U2 Popmart Tour Leg 1 US 1997

The first "real" itinerary issued for the Popmart tour is covering the 30 shows of this North American leg.

This time the cover is very Popmart, with the tour logo and a huge supermarket trolley topped with the word POP in red. Another interesting detail is that for this book the spiral bound was blue instead of black. I have seen a few copies of this itinerary and they all come with this blue bound.

From the original concerts list included in the itinerary some of them were cancelled or never confirmed. As we all know Raleigh was cancelled in order to fix the screen damaged for the strong rain in Washington a couple of days before. A tentative concert in Syracuse on June 6th never went on sale.

Same happened with a second show in Philly on June 9th and a final leg concert in Boston on July 5th.

About number of people involved on this tour leg, U2 and management were 29 plus a crew of 137 people.

Production Rehearsals were expected to go from April 16th to 23rd with a Dress Rehearsal on the 24th.

The band had a confirmed hotel from the 14th so they probably arrived a couple of days before the first rehearsal.

Once again cars were used to travel between NY and Philadelphia.

A US time zones and phone codes map and another for Canada are included in the itinerary. Also an international phone codes list can be found at the end of the book.

Years later, on August 14th 2014, I got Bono and Edge to sign my color copy of this itinerary book at the gates of Studios Riviera in Nice.

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