TULSA, Okla. — Love and hope contend with trauma and dread in U2’s Experience + Innocence worldwide arena tour, which opened Wednesday night at the BOK Center here. Positive thinking isn’t guaranteed to prevail; the state of the world is too unsettled for U2 to make promises. This time, the singalongs are mixed with warnings and pleas to save an endangered American dream. One tech upgrade was underwhelming: an augmented-reality app, “The U2 Experience,” that turned Bono into a gleaming, spectral figure on phone screens for just one song. “Songs of Experience” was delayed not only by the “Joshua Tree” tour but also by rewrites following Brexit and the 2016 American elections.

Source: New York Times May 03, 2018 14:26 UTC