U2 Head To Australia After New Zealand Shows

U2 have touched down in Australia for their first tour in nine years. After two shows in Auckland on the weekend, U2 will kick off the Australian leg of ‘The Joshua Tree’ tour in Brisbane on Tuesday (12 November).

‘The Joshua Tree’ tour features a complete performance of ‘The Joshua Tree’ album as the centerpiece of the show.

‘The Joshua Tree’ was U2’s fifth studio album. Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, who also produced the previous album ‘The Unforgettable Fire’, produced the record. Emo and Lanois evolved the earlier record’s ambient sound to include a rock edge more like the first three U2 albums.

Recording of ‘The Joshua Tree’ began in Ireland in January 1986. It was released 14 months later on 9 March 1987.

In 2014 the US Library of Congress declared the album ‘Culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant’. The album cover was shot by Anton Corbijn in the Mojave Desert near Darwin, California.

U2 are touring Australia and New Zealand for Live Nation.

U2 setlist, 10 November 2019, Auckland, New Zealand

Sunday Bloody Sunday (from War, 1983)
New Year’s Day (from War, 1983)
Bad (from The Unforgettable Fire, 1984)
Pride (In the Name of Love) (from The Unforgettable Fire, 1984)

Where the Streets Have No Name (The Joshua Tree, 1987)
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (The Joshua Tree, 1987)
With or Without You (The Joshua Tree, 1987)
Bullet the Blue Sky (The Joshua Tree, 1987)
Running To Stand Still (The Joshua Tree, 1987)
Red Hill Mining Town (The Joshua Tree, 1987)
In God’s Country (The Joshua Tree, 1987)
Trip Through Your Wires (The Joshua Tree, 1987)
One Tree Hill (The Joshua Tree, 1987)
Exit (The Joshua Tree, 1987)
Mothers Of The Disappeared (The Joshua Tree, 1987)
Angel of Harlem (from Rattle and Hum, 1988)

Encore:
Elevation (from All That You Can’t Leave Behind, 2000)
Vertigo (from How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, 2004)
Even Better Than The Real Thing (from Achtung Baby, 1991)
You’re The Best Thing About Me (from Songs of Experience, 2017)
Beautiful Day (from All That You Can’t Leave Behind, 2000)
Ultraviolet (Light My Way) (from Achtung Baby, 1991)
Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way (from Songs of Experience, 2017)
One (from Achtung Baby, 1991)

U2 2019 dates

New Zealand
9 November, Auckland, Mt Smart Stadium

Australia
12 November, Brisbane, Suncorp Stadium
15 November, Melbourne, Marvel Stadium
19 November, Adelaide, Adelaide Oval
22 and 23 November, Sydney, Sydney Cricket Ground
27 November, Perth, Optus Stadium

Asia
30 November, Singapore, National Stadium
4 and 5 December, Tokyo, Saitama Super Arena
8 December, Seoul, Gockeok Sky Dome
11 December, Manila, Philippine Arena
15 December, Mumbai, DY Patil Stadium