Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
I was claiming it wasn’t a nostalgia tour at the time but I’m sure I posted since saying that it could be described as that. It was a tour celebrating an album from the past so yes that is nostalgia. But only a nostalgia tour u2 didn’t suddenly become a nostalgia act despite some claiming that. They released and toured a brand new album right on the back of JT30, if JT30 was a nostalgia tour by definition the new album and tour proved that the band weren’t a nostalgia act by definition. Same with AB30, people saying if they were to do that they will have cemented their place as a nostalgia act but again by definition no they wouldn’t have if they followed it up with a new album and tour. But yes JT30/32 a nostalgia tour but not any more of a greatest hits show than several other shows and tours they’ve done.
JT had 2 big hits, and Streets to a degree. Pop stations that play oldies will not touch Streets under any circumstance in the US. So in the US, the album had 2 hits that remained on playlists. Glastonbury was a hits show, but I agree with the sentiment that Boots was the wrong choice, and even though I like Moment Of Surrender, it's probably the most overrated around here, and even though I like it, it closed all six of my 360 shows, and all six had more people walking out early than had Streets, Bullet, or any popular U2 song had been saved for last.
And as far as the topic? Glastonbury was 2 days after the excellent Baltimore show I attended, and the excellent Miami 360 was just 5 days after Glastonbury, and both of those shows were fantastic, only topped by Nashville a few days later of my 2011 U2 Experience. Glastonbury was marred by all factors previously mentioned, but I hate getting on a plane to travel at all, and as our guys were getting on in years, it could not have been easy for them at all.