U2 - eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour 2018

@lisbon - 16-9-2018

By Francisco Morais

September 17^th, 2018

“The greatest rock & roll band on the north side of Dublin”

The Experience + Innocence Tour is an ongoing worldwide concert tour by U2. Staged in support of the band's 2017 album, Songs of Experience, the tour is visiting arenas throughout 2018. Comprising two legs and 61 concerts, the Experience + Innocence Tour began on 2 May 2018 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It visited North America from May through July, and is visiting Europe from August through November. The tour follows U2's 2015 Innocence + Experience Tour as the second in a pair of tours in support of the group's companion albums, Songs of Innocence (2014) and Songs of Experience.

The 2018 tour reprises the loose autobiographical narrative from the 2015 tour, along with the original's multifaceted stage comprising a rectangular main stage, circular B-stage, connecting walkway, and doubled-sided LED video screen with an interior walkway. Several enhancements were made to the set, such as a higher resolution and more transparent video screen and the addition of LED panels to the B-stage floor. The band have incorporated augmented reality into the tour, building it into a mobile app for fans to use, as well as using it to revive lead vocalist Bono's demonic stage character "MacPhisto" from the Zoo TV Tour in 1993. The band have performed their oft-requested 1991 song "Acrobat" for the first time during the tour, and have focused setlists on their Songs of Experience and Innocence albums. Having toured in 2017 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of The Joshua Tree, the band have decided not to perform any songs from that record on the Experience + Innocence Tour, leaving out some of their most well-known tracks.