The Official 2025 Tour Rumor Thread

dmbolp · February 7

tylermoore said:

BF25394 said:

dmbolp said:

bb4packers said:

I think at the first few U2 shows they were actually telling people to sit down because of the potential "vertigo". Those stairs are pretty steep - especially in the 400 section. I only went to one U2 show but as great as the visuals are the sound is just spectacular. The other good thing is it really doesn't seem to matter where you sit in the stands - the 100's seem to be some of the least popular seats. We sat is the upper deck (400s) and had a great view.

Yep, I've always hated the cliche "There's not a bad seat in the house" but the Sphere might be the only venue I'd be willing to apply this to, other than the limited view seats in the back of the 100s sections, from like row 20 and back.

Largo in Los Angeles. 324 seats, and definitely not a bad seat in the house.

if a place only has a few hundred seats, I’d hope there isn’t a bad spot
That venue is special tho.

Yeah, I'm speaking to 5-10k+ venues

Douglas12373 · February 7

Man, Largo is such an incredible, only in LA kind of place. One of many things I miss about living there.

Also lived in Albany but never saw a show at the Egg. I was a student and broke AF, tho I don't remember any shows when I lived there that I passed on. Probably missed something i would have gone to because no internet and didn't see it in the paper

pjl44 · February 7

Merkin Baller said:

dmbolp said:

bb4packers said:

I think at the first few U2 shows they were actually telling people to sit down because of the potential "vertigo". Those stairs are pretty steep - especially in the 400 section. I only went to one U2 show but as great as the visuals are the sound is just spectacular. The other good thing is it really doesn't seem to matter where you sit in the stands - the 100's seem to be some of the least popular seats. We sat is the upper deck (400s) and had a great view.

Yep, I've always hated the cliche "There's not a bad seat in the house" but the Sphere might be the only venue I'd be willing to apply this to, other than the limited view seats in the back of the 100s sections, from like row 20 and back.

The Egg in Albany would apply... what say you @PJ44?

I mean what a room.

JimmyV · February 7

pjl44 said:

Merkin Baller said:

dmbolp said:

bb4packers said:

I think at the first few U2 shows they were actually telling people to sit down because of the potential "vertigo". Those stairs are pretty steep - especially in the 400 section. I only went to one U2 show but as great as the visuals are the sound is just spectacular. The other good thing is it really doesn't seem to matter where you sit in the stands - the 100's seem to be some of the least popular seats. We sat is the upper deck (400s) and had a great view.

Yep, I've always hated the cliche "There's not a bad seat in the house" but the Sphere might be the only venue I'd be willing to apply this to, other than the limited view seats in the back of the 100s sections, from like row 20 and back.

The Egg in Albany would apply... what say you @PJ44?

I mean what a room.

"My seats were CRAP! Look at this angle!!! Thanks for nothing, 10C."

Lost In Ohio · February 7

PrezIntense said:

The time period from 2018-2023 really fucked the band (and all of us) over.

I think saying this time period fucked the band over is a little dramatic. If they wanted to tour they would've toured (COVID did mess that up in 2020/2021 but had nothing to do with 2018 and 2019). If they wanted to release that album they would have. They made decisions that were best for them considering everything they had in their lives and that's fine. Nobody got fucked over -- you included.

But they could have toured in 2019, especially if the 2018 album had happened. They chose not to because they were recording Gigaton.

Lost In Ohio · February 7

D-Rod said:

kmcmanus said:

drfox said:

Lost In Ohio said:

BF25394 said:

Lost In Ohio said:

Weston1283 said:

drfox said:

So quiet on the rumour front….,

I mean, I think we are probably at least 2-3 months away from any rumors

They aren't even hitting the road for 10 weeks or so for the last announced tour

The only other thing we've gotten is a "rumor" for is the Sphere sometime which we know will be at least August at the earliest due to other Sphere shows

So even if there is a small North America leg for the fall or around the Sphere, those rumors probably wont even leak until late spring or early summer

Europe is completely out for 2025 and South America in all likelihood would have been announced by now

We know they've begun writing/recording.

If we go 2020, 2024, 2026 with album release dates, that'd be a frequency not seen since Binaural through Avocado with three albums in six years.

Avocado through Lightning Bolt was three albums (plus a lot of PJ20 and side project stuff) in eight years.

The time period from 2018-2023 really fucked the band (and all of us) over. Here's what it MIGHT MAYBE have looked like:
2018: South America, Europe, Album Release...tour USA?
2019: Tour the 2018 album.
2020: Tour the 2018 album.
2021: Break? Writing/recording?
2022: Tour 2021/2022 album?

Instead, we ended up having 26 tour dates (27 planned) from the beginning of South America 2018 up until Sea Hear Now in 2021.

We basically had 6.5 shows per year...or about one every other month from 2018-2022.

You remember why there were no shows in 2020 and most of 2021, right?

Indeed I do.

I'm saying if the 2018 album was released AND COVID never happened, things would have looked a lot different when it came to album releases and touring plans.

Instead, the reset button was pressed HARD on that album. It obviously didn't happen and 2019 was a year off which turned into 2020 and most of 2021 off.

Some time during 2018, they said "fuck it", axed the 2018 album and whatever they had begun to pre-plan for 2019, if they had anything at all other than a "we gotta be out on tour" mindset.

Go back to Eddie's comments at Fenway 2018 about not planning to do much touring over 2019. Gigaton was NOT delayed. It's probably much more fair to think of the 2018 album as something vastly different. Gigaton was probably written/recorded over the end of 2018 and into 2019. Whatever the hell was planned to be released in 2018...there's gotta be a good collection of lost dogs there.

If you take the shows from 2018 and averaged them out over 2019, 2020 and 2021, it basically turned into the equivalent of one show every other month.

(Yeah, I get a little rambling there with that 2018 stuff only because I like to play the "alternate universe" game at times.)

I don’t think the 2018 album was scrapped? Only some songs like Can’t Deny me? Understand some of the songs recorded in 2017-18 were used for Gigaton

Mike’s comments in the Gigaton announcement about a “long & difficult process” would strongly imply that it used or repurposed at least some of the 2018 forthcoming album material. I don’t think there’s a finished album scrapped in the can somewhere, I think it evolved into Gigaton

Retrograde was part of the 2018 potential album.

A birdie might have told me that there were other holdovers from 2018 that landed on Gigaton.

What was dropped? I can certainly imagine...

Lost In Ohio · February 7

DM282158 said:

drfox said:

Lost In Ohio said:

BF25394 said:

Lost In Ohio said:

Weston1283 said:

drfox said:

So quiet on the rumour front….,

I mean, I think we are probably at least 2-3 months away from any rumors

They aren't even hitting the road for 10 weeks or so for the last announced tour

The only other thing we've gotten is a "rumor" for is the Sphere sometime which we know will be at least August at the earliest due to other Sphere shows

So even if there is a small North America leg for the fall or around the Sphere, those rumors probably wont even leak until late spring or early summer

Europe is completely out for 2025 and South America in all likelihood would have been announced by now

We know they've begun writing/recording.

If we go 2020, 2024, 2026 with album release dates, that'd be a frequency not seen since Binaural through Avocado with three albums in six years.

Avocado through Lightning Bolt was three albums (plus a lot of PJ20 and side project stuff) in eight years.

The time period from 2018-2023 really fucked the band (and all of us) over. Here's what it MIGHT MAYBE have looked like:
2018: South America, Europe, Album Release...tour USA?
2019: Tour the 2018 album.
2020: Tour the 2018 album.
2021: Break? Writing/recording?
2022: Tour 2021/2022 album?

Instead, we ended up having 26 tour dates (27 planned) from the beginning of South America 2018 up until Sea Hear Now in 2021.

We basically had 6.5 shows per year...or about one every other month from 2018-2022.

You remember why there were no shows in 2020 and most of 2021, right?

Indeed I do.

I'm saying if the 2018 album was released AND COVID never happened, things would have looked a lot different when it came to album releases and touring plans.

Instead, the reset button was pressed HARD on that album. It obviously didn't happen and 2019 was a year off which turned into 2020 and most of 2021 off.

Some time during 2018, they said "fuck it", axed the 2018 album and whatever they had begun to pre-plan for 2019, if they had anything at all other than a "we gotta be out on tour" mindset.

Go back to Eddie's comments at Fenway 2018 about not planning to do much touring over 2019. Gigaton was NOT delayed. It's probably much more fair to think of the 2018 album as something vastly different. Gigaton was probably written/recorded over the end of 2018 and into 2019. Whatever the hell was planned to be released in 2018...there's gotta be a good collection of lost dogs there.

If you take the shows from 2018 and averaged them out over 2019, 2020 and 2021, it basically turned into the equivalent of one show every other month.

(Yeah, I get a little rambling there with that 2018 stuff only because I like to play the "alternate universe" game at times.)

I don’t think the 2018 album was scrapped? Only some songs like Can’t Deny me? Understand some of the songs recorded in 2017-18 were used for Gigaton

I believe he’s referring to, when Can’t Deny Me was released it was advertised as “from the forthcoming album produced by Brendan O’Brien”. Different from Gigaton.

The main thing I’ll always be curious about as to why it was scrapped, seemingly so late in the game. And subsequently, how many finished tracks we’ve yet to hear from it.

Yup. The 2018 album was NOT supposed to be Gigaton.

The 2018 album would have had Can't Deny Me and....who knows.

DM282158 · February 8

Lost In Ohio said:

DM282158 said:

drfox said:

Lost In Ohio said:

BF25394 said:

Lost In Ohio said:

Weston1283 said:

drfox said:

So quiet on the rumour front….,

I mean, I think we are probably at least 2-3 months away from any rumors

They aren't even hitting the road for 10 weeks or so for the last announced tour

The only other thing we've gotten is a "rumor" for is the Sphere sometime which we know will be at least August at the earliest due to other Sphere shows

So even if there is a small North America leg for the fall or around the Sphere, those rumors probably wont even leak until late spring or early summer

Europe is completely out for 2025 and South America in all likelihood would have been announced by now

We know they've begun writing/recording.

If we go 2020, 2024, 2026 with album release dates, that'd be a frequency not seen since Binaural through Avocado with three albums in six years.

Avocado through Lightning Bolt was three albums (plus a lot of PJ20 and side project stuff) in eight years.

The time period from 2018-2023 really fucked the band (and all of us) over. Here's what it MIGHT MAYBE have looked like:
2018: South America, Europe, Album Release...tour USA?
2019: Tour the 2018 album.
2020: Tour the 2018 album.
2021: Break? Writing/recording?
2022: Tour 2021/2022 album?

Instead, we ended up having 26 tour dates (27 planned) from the beginning of South America 2018 up until Sea Hear Now in 2021.

We basically had 6.5 shows per year...or about one every other month from 2018-2022.

You remember why there were no shows in 2020 and most of 2021, right?

Indeed I do.

I'm saying if the 2018 album was released AND COVID never happened, things would have looked a lot different when it came to album releases and touring plans.

Instead, the reset button was pressed HARD on that album. It obviously didn't happen and 2019 was a year off which turned into 2020 and most of 2021 off.

Some time during 2018, they said "fuck it", axed the 2018 album and whatever they had begun to pre-plan for 2019, if they had anything at all other than a "we gotta be out on tour" mindset.

Go back to Eddie's comments at Fenway 2018 about not planning to do much touring over 2019. Gigaton was NOT delayed. It's probably much more fair to think of the 2018 album as something vastly different. Gigaton was probably written/recorded over the end of 2018 and into 2019. Whatever the hell was planned to be released in 2018...there's gotta be a good collection of lost dogs there.

If you take the shows from 2018 and averaged them out over 2019, 2020 and 2021, it basically turned into the equivalent of one show every other month.

(Yeah, I get a little rambling there with that 2018 stuff only because I like to play the "alternate universe" game at times.)

I don’t think the 2018 album was scrapped? Only some songs like Can’t Deny me? Understand some of the songs recorded in 2017-18 were used for Gigaton

I believe he’s referring to, when Can’t Deny Me was released it was advertised as “from the forthcoming album produced by Brendan O’Brien”. Different from Gigaton.

The main thing I’ll always be curious about as to why it was scrapped, seemingly so late in the game. And subsequently, how many finished tracks we’ve yet to hear from it.

Yup. The 2018 album was NOT supposed to be Gigaton.

The 2018 album would have had Can't Deny Me and....who knows.

Top of my list of “PJ mysteries” for sure!

Gravey1975 · February 8

DM282158 said:

Lost In Ohio said:

DM282158 said:

drfox said:

Lost In Ohio said:

BF25394 said:

Lost In Ohio said:

Weston1283 said:

drfox said:

So quiet on the rumour front….,

I mean, I think we are probably at least 2-3 months away from any rumors

They aren't even hitting the road for 10 weeks or so for the last announced tour

The only other thing we've gotten is a "rumor" for is the Sphere sometime which we know will be at least August at the earliest due to other Sphere shows

So even if there is a small North America leg for the fall or around the Sphere, those rumors probably wont even leak until late spring or early summer

Europe is completely out for 2025 and South America in all likelihood would have been announced by now

We know they've begun writing/recording.

If we go 2020, 2024, 2026 with album release dates, that'd be a frequency not seen since Binaural through Avocado with three albums in six years.

Avocado through Lightning Bolt was three albums (plus a lot of PJ20 and side project stuff) in eight years.

The time period from 2018-2023 really fucked the band (and all of us) over. Here's what it MIGHT MAYBE have looked like:
2018: South America, Europe, Album Release...tour USA?
2019: Tour the 2018 album.
2020: Tour the 2018 album.
2021: Break? Writing/recording?
2022: Tour 2021/2022 album?

Instead, we ended up having 26 tour dates (27 planned) from the beginning of South America 2018 up until Sea Hear Now in 2021.

We basically had 6.5 shows per year...or about one every other month from 2018-2022.

You remember why there were no shows in 2020 and most of 2021, right?

Indeed I do.

I'm saying if the 2018 album was released AND COVID never happened, things would have looked a lot different when it came to album releases and touring plans.

Instead, the reset button was pressed HARD on that album. It obviously didn't happen and 2019 was a year off which turned into 2020 and most of 2021 off.

Some time during 2018, they said "fuck it", axed the 2018 album and whatever they had begun to pre-plan for 2019, if they had anything at all other than a "we gotta be out on tour" mindset.

Go back to Eddie's comments at Fenway 2018 about not planning to do much touring over 2019. Gigaton was NOT delayed. It's probably much more fair to think of the 2018 album as something vastly different. Gigaton was probably written/recorded over the end of 2018 and into 2019. Whatever the hell was planned to be released in 2018...there's gotta be a good collection of lost dogs there.

If you take the shows from 2018 and averaged them out over 2019, 2020 and 2021, it basically turned into the equivalent of one show every other month.

(Yeah, I get a little rambling there with that 2018 stuff only because I like to play the "alternate universe" game at times.)

I don’t think the 2018 album was scrapped? Only some songs like Can’t Deny me? Understand some of the songs recorded in 2017-18 were used for Gigaton

I believe he’s referring to, when Can’t Deny Me was released it was advertised as “from the forthcoming album produced by Brendan O’Brien”. Different from Gigaton.

The main thing I’ll always be curious about as to why it was scrapped, seemingly so late in the game. And subsequently, how many finished tracks we’ve yet to hear from it.

Yup. The 2018 album was NOT supposed to be Gigaton.

The 2018 album would have had Can't Deny Me and....who knows.

Top of my list of “PJ mysteries” for sure!

There were some rumoured song titles out there on a reddit thread, but when i just did a search the page had been edited to remove their names and descriptions so i dont think the band and/or management want the titles shared. It doesnt sound like they had a whole album in the can but probably a fair few songs, with some making onto Gigaton.

yanknuck · February 8

Merkin Baller said:

dmbolp said:

bb4packers said:

I think at the first few U2 shows they were actually telling people to sit down because of the potential "vertigo". Those stairs are pretty steep - especially in the 400 section. I only went to one U2 show but as great as the visuals are the sound is just spectacular. The other good thing is it really doesn't seem to matter where you sit in the stands - the 100's seem to be some of the least popular seats. We sat is the upper deck (400s) and had a great view.

Yep, I've always hated the cliche "There's not a bad seat in the house" but the Sphere might be the only venue I'd be willing to apply this to, other than the limited view seats in the back of the 100s sections, from like row 20 and back.

The Egg in Albany would apply... what say you @PJ44?

The Egg awesome venue! I've been there a number of times. It's needing a makeover, but sight and sound is top notch.

RatherStarved · February 9

I heard @SHZA is guest starring at the halftime show with Kendrick Lamar.

BF25394 · February 9

RatherStarved said:

I heard @SHZA is guest starring at the halftime show with Kendrick Lamar.

I wish this were true. It would give me a reason to watch.

steven87 · February 9

RatherStarved said:

I heard @SHZA is guest starring at the halftime show with Kendrick Lamar.

I was wondering who the special guest would be! 🤣

OfThePearl · February 10

RatherStarved said:

I heard @SHZA is guest starring at the halftime show with Kendrick Lamar.

Loved the outfit and the dance moves!

PrezIntense · February 10

BF25394 said:

RatherStarved said:

I heard @SHZA is guest starring at the halftime show with Kendrick Lamar.

I wish this were true. It would give me a reason to watch.

But then who would yell at the kids to get off your lawn?!

Shaindli1 · February 10

And good morning to Rob B from PJ radio who said something about news coming today (in the newsletter) then proceeded to play I got shit from the 1995 Soldiers Field show.

Coincidence? Or conspiracy to elevate my blood pressure?

(Probably the former, AltNation, don't get all excited)

RatherStarved · February 10

Shaindli1 said:

And good morning to Rob B from PJ radio who said something about news coming today (in the newsletter) then proceeded to play I got shit from the 1995 Soldiers Field show.

Coincidence? Or conspiracy to elevate my blood pressure?

(Probably the former, AltNation, don't get all excited)

Probably nothing but some excitement today after the dud of a football game last night would be welcome!

Shaindli1 · February 10

RatherStarved said:

Shaindli1 said:

And good morning to Rob B from PJ radio who said something about news coming today (in the newsletter) then proceeded to play I got shit from the 1995 Soldiers Field show.

Coincidence? Or conspiracy to elevate my blood pressure?

(Probably the former, AltNation, don't get all excited)

Probably nothing but some excitement today after the dud of a football game last night would be welcome!

I don't watch football but I really welcome some excitement. Just don't cause palpitations! 😉

Lost In Ohio · February 10

Shaindli1 said:

And good morning to Rob B from PJ radio who said something about news coming today (in the newsletter) then proceeded to play I got shit from the 1995 Soldiers Field show.

Coincidence? Or conspiracy to elevate my blood pressure?

(Probably the former, AltNation, don't get all excited)

It'd be a rare 10C newsletter with a huge announcement.

tylermoore · February 10

Lost In Ohio said:

Shaindli1 said:

And good morning to Rob B from PJ radio who said something about news coming today (in the newsletter) then proceeded to play I got shit from the 1995 Soldiers Field show.

Coincidence? Or conspiracy to elevate my blood pressure?

(Probably the former, AltNation, don't get all excited)

It'd be a rare 10C newsletter with a huge announcement.

Yeah I wouldn’t get too excited

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