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Elevation North America 2001

front cover

The program measures 12" by 12". It's 32 pages long cover included. There is no mentioning of tour dates, but the program contains messages on page 3 like Elevation tour 2001/2, which means there will be a 2002 leg.

The pages 14 and 15 fold out. In the middle of the program there's a large sticker leaf.

The program is mainly printed in black, white, silver and red.

Elevation Europe 2001

front cover

The program measures 12" by 12". It's 32 pages long cover included. There is no mentioning of tour dates, but the program contains messages on page 3 like Elevation tour 2001/2, which means there will be a 2002 leg.

The pages 14 and 15 fold out. In the middle of the program there's a large sticker leaf.

The program is mainly printed in black, white, silver and red. The text of the program is identical for both versions. Unlike the North American version of this program, this one also contains some live photos instead of the studio photos. Some of these photos are in colour.

At pages 5-6 Danny Eccleston from q4music.com tells us about his first u2 t-shirt and about U2 in his life.

pages 5-6

Pages 7-25 contain an interview by Danny Eccleston with the band.

• What message do you have for someone reading this before the show? (Bono)
• What's it like when a live performance slips into "the pocket". Is it transcendental? Is it like drugs? (Bono)
• So it's: "wanna get high, man?" "Ok, you hire the 18-wheelers and I'll book the next six months off"? (Bono)
• When do tours start to enter surreal territory? (Edge)
• What are you like in those minutes before you go on? (Edge)
• Do you tackle each other over mistakes? Are there grim post-gig post-mortems? (Edge)
• A lot of bands use success to justify stopping touring. Do you find that strange? (Bono)
• What are the psychological costs of touring? (Edge)
• There's a freshness to all you can't leave behind that seems to come from ... (Larry)
• After the technological complications of pop and the popmart tour, is it refreshing just to get out there and play? Especially for the rythm section? (Adam)
• I'm sure I heard Adam refer to Larry once as "the wife" ... (Adam)
• Arenas rather than stadiums now, why? (Bono, Edge)
• There were rumours that this would be a stripped-down, lo-fi, t-shirt and jeans tour ... (Bono)
• Where is the popmart lemon now? (Edge)
• What's the best rock'n'roll show you ever saw? (Bono, Edge)
• Who are the unsung heroes of a U2 tour? (Bono, Edge)
• Tours take on a life of their own, don't they? Sometimes a faintly sinister one. The Rolling Stones tour '74 had that vibe, and also Zoo TV, which I always think of as having been hi-jacked by MacPhisto ... (Bono)
• How radically do your feelings about songs change when you tour them? (Bono)
• Beautiful Day has become a triple-grammy phenomenon. Did anyone envisage that? (Larry)
• Beautiful Day has some quintessential Edge guitar on it ... (Larry)
• I saw your show at the Astoria Theatre in London in February, where you played both 11 O'Clock Tick Tock and I Will Follow. They seemed to fit in remarkably well. (Edge)
• Can you listen to your live albums and appreciate the performances? Or are they like baby photos: too embarrassing to contemplate? (Edge)
• You can't hear the mullets, though. (Edge)
• Critics have always thrown stones at U2. Have you been surprised by the extent of support for all that you can't leave behind? (Bono)
• I read somewhere that you're not allowed to go straight home after a tour. You have to move into a hotel room to "decompress". (Bono)
• You're renowned for getting "offside" on tour, slipping your security and having adventures. Can we expect "Where in hell is Bono?" panic this time round? (Bono)
• What drives you on? (Bono)
• What irritates the others about you?
• Bono: my temper
• Adam: I'm slow
• Edge: I spend too long on the computer
• Larry: I'm the "negative" one
• What is U2's job? (Bono)
• What message do you have for someone reading this after the show? (Bono)

Pages 26-27 have a description of the stage design and an interview with Pete "Willie" Williams.

• So, what's the big idea?
• Elevation is hardly a hand-torch and two bits of string though, is it?
• How do you know what's going to work for an audience as heterogeneous as U2's?
• So it's the anti-Zoo TV, which seemed partly about the barriers thrown up between people, by artists, by themselves, by the media.
• What's the most memorable U2 show you've witnessed?
• You've seen more U2 shows than most, but like everyone else you must think, oh I hope they play X.
• There's very little to compare with a rock'nroll tour for art at a scale
• Is the hardest thing in your job getting things past Larry?
• Do the band ever come to you with production ideas and you think, now you've gone completely barmy?

Pages 28-29 describe the Drop the debt campaign, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, The Burma Project and Leonard Peltier Defense Comittee.

• Drop the debt
• Greenpeace
• Amnesty International
• The Burma Project
• Leonard Peltier Defense Comittee

pages 28-29

Page 30 shows us the tour personnel. There are some minor changes in the European version.