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Edge, Adam Speculate on U2's Next Tour

@U2, June 10, 2011
By: Matt McGee / @mattmcgee

 

As the 360 tour winds down this summer, The Edge and Adam have both speculated about what U2's next tour might look like. Their comments are in an interview posted today on RollingStone.com -- the same interview that the recent 2012 album news came from. Here's what they said about future tour plans:

Adam Clayton

I imagine everyone will get away from this tour and get a bit of breathing space, then in two or three years time, they'll be able to do it again. You have the same set of questions: "Do you want to play in a stadium?" "No, we don't want to play in a stadium." "Do you want to play in an arena?" "Yeah, we like playing in arenas." "But if you play in arenas, it will take you this long to get around the world, if you play in stadiums, you can do it over a couple of summers," and the debate will start.

Is it possible you'd put out a record and not do an insane world tour?

Obviously, when we release the record, we'll do a tour. I'm just pretty pedantic about doing it each step at a time, and as far as I'm concerned, there isn't a record until it's in the shops, and there isn't a tour until the record is out.

I don't think we'd want to do another stadium tour, but I don't know. If the record caught fire in a certain way, then we would. So we have to work these things out. I do like arena tours – they're much, much easier.

The Edge

I say it will be a while before anyone wants to think about it, but I'm sure the next time we go out, it will be quite different. That, I'm pretty confident about, but what that might be, there really is no clue at this point.

There's a lot of interesting stuff in the full interview, including comments about the Spider-Man project and its impact on the band. Highly recommended reading.

    

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