Global-straddling super-group U2 will perform a bunch of their biggest hits in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate as part of this year’s MTV EMAs.
The Oirish four-piece will put on a free ticketed gig as a prelude to the Fall of The Wall celebrations in the famous city and the show will be beamed into the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards.
The band’s manager Paul McGuinness said: “It’ll be an exciting spot to be in, 20 years almost to the day since the wall came down. Should be fun.”
Tickets to attend ’MTV EMAs present U2 at the Brandenburg Gate’ are free of charge and available by registering on www.u2.com and www.mtvema.com.
Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis and will be restricted to a maximum of two per applicant.
Executive VP of Music Brands, MTV Networks International and Executive Producer for the MTV Europe Music Awards, Antonio Campo Dall’Orto, said: “The exceptional musical heritage of this year’s EMAs spans genres and generations and we are extremely proud to be bringing U2 to Berlin for this extraordinary performance.
“This year’s Awards will be remembered as the night when the world’s major music players came together against the backdrop of the fall of the Berlin Wall to celebrate music, freedom and the birth of a new age in Europe.”
Green Day. Leona Lewis. Kings Of Leon and Jay-Z are among an array of top artists who’ll play on the night.
We can’t wait!
The 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards will premiere on MTV Australia, Friday November 6 from 4:30pm(AEDT).
U2 Pre-Sales Alert
It’s a big week of 2010 presales for subscribers in North America this week.
Some people have been reporting problems seeing their presale codes when they log-in. This is a temporary problem which will be fixed by the time the presales open. Read More
U2 Breaks Tour Records !
Bono and company continued their record breaking ways last week. U2’s Oct 25 Rose Bowl performance has set a new US attendance record.
Billboard reports that the legendary Irish rockers have smashed their own attendance record for the best-attended single concert performance at a U.S. venue by a headliner. Read More
Mick Jagger and Bono Sing together
Mick Jagger wows 20,000 music fans as he duets with Bono at a celebration of rock ‘n’ roll in New York.They sang U2’s Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of - after Mick, 66, had performed Gimme Shelter with Black Eyed Peas star Fergie, 34.
Mick’s surprise guest appearance was just one of the many highlights of the two-night event in Madison Square Garden, for the 25th anniversary of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Earlier, fans roared with laughter as Bruce Springsteen cut short a Bono monologue on rock ‘n’ roll by yelling: “Let’s have some fun with it!” Read More
U2 wraps up 2009 with Vancouver show
U2 still running high off their Rose Bowl show came in to Vancouver for the last stop of 2009. Yes more dates have been announced as we said earlier we can expect to see this tour roll thru 2011. (just a guess on 2011). The crowds packed the ferry to capacity as the crossed over to see the world’s largest tour. U2 knows how to keep the show current and fresh with their ever-evolving set list mixing in tracks off their latest album which I confess took some time to slip into my U2 rotation mix. As they has said early on this was going to be different. However after a couple of listens and a couple of shows, this could be possibility be their finest work. Read More
U2 at BC Place: Update
Reportedly, U2’s 360 tour requires anywhere from 120 to 189 trucks and busses to haul its giantclaw-like stage and the 500-strong crew needed for the production around North America. Read More
U2 concert overloads ferries
Wednesday’s sold-out U2/Black Eyed Peas concert in Vancouver resulted in sailing waits for Islanders headed to the mainland.
Reservations were fully booked yesterday for today’s 1 p.m., 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. sailings from Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen.
The busier traffic for a Wednesday resulted in a two-sailing wait at mid-day today.
B.C. Ferries’ spokeswoman Deborah Marshall said an unscheduled extra sailing was put on at noon.
Westcoast Air said it was adding flights today for concert-goers
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U2 360 North America in 2010
U2 360° is coming back to North America in 2010, the band said on their website Sunday. Here is the rest of the announcement:
The tour will touch down next summer in Anaheim; Denver; Oakland; Seattle; Edmonton; East Lansing; Miami; Philadelphia and Montreal. U2 360° will also return for one night only in Toronto and Chicago before finishing the North American leg in New York at the New Meadowlands Stadium. On U2 360° the band currently play 22 live tracks, the first time fans have heard tracks from No Line On the Horizon, one of the best selling albums globally this year..
Tickets for the performances in Oakland, Edmonton, and Toronto will go on sale Monday November 2 with additional North American on sales taking place over the following few weeks in November. (Tickets are also about to go on sale for 2010 European dates in Athens, Greece and Istanbul, Turkey
Youtube: Did you miss the show ? Living under a rock, well you just don’t know. Enjoy the rebroadcast of the show. Sign up here to be able to get the most current concert videos from the tour as we progress thru 2010.
U2 to play Brandenburg Gate gig
WHEN I was a teenager I saw the Pope bring Berlin to a standstill as he conducted a mass at the city’s Brandenburg Gate in 1996.I’ve been to better gigs since but the pontiff’s was pretty impressive.And now a man only slightly less holy, BONO, is to perform to his followers in front of the same famous German monument.His gig with U2 next Thursday takes place on the same day that Berlin host this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards ceremony. And some of the rockers’ showpiece set will be beamed live into the awards. Read More
U2's fourth album: The Unforgettable Fire
This special edition marks 25 years since the album’s original release in October 1984. Recorded at Slane Castle, Ireland, The Unforgettable Fire was the first U2 album to be produced by Brian Eno and Danny Lanois, and spawned two top 10 UK singles - ‘Pride (In The Name Of Love)’ and ‘The Unforgettable Fire’. Read More
U2 concert a smashing success
PASADENA - As the mammoth stage was dismantled Monday and 96,000 U2 fans recovered their hearing after Sunday’s show, the largest concert in Rose Bowl history was being hailed by officials as an all-around musical, financial and logistical triumph. Read More
U2's Scores Big on YouTube Concert !
U2 played to 96,000 fans at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. At the same time, they were playing to who knows how many more people around the world who tuned in for a live stream of the full show on YouTube. Pretty cool, right? Read More
U2 concert goes live on YouTube
Irish rock group U2 have broadcast an entire live show via the video sharing website YouTube.
Although 96,000 people turned up to see the show at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in California, many times that number were expected to have watched it online. Read More
U2 Rocks the World !
‘What time is it in the world and where are we going?’ Bono asked after ‘Get On Your Boots’. Tonight it was every time on the clock, depended which country you were in as the U2 360°: show went out live on YouTube to millions of viewers on seven continents. Read More
Live on YOUTUBE/U2
It’s kind of crazy to think that the band U2 has been popular for about 30 years now. Over that three decade span, the group has had music that has ranged from brilliant (War, The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby) to self-indulgent (Pop) to a bit odd (Zooropa). But there has been one constant: They’ve always been a great live act. And tonight, a lot of the world will be able to see that from their computer screens. Read More
Massive Crowds Arrive at Rose Bowl
After weeks of hype — and multiple traffic warnings from Rose Bowl and Live Nation officials — the U2 fanatics have invaded Pasadena. Some, writes L.A. Now, have been hanging out since 4 a.m. A record crowd of more than 95,000 people is expected — the Rose Bowl’s largest attendance since the 1994 World Cup finale. Read More
U2 ROSE Bowl Alert !
PASADENA — The biggest concert crowd in Rose Bowl history is expected Sunday night when U2 takes the stage, performing in the round for upward of 95,000 people and untold millions via YouTube.
* YouTube: U2 live from the Rose Bowl
* U2TOURFANS Channel
* Facebook Fan Club
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* Live Set List Updates
* Rose Ball Fan Photo Booth Read More
Las Vegas Rolls Dice on U2
The current president appeared in a video graphic and a former one — Bill Clinton — was in the press box. But the night belonged to U2, the rock ‘n’ roll royalty that convenes a party at Sam Boyd Stadium about once every president or two.
And frontman Bono, who’s had the ear of those presidents for his social activism, needed only to spin around in circles a couple of times, arms overhead, to rechristen the stadium for a sold-out crowd of more than 40,000 for the “360” tour. Read More
U2 ROSE BOWL FANS WANTED
U2 Rose Bowl Fans: All 90,000 of you we want to hear from you. We have a project called Fan Base view. Its really easy. We want you to share the show from your view. Fans from many of the shows have joined in on this project. Its simple, easy and most of all fun. Your photos will be posted real time during the event. All you need to do is take a photo email it to us from your mobile phone ( of course we would suggest Blackberry or iPhone but hey neither pay us so choose your camera phone of choice) Read More
U2 Tour Fan Coverage
U2 Tour Fan coverage will continue as the tour leaves America and heads to Canada. Once the tour comes to a halt for the holiday season we will be changing our format to focus on different sides of U2. However we will continue to have all of our channels open available to you the FAN. We have tons of new items coming and 2010 is expected to be a great tour season. Read More