U2's Innocence and Experience tour, which already has 60 shows on its itinerary, could soon have as many as 12 more concerts added.
@U2 reader Tim R. tipped us off to a dozen unannounced shows that are hidden on U2.shop.ticketstoday.com, the website where official VIP Packages are being sold. (If you visit U2.com and click the links for "Travel Package," this is the website where you'll end up.) Each of the already announced concerts has its own web page with a URL like this one for Vancouver, May 14th:
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163537
As Tim tells us, if you change the number at the end of the URLs one-by-one, you'll go through the entire list of tour dates -- and in the process you'll find 12 concerts that have web pages, but haven't been announced and don't appear on the master list of concerts. Here are those 12:
Los Angeles, June 3 & 4
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163552
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163553
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163551
(Note: the third URL above, and in the listings below, links to a page where travel packages are sold for both shows in tandem.)
Los Angeles, June 7 & 8
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163555
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163556
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163554
Chicago, July 2 & 3
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163570
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163571
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163569
New York, July 30 & 31
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163591
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163592
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163590
Barcelona, October 9 & 10
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163620
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163621
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163619
London, November 2 & 3
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163646
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163650
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163647
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163651
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163645
http://u2.shop.ticketstoday.com/basket.aspx?Action=AddTickets&eventId=163649
This is all exciting, but it doesn't necessarily mean that all of the above concerts will actually be announced. It's possible that U2 and Live Nation have options to add these shows, and the travel package company listed them online to prepare in case they eventually are announced. But that's not a guarantee that any or all of the 12 shows will be announced.
That said, as we shared on Twitter a couple days ago (see here and here), we do have reports from a previously reliable source that at least one Los Angeles concert is due to be announced tomorrow (January 26). Will that and 11 others be announced? Don't know, but let's hope so.
