage to their first concerts, where they also played a song several times in a show, because they didn't have that much to choose from and the show would otherwise have been too short. The first encore usually consists of a short ZooTV setlist, starting with Zoo Station , followed by The Fly and Mysterious Ways . In addition to Zoo Station , the song Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses also found its return to the setlist after a twelve-year absence. The indoor concerts in autumn 2005 differed from those in spring mainly in the widely varying encores, which were mostly played acoustically. At the outdoor concerts in South America in spring 2006, there were also clear differences in the set lists. At the concerts of the last leg, the band played more songs from the albums Rattle and Hum and All That You Can't Leave Behind . Up to the current state of the tour, from the How to Dismantle to Atomic Bomb album, all songs except two ( A Man and a Woman and One Step Closer ) have been played live, even Fast Cars , which is featured as a bonus song on some editions of the album was present.

The Vertigo tour is the first tour since Rattle and Hum that has played at least one song from all U2 albums.

DVD

The tour DVD Vertigo 2005 - U2 Live from Chicago was released while the tour was still ongoing . In addition, two of four appearances in Chicago (May 9 and 10, 2005) were filmed.

In addition to the already published show, other shows were filmed, including a. the second Dublin show (June 25th) and the two Milan shows (July 20th and 21st). During the fourth section, the two shows in were Buenos Aires on 1 and 2 March 2006 3D - IMAX cameras, for a possible cinema release, filmed.

10 tracks from the Milan shows have now been released on the bonus DVD of the Best of U218 Singles .

Tour legs

Leg 1: North America

  • Concerts: 28
  • Countries : 2
  • Cities: 14

The first part of the tour (Leg 1) only took place in North America and almost exclusively in the USA the exception was two concerts in Vancouver, Canada. All concerts took place in halls. The concerts on May 9th and May 10th in Chicago were recorded and were released on November 11th, 2005 as DVD ( U2-Vertigo-Live from Chicago ).

Leg 2: Europe

“The Fly” live on June 10, 2005 in the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels
  • Concerts: 33
  • Countries: 18
  • Cities: 24

The second part of the tour took place almost exclusively in stadiums in Europe , the exception was the appearance at the Live 8 Festival in London, which U2 is opening. On the same day they are still playing in Vienna.

Leg 3: North America 2

  • Concerts: 50
  • Countries: 2
  • Cities: 28

The third leg of the tour took place like the first in North America, again mainly in the United States. Also this time all concerts will be given in halls.

Leg 4: Rest of the World

  • Concerts : Scheduled: 18, played: 8
  • Countries : Intended: 8, Played: 4
  • Cities : Intended: 12, Played: 5

The fourth section of the tour took place in Central and South America as well as in Oceania, Japan and Hawaii.

Concerts in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Hawaii were scheduled for April 2006, but these were postponed to November and December 2006. The reason was the illness of a relative of a band member.

Leg 5: Rest of the World 2

  • Concerts: 13
  • Countries: 4
  • Cities: 7

The fifth section of the tour took place in Oceania, Japan and Hawaii. All concerts were given in stadiums. This section consisted of the ten postponed concerts of the 4th Leg, but the concert in Yokohama was moved to Tokyo and two additional concerts were added. The remaining nine concerts are as originally planned, only different dates.

Tour statistics

  • Concerts: 131
  • Countries: 26
  • Cities: 72
  • Concerts in North America: 79
  • Concerts in Europe: 32
  • Concerts in South and Central America: 8
  • Concerts in Oceania: 9
  • Concerts in Asia: 3
  • Concerts in Africa: 0
  • Open air or concerts in stadiums: 54 (with Live 8)
  • Concerts in halls: 78

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