U2 Popmart Tour Leg 3 USA 1997

After the 2nd leg ended in Tel Aviv on September 30th, U2 and crew had a few more than 20 days off before they had to meet again to resume the Popmart tour.

As usual U2 was back to North America after the summer tour in Europe and a new itinerary was printed.

As I explained when talking about the european itinerary, two different versions of this new itinerary can be found. Basically the same cover that sometimes is printed on full colour and sometimes on B/W.

A huge U2 Popmart USA logo and the Popmart Arch are on the cover together with 3 mini logos also used on the tour merchandising (POP - Lemon - Trolley). On the back cover, little pictures of the band on stage, taken during one of the concerts of the previous legs.

After arriving in Toronto on October 24th , a dress rehearsal is planned for October 25th, one day before the opening show at the Skydome.

MTV Awards are once again in the middle of a Popmart Leg so U2 had to jump back to Europe to be at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Rotterdam to rehearse on November 5th, show on the 6th and then back to the US to continue with the tour in St. Louis on the 8th.





I'm sure you all remember the band opening his show on MTV the same way they were doing on tour, walking to the stage surrounded by the crowd and playing an amazing live version of MOFO.

On December 12th, once the tour was over, the band flyes back home where they land on the 13th.

Once again two pages with an advance version of the 1998 dates are included on this itinerary book.












On the second page we can see there were plans to play a show in Singapore....that would have been the second country in the Far East to see U2 live but it never happened so, when updating this entry in November'12, Japan is still the only country in that part of the world that has held a U2 show.

Before the end of this leg, the Crew got some A4 sheets including detailed information regarding the Mexican dates of this leg and the dates planned for 1998.

Funny to read things like "No tickets available for either Mexico show - don't even ask..."

"Rumors are rife about loosing equipment" and advising the crew to take to SouthAmerica only what they really need.

According to those A4 sheets, there was a possibility for second shows in Sydney and Tokyo ....and Capetown was not on schedule yet. Singapore show is already out of this new list of upcoming shows.





Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Australia, Japan and South Africa are waiting for U2 !!!

Adam Clayton signed my copy of this book at the back of the 3Arena in Dublin on November 27th 2015 before the 3rd i+e tour night in their hometown.

















RATING: B (Colour Version)
RATING: C (B/W Version)
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