CrissCrossMind wrote on Nov 5
th, 2009 at 12:23pm:
My bet .. they will not announce it as the Final Tour ... but they will encourage the press to talk it up ... then hit the road about this time next year ... "peace baby ... it's just a shot away" ... CCM
Well, the press have talked up every tour as 'the last one' since about 1969, so nothings changed there - however, I think its pretty safe to imagine that if the Stones were to embark on a 18 month-2 year trot around the globe in 2010, its unlikely that some time around 2014-2015 they're going to do something similar all over again.
From what I've been led to believe, plans for next year seem to change pretty frequently, but I think we can reasonably expect the Stones to be on the road - in North America - sometime BEFORE this time next year. I'd imagine it'd be on the usual lines. Tour starting late summer/early autumn with a 'product' released around the same time.
They HAVE looked into booking some kind of 'event' in Prospect Park in Brooklyn for May 2010, but obviously its too early to say whether that would be the location for some kind of tour announcement - its quite possible that its just one of a few possible locations for such an event and the only one where the information has 'leaked'.