U2 will take its record-breaking 360 tour to Nashville's Vanderbilt Stadium on 2 July 2011, the band's first trip there in more than 29 years.
U2 is adding some select dates to its re-scheduled second North American leg, which was postponed due to back surgery for the band's frontman, Bono. This will be U2's first appearance in Nashville since 2 December 1981, also at Vanderbilt. Commenting on U2's return to Nashville after such a long absence from the market, tour producer Arthur Fogel, chairman of Live Nation Global Touring, said "In rescheduling the postponed dates to 2011 it opened up the opportunity to add a few additional cities. It has been a very long time since U2 has played Nashville -- too long -- and it will be a great show in a great city."
At about 50,000 capacity for the show, Vanderbilt Stadium will be one of the smallest-capacity venues to be played on the tour, which boasts a ground-breaking production and staging that allows for an attendance-boosting 360-degree configuration, a first for a touring stadium show. U2 is a finalist for the Top Tour and Top Draw awards at the 2010 Billboard Touring Awards in New York Nov. 4, and band manager Paul McGuinness' Principle Management is a finalist in the Top Manager category.
Tickets for the Nashville show go on sale 29 Oct. 2010 and are priced at $30, $55, $95 and $250.
U2 is adding some select dates to its re-scheduled second North American leg, which was postponed due to back surgery for the band's frontman, Bono. This will be U2's first appearance in Nashville since 2 December 1981, also at Vanderbilt. Commenting on U2's return to Nashville after such a long absence from the market, tour producer Arthur Fogel, chairman of Live Nation Global Touring, said "In rescheduling the postponed dates to 2011 it opened up the opportunity to add a few additional cities. It has been a very long time since U2 has played Nashville -- too long -- and it will be a great show in a great city."
At about 50,000 capacity for the show, Vanderbilt Stadium will be one of the smallest-capacity venues to be played on the tour, which boasts a ground-breaking production and staging that allows for an attendance-boosting 360-degree configuration, a first for a touring stadium show. U2 is a finalist for the Top Tour and Top Draw awards at the 2010 Billboard Touring Awards in New York Nov. 4, and band manager Paul McGuinness' Principle Management is a finalist in the Top Manager category.
Tickets for the Nashville show go on sale 29 Oct. 2010 and are priced at $30, $55, $95 and $250.
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