Montreal – what a difference a day makes…

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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