U2 Love comes to town tour 1989 (Full tour Itinerary)

After the end of The Joshua Tree tour and the release of Rattle&Hum, U2 went back on the road in 1989 with a tour of only 47 shows. This time USA was left out of the tour itinerary as they just played in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and a few European countries. Amazing setlist changes and BBKing support night after night were the highlights of this tour the fans know as "Lovetown tour".

I have found at least 4 different itineraries for this short tour. Amazing !!

This is the first one I want to talk about as it contains information of basically all the tour. Yellow front cover with huge tour logo and the 4 legs of the tour listed on the righthand  side.


This time short tour means a short list of management and crew people (15 + 26). We have to add them a total of 11 "BB King people" including BB himself, his band, a manager, a road manager and a valet responsible.

I got the chance to get this book signed by Bono and Edge in front of their hotel in Paris just hours before their concert at Stade de France on September 18th 2010.

Back to the book we were talking about , a World Time Zones map is included in the itinerary book this time.


This itinerary is covering the long period from September 9th to December 31st but we can read on its pages that european section of the tour had not finalised when it was printed so some of the information concerning timings and hotels might change.

Crew arrived in Sydney on September the 4th and worked on the production until U2 and the management people landed on the 9th to start rehearsing on the 10th. BB King and his group did not arrive in Australia until the 14th & 15th on two different flights.

On Monday September 18th with they all already in Perth, the first of three full production rehearsals was scheduled at Entertainment Centre.

After Australia U2 flew to New Zealand and Japan before heading to Europe. Their plans were to spend about 10 days in Bangkok between New Zealand and Japan legs and  fly back to Dublin on December 2nd '89 once the japanese tour was over.

Years later I found this page on internet where the tour management informs the crew on some changes to the itinerary. In this case it was information about hotel changes for Sydney and Christchurch.

I will go deeper on those legs when blogging about the other Lovetown itineraries.





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