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U2 360 Degrees Tour Heads to Perth Next Month

Posted by SPun2U on Nov 20, 2010 in Tour News | Comments Off

PERTH, AUSTRALIA, November 17, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ — The huge U2 360 Degrees tour, which has rocked stadiums across the world, will come to an end in Australia and New Zealand with two gigs in Perth next month.

One of the biggest rock bands of all time, U2 were watched live by more than four million fans in 2009 and demand for tickets down under has been just as high.

Their dates at the Subiaco Oval have already sold out and thousands of people are set to descend on the venue on December 18th and 19th 2010 for the shows, which will see the Irish band joined by hip-hop legend Jay-Z.

A performance of Sunday Bloody Sunday at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin late last year convinced the acts to tour together, which means people staying in one of the 5 star hotels Perth has available will get to see two of the most famous names of the current music scene.

U2 have once again decided to accompany their live show with an impressive set, comprising a cylindrical video system made from interlocking LED panels and a 150ft tall steel structure that towers above the stage.

Doors of the Subiaco Oval, which was built in 1908 and can hold 43,500 people when full, are set to open at 16:30 local time for the shows.

For more information on this event, visit the Subiaco Oval website or contact the venue on (+61) 8 9381 5599.

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U2 dazzle crowd in Donostia-San Sebastian

Posted by SPun2U on Sep 28, 2010 in Tour News | Comments Off

At 22:00 on Sunday night, Irish band U2 announced their return to the Gipuzkoa capital (Basque Country) with one of the last concerts in their ‘U2 360º Tour’.

After opening the set with one of their unreleased tracks (“The return of the stingray guitar” which the band are presenting during the second leg of their tour) Bono greeted his fans with a single “Qué pasa!” (“Whats up!”) followed by a performance of “Beautiful Day”.

No sooner had the lead singer spoken the words “Kaixo, we know that we are in the mystical San Sebastian!” than he had the audience eating out of his hand.

For two hours, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr performed new songs from their latest album No Line on the Horizon, as well as classics from their 30-year career (“Walk On”, “Get on your boots”, “MLK”, “Where the streets have no name”, “One” and “Spanish Eyes”).

Bono built up a close rapport with his audience and invited several fans up on the stage to sing with him. The band played more than 20 songs on a spectacular set, the last two of which were With or without you” and “Moment of surrender”.

This was their second concert in the Gipuzkoa capital in 5 years. The Irish band last visited the Anoeta stadium in August 2005, when 40,000 fans attended the event. After analyzing various technical details of the stadium, it was decided it could cope with more fans, allowing the capacity to increase from 40,000 to 50,000.

The U2 360º Tour kicked off in Barcelona last June. Since then, U2 have been traveling around the world playing to crowded stadiums. Another gig is planned for Seville on September 30th.

- EITB

U2′s 360 tour concerts in Australia, New Zealand gets 2nd shows

Posted by SPun2U on Sep 7, 2010 in Tour News | Comments Off

U2 360 Tour

Irish band U2 confirmed that the band will play an extra concerts in Australia and New Zealand. Concert tickets to band’s five-city tour in Australia, and in Auckland are already sold out, with some play dates running out of concert tickets within mere hours.

“We’re delighted with the reaction of our New Zealand and Australian fans and that we are able to add further dates,” said U2 Manager Paul McGuinness in a statement.

U2 360° will have extra shows in Auckland on Friday, November 26th at Mt. Smart Stadium. The band will also have second shows in Melbourne on Friday, December 3rd at Etihad Stadium; in Brisbane on Thursday, December 9th at Suncorp Stadium and in Sydney on December 14th at ANZ Stadium.

U2 concert tickets in Auckland will be sold this Thursday, September 9th while U2 concert tickets for performances in Melbourne, Brisbane & Sydney will go on sale this Friday, September 10th. Subscribers of U2.com can buy concert tickets ahead of the public on-sale.

As previously reported, the concert tour will begin in Auckland’s Mount Smart Stadium on November 25. On December 1, U2 will play at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, and make its way to Brisbane and Sydney. The tour will end at Perth’s Subiaco Oval on December 18 and 19. On both play date at the Subiaco Oval, rapper Jay-Z will support the band. Billboard earlier revealed that Jay-Z will join U2 on Perth’s stop of their five-city Australian tour.

- IBTIMES

U2 Rocks Moscow: Bono Mixes Pop and Politics

Posted by SPun2U on Aug 28, 2010 in Tour News | Comments Off

A day after he traveled to Sochi on the Black Sea to meet President Dmitry Medvedev, Bono joined the rest of the band onstage at Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium. The show was U2’s first-ever in Russia; the group had been one of the few major international acts who hadn’t played in the country, where Western music is hugely popular.

As the band took the stage, the skies opened with torrential rain – especially ironic since “Beautiful Day” was among the first songs. Most of the 50,000-plus crowd stayed dry, though, since the seating area at the stadium – used primarily for soccer – is covered by a roof. The band, as well as the throngs of fans in the dance-floor area, weren’t so lucky. Only the drum kit seemed reliably protected from the rain, while Bono, Edge and bassist Adam Clayton played under the raindrops and got soaked in the process.

Bono treated the crowd to an a capella version of “Singing in the Rain,” though most fans seemed more familiar with the words to U2’s own hits like “Where the Streets Have No Name,” “One” and “With or Without You,” which brought virtually the entire house to its feet.

Bono, at first, directed the political references for which he’s known to places located far from Russia. At one point, the band played “Walk On,” a song dedicated to jailed Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi. Between songs, he thanked President Medvedev for his “gracious” reception.

But Bono gave his warmest shout-out (subtitled into Russian on the giant screen above the stage) to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, whom he said was at the show (the two have known each other for about a decade). The crowd’s response was less enthusiastic – though credited with ending communism, Gorbachev is deeply unpopular in Russia for bringing about the end of the Soviet Union.

The band followed the praise of Gorbachev with “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” – which could be interpreted as a veiled reference to Russia’s interrupted move to democracy since Gorbachev left office in 1991. In case anyone missed the point, Bono later led the crowd in a chorus of Bob Marley’s “Get Up, Stand Up” during a break in “Sunday Bloody Sunday.”

The Russian politics got heavier in the encores, when Bono, playing acoustic guitar, invited Russian rocker Yuri Shevchuk onstage to join him for a version of Bob Dylan’s classic, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.” Shevchuk, whose band DDT started out in the underground under the Soviets, has been one of the very few Russian musicians to publicly criticize the Kremlin for rolling back democratic freedoms. Shevchuk confronted Prime Minister Vladimir Putin about the issue at a meeting with artists and writers earlier this year. He’d signed an appeal with several other activists this week calling on Bono to raise the issues in his meeting with President Medvedev. It wasn’t clear from official Kremlin accounts if Russian domestic policies came up in that session, however. Bono started that meeting saying he hoped to bridge the musical gap between himself, a Led Zeppelin fan, and Medvedev, who is known for his love of Deep Purple (a group Bono and the rest of U2 had jokingly belittled in interviews with the Russian press this week). Medvedev resolved the issue by saying that he likes Led Zeppelin, too.

As the show headed into its third hour Wednesday and the group played its last encore (”Moment of Surrender”) dedicated to the victims of the wildfires that swept Russia this summer), the rain let up, releasing the crowd into a cool August evening.

- Wall Street Journal