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Noel Gallagher and The High Flying Birds have been announced as support for U2's 30th anniversary Joshua Tree tour where Bono and co will play the classic album live in full for the first time.
Gallagher, who got the tube to see U2 and join them for a Beatles cover and 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' when they played the 02 in 2015, announced the news via Twitter with an accompanying poster showing gigs all over Western Europe.
As a proud friend and fan of U2, he announced the news with the following chuffed words: "It will be both a pleasure and an honour to play my part in what still remains the greatest show on earth."
U2 revealed shortly before Christmas that they have huge plans for 2017 with new album shows as well as a tour dedicated to their finest album, The Joshua Tree - the album gave us 'Where The Streets Have No Name' and 'With Or Without You' and is a superb listen from start to finish.
In addition to a whol host of European show for which you can see a tour poster below, they cover numerous stadium across North America.
The Rolling Stone spoke with U2 about the upcoming shows over there and The Edge explain that it was the shock result in the election that spurred them to bring The Joshua Tree set on tour and delay the release of their new album, Songs of Experience.
""[The Joshua Tree] was written in the mid-1980s, during the Reagan-Thatcher era of British and U.S. politics," says the Edge. "It was a period when there was a lot of unrest. It just felt like, 'Wow, these songs have a new meaning and a new resonance today that they didn't have three years ago, four years ago.' We needed to put the album on ice for a minute just to really think about [it] one more time before putting it out; just to make sure that it really was what we wanted to say."
Bono shared his thoughts: "Recently I listened back to The Joshua Tree for the first time in nearly 30 years," he said. "It’s quite an opera. A lot of emotions which feel strangely current: love, loss, broken dreams, seeking oblivion, polarization ... all the greats. I’ve sung some of these songs a lot ... but never all of them. I’m up for it, if our audience is as excited as we are ... it’s gonna be a great night."
Tickets for the U2 shows below are on sale Monday 16 Jan 9am. Be on your marks.
"It will be both a pleasure and an honour to play my part in what still remains the greatest show on earth” @U2 pic.twitter.com/n0OR7Z9GTJ
— Noel Gallagher (@NoelGallagher) January 9, 2017
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