U2 could be set to play Croke Park next summer as rumours continue to grow.
Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton may make a grand return to the stadium six years after they performed in 2017 as part of their Joshua Tree 30th Anniversary tour.
The Dubliners are no strangers to Croker, first playing there back in 1987, and has since then played a series of dates at Croke Park in 2009 as part of their global 360 tour.
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A source to the fan website U2songs.com said: “It looks like over the last few days the band have booked a stadium in Dublin for next summer. They also look like they have booked several dates for the Sofi stadium, which opens later this year, in Inglewood, California.”
A rep for the band has been contacted for comment.
U2 to hit the road
It comes just weeks after it was revealed U2 could be set to take up a Las Vegas residency and be the first band in the world to play at the MSG Sphere at the Venetian in Sin City when the €2.2 billion arena opens next year
And according to multiple sources to Billboard, U2 could also be in talks about a new tour in North America.
Fan websites heavily reported that the band had asked previous crews they had worked with in the past to keep their schedules open for June 2023, suggesting that plans for a new tour was forming.
The band’s performances will be the first dates of a multi-show residency by U2 at the high-tech arena, which is being built by Madison Square Garden Entertainment chairman James Dolan near the Venetian off the Las Vegas Strip.
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Officials with MSGE describe the MSG Sphere at The Venetian as the next generation of live entertainment, offering fans a multi-sensory experience of sound and light inside the largest spherical structure ever created.
For concerts, the MSG Sphere at The Venetian can hold 20,000 standing spectators or 17,500 seated guests, with 23 VIP suites.
The Sphere will include 160,000 square feet of video viewing space (Sphere officials describe the technology as “interior immersive display”), state-of-the-art spatial audio and an exterior exosphere that changes the building’s look via fully programmable LED technology. It will connect to the Venetian Resort via an approximately 1,000-foot-long pedestrian bridge.
U2’s possible concerts at the venue will be part of a residency that will be spread out over several months and be performed on non-consecutive days.
Bono's memoir
The speculation comes just months ahead of Bono releasing his first memoir, Surrender, to mark his 62nd birthday.
The memoir's title, "Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story," refers to the book's 40 chapters, each of which will be named after a U2 song.
"When I started to write this book I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously only sketched in songs," Bono said at the time he announced the book.
"The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me. Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept.
"A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book. I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist. Surrender is the story of one pilgrim’s lack of progress…with a fair amount of fun along the way."
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