Belfast and Dublin Shows Sold Out

Tickets for U2's "homecoming" gigs in Belfast and Dublin sold out around 30 minutes after they went on special on Monday morning.

The Irish rock band will complete their current European visit with two shows in Belfast on 18 and 19 November, trailed by four dates at Dublin's 3Arena.

Tickets went at a bargain at 09:00 BST on Monday, however a few fans lined overnight outside the show venues.

As expected, there was a scramble this morning to buy tickets for U2's Irish concerts, with 40,000 tickets for the Dublin dates selling out in 35 minutes and 17,000 tickets for the Belfast dates snapped up within hours of going on sale. The band will play four gigs in Dublin and two in Belfast in November, and tickets were only available from the venue box offices, Dublin's 3Arena and Belfast's SSE Arena, and Ticketmaster online. Tickets were limited to two per person and were priced from €30 to €185 for Dublin and from £30 to £165 for Belfast.

People started queuing outside Dublin's 3Arena on Sunday afternoon. Fans were later allowed to wait inside overnight. It is estimated that there were a couple of hundred fans queuing at the venue this morning.

Amsterdam U2 Beats As One

The first of four shows performed yesterday in Amsterdam. The band have had a profound and supported association with The Netherlands going back to their first shows in the nation amid October 1980 on the first leg of the Boy Tour. 

The set list had a couple of surprises with the incorporation of Two Hearts Beat As One, played at the solicitation of a fan. It has just been played once already this visit, on 27 July in New York. This was only Two Hearts' second live appearance since 27 December 1989, and third since 29 April 1985. Two Hearts has at no other time been performed in Amsterdam; its just two past Dutch exhibitions went ahead 30 and 31 October 1984 in Rotterdam.

http://www.u2gigs.com - U2 performing Two Hearts Beat As One live during their Innocence + Experience concert in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Ziggo Dome on September 8th, 2015.

Set List

Amsterdam September 8, 2015

  1. The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
  2. Out Of Control
  3. Vertigo
  4. I Will Follow
  5. Iris (Hold Me Close)
  6. Cedarwood Road
  7. Song For Someone
  8. Sunday Bloody Sunday / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet)
  9. Raised By Wolves / Psalm 23 (snippet)
  10. Until The End Of The World / Love And Peace Or Else (snippet)
  11. (Intermission)
  12. Invisible
  13. Even Better Than The Real Thing
  14. Mysterious Ways / Burning Down The House (snippet)
  15. Elevation
  16. Two Hearts Beat As One
  17. Every Breaking Wave
  18. October
  19. Bullet The Blue Sky / Ode To Joy (snippet) / 19 (snippet)
  20. Zooropa
  21. Where The Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet)
  22. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
  23. With Or Without You

Encore(s):

  1. City Of Blinding Lights
  2. Happy Birthday
  3. Beautiful Day / I Remember You (snippet)
  4. Mother And Child Reunion (snippet) / One / Invisible (snippet)

*Snips and Video U2GIGS

U2 Annouces Belfast and Dublin Shows

Nick Walker / U2TOURFANS 2015

Nick Walker / U2TOURFANS 2015

New York: U2’s iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE  European Tour 2015 will finish with six home shows in Ireland -  two shows in Belfast on 18th & 19th November and four shows in Dublin on 23rd + 24th, 27th + 28th November.

Tickets for the Irish shows go on sale at 9am on Monday 14th September,  will be limited to 2 per purchaser and are priced from £30 to £165 for Belfast and from €30 to €185 in Dublin, plus charges. Tickets can be bought at the venue box offices and online.
 

U2 To Will Tour Ireland

Lisa Heinzel/ U2TOURFANS 2015

Lisa Heinzel/ U2TOURFANS 2015

Bono has confirmed that U2 will be playing “Innocence and Experience” shows in Ireland at the end of November.

“We are coming home... it was really hard to figure out a way of doing it, but we just had to make it happen,” he told The Irish Times after coming off stage on Saturday night in Turin following the band’s second show in the city.

The city or cities they will play in, the exact dates and venue names will be made public soon as well as information about ticketing for the shows.

The difficulty for the band in playing Ireland was that the stage configuration of the current tour is simply too big to fit into any Irish venue.

“We found a way to reformat the show, to literally rebuild it for the Irish shows,” says Bono.

“It got to the stage where we just had to tell our people “You have to make this happen, you have to make this work, this is where we are from and we have to bring the tour home.”

“I am so happy we are bringing this home,” adds Bono. “These Irish shows will be like an Irish wedding. It is always tricky planning a wedding – who sits besides who could ruin it!”

Brand New 'Song For Someone' Video

Their new feature for "Song For Someone" will be online for only 24 hours. Video posted below.

At the point when U2 dropped their first music features, you needed to keep your eyes on the TV on the off chance that you needed to catch them. Unless you were particularly VCR-slanted, taking it in at whatever point MTV chose to reveal to it was your opportunity to catch Bono's legend in its transitory, 1980s greatness.

For their most recent feature, U2 is having a go at something kinda-sorta thusly, maybe a cutting edge identical. They've shared a feature for their Songs of Innocence track "Tune For Someone" that is spilling on Facebook as a 24-hour selective. Don’t let it go out…’ Illustrator and photographer Matt Mahurin directs this visual meditation on 'Song For Someone', from U2’s latest album Songs of Innocence.

Song For Someone (Directed by Matt Mahurin)

‘Don’t let it go out…’ Illustrator and photographer Matt Mahurin directs this visual meditation on 'Song For Someone', from U2’s latest album Songs of Innocence.

Posted by U2 on Thursday, August 27, 2015