andrews27 wrote on Oct 20
th, 2017 at 9:37pm:
Gazza wrote on Oct 19
th, 2017 at 8:01pm:
You may be right. Spending this amount of time on a record on and off (ie, since late 2015) doesnt suggest the inspiration is there.
I also honestly think they'll pack up touring after next summer.
The talk is of quite an extensive UK tour - maybe as much as ten shows. They never play that many shows in the UK and havent done a show of their own outside London since 2006. It screams 'farewell tour' to me, even though I doubt they'll bill it as such.
It'd be a pretty underwhelming farewell to the US if their last ever concert there turned out to be a private corporate show in front of a few hundred people in a tent in an empty stadium in Foxboro.
There's got to be a North American farewell tour, the god of Foxboro fates notwithstanding. Because that's where the farewell money is.
Theyve kinda been on a farewell tour since 2013. It'll just end when they're too knackered, bored, infirm or too dead to continue.
They could do a farewell tour of 15 private shows instead of 15 public shows and make more of a profit playing shorter shows for less effort if they really wanted to.