U2 The Joshua Tree Tour Leg 2 Itinerary Europe 1987

Only 8 days after they have returned to Dublin once the 1st leg had finished, U2 and their management were flying to Rome. It was the first stop of the European leg of the Joshua Tree tour and a new itinerary book was handed to everyone working on the tour.

Front cover of this book was basically the same that the american one had but orange was the selected colour in this case. Here you can see the picture of the front cover and also the back cover which was signed by Adam Clayton outside Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona on July 2nd 2009 as he was leaving after the recording of some close shots for the "I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight" video.

It was on May 26th 1987 when U2 landed in Rome and they went directly to the Stadio Flamino for the soundcheck.

U2 not only played stadiums on this leg but they also played in front of 5.000 or 6.000 people audiences in some european cities. Worth to mention is Paris, where they played in front of 6.000 people on June 15th to return about 20 days later for a show in front of 80.000 people.

Tour personnel was already growing. Management group was 17 people while crew included more than 60 people.

This european leg was organized in a way that the band could return home to spend a couple of days with their families basically after each concert. So U2 were running away from the stadium while the audience was still cheering them, got on the plane and slept at home. Usually the same day of the next show they flew out from Dublin to the next destination of the tour.

The final show of the european leg was in Cork, on August 7th and even though it is only a 40 minutes flight from Dublin the band decided to arrive in Cork one day before the show and stayed there until the day after the show. They probably partied out to celebrate the end of the leg as they usually do.

Some time ago, I found this picture on internet that made me think that there was a "leather cover" version of this book. It is not actually that way. Even though it looks like an itinerary book, it is a Diary that was given to part of the staff who worked on the tour.




As you can see it had gold letters engraved on the black leather detailing not only U2 and the tour leg but also the words SUPERMICK and LIGHTS.

Once I checked the European itinerary I noticed that SUPERMICK LIGHTS is the company that was in charge of the lights during that leg. So we might think this diary was given to the people from that company that worked on the U2 tour.

This confirms that this leather cover book is definitely NOT an itinerary book.

If you want to know more about these U2 tour Diaries, please check this new entry (HERE)

Next leg.............back in the USA.

A deeper report on this book can be read by following this link (in spanish though):

http://www.u2eastlink.com/collector/15.php


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