Carisbrook Stadium Trust chairman Malcolm Farry insists he still hasn't found what he's looking for, despite rumours Irish rockers U2 will open the Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin.
A source told the Otago Daily Times the band had been arranged to play at the opening of the roofed venue in August next year, after claims - also yet to be confirmed - the band was on its way to New Zealand.
Former All Black and radio host Chris Laidlaw was said to be the source of the rumour the band would travel to Dunedin, having befriended a friend of U2 vocalist Bono while studying at Oxford, England, in 1969.
Mr Laidlaw - also a member of the Wellington Regional Stadium Trust - confirmed when contacted the trust had been "trying to nail" U2 for a performance next year, but at Westpac Stadium rather than Dunedin.
Stadium staff had been in contact with the band's promoters, but "nothing has happened yet", he said.
He knew nothing of the rumours the band was heading to Dunedin, and, while it was "possible", he could not recall befriending a friend of Bono's at Oxford.
The band will tour the United States and Canada next year, with its last confirmed date in Minneapolis on July 23, just before the Dunedin stadium is due for completion on August 1.
However, The New Zealand Herald this week reported speculation was rife U2 would play a New Zealand concert in November, possibly at Auckland's Mt Smart Stadium or in Wellington, before heading to Australia.
U2 promoter Live Nation has just opened an Australian office, and told the Herald it was preparing for U2's Oceania tour.
Mr Farry said he knew of no approaches being made to U2 or deals signed.
"I would be getting on top of a tall building and screaming it out from the top if we had done something."
