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U2 (Photo: Wikimedia commons)
U2, which played in Chicago this past weekend, comes to Detroit in less than three months.
The group will bring its Joshua Tree Tour to Ford Field at 7 p.m. Sept. 3. Public tickets go on sale next Monday, June 12, at 10 a.m. via the stadium box office and Live Nation.
Presales run from Thursday morning through Saturday afternoon for u2.com fan group members who buy subscriptions at two levels ($50 and $85).
Marked-up seats also are offered now by a reseller named Vivid Seats ($148-$177 each) and will be listed later at Stub Hub ($159 and up).
Here's a snippet of a review of one of the Chicago shows by Chris Riemenschneider of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
At its first of two concerts at Soldier Field on Saturday . . . U2 failed miserably at that simple task of keeping it simple. But it triumphed by nearly every other standard.
All Bono had to do was let the selfie-taking revelers and hand-holding Gen X couples enjoy “With or Without You” without fussing over all the woes in the world. Wouldn’t you know it, though, Johnny Do-Gooder found a way to tie his band’s old material to current headlines, and spark timeless soul-searching questions in the songs.
The singer’s modern take on the old songs started up even during the older, pre-“Joshua Tree” songs they played at the start of the show on a small, stark thrust stage..
