U2 have added a second UK stadium date to their Joshua Tree 30th anniversary tour.
Last week the band announced details of a UK and European tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Grammy-winning 1987 album The Joshua Tree which boasts 'Where the Streets Have No Name' and 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'
Tickets went on sale at 9am today (January 16) and after the only UK date at London’s Twickenham (55,000 cap) on July 8 sold out straight away a second date at the same venue has been added.
U2 will take to the Twickenham stage again the night after on July 9 with tickets for the second date go on general sale at 9am on Monday, January 23.
“The wave of support behind it is incredible,” said longtime U2 collaborator John Giddings to Music Week. “The reaction is phenomenal.”
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."
Noel Gallagher and The High Flying Birds have been announced as support for U2's 30th anniversary Joshua Tree tour. And in a less meaningful comment than The Edge's above statement about finding parallels between treacherous politicians, Liam Gallagher took to Twitter to say to brother that all the "brown nosing" of U2 has started to pay off.
U2 w/ Noel Gallagher uk shows. Check here for ticket information
8 July Twickenham stadium
9 July Twickenham stadium
