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WICKED LOCAL FOXBOROUGH GILLETE STADIUM Officals have requested that we inform you AGAIN. DO NOT ARRIVE EARLY ! ( Before 3PM) We have included the must know details at the bottom of this story. Remember we told you. Hey take a photo with our name and send it us “U2TOURFANS”
Sunday and Monday about 140,000 of you get a chance to experience a show that has been considered the largest stage in the world. If you have been out to the stadium you may have had a chance to see the steel crew building the set for Sundays show. Be sure you read the details. You have warned. Really we mean it. Read it -
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The songs: A big chunk of the set doesn’t change from night to night, including U2 opening with a quartet of new songs “Breathe,” “No Line On The Horizon,” “Get On Your Boots” and “Magnificent.” But among the new tunes and expected hits (“Beautiful Day,” “Vertigo,” “One,” “Bad,” “With Or Without You”) are some surprises. Last week, the band debuted “Your Blue Room,” a song from the “Original Soundtracks 1” album recorded under the pseudonym Passengers. Also, the band has been tucking in snippets of covers, including “All You Need Is Love,” “Blackbird,” “King of Pain,” “Stand By Me” and “Amazing Grace.”
Bono: U2TOURFANS FILE PHOTOBono has been quoted saying that this is really a two act show. The first act is about the personal, the soul-searching of a young man, expressed by “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” “Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of,” “Unknown Caller,” etc. The second half focuses on the political and global with “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” “Pride (In the Name of Love),” “Walk On,” etc. Bono admitted that most people would not have thougtht or figured this out. However a few pints and you can see clearly the concept.
The stage set: Nicknamed “the spaceship” by Bono, U2’s latest monstrosity is its most monstrous. Built for a reported cost of $40 million, the rotating stage features a 90-foot-tall canopy and a 54-ton, 360-degree video screen made up of a million pieces, including 500,000 pixels and 30,000 cables. Just when you thought Bono’s head couldn’t get any bigger, it’s about to be blown up by a million watts.
The opener: Remember Izzy from “Grey’s” well they made these boys famous, Snow Patrol has been out with U2 since the Euro days, ( miss only a couple of shows) Some the other cities will get the Peas, or Muse, sorry no such luck here.
U2TOURFANS FILE PHOTOThe new album: We will be the first to say that this album needs time to grow on you. Its really better then you think. You will want to listen and know a couple of the songs prior to going to the show. You can expect atleast seven songs from the new album
Is better than you think. Really. And you’ll want to get to know these songs before the show: expect seven of them to get played.
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Lst night U2 performed their second of two shows in Toronto. The tour schedule does not have the band coming back to Canada until the end of the North American tour late October. You can check the tour dates on our site.
U2TOURFANS FILE PHOTO 2009 Last night how had some surprises ! U2 changed the line up. The first four remained the same however they did add Mysterious Ways as the fifth song pushing Beautiful Day to the sixth postion. This was the first time Mysterious way has showen up on the North American leg.
U2GIGS has reported: U2 considered performing Desire at this show. We have not comfirmed this of this morning. It appears in the printed set between New Year’s Day and Stuck In A Moment, but it is written within brackets, meaning its performance was not certain. Evidently, on stage, the band ultimately did not feel like playing it. We have our sources checking we will let you know later.
U2 fans will have to do a 180 if they arrive too early for the band’s 360 Tour concerts on Sunday and Monday.
Gillette Stadium officials said today that fans will be turned away if they arrive before the parking lots open at 3 p.m. both days. Also, fans will not be permitted to line up to access the field and general admission sections before that time.
The stadium gates will open at 5 p.m. each day. The event is expected to draw about 65,000 fans each night, including 7,000 fans on the field.
For the first time during a concert, Foxboro police will have detail officers at several intersections, including along Mechanic Street; Beach and Meadowview; North Street at Payson Road; and Main Street and Pierce. The goal is to keep fans from using the neighborhoods as shortcuts. Police have used the same model during New England Patriots games.
Also, to minimize tailgating, stadium officials will continue the policy of denying parking lot access to fans without tickets.
“We need to land this spaceship!”
U2’s spaceship has landed in Toronto. U2 frontman Bono’s nicknamed the stage way back during the EURO shows. The stage which will blow the roof off (literally) the Rogers Centre tonight, as the Dublin quartet kicks off the first of two sold-out Toronto shows on their 360 Degree Tour. T
Tom Podolec @Copyright 2009 he big news for Toronto’s 58,000 concert goers tonight and tomorrow is that they’ll have the added bonus of having the roof opened for both shows, as long as the pleasant late-summer weather continues. The only other rock show to have the lid open at the Rogers Centre was Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band in 2003.
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“Due to the good weather and obviously better sound quality — and this sound system is unbelievable — it deserves the best possible scenario. Those domed stadiums, the roofs are so high, the sound tends to go up, and kind of swirl around and bounce around, a lot of metal stuff and cement. So it’s much better if it’s open.”
Photo Credit: Tom Podolec @COPYRIGHT 2009
U2 are among the special guests who will feature in a one-off concert for the (RED) charity next month, it has been announced.
The initiative was launched in 2006 by Bono and he and his fellow band members have confirmed their appearance at New York’s Carnegie Hall event.
Billed as “An Evening with Gavin Friday & Friends”, the bill also includes Laurie Anderson, Rufus Wainwright, Antony Hegarty, Scarlett Johannson and Courtney Love.
The members of U2 are expected to collaborate with the other acts rather than perform together.
Gavin Friday is a childhood friend of the Irish rockers, while (RED) is an organization which aims to help eliminate AIDS in Africa.
The show takes place on October 4, with tickets going on-sale this week from CarnegieHall.com.
Bono and The Edge tapped an edition of the Elvis Costello TV show “Spectacle” Elvis and his band begin the show by performing three U2 songs -
Elivs did interview the boys with a couple of performance breaks to mix it up a bit. Bono and Edge performed
Bono sings ‘Two Shots’ with Elvis’ rhythm section. Then the whole ensemble - Bono and Edge plus Elvis and his band - do the final three numbers together.
Tapping was done at Masonic Temple which is owned by MTV
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