U2 360º Tour Leg 1 Europe 2009

Probably due to the album release delay, this tour surprised everybody by starting in Europe instead of the US.

Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona is the place where 360º tour will be rehearsed and off course seen for the first time.

As usual, itinerary book design was directly related to tour iconography. So the black front cover was printed with the "Infinity is a great place to start" sentence in the middle of it. That phrase is part of the song "No line on the horizon" lyrics as you all might know. It was also used on the plane that U2 customised for this first leg of the tour.

Even though the itinerary book is covering Rehearsals from June 28th the truth is that the band arrived on June 16th (Larry on the 17th) and they spent more than 2 weeks rehearsing in town before the opening show.

About Dress Rehearsals, according to the book U2 had planned two nights which are June 28th and 29th. It seems only the second of those nights was used as a Dress Rehearsal in front of a 500 people audience. They were Netjets guests and Amnesty International members.

About the crew, they had hotel rooms reserved from June 6th to July 3rd.

Once again, Nice was the U2 headquarter  and they were travelling around Europe and back to the South of France from most of the european venues. Even after the 3rd Dublin show and the final one in Cardiff the band went back to Nice.

The shows list on the itinerary is exactly the same it finally was so nor final changes on dates neither on countries/cities.

A Tower of Babel page was included on the itinerary.


U2 thanks NASA and The International Space Station on the itinerary book. Now we all know why.




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