U2 fans across Donegal are both celebrating and complaining after all tickets for their Dublin show this summer sold out in minutes.
U2 are bringing the hugely popular The Joshua Tree back to Croke Park on 22nd July 2017 – 30 years since they made a memorable return to their hometown with the original Joshua Tree Tour. Tickets went on sale with at 9am this morning and were gone in just six minutes.
A spokesperson for the band said they will not be announcing a second date. Tickets remain in high-demand and are being sold on third-party websites for hugely multiplied prices. Some pitch standing tickets are being offered for sale at €1,500 each.
One Donegal fan expressed his disappointment over missing out on snapping up his tickets: “I am devastated. I was just a minute too late to get them online. I’m a huge fan of the band and was so looking forward to seeing them in action this year and bring the legendary Joshua Tree album back to life,” he said.
With a capacity of almost 78,000, Croke Park is among the largest stadiums on the European leg of the The Joshua Tree Tour 2017. The band last performed to a home crowd on the the iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour, which played to a total of over 65,000 Irish fans in November 2015.
U2 play select stadiums this year with U2: The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the band’s seminal album. Each show on the tour will include a performance of The Joshua Tree in its entirety, with support in Dublin from special guest Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
Released to universal acclaim on March 9th 1987 and featuring hit singles “With Or Without You”,“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” and “Where The Streets Have No Name”, The Joshua Tree went to #1 in Ireland and around the world, selling in excess of 25 million albums, and catapulting Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr “… from heroes to superstars” (Rolling Stone).
The 12 months that followed saw the band create now-iconic moments: the traffic-stopping Grammy Award-winning music video on the roof of a Los Angeles liquor store, winning a BRIT Award and two Grammys – including Album of the Year – their first of 22 received to date, distinguishing U2 as the most awarded rock band in Grammy history; as well as a triumphant return home for four unforgettable shows in Belfast, Dublin and Cork in the summer of 1987.