Rob Hanks at Pumphouse, has given us the low down on the up and coming U2 Australian Vertigo tour .

“Eight years after they last played Australia, U2 are taking the Vertigo Tour to Auckland, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney in March. The shows are the first to be announced for ‘Vertigo ’06′ which will kick off in February and also stop in Mexico, South America, New Zealand, Australia and Japan.

U2.Com can exclusively confirm the Australian dates – tickets will go on general sale on Monday December 5th.

Friday March 17 Auckland Ericsson Stadium
Tuesday March 21 Brisbane Queensland Sports & Athletics Centre
Friday March 24 Melbourne Telstra Dome
Tuesday March 28 Adelaide AAMI Stadium
Friday March 31 Sydney Telstra Stadium

Tickets are priced at $99 for General Admission to the stadium field area, with Reserved Seat tickets to be priced between $99 and $199. Ticket sales outlet information will be released one week prior to the on-sale date of December 5.”

In honour of the impending news, I’ve put two posts on U2′s iPod videos at Duncan’s TV Adland.
The first video clip, Vertigo, was released as a 30 second ad on Apple’s site, promoting the U2 Special Edition iPod and the Photo iPod. The Vertigo ad is also available as a 2-minute clip.

It’s all written up on Sunday November 20.

The most recent video clip, “An Original of the Species”, was featured in the promotion of the Video iPod. I wrote up the promotion on Saturday October 15.

Hopefully I’ll get to see both songs live next year. In the meantime, I’ll have to make do with the DVD of U2 Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago.