Illness Confirmed as Reason for U2 Tour Delay
Uncertainty still surrounds U2's plans for their world tour, which had been due to kick off in March 2005.
Stuart Clark, 07 Jan 2005
A statement released by the band's manager Paul McGuinness yesterday emphasised that the routing for the tour is still being worked on and this Is clearly a challenge that the band's management company will be wrestling with over the coming weeks. However, Hotpress has confirmed that reports carried by national newspapers in Ireland this morning, that there are concerns about the health of a member of Edge's family, are accurate and that this is the underlying reason for the delay.
The original report, carried by Rolling Stone, suggested that concerns about the health of a close relative of one of the band members had led to the tour temporarily being put on hold. "When a member of the family is facing a serious illness, it's just not possible to embark on a world tour of the kind that U2 do," a source tells Hotpress, "so everything is on hold. Obviously it's a very sensitive area. The hope is that the delay won't be too protracted, but nobody knows because the situation is serious."
The proposed tour schedule had the band kicking off at the beginning of March in Florida, with as many as 35 US dates in the first leg. Major Irish shows had been anticipated at Croke Park, which has a capacity of 80,000, on June 24 and 25 – with the possibility of a further Dublin date being added –and the hope is that these shows will still launch the European leg of the tour.
However, a lot now depends on the length of the delay, and the full extent of the re-routing required as a result. With the other members of the band due to return from holidays, the likelihood is that rehearsals will begin over the next week or so – but when the first concert will be remains a matter of speculation.
Stuart Clark
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Last night began a momentous chapter for the world’s biggest band. For U2, it was the first live airing and radio/internet broadcast of material from their eleventh studio album, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. For those in attendance, it was an opportunity as rare as they come. The location: Dublin, Ireland. More specifically, at the album’s birthplace, in their Hanover Quay studios. Hot Press editor Niall Stokes was in attendance to feel the impact and capture the aftershock. [photos by John Dardis, courtesy of U2]
2004-11-17 - News
With their album release only days away, U2 have been speaking to Hot Press about their upcoming world tour and the likely candidates for the prestigious support slot
2004-11-15 - News
Atomic Bomb is positively Spector-esque in its ambition, although curiously enough, it’s not a showy record, the playing being mostly subservient to the songs.
2004-11-04 - REVIEW
In what could prove to be one of the year's biggest marketing coups, Apple Computer Inc. have inked a deal with U2 which sees the band putting their name to a customised iPod. [pics courtesy of Apple]
2004-10-26 - News
Glastonbury organisers have confirmed that U2 will not be headlining next year's festival
2004-10-22 - News
For many it’s the most eagerly awaited song of the year, and ‘Vertigo’ doesn’t disappoint.
2004-10-14 - REVIEW
Inside the Terenure lair of the resident grand wizard of live sound engineering on Planet Earth.
2004-10-13 - Interview
Paul McGuinness has spoken out against websites selling tickets for unconfirmed U2 dates in the UK and Ireland
2004-10-11 - News
With first single 'Vertigo' now spinning high on radio playlists, U2 have announced details of their Dublin tour dates
2004-09-28 - News
Irish audiences will hear U2's first single ahead of its worldwide release
2004-09-22 - News
U2 fans can finally revel in some official news: the title and release date of the new album
2004-09-14 - News
As first revealed by hotpress.com "Vertigo" has been confirmed as the first single to be taken from the band's as yet untitled 11th studio album. Due to hit the racks on November 5th, 'Vertigo' is an epic U2 track laced with big guitars and soaring vocals.
2004-09-13 - News
Top musicians Bono and Larry Mullen appear in film to celebrate Oscar Wildes 150th birthday.
2004-09-07 - News
Anton Corbijn's collection of photographs has been given the U2 seal of approval
2004-08-31 - News
... And it's not called Vertigo! The man otherwise known as "Bono's doppelganger", Neil McCormick, talks sounds, songwriting and stadium-sized pressure in the most revealing U2 album preview yet.
2004-08-19 - News
The new U2 photobook, U2 Show: The Art Of Touring, is being published by Riverhead on October 21.
2004-08-13 - News
Bono was among the stars and prominent politicians paying tribute to Senator Ted Kennedy on Wednesday in Boston's Symphony Hall.
2004-07-30 - News
French police have been alerted after a CD of new U2 songs went missing during a band photo shoot in Nice.
2004-07-15 - News
Unless 2 Unlimited are thinking of reuniting, it would seem that Bono and co. are Glastonbury-bound next year...
2004-07-01 - News
This year it's Silicon Valley, next year it's quite possibly Glastonbury and apparently we can expect a new single soon enough
2004-06-23 - News
U2 took everyone – including their Portuguese record company – unawares this week when they arrived in Lisbon to do a photo-shoot with official band snapper Anton Corbijn
2004-05-06 - News
While 2004 has not been an especially spectacular year to date, there is good reason to believe that rocks big guns are likely to deliver the kind of records that will revive spirits in the industry. Chris Donovan previews some of the albums that are likely to top the sales – and the critical – charts before 2004 is out...
2004-03-30 - Interview
While 2004 has not been an especially spectacular year to date, there is good reason to believe that rocks big guns are likely to deliver the kind of records that will revive spirits in the industry. Chris Donovan previews some of the albums that are likely to top the sales – and the critical – charts before 2004 is out...
2004-03-30 - Interview
Garrett "Jacknife" Lee is the latest person to assist U2 with the recording of their somewhat overdue new album
2004-03-23 - News
Steve Lilywhite is “an additional producer not a replacement” on U2's new album
2004-03-05 - News
The CDs and DVD from the Nelson Mandela AIDS awareness show will be heavily Irish in their content; Plus more news from the U2 camp with a photo retrospective tipped for publication
2004-03-03 - News
Paul McGuinness has confirmed that it's full steam ahead, not back to the drawing board, for the next U2 record
2004-02-16 - News
Former producer Steve Lillywhite is in the studio with U2 but cannot reveal the expected finish date for the album
2004-02-12 - News
Bono’s plan to highlight the AIDs epidemic in Africa at this year’s Superbowl has sadly been scuppered.
2004-01-19 - News
Russian cosmonauts, mexican desperadoes and cranky italian elephants – it’s all in a day’s work for solo too supremo Ned O’Hanlon, the man entrusted with documenting the multi-media extravaganza that is the U2 live experience.
2004-01-15 - Interview
After 18 years with Principle, Managing Director Sheila Roche has decided to leave the U2 camp
2003-11-10 - News
Colm O’Gorman explains how U2 helped the abuse victims’ organisation one in four to survive
2003-10-24 - Frontlines
U2 have put out big money to secure the future of the Dublin-based sexual abuse support centre
2003-10-16 - News
Reports that U2 are suing Nancy Sinatra are completely unfounded
2003-10-15 - News
U2 will take on the world for the release of their upcoming album, but not before a stop-over in Nashville...
2003-10-13 - News
Get excited people - we bring you the track-listing of the U2 Go Home: Live From Slane Castle DVD
2003-09-16 - News
Fans can relive U2's 2001 Slane spectacular with the release of the DVD in November
2003-09-15 - News
Extra, extra special: we're delighted to bring you a sneak peek at seminal new U2 graphic-design-retrospective collectors' book, Stealing Hearts At A Traveling Show: The Graphic Design Of U2
2003-07-09 - News
U2 designers Four5One and label boss deny that leaked posters for the band's new album are official
2003-06-24 - News
Edge reports that the new U2 album is coming along swimmingly - and that it will be accompanied by a tour in 2004
2003-05-29 - News
U2 have denied reports that they are to play a BBC Music Live gig
2003-04-15 - News
U2 to be given a special tribute by a stellar cast of musicians at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards later this month
2003-02-04 - News
U2 scoop Golden Globe for Best Song From A Motion Picture with 'The Hands That Built America'. Next stop: the Oscars
2003-01-20 - News
At the end of an exciting, painful and earthshaking year, Bono reflects on the political and the personal – from drop the debt, September 11, Afghanistan and Genoa to the death of his father Bob, the birth of his son John and the enduring friendship which underpins U2’s music and career. Interview: Niall Stokes [this interview originally appeared in the spectacular Hot Press Annual 2002 - used in the pictures below - a very limited number of this unique collectors item will shortly be on sale - email u2@hotpress.ie to reserve a copy]
2002-12-16 - Interview
U2 frontman speaks about "the biggest pandemic since the bubonic plague" and urges middle America to use their nation's huge financial power and get involved. "Our age will be remembered," he says, "for three things: the war against terror, the Internet, and how we let an entire continent burst into flames and stood around with water in cans"
2002-12-06 - News
With a new 'best of' bringing the band's story up to date U2's guitar man steps forward to riff on good times and bad, the private life of a public figure, discovering the secrets of the universe on mushrooms and why, after all these years, few things match the high of being a member of U2. Special hotpress.com members edition: "director's cut" featuring interview sections unavailable anywhere else.
2002-12-04 - Interview
With a new ‘Best Of’ bringing the band’s story up to date, U2’s guitar man steps forward to riff on good times and bad, the private life of a public figure, discovering the secrets of the universe on mushrooms, and why, after all these years, few things match the high of being a member of U2
2002-12-04 - Interview
At its best, Zooropa is sky-funk, music from a band who, permanently or temporarily, have renounced the old folkways for the new airways
2002-11-14 - REVIEW
Bill Graham reviews a new book by Boston D.J. Carter Alan, which sheds considerable light on U2's American breakthrough
2002-11-14 - Interview
U2 announce details of the construction of a penthouse studio to be built at Britain Quay
2002-11-13 - News
U2 are still determined to be better than the best in his class, and to produce music that is genuinely transcendent
2002-11-12 - REVIEW
Edge waxes lyrical on the power of a "raw band sound"
2002-11-08 - News
With the launch of a commemorative series of Irish postage stamps celebrating four of the nation's most important rock legends, we revisit some of the seminal moments in the careers of Phil Lynott, Rory Gallagher, Van Morrison and - first - U2
2002-11-06 - Interview
hotpress.com is offering YOU the chance to snare a copy of the now-out-of-print The U2 File signed by each member of the band
2002-10-31 - News
The insomniacs at HMV Grafton St do another midnight-opener - on Sunday, November 3rd - for the release of U2's Best Of 1990-2000
2002-10-31 - News
Edge talks about the new album, Bono scoops 'MusiCares' award and guests on Elvis tribute TV show
2002-10-10 - News
Get a headful of this: a sneak preview of U2's Best Of 1990-2000 album artwork, featuring extra ram (guffaw)
2002-10-10 - News
The planet's most famous lead singer continues his humanitarian campaign, contributes to fundraising book project and appears on Oprah. Oh, and a Frank Sinatra cover and landmark U2 memorabilia exhibition are also en route
2002-09-19 - News
U2 Live: A Concert Documentary - possibly the definitive book on U2's history as a live band - to be given an update and re-release following the tragic death of its compiler
2002-09-19 - News
Well, look what we've got here: exclusive peeks at both the U2 single's sleeve artwork and the piccie from the new Samantha Mumba 45 as well. Don't thank us, we're just doing our job
2002-09-05 - News
Imminent new single 'Electrical Storm' can only mean one thing: the U2 Best Of 1990-2000 CD/DVD is here - and boy is it ever chocca with cool extras. Read on for details
2002-09-03 - News
U2 to release new single 'Electrical Storm' in October - the leader track from this autumn's Greatest Hits 1990-2000
2002-08-22 - News
Hot Press readers worldwide want to know about Bono for president, Larry for lead singer, that mysterious tattoo, the greatest book, and more. Bono and Larry smoulder on the coals of the hp mixed grill
2002-07-16 - Interview
In answer to a fan's question in the Hot Press Mixed Grill (see current edition of HP), Bono dismisses rumours that he will run for the Irish presidency
2002-07-05 - News
Put your questions to U2 in the Hot Press Mixed Grill
2002-06-11 - News
Workaholics to a man and clearly unable to grasp the concept of time off, U2 already have much of their next album (due out in '03) in the bag - and apparently it's poppier and "more immediate" than All That You Can't Leave Behind
2002-04-15 - News
What's Bono doing on the cover of international news magazine Time? Talking politics ("the art of the possible"), that's what
2002-02-25 - News
...quoth Drew Carey, master of ceremonies, when the glitterati gathered in Los Angeles last week to pay tribute to the many humanitarian endeavours of Bono, lead singer of popular Irish beat combo U2
2002-02-18 - News
U2 and Oasis: together at last... The ultimate double-header stadium tour confirmed (but with no UK or Irish dates, mind)
2002-02-13 - News
Hotpress.com investigate the rumours of U2 & The Phoenix Park ... (they just don't go away you know)...
2002-02-05 - News
Will U2's studio homebase be demolished to make way for the neighbourhood's redevelopment (or more specifically, for a "two-million-Euro leisure complex")? The public hearing began this week...
2002-02-01 - News
Via a petition that has gained signatures from round the world, U2 fans rally to save band headquarters Hanover Studios from mandatory demolition by the Dublin Docklands Authority: "What if Memphis tore down Sun Studios?"
2002-01-22 - News
U2 - without even releasing an album last year - have walked away with the 2001 Hot Press Readers' Poll. Here's the scoop...
2002-01-17 - News
U2 release new US-only rarities and B-sides collection. Yank one if you can
2002-01-17 - News
U2 in talks with DDDA about possible alternative locations for studio headquarters
2002-01-11 - News
U2’s studio headquarters may face demolition by compulsory public order from the Docklands authority
2002-01-10 - News
With eight nominations in the bag, U2 are set to steal the show at this year's Grammys... again
2002-01-08 - News
Bono has talked exclusively to Hot Press about September 11th, Fatherhood, and the US's actions in Afghanistan.
2002-01-04 - News
Although under constant review, the word from the U2 camp is that they are still planning to go ahead with the return visit of the Elevation tour to North America.
2001-09-27 - News
The second Slane show was such a spirited and spiritual affair you couldn’t fail to be as uplifted (or should that be elevated?) by it
2001-09-13 - REVIEW
STUART BAILIE recalls some of the social and political movements that have occupied U2's hearts and minds down through the years... not least, the Springfield Garbage Dump campaign
2001-08-24 - Frontlines
Opening our U2 special, DERMOD MOORE catches up with ADAM CLAYTON during the UK leg of the Elevation tour, and delves deep into the physics of music celebrity, politics and, er, penises
2001-08-16 - Interview
They may sport one of the most original sounds in rock’n’roll – but along the way they’ve been influenced by some of the greats. STUART BAILIE identifies the ten (plus!) key influences on the music of U2
2001-08-16 - Interview
With their biggest dates ever in Ireland looming, LIAM MACKEY dips into voluminous hotpress archives and selects a small sample of what the paper said about U2 over the years
2001-08-16 - Interview
You get a continual sense from the entire band that they have rediscovered their love affair with live music
2001-07-05 - REVIEW
‘Beautiful Day’ is second out of the bag and the band’s, or specifically Bono’s, energy is palpable.
2001-04-26 - REVIEW
The heart is a bloom, but you knew that already. Bono's lead line on 'Beautiful Day' effectively sets the tone for this new scheme. Great things can be nurtured, he tells us. Scepticism is out and old-fashioned hope is the greatest buzz around. So it's entirely fitting that the stage for the band's Elevation Tour should be framed by a massive, pulsating heart.
2001-03-29 - REVIEW
When we last left U2, at the conclusion of 1997’s Pop, they were marooned on a spaghetti Golgotha, shouting, “Wake up dead man!” at a god who had apparently reneged on his promise to live forever. Well pilgrims, here’s the resurrection shuffle.
2000-10-26 - REVIEW
There is no question about it. He may look as if he's been dipped in a bottle of red ink but it is Adam who stands there bollock naked before the camera and the world on the back sleeve of the latest, long playing opus from the band whose name begins with U and ends with 2. And is that Eve who hovers topless behind Bono on the front?
1991-11-14 - REVIEW
When Adam Clayton was arrested in Dublin in August of 1989 and charged with possession of 19 grammes of cannabis with intent to supply, it placed U2's immediate future as a live band in jeopardy. Trial report: Liam Fay.
1989-09-07 - Interview
Sprawling across four restless, angry and sometimes contradictory sides, "Rattle And Hum" is nothing less than U2's most ambitious album yet. Review by Bill Graham
1988-10-06 - REVIEW
As "With Or Without You" hits No. 1 in the US singles charts, Liam Mackey joins U2 on their biggest - and most successful - American tour to date.
1987-06-18 - Interview
"The Joshua Tree" clarifies how U2's vocation has become the revival and renewal of rock and the recovery of its most romantic values. It also highlights the group's new commitment to the song. Review by Bill Graham
1987-03-12 - REVIEW
Amid rumours and press reports that his career could be at an end, Larry Mullen reveals the truth about the extent of an injury to his hand that is becoming a common problem for rock drummers. Interview: Niall Stokes
1986-09-11 - Interview
Niall Stokes sees U2 light up Madison Square Garden in New York.
1985-04-12 - REVIEW
U2's decision to choose Brian Eno as producer for their new album was a bold move.
1984-10-05 - REVIEW
Light a Big Fire Liam Mackey reviews "The Unforgettable Fire"
1984-10-05 - REVIEW
This was more than a gig, but it wasn't a party. It was the mutual celebration of an audience and a group.
1982-01-22 - REVIEW
Bill Graham joins the band on their 1981 American tour. [pics Adrian Boot]
1981-04-25 - Interview
"U2 make me think", it's been said. That criterion is used a lot these days, because as rock'n'roll gets older, its priorities and values change. It spreads itself out and becomes more adjustable, like a toy.
1980-10-11 - REVIEW
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