Welcome to the New York Times

podcast, your Broken Orbit of Music News and Cultural

Commentary. I'm Ben Ratliff, your host.

Every breaking way on the shore

till the next one there'll be one more

and every gambler knows that to lose

is what you're really there for summer else fears.

You're listening to every breaking wave by U2, John Pirellis, you were just with you two in Vancouver.

Indeed I was.

Vancouver is where U2 is rehearsing for their tour, which is about to start May 14th.

We'll come to New York City in July.

It's a 68 concert tour, not the giganga size size spots but merely the arenas and five six nights at them in

places like LA and New York and obviously we did a pop cast about you two not that long ago.

We fought viciously about this album.

We did.

We had a little disagreement.

But what's happening here is they're touring after a record that I guess we can say didn't do very well?

But what does that mean?

Well you can't really tell how well it did.

I mean that's what's baffling I think them and everybody else. The tour

sold out like 98% of its tickets so clearly people don't hate them as much as

the internet would tell you they do.

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