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    U2 Expand American Tour

    icon1 Posted by SPun2U  in Tour News on March 31, 2009 | No Comments

    u2360(U2.com) This morning, after an instant sell-out for the North American tour opener in Chicago on September 12th, a second performance was added for September 13th. In Boston, in addition to the September 20th performance, fans will be able to see the band again on the following night. And the Giants Stadium show in New York on September 24 will be followed by another on September 25th. Tickets for the second show in Toronto also sold out this morning.

    Six other North American dates were also announced today : Washington, DC (September 29th); Charlottesville, VA (October 1st); Atlanta, GA (October 6th), Tampa, FL (October 9th), Los Angeles, CA (October 25th) and Vancouver BC (October 28th).

    A presale for these dates and for the extra shows in Chicago, Boston and New York will begin [today] for U2.com subscribers. For all the latest on tour dates and onsale details, check – U2’s Tour page.

    - antimusic

    U2 Keeps Breaking Records

    icon1 Posted by SPun2U  in Tour News on March 31, 2009 | No Comments

    Quick! Someone call Guinness! U2 ticket onsales broke previous single-day records for New York, Boston and Chicago markets, making the band the best-selling act in the galaxy.

    Well, maybe not the entire Milky Way Galaxy, but it’s easy to get carried away when you’re talking about Dublin’s favorite sons. On the other hand, numbers don’t lie and the band chalked up some pretty formidable figures with recent onsales.

    For example, U2 sold 82,000 tickets for the New York City-area appearance this morning, 72,000 for the Boston-area show and 65,000 in Chicago, with each city’s onsale resulting in those new attendance records.

    Phenomenal onsales have been the band’s modus operandi this year. Fans scooped up tickets at a rate of 6,700 per minute for U2’s Wembley Stadium dates. Dublin’s Croke Park July 24 & 25 engagements sold out in 40 minutes, which translates into 160,000 tickets in three-quarters of an hour. What’s more, the tour opener in Barcelona on June 30 sold out in 54 minutes.

    But back to those U.S. shows.

    Record-breaking sales in NYC, Boston and Chicago have resulted in additional shows in those markets with Chicago adding September 13 at Soldier Field, Boston adding September 21 at Foxboro’s Gillette Stadium and New York City (E. Rutherford, NJ), scheduling September 25 for a second U2 gig at Giants Stadium.

    What’s next?

    Tickets for the October 1 Charlottesville, Virginia, date go on sale this Friday, while tickets for all other performances, including the additional dates mentioned above for NYC, Chicago and Boston, go on sale next Monday.

    Of course, it helps if you got an in with Bono. If not, the next best thing is subscribing to U2’s official Web site where members are given chances to purchase tickets ahead of public onsales. Visit U2.com for more information.

    –Jay Smith, Pollstar

    VIDEO: U2 interviewed by Pitchfork.tv

    icon1 Posted by SPun2U  in Video on March 31, 2009 | 1 Comment

    Watch the Pitchfork.tv’s interview with Bono, The Edge, and Adam.


    U2 to Donate Tour Profits to Charity

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    U2 is gearing up for a world tour this summer, and they’re planning on donating $12 million of their expected profit to charity. Talk about a tax write-off!

    U2 hits the road this June, starting off in Barcelona, going through Europe, and then coming to the United States in September. And they plan on taking all of the proceeds from the VIP auction ticket sales, which amount to $12 million, to a leading Aids organization.

    Up to 600 stage-front tickets per gig are being sold off, with minimum starting bids of between $126 and $1,347. The profit will be being given to Global Fund, which helps fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Africa.

    The band’s spokeswoman says, “All of U2’s income raised from the auction of Red Zone tickets will be donated to charity.”

    What an amazing thing to do. This is what sets U2 apart from other major bands. They’re always looking to do their part when it comes to charity and making the world a better place. We hope this inspires other artists to do the same.

    - HollyScoop

    U2 adds second Toronto gig

    icon1 Posted by SPun2U  in Tour News on March 28, 2009 | No Comments

    Make it two for U2.

    It has been confirmed that U2 has added a second Toronto show this fall.

    The legendary Irish band now will bring its 360 Degrees Tour to the Rogers Centre on back-to-back nights, Sept. 16 and 17. The opening act for both shows will be Snow Patrol.

    Tickets go on sale Monday at 10 a.m., through Live Nation and Ticketmaster outlets, as well as at the Rogers Centre.

    Prices are $32, $57, $97 and $252, plus service charges. There is an eight-ticket limit per customer.

    In other concert news, it was announced that Keith Urban will make a stop in Toronto when his Escape Together World Tour gets under way this fall. The Toronto show will include a “surprise special guest.” Urban’s wife Nicole Kidman, perhaps?

    Anyway, an exact date for the Toronto show has not been confirmed, but tickets are scheduled to go on sale May 1.

    - CANOE

    U2 Sells Out Croatia

    icon1 Posted by SPun2U  in Tour News on March 28, 2009 | 1 Comment

    You could almost describe U2’s ticket sales in the small Eastern European republic as “quaint,” if only because it took half a day to sell out.


    Most ticket stories about sellout concerts start with a lead depicting how a particular show sold out in minutes. That’s why U2’s 12-hour journey to sell 63,000 ducats – about 5,250 per hour – is worth noting.

    Tickets for U2’s first-ever Croatia concert scheduled for August 10 went on sale online and at brick & mortar ticket outlets, with folks lining up in freezing temperatures at the latter on the night before the onsale.

    Tickets were priced at 250-2,000 Kuna ($45 to $356), and went on sale online at midnight, and at 9 a.m. at outlets.

    But the sellout didn’t occur without at least one glitch. Fans overloaded the authorized seller’s ticket server, causing it to go down for a few hours, which helps explain why it took so long to sell out the event.

    “We’ve never seen anything like that in our career,” said Maja Valjak from Lupa Promotion.

    It also looks as if the onsale was almost as exciting as the actual show for fans.

    Said Ksenija Pavlic, a 36-year-old mother of two who scored tickets online: “I’ve been waiting for this all my life and I wasn’t ready to miss it.”

    Evidently a lot of Croatians feel that way. The country’s population was estimated to be just under 4.45 million in 2008. Factor in the 63,000 tickets sold and that means one ticket per 71 of the country’s citizens.


    –Jay Smith, Pollstar

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