After the release of "All that you can't leave behind" at the end of 2000, U2 will be on tour again on March 2001.
Back on the road means this time also back to basics and the band decides to play only indoors (with a very few exceptions in Europe) using a very simple stage and show concept.
This simplicity will also affect the itinerary books design. This first leg book comes in a completely red front cover with the U2 Elevation case logo printed on black. A white text reads "Elevation tour itinerary first leg".
I have seen this book in 2 different kinds of spiral bounds. My bet is that the 2 of them are original as they were coming from a very reliable source.
This book covers from Miami set construction and rehearsals (March 4th to 22nd'01) to June 7th when the band played a 2nd show at the Forum in Copenhagen (Denmark).
Apart from the daily information the book lists all the staff, companies involved, flight and hotel schedules, tags list,....
Even though the book confirms the band stayed at Delano hotel in Miami for the first days of the tour, Bono and Edge were actually staying at a rented house while Larry and Adam where the only band members at the hotel.
Right after the dress rehearsal at Miami Arena on March 22nd, the crew worked hard to move the stage and the rest of the stuff to Fort Lauderdale's National Car Rental Center where the tour started on March 24th.
After the last of 4 shows in Chicago on May 16th Bono flew back to Dublin to be at home when his 4th son John Abraham was born on May 21st . Next show was not scheduled until May 24th.
On Saturday 23th, the day after the final show in New York the band flew back to Europe for a few days off in Nice before meeting again in Copenhagen on July 5th to rehearse for the european leg.
An autographed copy of this book was auctioned on Ebay in 2012 reaching a final price of 500 dollars .It was signed by Bono, The Edge and Adam Clayton.
The Edge signed my copy of this book in Barcelona on October 11th 2015.
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