Final U2 360° Show in North America
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Final U2 360° Show in North America
It’s going to be the first show in North America this summer – even though it’s the final one to be announced. The Salt Lake City 360° show will take place on June 3rd at Rice Eccles Stadium and tickets go on public sale next Monday, February 2nd, at 10am local time.
A presale for U2.com subscribers opens this Thursday February 18th at 10am and runs until Saturday February 20th at 5pm (local time)..
We’ll be emailing our subscribers with presale details today. Click here for dates and onsales of 2010 shows.
Here’s the presale times for our different subscriber groups. (Please note:you can check what subscriber group you are in by logging in.)
Horizon – Presale Opens 10am February 18th
Breathe - Presale Opens 10am February 18th
Boots – Presale Opens 10am February 19th
Magnificent – Presale Opens 10am February 19th
(all times local)
U2 360° TOUR DATES: 2010
U2 360° TOUR DATES: 2010
· 2010-06-06 – Anaheim, California, USA – Angel Stadium
· 2010-06-07 – Anaheim, California, USA – Angel Stadium
· 2010-06-12 – Denver, Colorado, USA – Invesco Field
· 2010-06-16 – Oakland, California, USA – Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
· 2010-06-20 – Seattle, Washington, USA – Qwest Field
· 2010-06-23 – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada – Commonwealth Stadium
· 2010-06-27 – Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA – TCF Bank Stadium
· 2010-06-30 – East Lansing, Michigan, USA – Spartan Stadium
· 2010-07-03 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – Rogers Centre
· 2010-07-06 – Chicago, Illinois, USA – Soldier Field
· 2010-07-09 – Miami, Florida, USA – Land Shark Stadium
· 2010-07-12 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – Lincoln Financial Field
· 2010-07-16 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – Hippodrome de Montréal
· 2010-07-19 – East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA – New Meadowlands Stadium
· 2010-08-10 – Frankfurt, Germany – Commerzbank Arena
· 2010-08-12 – Hannover, Germany – AWD Arena
· 2010-08-15 – Horsens, Denmark – CASA Arena Horsens
· 2010-08-16 – Horsens, Denmark – CASA Arena Horsens
· 2010-08-20 – Helsinki, Finland – Olympic Stadium
· 2010-08-21 – Helsinki, Finland – Olympic Stadium
· 2010-08-25 – Moscow, Russia – Luzhniki Stadium
· 2010-08-30 – Vienna, Austria – Ernst Happel Stadion
· 2010-09-03 – Athens, Greece – Olympic Stadium
· 2010-09-06 – Istanbul, Turkey – Atatürk Olympic Stadium
· 2010-09-15 – Munich, Germany – Olympiastadion
· 2010-09-18 – Paris, France – Stade de France
· 2010-09-22 – Brussels, Belgium – King Baudouin Stadium
· 2010-09-23 – Brussels, Belgium – King Baudouin Stadium
· 2010-09-29 – Seville, Spain – Estadio Olímpico de Sevilla
· 2010-10-02 – Coimbra, Portugal – Estádio Cidade de Coimbra
· 2010-10-03 – Coimbra, Portugal – Estádio Cidade de Coimbra
U2 fans get 360 degrees of rock
U2 fans get 360 degrees of rock
Eclectic-but-aging crowd turns out, some all day long
By MIKE WEATHERFORD
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Bassist Adam Clayton, left, and guitarist The Edge show why U2 is one of the few musical acts that can still fill stadiums.
Fans who waited all day Friday to get in front of the stage rush into Sam Boyd Stadium before the start of the U2 concert. Photos by Jason Bean/Las Vegas Review-Journal
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The current president appeared in a video graphic and a former one — Bill Clinton — was in the press box. But the night belonged to U2, the rock ‘n’ roll royalty that convenes a party at Sam Boyd Stadium about once every president or two.
And frontman Bono, who’s had the ear of those presidents for his social activism, needed only to spin around in circles a couple of times, arms overhead, to rechristen the stadium for a sold-out crowd of more than 40,000 for the “360″ tour.
But, as he sang in the second song, “Get On Your Boots,” it was too nice a night “to talk about wars between nations.”
“Every religion has its Mecca,” Bono told the crowd. “We (entertainers) end up here, sometimes on our knees, but we come to Vegas.”
He introduced his bandmates with comparisons to every entertainer from Bette Midler to David Copperfield before declaring, “My name is Wayne Newton.”
Before long, he was leading a “Viva Las Vegas” sing-a-long.
The Irish rockers and Sam Boyd Stadium don’t get together too often, but when they do it’s an affair to remember, fleeting but passionate.
It started in November 1992 with the “Zoo TV” tour, the first 80-foot stage with 1,200 tons of giant TV screens the stadium had ever known. It continued when the “PopMart” tour launched in April 1997. Parking-lot bootleggers rolled tape (yeah, it was tape back then) on the nightly rehearsals.
But even after a lot of practice, that date was best known for the boys getting stuck, “Spinal Type”-style, inside a giant lemon.
Now the tour is sponsored by BlackBerry and everyone used their smart phones to talk to friends on the other side.
The massive “360″ stage made it look like the stadium came out on the losing end of a flying saucer invasion, almost a living-room show compared to a recent stop at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium where photos reveal the earthlings won.
Not many bands can host this kind of party. Festivals such as Vegoose — already come and gone since the last U2 stop — mostly replaced single headliners for gatherings of this magnitude. Other stars on the short list, namely the Rolling Stones, opt to play big-money indoor dates on the Strip instead.
The weather smiled on the band’s choice to take the path less Vegas on one of those fine desert nights that wasn’t too hot, too cold or too windy. The crowd had clearly aged along with the band. Tailgating was light and refined; one party of about two dozen even hired a hosted bar with table cloths and a bartender in bow tie.
As he cooked chicken fajitas for a group in the parking lot, Las Vegan Rick Wylie said he was here for the Zoo TV tour in 92 as well, but there was no cooking then.
“Just heavy drinkin’” he said with a laugh. “That’s when we could handle a hangover.”
More current pop stars, Black Eyed Peas, were added as the opening act, possibly to youthen the demographic of a stadium light on the “Now Generation” they sang about.
The crowd was more on the cordial side until frontman will.i.am. won them over with sincerity, a shout-out to U2 and other bands who manage to “stay together for the love of the music,” and a little humiliation of those who would be “chillin’ lackadaisical” up in the stands while Fergie did her “Boom Boom Pow.”
Friday also offered a pleasant morning to those who started arriving at 6 a.m. to line up for a preferred spot on the general-admission floor.
Fans debated whether it was better to be inside the race-track ramp that circled the stage or on the outside of the rail.
“We’re just addicted to it, to be honest with you,” said Pat Dalug, the Princeton, N.J., man who had a place near the front of the line. “Some people don’t understand, but we understand. I always tell my wife — it’s better than smoking crack.”
Dalug even was on the clock, sort of, passing out sunblock samples. As he eyed other fans sipping coffee or napping on air mattresses, he noted, “You forget about all the problems, all the responsibilities.”
“Chicago was a little crazy,” Dalug added. But neither U2 nor its fans are spring chickens anymore. “If you get arrested, it’s on our record. We’re not underage anymore.”
Boris “Bowman” Poehland from Hamburg, Germany, was trying to follow as many shows as he could in the United States.
“This show is all about different perspectives,” he says. “I’ve been almost everywhere with this show.”
But, he confessed, “U2 is the name of my traveling agency. I love this band, but it’s only 40 percent the show. Sixty percent is traveling around the world meeting old friends, meeting new friends, being in G.A. line for two days. That is the fun.”
‘Dream beneath the desert sky…’
‘Dream beneath the desert sky…’
23 October 2009
‘Desert sky, dream beneath the desert sky.’ We were briefly In God’s Country tonight, as Bono slipped in some lines from a 1987 Joshua Tree classic into a 2001 classic Beautiful Day.
Pretty incredible line up of special guests at the show tonight – led by President Bill Clinton, who got quite an ovation when Bono credited him for igniting the campaign to cancel the debts of the poorest countries.
Also in the house tonight rock’n'roll royalty in the persons of Chris Martin of Coldplay and Brandon Flowers of The Killers as well as Hollywood royalty with Sean Penn, Jessica Alba, Elizabeth Shue and Kate Bosworth. (And a technology and design monarch in Apple’s Jonny Ive.)
Audience in fine voice and looks to be some new video making its way into the set… but we won’t say too much about that. After all, everyone can see it for themselves… on Sunday night.
Till then, tell us how it was for you in Las Vegas tonight ? Tell us what it was like and post your photos in our comments area.
Here’s what they played.
Breathe
Get on Your Boots
Magnificent
Mysterious Ways
Beautiful Day
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Stuck In A Moment
No Line on the Horizon
Elevation
In A Little While
Unknown Caller
Until The End of the World
Unforgettable Fire
City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
I’ll Go Crazy – Remix
Sunday Bloody Sunday
MLK
Walk On
One
Where The Streets Have No Name
Ultraviolet
With or Without You
Moment of Surrender
Station Crew Works with Science, Talks with U2
Station Crew Works with Science, Talks with U2
Published By Klaus SchmidtOn: 14 October 2009
(NASA) – After the safe landing of the Expedition 20 crew this weekend in Kazakhstan, the Expedition 21 crew aboard the International Space Station pressed ahead Tuesday under the command of Frank De Winne, performing science-related tasks and emergency training.
Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Michael Barratt returned to Earth Saturday, landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan in their Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft after a 197 day-long stay aboard the station. With them was Canadian spaceflight participant Guy Laliberte who launched to the station Sept. 30 with Expedition 21 crew members Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev.
Flight Engineer Nicole Stott worked with the Space Seed experiment which investigates the role of gravity in regulating the developmental processes of higher plants. The plants and seeds are harvested periodically and stored in the station’s freezer and transported back to Earth for analysis.
Flight Engineer Roman Romanenko worked with the Russian experiment Plants-2, which researches growth and development of plants under spaceflight conditions in a greenhouse facility in the Zvezda service module.
U2’s the Edge (right) and Paul McGuinness, the group’s tour manager, get a chance to “fly” the space shuttle during their visit to the Johnson Space Center thanks to a brief session in the motion-based version of the Shuttle Mission Simulator at the Jake Garn Mission Simulation and Training Facility. Credit: Courtesy of U2
De Winne, along with the station’s newest residents Williams and Suraev, conducted an emergency egress drill to help prepare them for the unlikely event that they would need to evacuate the station in an emergency situation.
The six crew members had time set aside to participate in an ESA event to commemorate De Winne becoming the first European commander of station.
The crew also spoke with members of the rock band U2 during a call from Mission Control Center in Houston.
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the ISS Progress 35 resupply ship was transported to its launch pad Monday to prepare for launch to the station. Launch is scheduled for Wednesday at 9:14 p.m. EDT, with docking scheduled for Saturday. The Progress is carrying 1,918 pounds of propellant, 110 pounds of oxygen and air, 926 pounds of water and 1,750 pounds of spare parts and supplies for the Expedition 21 crew.
U2 Concert Setlist: October 03, 2009 at Raleigh, NC
U2 Concert Setlist: October 03, 2009 at Raleigh, NC
Venue: Carter-Finley Stadium
Opening Act(s): Muse
Breathe
Get On Your Boots
Mysterious Ways
Beautiful Day / C Moon (snippet)
No Line On The Horizon
Magnificent
Elevation
In A Little While
New Year’s Day
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For / Stand By Me (snippet)
Stuck In A Moment
The Unforgettable Fire
Mofo (snippet) / City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Crazy Tonight / Thank You (Falettin Me Be Mice Elf Again) (snippet)
Sunday Bloody Sunday / Rock The Casbah (snippet) / People Get Ready (snippet)
MLK
Walk On / You’ll Never Walk Alone (snippet)
Encore(s):
One / Amazing Grace (snippet)
Where The Streets Have No Name
Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
With Or Without You
Moment of Surrender
U2: 360 Degrees Of Rock Comes To The Carolinas
U2: 360 Degrees Of Rock Comes To The Carolinas
By fitsnews •
October 4, 2009
“I’m just trying to find a decent melody, a song I can sing in my own company.”
If finding a decent melody was his objective on this cool October eve, U2’s Bono found plenty of them – and plenty of company to share them with – as his Irish mega-band alternately wowed and wooed a crowd of over 60,000 at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, N.C.
With a harvest moon shining just above the tree line and the band’s massive 164-foot-tall stage – dubbed “The Claw” – perched like some alien spacecraft inside this suddenly-undersized venue, U2 blazed through a blinding, blistering rock spectacle the likes of which the Carolinas may never see again.
“We’ve got old songs, we’ve got new songs, we’ve got songs we can barely play,” Bono joked during U2’s twenty-three-song set – which spanned three decades of material in a little over two hours.
“And we brought a spaceship,” he said, pointing up to “The Claw.”
Indeed, along with The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr., “The Claw” was a star of the show in its own right, with its honeycomb video screen pulsating images from the stage while hundreds of speakers blared and lights flashed from its four crab-like legs.
Conceptualized by longtime U2 stage designer Willie Williams, “The Claw” is the tallest, most revolutionary rock-n-roll edifice ever constructed – twice as big as the Rolling Stones’ largest concert stage. Of course with that size comes “intimacy on a grand scale,” according to Bono, as “The Claw’s” unique suspension design frees up room on the ground for fans and makes the stage visible from every angle.
The “intimacy” is enhanced by a circular walkway connected to the main performance stage by two movable metal bridges, which left several hundred lucky fans actually seated (or standing) “inside” the stage – mirroring a popular feature of U2’s “Elevation Tour.”
Wherever they sat, on this night U2’s fans were treated to a sonic tour de force from the biggest band in the world, as the Irish quartet charged through its dizzying, diverse set list with the frenetic urgency and musical precision of a band that not only wants to stay – but aggressively prove that it belongs – on top.
Up-tempo recent hits like “Beautiful Day,” “Elevation” and “Vertigo” couldn’t have been more thunderously delivered – or ecstatically received – while the classic “New Year’s Day” sounded precisely as it did on our Live Under A Blood Red Sky album, which was record twenty-six years ago.
Halfway around the world, a quarter century later, U2 nailed it note for note, people.
Fans lapped up U2’s new material, too, as the show-opening pulse-pounder “Breathe” and the soaring strains of “Magnificent” (which anyone who has attended a University of South Carolina home football game this year has heard) upped the adrenaline ante early in the show.
U2 also gave brilliant performances of its classics “Mysterious Ways,” “The Unforgettable Fire” and “Where The Streets Have No Name,” which may have been the evening’s most evocatively-delivered number.
Masters of tension and release, U2 knew exactly when to push and pull the levers of showmanship, working in a few slower, down-tempo numbers amid this unprecedented rock-n-roll spectacle. For example, Bono and The Edge played an acoustic version of “Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of” which highlighted the intricate vocal harmonies that make U2 so good – but which can easily go unnoticed amid the sensory overload of the world’s biggest rock show.
The band also broke out the jangly, 2001 hit “In A Little While,” a song about a hangover that became “a gospel song” when Joey Ramone passed away listening to its soothing strains. It was the first time the song had been played on this leg of the 360 tour.
Bono also let the crowd sing a two choruses and a verse of “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” one of the singles from 1987’s The Joshua Tree – arguably the band’s best album.
Of course a U2 show wouldn’t be a U2 show without a little sermonizing from Bono, who promoted his “One” campaign during the concert and praised the pro-democracy demonstrators in Tehran, to whom he dedicated the 1983 hit “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” In fact, in one of the night’s more awkward moments, Bono gave “shout outs” to former North Carolina Senators John Edwards and the late Jesse Helms – both of whom he credited with supporting the “One” campaign.
“Only in America,” he said.
Bono also talked a lot about AIDS in Africa – which would have been fine had he not done it over The Edge’s brilliant guitar solo during “One,” striking one of the few sour notes of the evening.
Also, as he does at every show, Bono dedicated the song “Walk On” to Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader of Burma who won election in 1990 but was promptly placed under house arrest by the country’s ruling military leaders. While the band played her song, several dozen fans wearing masks of Suu Kyi circled the stage while Bono exhorted the crowd to “sing for Aung San Suu Kyi.”
For us, the most poignant moment of the concert was more personal than political, though.
It came during the band’s performance of their 2005 hit “City of Blinding Lights,” as Bono invited a young boy to traverse the circular walkway with him – seemingly mirroring the trajectory of life.
“The more you see the less you know,” Bono sang to the child, like a father offering advice to his former self. “The less you find out as you go.”
At the end of the song, Bono waved goodbye to the young lad, like a man saying goodbye to his own past.
What did we find out as we took in the 360 tour? That U2 is the world’s biggest band for a reason
U2 goes big in Raleigh — really big
U2 goes big in Raleigh — really big
BY DAVID MENCONI – Staff writer
RALEIGH — A few songs into U2’s Saturday night show at Carter-Finley Stadium, Bono paused to survey his domain. And he addressed the packed house with the egomaniacal charm we’ve all come to know and love.
“We’ve got old songs, we’ve got new songs, we’ve got songs we can barely play,” he cracked. “And we’ve got a spaceship!”
Yes, it was hard not to notice that. At a time when pretty much everything seems to be in contraction mode, U2 has rolled the dice with what has to be the most elaborately ginormous stage setup in rock history — a huge, claw-shaped beast that looked like a vertigo-inducing theme-park ride.
It seemed impossible that any band, even one as outsize as U2, wouldn’t get swallowed up by such surroundings. But somehow they pulled it off through sheer force of will. This business of being the biggest band on earth clearly matters a great deal to U2, and they’ve put this gargantuan spectacle on the road to achieve “intimacy on a grand scale.” There’s just no one better at immensity than U2.
After a solid, 40-minute opening set by Muse, the headline portion of the evening opened withDavid Bowie’s “Space Oddity” as prelude music, smoke machines at full belch. Larry Mullen Jr. entered first, sitting down at his drums to start bashing. Guitarist Dave “The Edge” Evans was next, with bassist Adam Clayton right behind. And Bono was last out, of course.
Bono wasted no time hitting the heroic poses on the opener “Breathe,” a track from the current album “No Line on the Horizon.” Though”No Line” is only so-so, its songs came across much better live — even “Get On Your Boots,” the actively annoying first single. Other recent-vintage songs to hit the mark included “Vertigo,” “Magnificent” and “City of Blinding Lights.”
As always, Edge provided letter-perfect guitar accompaniment. If Bono is U2’s preacherman, Edge is the one who built the sonic pulpit from which he holds forth.
Hammy theatrics that somehow work are a U2 specialty, such as the way Bono worked snippets of rock-era classics into U2 songs. A bit of “Amazing Grace” turned up during the encore version of “One.” And during “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” Bono pointed at the moon and sang the opening of Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me” (”When the night has come/And the land is dark/And the moon is the only light we will see …”).
Sometimes, however, Bono should just leave well enough alone. Tossing his microphone to a guy in the crowd to let him sing a verse of “People Get Ready” might have seemed like a good idea; but it was an off-key disaster.
Still, that was one of the show’s few miscues. For all the band’s pretensions, U2 is ultimately just so likable that it’s almost impossible not to be won over. When they went roaring into the encore version of “Where The Streets Have No Name,” that guitar riff pealing like a church bell, it was a perfect moment of blissful big-rock grandeur that you just don’t see much of anymore.
We shall not see U2’s like again, I don’t believe.
david.menconi@newsobserver.com or blogs.newsobserver.com/beat or 919-829-475