U2 360º Tour Leg 2 US 2009

After 25 shows in Europe, U2 360º was ready to hit North America. A leg of 20 concerts will have U2 in the US and Canada for September and October'09. Later on, U2.com announced new legs both in North America and Europe for 2010.

Itinerary book for this leg was pretty similar in terms of design to the European one but this time "Running down the road like loose electricity", a phrase from Breathe, was used on the cover.

As it happened also on the Vertigo tour itinerary books, some colours where used on this book pages so if you see or have one with pages completelly B/W I'm sorry but it's a fake.

Many fake copies of this itinerary were in fact sold on Ebay during and after the tour with colour cover but completely black and white pages.

A beautiful colour page showing the U2 plane design was included in the book. You can now compare fake versus original under these lines.

Another way to compare original versus fake is the spiral bound. As you can see on the previous couple of pictures, they are also different.

Back to the content of the itinerary, a "Tower of Babel" page with some words from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" can also be found.

Before the first night of this leg, band and management were in NY and they flew to Chicago on September 10th. They had a rehearsal session on that evening and also on the 11th before they opened the tour on the 12th.

Twelve years after cancelling Raleigh show in 1997, U2 fans there could finally see the band live on October 3rd 2009.

Between Dallas and Oklahoma shows, U2 spent some days off in Cancun. A few pictures from those holidays in Mexico could be found on the internet.

Once this tour leg was over, back to NY.....MTV show in front of Brandenburg gate in Berlin......and holidays until they meet again for the third 360º leg.

I have also known that there was a second itinerary for this leg. Apart from the one I'm showing above, a different book was specifically printed for the crew. So the band and the management people were using the one I just showed and the rest of the crew working on the tour were handed copies of this white one (picture shows front and back of the Crew book).

I think this is a way to protect the band information and keep it for a very few people only.

More information on this Crew Itinerary can be found in an specific entry I have created for it.


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