Tickets for U2’s hometown gig go on sale
TICKETS for U2’s highly anticipated Dublin dates were due to go on sale today at 9am.
Fans were last night expected to queue outside the 3 Arena box office on Dublin’s North Wall Quay, where the tickets for the U2 Innocence + Experience Tour go on sale.
Tickets for the Dublin shows – as well as the November performances in Belfast – will also be available on ticketmaster.ie this morning but not at ticketmaster booths.
Tickets will be limited to two per purchaser and will be priced from €30 to €185, plus charges.
The band is set to perform on November 23 and 24, as well as November 27 and 28, at the 3Arena in Dublin’s Docklands. The shows promise to be some of the most memorable performances in years. On Thursday, hardcore fans were already snapping up tickets for U2’s hometown concerts online as a limited number of seats became available to purchase to subscribers to U2.com only.
While the 3Arena could hold up to 58,000 people over four nights, the number of tickets circulated could be as low as 50,000 as the band grapples with remodelling their show in order to make it fit in the venue.
The stage set-up of this particular tour has garnered much attention.
So far, the main stage has taken up the entire centre of any arena floor, but The Edge confirmed in May that the musicians could not use the standard set for the 3Arena. It is believed that the platform, on which a giant video screen shows a re-creation of Cedarwood Road, where Bono grew up, has been rebuilt.
Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr and Adam Clayton will return home to finish the European leg of their indoor Innocence + Experience tour, with the four dates in Dublin, as well as two in Belfast at the SSE Arena on November 18 and 19.
The band, who began their tour in America and opened in Europe in Turin on September 4, have not enlisted a support act. Previously, The Edge, 54, has said Irish audiences are ‘the most appreciative and in some ways also the toughest crowd, because they know what to expect. They’ve high expectations.’