The Official May 31 Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia Thread

Any setlist predictions? Mine is something like this:

1. THINFS
2. RYH
3. Bad Name
4. Lost Highway
5. Runaway
6. Roller Coaster
7. BTBMB
8. We Don't Run
9. WGIGO
10. KTF
11. Memory (on the catwalk)
12. BOR (on the catwalk -> Jon returns to the main stage during the outro)
13. Who Says
14. WWBTF
15. Captain Crash
16. Sleep
17. Medicine (w/Shout teaser)

Encore:

18. In These Arms
19. Blood On Blood
20. IBTFY
21. Wanted
22. Prayer

They definitely won't do any out-of-the-blue rarities at their first Russian show in 30 years.

Honestly that's still better than most shows we get these days

So they won't be having their special tour stage in Moscow. Some tour guys in Tallinn told that Moscow is a rehearsal and Tallinn is the first real show of the tour with the proper stage and all...

Rockin All Over the World

That makes NO sense whatsoever. Moscow is a HUGE show and I sincerely doubt Jon would accept to have a generic stage at Luzhniki stadium. I remember some Austrian sites said a similar thing in 2013 - that Vienna will be the first show with the new car stage while they'll use the old 2011 Open Air Tour stage in Sofia, Bulgaria. Guess what? We got the car stage in Bulgaria and Jon named it after our capital city of Sofia.



As for Tallinn, I'm not even sure if they'll get the new stage at all. Isn't the Estonian event a festival including many other artists? If so, I wouldn't be surprised if Bon Jovi use the stage provided by the promoter. Given that promoters would do ANYTHING to save a penny or two, they usually try to get away with the cheapest production possible. That being said, I hope that I'm dead wrong about that because I LOOOVE the new Bon Jovi stage and really want to see it in Bucharest on July 21, 2019, even though there's a festival scheduled at the same site for the very next day (July 22) by the same promoter who has so far refused to confirm whether Bon Jovi will bring their own stage or not.

It is no festival in Tallinn. They are building the stage already in Tallinn, saw it yesterday with my own eyes. The same stage you find photos here on another thread. I am not sure about Moscow but the guy who told me surely was...

They usually have two or three stages since the schedule simply doesn't allow travelling with only one. Other than obvious festival shows or ones with a pre-built-in stage (Hyde Park 2013), I can't remember them not bringing their tour stage to a European outdoor concert in the last decade (or ever, to be honest).

Some hour ago in Tallinn…
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=...59144589307839

Also the promotor of Live Nation Baltics and the creator of the stage show Doug Brant confirm that their "tour stage" is not in Moscow.

Not sure what stage will be in Moscow but Tony Bongiovi posted on Instagram (on Saturday) under the sauce account that the "video gear is on it's way to Moscow". That is for sure the big LED screens so take that for what it's worth.