U2 is scheduled to appear on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon next week. We checking in with our sources. We will update as we get more information. (May 8th)
Connected U2 Fans
The connected U2 fan has choices! We have been working for many years to be able to provide U2 fans with the tools to be connected to other fans around the world. Its about the experience and sharing with your friends, family and even strangers to engage the conversation about U2 and the music that brings us together.
For us U2TOURFANS has always been about the experience. Today all of our tools are now available directly from our website. The connected community starts with you. You have some ideas on how we can provide a better experience ? Share them with us directly. Now lets take a spin around the block.
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Instagram has been around for sometime we have not been updating as much as we would like. However that has changed, now that we have the ability to upload direct from field. Our interface allows our field team to upload direct so who knows what we will see. Its all U2 all the time.
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Another Time, Another Place
Bono's recorded a special contribution to the upcoming vinyl release 'Another Time, Another Place'.
The double 10" album, produced for U2.com subscribers, captures the band playing live at London's Marquee Club in 1980, as they took early songs on the road across Ireland and the UK.
On Side 4 of the the limited edition set, Bono looks back to September 1980, and four consecutive Mondays that the band played the famous Soho venue.
'The first Monday it was half full, the second Monday nearly full, the third Monday they had to turn people away, the fourth Monday, there were queues round the block, across the road and Wardour Street looked like an A-bomb had landed on it – we thought of it as "The Irish Invasion" – it’s incredible what a few hundred people believing in you does for your self confidence...'
Here's the track listing.
- The Ocean
- 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
- I Will Follow
- An Cat Dubh - Into The Heart
- A Day Without Me
- The Electric Co.
- Things To Make and Do
- Stories For Boys
- Boy Girl
- Out of Control
- Another Time, Another Place: U2 At The Marquee Club, September 1980 by Bono
'Another Time, Another Place' is now in production and we'll be emailing qualifying subscribers with dispatch details in the next few weeks. In May U2 also start making the tracks available to download.
U2 Concert Ready with New Sound System, Improved Health For Bono
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May 14th can't get here any faster for some U2 fans. Bono has been on recovery since last falls bike accident. The boys have been in Vancouver working on the new tour.
Its different for sure, with no opening band, we have to wonder what will be the walk in music however lets talk more about what we have learned over the last few days. The New York Times has had access to the boys over the past week to give us some insight to what we can expect.
The concert will be two sets with an intermission with the first half pretty much as fixed set and the second set to be a bit more flexible with arbitrary selections.
U2 has always been on the cut edge side when it comes to technology not only from a sound prospective, stage and lights too. The band has been working on a new audio system that will suspend the speaker arrays from the ceilings pointing down, this will provide a complete immersive experience across the area floor.
The sound will be intense for everyone with no gaps within the house. Its considered to be uniformly transparent with the volume to be constant.
Now the stage will feature three risers, one "I" shaped one for "innocence" a round one shaped like lower case "e" for "experience and walkway called the divider stage to signify the "passage from innocence to experience. Designed by Es Devlin.
Remember the band promised another album while don't worry about the tour interference they the finest mobile recording studio heading out with them.
Bono has been writing songs with a few titles almost ready "Red Flag Day", "Civilization" and "Instrument Flying" We should expect the next album to be within the moment, which could mean more POP music.
So how is Bono you ask? Well within the TIMES report Bono stated that the recovery is going well however "It feels like I have somebody else's hand," the singer said. He likened the feeling to rigor mortis. "They say that nerves heal about a millimeter a week, so in about 13 months I should know if it's coming back." We should not expect Bono to be playing guitar.
So we are about 14 days out from the start and it sure looks to be another amazing tour. Be sure to download your mobile app today to be apart of the experience.
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U2 Rehearsals
The boys have been focusing on getting ready for the show. This tour promises to be different and in fact we might been getting a little insight to how different based on what some fans have been capturing around the venue. Remember while they rehearsal a lot of songs only a few may appear in the set list and remember that venues that have multiple shows can expect to have different set lists from night to night.
A fan posted this online today with of course by now you have seen the video (its on our facebook page ) of Bono talking and a couple of choice words. We have been getting a couple of bits and bites however we really want to try to hold on posting every detail of the rehearsal. Let the boys have their time. Its going to be here and gone within a few minutes.
U2 Ticket sales Sluggish
Someone call the marketing machines back to work. This is not the U2 we all know. Right now most all of the shows are NOT a sell out. Correct NOT A SELL OUT. Yes some of the GA locations are sold out and the lowest level of ticket prices have been sold out for weeks.
However the most venues have plenty of tickets. Another writer from a fan site did some really deep data mining to come up with some great key points. Sherry Lawrence has done some pretty amazing work on uncovering some interesting facts. After I had a chance to really dig into her data I totally agree with the baseline data points.
Yes I do read other fans sites, that is not the point. Coming from the music business its very clear that record spins equals sales. ( of course not a 1 for 1 ) The record companies have always found ways to increase their number of spins to be able to get their music in front of an audience.
Today the music business looks a bit different spins are not replaced by down streams however down streams numbers have increased in weight within audience consideration. Music comes from many different sources today. Itunes Radio, Spotify just to name a few; all provide access to an audience. U2 fans for the most part are 51% female and right in the middle of the sweet spot for marketing dollars. 28/54 the data suggest as the audience grows older that they might be less inclined to buy tickets.
However this is not true at all. U2 fans along with a couple of long standing bands like the Rolling Stones have very large pools of global fans that come out to shows in large numbers.
So back to back to the marketing machine. Its time to pump up the noise U2 has a packed field of bands heading out this summer. RUSH, Rolling Stones, Van Halen to name a few. Its all about that mighty ticket sales.
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Reports in U2 to play in Dublin in December
It is believed that U2 are planning five Dublin concerts this December to mark the end of their Innocence and Experience tour.
According to a report in The Sunday World more than 72,000 tickets are due to go on sale for the shows at the 3Arena in the coming weeks. This will be the first time U2 have played the venue since December 1989, when it was known as The Point.