Some Italian site claim they might be playing the San Siro stadium @ Milan, Italy next summer.

http://www.rockon.it/musica/news/acdc-e ... -san-siro/

can i speculate in here?

I think we can make some room for that.

they're in Australia in February of next year, so maybe a warm-up show or two in May/June in North America someplace, then off to the Euro Zone.

2013-2014 is starting to hit the same beats as 2009-2010, so hopefully they hit up the midwest in spring of next year.

A theory from a friend. A theory I'm on board with

'they are giving clues to the euro tour on the PJ you tube site. They've posted vids from London, Glasgow, Dublin, Lisbon, San sabastian, Madrid etc.'

Big new arena just opened in Glasgow too

I'm pretty sure those videos are just pushing the Euro 2000 bootlegs being on iTunes for the first time.

I'm sure there'll be Euro shows, though. Mid-2014, I guess?

Those are spots they usually hit. It'll definitely be summer at least but who knows for certain which cities?

I just hope they try and fit another date in Germany other than Berlin. Nothing against Berlin but come to Hamburg yeah?

I think they should play CitiField sometime next summer. Just a thought.

Hopefully they shun all the festivals and just do their own arena/stadium tour.

It's a real possibility.

Festivals are struggling to attract headliners now. They've had their day in the sun the last few years.

Yeah. I fucking hate making a pilgrimage to a festival with an over-priced "day ticket" just to see one band.

Surely they could play some stadiums or something - the Emirates will be available between May and July.

I read an article about this recently. Even the fest PJ played in florida in 2012 couldn't get any bands this year. I thought that would be a hot one going forward as they are right on the beach, but then again, it is pensicola.

Festivals are really starting to take off without the same old headliners. If you ask anyone that went to Lolla or Coachella or alot of the other festivals, the younger crowds are shunning the typical headliners like NIN or whoever and are packing the place for either EDM or younger bands like Phoenix. I think the festival scene has been built up to a point where the PJs, RHCP, NIN and other old bands aren't that necessary anymore. Some of these festivals have been around enough where they don't need that classic rock headliners, and the youngsters show up no matter what. The Deluna festival was a little newer, so it probably needs the huge headliners to establish.

I still see PJ doing your odd festival here and there, but I'm hoping for a Midwestern run around the time they do Europe. I can easily see this being their plan next summer.

So what do we have:

-A Finnish radio station having a contest to win PJ tickets for "somewhere in Europe" next year
-The Milan rumour
-A UK advertisement for "more Pearl Jam news for next year"
-A German hint to Euro shows next year

That's about it?

Someone on the message pit, synergy, whatever it's called these days, posted in the Buffalo fanview that there's a rumor of Canadian shows again in 2014. I'm a bit skeptical as they don't get hear too often, however if there is a third North American leg next year I could see a handful of Canadian cities (Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg) getting shows. I thought Lollapalooza might be a possibility if the Euro tour is in June as rumored, but I'm not sure they'd do large shows in Chicago two summers in a row.

Whatever they do, hopefully we get lots of notice like this year and unlike the spring 2010 tour. If I recall, the summer Euro tour for 2007 was announced in January, 2010 Euro tour was announced December 2009 and the 2012 Euro tour was announced around January or February. We should know how things will take shape in the next two or three months for Europe.

Euro festivals these days already announce the headliners in December/January or sometimes even earlier. Depending how they agree with the band, either the band or the festival come out with the news. So yes, whenever there's festivals mixed in, we know tourdates pretty early.

I remember for Canada 05, we had the news end of April for shows in September. It was the day after my then girlfriend broke up with me and I decided to go.

But if bands are doing their own arena shows in the vicinity of where they're also playing a festival (within about 6 months or so), the festival organisers get anal about them announcing their own shows before they've got as many festival tickets sold as possible.

For example, I'm going to see Volbeat this weekend in London. They were not allowed to announce this date until about the day before they played the Download Festival (250-300 miles north of here) in June, which is ridiculous. It's the same everywhere in Europe, it seems. I was waiting for this UK date to be announced back then and knew it would be once they played Download as it followed the pattern for everywhere else. When they played a German festival, German arena shows were announced, the same happened for Holland, Spain etc. You could guess which arena dates were to be announced next by checking which Festival they were about to play.

But anyway, I hope PJ boycott the festivals next year. I missed out last year because they didn't play a London show on account of them playing the Isle of Wight festival and me not wanting to go there (or Manchester).