U2 performs a mini set on a roof top in London for the BBC.

After selling out countless arenas this decade, U2 are heading 
outdoors this year with their first U.S. stadium tour since 1997’s 
PopMart Tour. The band members, who release No Line on the Horizon on 
March 3rd, haven’t yet announced dates for the tour or details about 
what they’ll play.

But they hope to keep ticket prices unusually low, 
and they’re already planning an innovative setup that will allow for 
360-degree seating around the stage, which will be moved closer to the 
center of the field than in any other stadium show. “It’s an 
engineering feat that creates this real physical proximity to the 
crowd,” Bono tells Rolling Stone, adding that the band wants to 
maximize space in the enormous venues to accommodate the many young 
fans it has made this decade with hits such as “Vertigo.” “We’re going 
outdoors to try to meet that audience.

“We want to play for each other as much as we want to play for the 
crowd this time,” Bono adds. “You just don’t know how long you will be 
going to be doing this. I just sat everyone down the other day, 
because some concerns about the tour had come up, and nobody wants to 
be away from their families. I just said, ‘This is an unbelievable and 
rare opportunity to be in this band and to play at this level. You 
don’t know what is around the corner, you don’t know if you will be up 
for it or the audience will be up for it.

Right now, we are perfectly riding across those two thoughts and every single night should be the 
best night of your life. If not, then we are just the worst of those 
Seventies dinosaur bands that felt it was enough to just turn up and 
play and that people were lucky to be in their presence.’”

- RollingStone

U2 rocker BONO fears his teenage children find him embarrassing, after he overheard his eldest daughter call him “boring” during a dinner with superstar couple BEYONCE and JAY-Z.

The 48-year-old singer, who has two daughters – Jordan, 19, and Memphis, 17 – with wife Alison Hewson, admits he suffers the same fate as most parents.

And the teens’ opinions became clear when he overheard Jordan talking about her dad while the family were entertaining celebrity guests at their holiday home in the south of France.

He says, “I went in to get some wine out of the fridge and I heard her talking to her friends, because she loves Jay-Z and Beyonce. “I heard her saying, ‘He’s probably boring their a***s off talking about Africa ‘. And, actually, I think I was at the time.”

And Bono concedes it’s not the first time his antics have annoyed the youngsters, adding, “There was a funny moment on the last tour when there were formal objections by our kids to some of the music that was being played at the aftershow party.”

- ContactMusic.com

FMQB Productions & Interscope Records present U2 3 Nights LiveIn a rare, radio extravaganza, U2 is taking over the airwaves of North America for three consecutive nights.

U2 3 Nights Live will find Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen, Jr. and Adam Clayton in a different city for three unique broadcasts on March 9, 10 and 11 in celebration of their new release, No Line On The Horizon.

Monday, March 9 LIVE from Los Angeles An Inside Look At No Line On The Horizon
Time: 9-10pm Eastern, 8-9pm Central, 7-8pm Mountain, 6-7pm Pacific
Hosted by Shirley Manson

Tuesday, March 10 LIVE from Chicago Radio Takeover featuring a deejay set by U2
Time: 9-10pm Eastern, 8-9pm Central, 7-8pm Mountain, 6-7pm Pacific
Hosted by Shirley Manson

Wednesday, March 11 LIVE from Boston Featuring live performance and audience Q&A with U2
Time: 9-10m Eastern, 8-9pm Central, 7-8pm Mountain, 6-7pm Pacific
Hosted by TBA

U2 3 Nights Live will be delivered via satellite on ABC Satellite Services and Westwood One in the United States.

There is one :30 second commercial contained within the program each night.

This program is not market exclusive.

U2 3 Nights Live is intended to run as a three part series.

The following radio stations just announced they are having contests for secret gigs on March 10th in Chicago and March 11th in Boston.

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U2 performed a “surprise” rooftop concert on the BBC Broadcasting House on London, England’s Regent Street today (Friday) to promote the March 3 release of No Line On The Horizon.

The concert, which started around 7 p.m. local time and was streamed online through various websites, began with the new record’s first single, “Get On Your Boots” (which Bono says is an east African slang term for using a condom). Bono occasionally leaned over the railing to look at the crowd and thanked fans for sticking with them because “we’re not going away anytime soon.”

U2 also performed “Magnificent” and “Vertigo,” which Bono dedicated to his fear of heights. “Vertigo” concluded with Bono singing a snippet of The Beatles’ “She Loves You,” which was perhaps a nod to the Fab Four’s 1969 rooftop gig in London. The short set ended with “Beautiful Day.”

The BBC is dedicating a lot of airtime to U2 this week, but the national public broadcaster was forced to issue an apology this morning after Bono called Coldplay singer Chris Martin a wanker during an interview with Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley. Whiley played a Coldplay song before U2’s arrival in the studio and asked Bono if Martin was as talented as Paul McCartney.”

I think he’s that good a melodist, but he’s a wanker,” was Bono’s reply.

Whiley cut him off and asked for an apology, to which Bono responded, “I’m a reformed character, I don’t any more.”

Bono went on to say that Martin was “obviously a completely dysfunctional character and a cretin, but he happens to be a great melodist and up there with Ray Davies, Noel Gallagher and Paul McCartney.”

Whiley was still offended and offered this to listeners: “I’m sorry if anyone is listening at the moment who were offended by the words that Bono said. I will apologize on his behalf.”

Bono later backtracked by saying, “I think [Coldplay] are a great band and, actually, it turns out [Martin's] a great soul as well. Sorry about that. I was just joking entirely.” Bono and Martin performed together in London at a War Child benefit concert last week after the BRIT Awards.

U2 will appear on The Late Show With David Letterman for five nights next week.

- ChartAttack

From our friends at @U2:

U2 is set to play a rooftop gig in London in a matter of moments. 
We’ll be using our Twitter account (@atu2) to post updates from fans 
who are there.

Meanwhile, here are some photos being shared via  Twitter and Twitpic:

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