The U2 ticket frenzy has begun.  U2360° will visit Auckland, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and include U2′s first Perth date since Popmart in 1998 and tickets are already selling fast.

Tickets for the performances in Australia and New Zealand will officially go on sale Friday, September 3 at all usual outlets.

A number of pre-sale tickets have been made available to members of various groups.

U2.com subscribers were be able to buy tickets from Thursday, August 26. These were only made available to those who had been signed up as fans before the tour was announce, with a second batch being released to ‘newer’ fans on Monday, August 30.

Today tickets have been made available for those subscribed to Live Nation, one of the concert promoters involved in bringing the band down under. The pre-sale started at 2.30 this afternoon (Wednesday, September 1) and will continue until the same time tomorrow or until all the allocated tickets have been exhausted.

There is still time to sign up to Live Nation website and receive the password that will allow you access these tickets, at a limit of two per order.