Montreal – what a difference a day makes…

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Montreal – what a difference a day makes…

I’ve always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with the double-Montreal U2360 attack.  When plotting my original return to 360 shows in 2010, I made both Chicago and NYC the obvious required U2360 destinations.  If there were any cities in North America that could be assured of a double show, I was pretty confident that those would be the ones.

Obviously, I was wrong. A lot of surprises were in store for everyone after the original 2010 dates were rescheduled – Nashville selling out in minutes, U2 actually announcing Winnipeg for the first time since PopMart, the joy of Eastern Canada getting their first show, and Montreal and Anaheim being the only two locations which would receive the double-show honour. But I was right about one thing – U2 never did announce Regina, and I still said “told you so” to everyone I know.  If you want to see U2, you have to get on an airplane (or at least a 6 hour drive to Winnipeg) I’d always said. But I digress.

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Thoughts on Moncton

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Thoughts on Moncton

A lot has been said about the disappointment that U2 fans have felt over being told that the show they hold tickets to (and in a lot of cases the reason they bought tickets) is the ‘last show of the 360 tour’.  Now whether that is of the tour LEG or the actual TOUR is yet to be seen, but right now, that’s the reality of it.  We just don’t know.

I personally held tickets for the ‘last show’ (at the time) twice – NYC in 2010 on the original date (understandable, we all know what happened there) and Minneapolis in 2011 (I can even understand this, because they never actually said it was the last show, I just was happy to see that it was likely going to be at the time).  When they announced Pittsburgh, of course I was upset knowing I couldn’t make it due to a lack of vacation days, even though I’d be spending the majority of my July a mere 3 hours down the road in Cleveland.  However, I soon became complacent after the original announcement, knowing that several good friends in Ohio would still be going and was happy for them.  And really, sometimes I have to sit back and be happy that I’m going to 9 shows.  That’s what a lot of U2 fans can only dream of!

 

 

 

 

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