Experience + Innocence Tour
2018 concert tour by U2 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Experience + Innocence Tour (styled as eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour) was a worldwide concert tour by rock band U2. Staged in support of the band's 2017 album, Songs of Experience, the tour visited arenas throughout 2018. Comprising two legs and 60 concerts, the Experience + Innocence Tour visited North America from May through July, and Europe from August through November. It began on 2 May 2018 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and ended on 13 November 2018 in Berlin, Germany. The tour followed U2's 2015 Innocence + Experience Tour as the second in a pair of tours in support of the group's companion albums, Songs of Innocence (2014) and Songs of Experience.
World tour by U2 | |
Location | North America, Europe |
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Associated album | Songs of Experience |
Start date | 2 May 2018 (2018-05-02) |
End date | 13 November 2018 (2018-11-13) |
Legs | 2 |
No. of shows | 60 |
Attendance | 923,733 |
Box office | $126.2 million |
U2 concert chronology | |
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The 2018 tour reprised the loose autobiographical narrative from the 2015 tour, along with the original's multifaceted stage comprising a rectangular main stage, circular B-stage, connecting walkway, and doubled-sided LED video screen with an interior walkway. Several enhancements were made to the set, such as a higher resolution and more transparent video screen and the addition of LED panels to the B-stage floor. The band incorporated augmented reality into the tour, building it into a mobile app for fans to use, as well as using it to revive lead vocalist Bono's demonic stage character "MacPhisto" from the Zoo TV Tour in 1993. During the Experience + Innocence Tour, the group performed their oft-requested 1991 song "Acrobat" for the first time in their career, and they focused setlists on their Songs of Experience and Innocence albums. Having toured in 2017 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of The Joshua Tree, the band decided not to perform any songs from that record on the Experience + Innocence Tour, leaving out some of their most well-known tracks.
Ticket purchases for the Experience + Innocence Tour included copies of Songs of Experience, helping the album reach number one on the US Billboard 200. The tour made use of Ticketmaster's "Verified Fan" platform in an attempt to combat ticket scalping, making U2 the first group to do so for an arena tour. The Experience + Innocence Tour received positive reviews and grossed $126.2 million from 923,733 tickets sold.