The PopMart tour -- a giant, sci-fi
disco supermarket setting -- will play in stadiums in 62 cities in 20 countries
through December 1997, and extends into an additional 20 countries in 1998.
"POP," U2's 8th studio album, is released March 4 in North America, and
March 3 in the rest of the world, on Island Records.�
PopMart will visit Las Vegas,
San Diego, Denver, Salt Lake City, Eugene, Phoenix, Dallas, Memphis, Clemson,
Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Washington, D.C., Raleigh, New York,
Philadelphia, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Oakland, Los Angeles, Madison, Chicago,
Boston, Rotterdam, Werchter, Cologne, Leipzig, Mannheim, Gothenburgh, Copenhagen,
Oslo, Helsinki, Katowice, Prague, Wiener Neustadt, Nurnberg, Hannover,
London, Leeds, Dublin, Edinburgh, Paris, Montpellier, Reggio Emilia, Thessaloniki,
Tel Aviv, Toronto, Minneapolis, Detroit, Montreal, St. Louis, Tampa, Jacksonville,
Miami, Indianapolis, New Orleans, San Antonio, Atlanta, Houston, Mexico
City, Vancouver and Seattle.
On tour with U2 will be the world's
largest video screen, a high-technology, state-of-the-art structure using
22 miles (35 kilometers) of cable, 21,000 circuit boards, 120,000 connectors,
and 150,000 pixels made up of 1,000,000 LEDs. The enormous screen is 150
feet x 50 feet, covering 833 square yards (700 sq. meters) yet weighs only
65,000 pounds.�
The PopMart stage design includes
a single Golden Arch 100 feet high, a 35-foot-high Mirrorball Lemon, a
12-foot-wide internally illuminated Stuffed Olive (on a 100-foot-tall toothpick)
-- and a 3-inch-tall Squeaky Nun.�
On hand for the band to work with
will be 1,000 lighting fixtures including over 5,000 feet of disco rope
lighting, a large Plexiglas dance floor, 6 lightning machines, 6 broadcast
tv cameras, 1 headset camera, 20 Xenon searchlights, 100 strobe lights
-- in addition to the 35-foot-high Mirrorball Lemon.�
The touring ensemble, consisting
of over 200 people, and the stage set (including a 30-ton PA system as
part of 1,200 tons of equipment) will travel on 15 buses and 52 trucks.
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