U2 Innocence + Experience Tour 2015: 76 Arena Shows and the Video Cage

U2’s Innocence + Experience Tour played 76 shows between May 14 and Dec. 7, 2015, drawing 1,286,416 fans and grossing $152.2 million. It supported Songs of Innocence and took U2 back to arenas for the first time since the Vertigo Tour.

The tour opened in Vancouver and played two legs, North America and Europe. The 36-show North American leg alone grossed US$76.2 million, all sold out, according to Billboard.

The video cage

Stage designers Es Devlin and Ric Lipson, working with creative director Willie Williams, split the arena in two. A main stage at one end connected to a 24 ft circular B-stage through a 120 ft walkway.

Hanging above the walkway was the “video cage”: two LED faces, each 96 ft by 22.5 ft, with the band able to walk inside between the screens. The whole rig weighed 172,000 lb.

Paris and the November 2015 attacks

U2’s Paris shows on Nov. 14 and 15, 2015 were postponed after the terrorist attacks of Nov. 13. They were rescheduled as the final dates of the tour.

The closing Paris show was filmed as Innocence + Experience: Live in Paris.

What came next

The tour’s sequel, the Experience + Innocence Tour, followed in 2018 with an updated version of the same stage. U2’s next tour is the Carnaval de Luz world tour, opening Feb. 23, 2027.