U2 Vertigo Tour Leg 4 R.O.W. 2006 (Postponed dates)

Fourth and final Vertigo leg was scheduled for February to April 2006. Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Honolulu where the final countries waiting to see Vertigo tour and U2 live.

As we all know part of these dates were postponed so plans had to be changed for the last 13 shows of the tour. If we consider this, we assume the information contained on this leg itinerary was only used for the first part of the leg and, as I said in a previous entry, I guess a second itinerary for those 13 shows had to be printed with updated information about the final and confirmed dates of the tour.

This time the front cover of the itinerary was similar but different enough to the rest of the itineraries of this tour. On this new design cover, V 4ROW was printed in white ink, being ROW a Rest of World abbreviation.

Once again, pages include a Vertigo logo this time in two different blue tones, red and white.


So...if you have one of these books and it's all in B/W it might be a fake.

About tour dates, South American part of this leg remained as it was printed on the book. Big changes came for the rest of the countries and not just because dates were postponed.....

This was the original plan for that final part of this leg: Auckland (2 shows), Brisbane, Melbourne (2), Adelaide, Sydney (2), Yokohama and Honolulu. A total of 10 shows.

Once the leg went ahead, the real itinerary was: Brisbane, Sydney (3), Adelaide, Melbourne (2), Auckland (2), Saitama (3) and Honolulu. So, different order and 3 more shows after adding 1 date in Sydney and 2 more in Japan after moving from Yokohama to Saitama.

Before the opening show in Monterrey, U2 rehearsed in Los Angeles on February 7th and attended the Grammy Awards at Staples Center on the 8th before flying to Mexico on the 11th. That same day they had planned to rehearse in Monterrey.

Once in Mexico city they recorded with Mary J.Blidge the video for "One" on February 17th.

After playing in Sao Paulo the group spent a few days off in Salvador, enjoying the Carnival with Gilberto Gil as we saw on TV or internet. Adam prefered to stay in the Sao Paulo area and join the rest in Santiago on February 25th.

After the shows in Buenos Aires, the book says that group and management left to various destinations. Next show was on March 17th but as I said that part of the leg was postponed. The rest of information on this itinerary was not used and most of it probably changed with the resume of the tour so I'm not gonna go deeper on that part.

The tour had to finish on April 8th. The truth is that Vertigo tour wasn't really over until December 9th'06 but Honolulu was kept as the final place Vertigo tour would visit.

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