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

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.

–Jay Smith, Pollstar

MADRID (AFP) — Veteran Irish band U2 proved again they are among the megastars of rock when all 90,000 tickets for the Barcelona launch of their new world tour reportedly sold out in just 54 minutes.

“In just 54 minutes, all 90,000 tickets on sale found buyers,” mainly through the Internet site of the Spanish company in charge of selling them, the Barcelona-based newspaper La Vanguardia said on its website Wednesday.

The tickets for the June 30 gig in the northeastern Spanish city were on sale for between 30 and 150 euros (40 and 200 dollars).

The concert at the Nou Camp, the massive stadium of the Barcelona football club, will be the first of the group’s “360 degrees” tour linked to its new album “No Line on the Horizon”.

From Barcelona, the tour moves to Milan’s San Siro stadium on July 7 and then to France, Germany and the Netherlands.

The band, whose career spans nearly three decades, returns home on July 24 to play Croke Park in Dublin before heading for Sweden, Poland and Hungary and then four gigs in Britain.

They then head over the Atlantic, with their first gig of the US and Canada leg at Chicago’s Soldier Field on September 12.

-  AFP

Bono fears U2 will split up.

The singer says he and his bandmates – guitarist The Edge, drummer Larry Mullen Jr. and bassist Adam Clayton – are determined to enjoy their upcoming world tour because they fear it could be their last.

He said: “We want to play for each other as much as we want to play for the crowd this time. You just don’t know how long you are going to be doing this. When we walk out on stage, the hairs on people’s necks go up – but what people don’t know is that the hairs on our necks go up too.”

Larry is concerned their fans won’t want to part with their money to watch them, even though tickets have been priced reasonably.

He said: “Will we sell it out? Who knows? Will the economic situation have an impact? Probably. But that’s not going to stop us.”

Larry recently admitted he wants the group to retire while they are still at the top.

He said: “There will be a time when it’s like, ‘It’s time to go.’ I would like that to be on a high when you’re still achieving as opposed to the curve down. That’ll be sad for me. I think it’ll be a more dignified time to go.”

- BANG Media

News and current affairs, in cooperation with NIS Today Den Haag – They have been together 33 years and as the political conscience of pop music: the band U2. Foreman Bono fights AIDS in Africa, for the cancellation of debts in the third world and is on the floor with Putin, Bush, Blair and the Pope. Meanwhile, shooting their new CD Â’No Line on the Horizon ‘in one day to number 1 in the album top 100 and their concerts in the Amsterdam Arena sold out in ten minutes. NOVA travels to the Moroccan royal city of Fez (where their new video clip is included) for an exclusive interview with the rock.

Visit NOVA to watch two clips from Fez.

Bono & Adam – The Edge & Larry