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Bono bringing book tour to the Orpheum in San Francisco

U2, The Joshua Tree, The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr., Adam Clayton

U2 performs during The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 at CenturyLink Field in Seattle, on May 14, 2017. Photo: Tim Durkan.

Oct. 3 Update: The rest of Bono’s book tour has now been announced. The 14-city tour included San Francisco, as previously announced.

It begins in New York on Nov. 2 and also make stops in Boston, Toronto, Chicago, Nashville and Los Angeles in the U.S., as well as in the U.K. and Europe.

Tickets go on sale Oct. 7 at 10 a.m. local time for all of the shows at Ticketmaster.



Each ticket purchased comes with a copy of Bono’s forthcoming book, “Surrender.” All tickets purchased online will be delivered as mobile tickets. There will be a two-ticket limit per person.

“I miss being on stage and the closeness of U2’s audience,” Bono said in a news release. “In these shows I’ve got some stories to sing, and some songs to tell… Plus I want to have some fun presenting my ME-moir, SURRENDER, which is really more of a WE-moir if I think of all the people who helped me get from there to here.”

The full tour dates are listed below.

Nov. 2 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre

Nov. 4 – Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre presented by Citizens

Nov. 6 – Toronto, ON – Meridian Hall

Nov 8. – Chicago, IL – The Chicago Theatre

Nov. 9 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium

Nov. 12 – San Francisco, CA – Orpheum Theatre

Nov. 13 – Los Angeles, CA – The Orpheum Theatre

Nov. 16 – London, UK – The London Palladium

Nov. 17 – Glasgow, UK – SEC Armadillo

Nov. 19 – Manchester, UK – O2 Apollo Manchester

Nov. 21 – Dublin, IE – 3Olympia Theatre

Nov. 23 – Berlin, DE – Admiralspalast

Nov. 25 – Paris, FR – Le Grand Rex

Nov. 28 – Madrid, ES – Teatro Coliseum



U2’s Bono, who’s releasing a new memoir next month, is about to announce a book tour, if a Live Nation tweet is to be believed, and come to San Francisco.

“An evening of words, music and some mischief” will take place on Nov. 12 at Broadway SF’s Orpheum Theatre downtown. According to the tweet, tickets to the event go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. and that more information will be available on U2’s website. The tweet was published around 6 p.m. on Sept. 30, and there was no information on the show or tour at U2.com, Livenation.com or Ticketmaster.com—so, perhaps the tweet was published earlier than planned. Additionally, there was no information about any other tour dates.

Bono’s memoir, titled “Surrender,” is described by publisher Penguin Random House as an “honest and irreverent, intimate and profound … story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.



The singer, songwriter, businessman, philanthropist and activist, who has been the frontman of U2 since 1976, is said to discuss his upbringing and life through U2’s songs.

“When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I’d previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life,” he wrote on the publisher’s website. “Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me. Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book. I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist. Surrender is the story of one pilgrim’s lack of progress … With a fair amount of fun along the way.”

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