Video: U2 performs for the BBC rooftop in London
U2 performs a mini set on a roof top in London for the BBC.
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
Setlist:
Get On Your Boots, Magnificent, I Kissed A Girl-Beautiful Day, Breathe.
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.
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