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Gigs & Festivals
U2 to sell off stage set as separate venues
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 30 June 2011
I’m not sure I’ve ever considered what U2 might do with their massive ‘360 Tour’ stage set when they are finished with it. Maybe I just assumed they would set it up in Bono’s back garden and use it as a washing line or something. But they’re not going to do that. Actually, they’re going to sell it of in bits, possibly using each leg to create a new permanent venue.
Tour Director Craig Evans told Billboard: “It’s certainly our intention to see these things recycled into permanent and usable ventures. It represents too great an engineering feat to just use for [the tour] and put away in a warehouse somewhere. [We are] now in discussions to send them into different places around the world and have them installed as permanent venues. Some major events have shown interest in these, from four different continents – and we haven’t even really put the word out yet”.
He continued: “They’re something you can put up on a waterfront and become an instant skyline icon. We know that the inquiries will keep coming in. Having been part of the biggest tour of all time, they’re pretty well tried and tested. They can carry weights no other structure can consider, and since they’re already developed and designed you can probably complete [a venue] in a one-month period instead of a two-year build period”.
