I saw them on that tour on 14th July 93 in Marseilles
Also Bastille Day which made for extra fireworks!
I was working at Marseillan (which is nowhere near Marseilles)
And had to be at work at 7.30 the next morning
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Everybody was a U2 fan in 1993.
They must have made so much money 
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Adjusted gross for the tour to 2023 dollars was $318,487,906
Nowhere near Taylor Swift but they didn’t have to pay for all those dancers!
I had a bootleg of the Dublin gig with Lou Reed guesting on Satellite of Love
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Tours then were to promote album sales as well as make a bit of cash. Thanks to streaming touring is now the primary cash generator.*
£22.50 face works out about £47 today. Average price for a Swifty ticket is £183 roughly 400% above inflation. She’s grossed over $2B on ticket sales alone. Mind boggling numbers.
*Edit. I’ve just read she made $200M from streaming platforms last year as well.
I was at that gig. We got freebies and left not long after Lou Reed. I was mullered for days afterwards…
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Nice, was that from last night. I was fucking freezing 
Any good?
She always impresses when I’ve seen her doing Glastonbury
Really good, could have watched her all night. One of the few artists with long careers where I enjoy all her different periods of work.
If anything though I would have had the stack turned up louder. Don’t know whether that was just what she and sound engineer wanted or whether it’s some constraint put on by the council.
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Ha, there was someone selling knockoffs for under a tenner outside.
Buy 4 beat the cold
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Love her “Demos” Albums.
We’ve ended up at CarFest. Harry’s mum had got tickets for them and a friend to go but she’s having a rough time health-wise (about to start chemo) so Gill and I have gone instead with Harry & the friend.
It’s an interesting festival not one I’d normally have considered going to. It’s divided into areas including one focussed on motors but also food/cooking, well-being, retro/vintage, adventure/exploration and others. So there really is something for everyone.
I haven’t really looked fully at who’s playing but Johnny Marr and then Richard Ashcroft are on later today.
The other nice side of it are the visitors. All ages, male & female but no poseurs, hooray Henry/Henrietta types, thugs, trustafarians etc. Just normal people. That’s quite refreshing.
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And one Devon shaman for good measure
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