Local Itineraries/Concert Guides

If you have been following this blog over the last months you might have seen that U2 management is usually printing an itinerary book to cover every single leg of the tour.

In addition, tour riders are issued in order to compile all the requirements to cover when a U2 show is planned.

This time I'll write about Local Itineraries. This kind of itinerary book is issued to cover a part of the leg (i.e. UK Leg) or even just a show.

These books are issued by local promoters in order to help out all those people involved in stage construction and any other kind of operation related to the show/shows.

This means that the local books are basically not including information directly related to the band members. Sometimes the hotel where they stay is named on the book but the info is mainly about useful phone numbers and contact persons, sometimes a list of recommended restaurants, bars, pubs, night life, doctor, hair dressers, laundry, air lines, international dialing codes, etc.

Detailed maps are also included with information about where the stage and management areas, catering and others should be located in each stadium.

As I was saying, they might also contain information related to promoter, local crew, band and crew hotels, time schedule for the stage construction and show, etc.

Another curious detail on these kind of books is the size of them. Some of them have the same size of a tour itinerary but some of them are really tiny, just 15x10 cms like the ones from Zooropa'93 in Oslo or ZOO TV in Stockholm (see pictures below). The one that I'm showing from The Joshua Tree Tour in Göteborg was 21x15 cms.

Here is a list of all the local itineraries/concert guides I ever saw:

The Joshua Tree Tour Göteborg Concert Guide (1987)
The Joshua Tree Tour Paris Hippodrome de Vincennes Concert Guide (1987)
ZOO TV Canadian Manifest (1992)
ZOO TV Tour Stockholm Service Guide (1992)
ZOOROPA '93 UK Itinerary (1993)
ZOOROPA '93 Oslo Concert Guide (1993)
ZOOROPA '93 Sweden Itinerary (1993)
ZOOROPA '93 Germany and Austria Handbook (1993)
ZOOROPA'93 German Itinerary (1993)
ZOOROPA'93 Stockholm Concert Guide (1993)
ZOOROPA'93 Oslo Concert Guide (1993)
POPMART'97 UK Itinerary (1997)
POPMART'97 Wembley Itinerary (1997)

I'm showing you some pictures I have been collecting over the years. Hope you like them !

The Collector