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U2 on to a three-day break in Horsens, Denmark as part of its 360 world tour. U2 in Horsens give two concerts - on Sunday (15.08.) And Monday (16.08.).

The cult Irish band U2 rocked at 12.08. the Cebit Hannover before 55,000 enthusiastic fans and played a total of 23 songs curious - Lary Mullen Jr. (drummer of the band wore) during a concert Hannover 96 Fan T-shirt. The beautiful ballad Moment of Surrender, they dedicated it to the late keeper of Hannover 96.



U2, in the context of their world tour at 360 ° 15.08. and 16.08. stop in the port town of Horsens in Jutland in Denmark. It has about 50,000 inhabitants and is located 45 and 75 km from the airport and Aarhus Bill and removed. The town is famous for its annual Medieval Festival in late August, will travel to the fans from all over Europe.

The four Irishmen: Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr. and Adam are in the Casa Arena Horsens from approximately 35000-45000 fans from around the world about a two hour concert with a worldwide hit as follows: One, I Still Have not Found What I ‘give m Looking For Beautiful Day or for the best. U2 certainly be tomorrow and the day after, to give the best Glastonbury 06.08.2010 unreleased song. 

360 degrees! Bono makes Hannover hot

Distorted Space sounds, powerful guitar sound in the boiler of the AWD-Arena, mega-impact of the world stars U2 before 57 000 fans sold out!

“Beautiful Day” - and what a beautiful day!

Front man Bono is dancing on the outer ring of the gigantic spaceship stage: with typical cool sunglasses, black leather outfit. Fog, light explosion, hit fireworks. Crazy good, these Irishmen. Your superheated “360” show brings the stadium quickly to a boil. U2 rock Hannover!

And in the middle: President Christian Wulff (51, white shirt with no tie) and First Lady Bettina (36, black pantsuit know). Insider, Bettina Wulff is that for years a big fan of Bono - for his music, but also because of its commitment to Human rights and the environment. Wulff: “That’s why I have given her the inside cards for Christmas.” Half an hour before the show gave it a meeting behind the stage.

Wulff, “Bono is an impressive personality, credibility and a great model to make the responsibility of African popular!”

It was long uncertain whether Wulff after the rise in the Bellevue Palace are actually for the U2 concert. Security concerns! Compromise: Only rocked the presidential couple with the interior. Then when it got dark, brought bodyguards for security reasons the other two for a place.

Iconic pieces of three decades, thundered from the speakers: “New Year’s Day,” “Where The Streets Have No Name”, “Still have not found what I’m looking for”. In between songs from the new album “No Line On The Horizon” (“Magnificent”, “Got Your Boots On”).

Again and again inspired Bono with personal notes, even neighboring Maschseefest as “the festival of beer drinking mentioned outside.”

At the finale Bono recalled the late 96-hero Robert Enke, sang the mega seller “With or without you” and “One”. Soulful goosebumps-end …

 

Updated Setlist

Updated Photos

U2 and the 700-ton monster arrive in Hanover

Just over a week before the start of the Bundesliga season in the AWD Arena in Hanover from the green grass is not much to see.  

A total of 700 tons of steel and technology currently dominate the stadium on Thursday evening and prepare the stage for the concert. 

After 13 years, the band is the first time to see again live in the state capital.

Six days and more than 8,000 hours was the construction of the 360-degree stage - a futuristic, spider-like structure - claim that it has, according to organizers in these dimensions so before given only U2.

The approximately 50,000 fans are expected to forward to an appropriate spectacle, production manager Jake Barry promised yesterday, while in the truest sense of the word were the latest work on the stage.

Hanover, the second of three German stations during the 2009 world tour the band started. On Tuesday evening, the rocker is already in the Frankfurt Commerzbank-Arena had occurred.

It had come to the end of the presentation for a moving invocation. Before the very last song called “Moment of Surrender” singer Bono recalled the 21 victims of the Love Parade in Duisburg. He then expressed his hope that the disaster should not lead to perish in Germany, the joy of music.

Quite easily, the German tour start was, however, does not. During the construction stage to comply with the giant screens, there was in Frankfurt a lot of trouble.

At 52 meters height, the steel structure for the stadium roof was too high. “In Hanover, there has been no trouble,” said the head of production.

Ensure that the lawn just before the season start of the Bundesliga season is not damaged, make special shoes. If the Green still suffer, there is a new turf by U2.
  

Opening is Kasabian. U2 starts at 20.45 Local Time

The current time in Hanover

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U2 Istanbul concert

U2 360 Tour Tickets for the Istanbul concert of world-famous rock group U2, playing Sept. 2, have gone on sale all around Turkey.

According to a statement made by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, or İKSV, tickets for the concert, being organized by Live National in collaboration with Pozitif, İKSV and the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency, were previously only available from the Biletix website.

Fans are now able to buy tickets at all Biletix sales points in Turkey.

Tickets for the concert, to be held at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium, are also available at Babylon box offices and Garanti Paramatik points and prices range from between 50 and 750 Turkish Liras. Lodge tickets, costing 750 liras, have sold out.

The concert, which will be the largest stadium concert ever performed in Turkey, also features a support concert by important British alternative rock group Snow Patrol.

The European leg of U2’s “360° Tour” kicked offFriday night in the Italian city of Torino. After Italy, and just finished Franfurt Germany, Denmark, Finland, Russia and Austria. U2 will arrive in Istanbul on Sept. 6 after a concert in Athens Sept. 3.

Bono Fingers Frankfurt

Bono Fingers You 2010 With Bono bravely bounding around the stage, acting all born again after recovering from his back injury, the European reboot of the U2 360 tour moved to Frankfurt on Tuesday night. With REM’s singer Michael Stipe in the crowd, Bono injected an energetic end-of-the-world snippet into “Vertigo.”

Other than dropping new song “North Star” and adding “New Year’s Day,” setlist changes were minor. The show ran its normal event however there was at least one interesting event.

Really we are not sure what Bono was thinking at the time. However the photo clearly shows his feeling towards something. We need to check in with our German press office to learn what’s up. Ah I guess we know what’s up, rather we need to know why ?

Last nights show by the Frankfurt fans was considered fantastic and it was clear that U2 and Bono are back in business. If you compare the show in Turn to last nights. We agree we spent most of the show wondering how Bono will perform? For last nights show it was almost as if we did not even know anything about a back “issue” it was  hard to tell he’d had any back surgery just a few months ago! He was swinging on the steering wheel mic like a kid during the encore.

The different between shows lots of emotion and drama on the first night. Last nights show was just freaking great said one fan. Amazing. Larger than life. As you can expect twitter was all a buzz with the setlist and comments about the Boys, and bits of information from U2GIGS vast database of concert details.  The audio stream ran fast and most fans listening on line suggested the show was running fast which it was not just simple compression.

The German crowd was loud. They seem ready to jump out of their skin for this event. Lots of singing, clapping and most fans up off their fat asses for most of the show. ( Hey thats what Bono said)

Larry gave Bono what we thought was a very warm standing ovation just after Bono’s prance around the outer stage which during the first show remained empty for most of the time. Bono returned the warm overation and off the show went.

 

We have finally settled the conversation about what was the first song. Beautiful Day starts the show off. We have posted the set list. Beautiful Day works to start the show off while some miss Breathe which really never got the crowd up off their feet BD take set the tone.“New Year’s Day” was an inspired second choice, pumping some more fuel into the fire, with some extra Polish passion added to the mayhem in the pit. Six Poland flags were hoisted by fans in different parts of the pit, one was thrown onto the stage, and Bono draped it over one of his monitors where I think it stayed for the rest of the show.

As we said earlier the German crowd was LOUD and stayed that way for most of the show.

“I Still  Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” “Mysterious Ways.” with some props to REM throwen in as Michael Stips was in the house.

Miss Sarajevo was amazing, Bonoo strained to hit the highs and Until The End of The World was amazing. The Edge had his full game on dredging some filthy sounds.

For U2 moved one fuminante show from Germany and towards the end of the upbeat, the singer also showed his heart. came the terrible disaster of Duisburg (at the Love Parade is a mass panic) moved even U2. She dedicated her song “Surrender” the 21 dead of the Love Parade.

Bono announced at the end of nearly two-hour concert on Tuesday evening that he hoped that the tragedy of Duisburg did not lead to “the joy that goes down to the music and the culture here.”

55 000 spectators cheered their stars, but the World Cup Stadium was not quite sold out. But whatever - the arena was cooking, no wonder: At 360 degrees hot guys who want to know on their tour around the globe once again really.

Coming Next  Hanover and Munich

 

Frankfurt Setlist (early news)

We willl have the full review, video and photos later tonight for now here is the set list. Show Ended at 5PM EST -

  • The return of the stingray guitar (intro)
  • Beautiful Day
  • New Year’s Day
  • Get On Your Boots
  • Magnificent
  • Mysterious Ways (with My sweet lord snippet)
  • I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (with Moving on up snippet)
  • Glastonbury
  • Elevation
  • In A Little While
  • Miss Sarajevo
  • Until The End Of The World
  • The Unforgettable Fire
  • City Of Blinding Lights
  • Vertigo (with The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) snippet, Michael Stipe in the house)
  • I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight remix (with Discotheque snippet)
  • Sunday Bloody Sunday
  • MLK
  • Walk On
  • One
  • Amazing Grace / Where The Streets Have No Name
  • Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me!
  • With Or Without You
  • Moment Of Surrender 
  • Hello Frankfurt !

    The cult Irish band U2 comes with its giant 360-degree tour today to Frankfurt. But transporting the Rundumbühne that looks like a giant octopus or a giant spaceship on four legs, are about 120 large tractors needed, the organizer Marek Lieberberg reported on Monday. “This is the biggest production that there has ever been in the Commerzbank-Arena.” U2 lead singer Bono, (50) just three months after his slipped disc is only the second time on stage again. The comeback world tour and the start of 2010 had celebrated the four musicians on Friday night before 45,000 fans in Turin, Italy.  Where three new songs have played. The  opening tonight  Frankfurt, the British rock group Kasabian. 

    U2 fans have been lining up all night. The GA Line has picked up after a night of fans sleeping on ground or whatever they could find. 

    Currently its

    Frankfurt, where the Irishman last played occurred in 1993 with their “ZooTV Tour” is the second stop of world tour 2010th After months of pause had Bono and his band celebrated in Turin last Friday in front of around 45,000 fans his stage comeback.

    The business side of U2

    Worldwide, there are few bands like U2 can transform all stages in a stomping ground. The four creative minds from Dublin who play together since 1976 and carry with appearances in almost all the relevant charities and rescue world events, good intentions and its image are the last true superstar band.

    U2 shows what is possible in the heavily beleaguered music business, which has through the triumph of the Internet and piracy since 1998, lost a good third of sales. “Before, the money brought CDs, and concerts were little more than advertising for it, now runs the other way usually,” says Bernd Hocke, General Manager of the Hamburg group’s Edel, the new reality.

    Bono & Co. are also in the supposedly dead areas such as merchandise, CDs and licenses music for top earners. Of the $ 500 million, the U2 is expected this year and last year earning after deducting all costs, nearly half of which comes from business outside the concert arenas.

    The rain of money owed the band of musical creativity and business sense. The U2 AG provides business law challenged again and again, as in its current stage. So far bands in stadiums sell any tickets for the area behind the stage as speakers and decoration with increasingly large video screens to the fans there, obstructed the view. With U2’s “360-degree tour this screens in 30 meters height depend on steel beams. This provides an unobstructed view and up to 10,000.

    Tonight U2 makes its second stop it whats going to prove out to be a long tour for both the boys, fans and crew. We can only trust that all stay well.

    U2 Possible new ablum !

    U2 360 Tour 2010A new U2 album is potentially on the cards before the end of the year.

    It is the kind of news likely to have the top dogs at Universal Music rubbing their hands in glee. And it has been confirmed to Hot Press by U2 manager Paul McGuinness.

    “I hope there will be another record pretty soon,” Paul told Olaf Tyaransen.

    Pressed as to how soon might “pretty soon” be, the prospect of an album this side of Christmas was revealed.

    “If I was being wildly optimistic, I’d say before the end of the year,” he laughed.

    The band have already discussed a work in progress under the working title of Songs Of Ascent, a lot of material for which had been recorded before the year’s plans were disrupted by the back injury that put lead singer Bono out of action and required spinal surgery.

    Fans may take encouragement from the fact that U2’s current touring activities will come to an end early in October – opening up the possibility that the final shaping of an album could take place over the following month.

    “There’s a mixture of material available now,” Paul McGuinness reveals. “Some of it’s been recorded. Some of it is called Songs Of Ascent, then there’s Spiderman material, then there’s some new stuff. I mean, Bono’s always a bit over-optimistic on these occasions, but I heard him telling an Italian journalist that he had four albums ready. That’s not quite it! But that’s what he was saying [laughs].”

    A considerable batch of material was close to being finished in the Spring.

    “There was a lot of very strong material already in the can earlier this year,” Hot Press editor Niall Stokes confirmed. “They debuted ‘Glastonbury’ last night in Turin, which is a really beautiful song, and a potential single. And also ‘North Star’, which was performed acoustically – it is a classic U2 idea, which has fantastic resonance. And there is a lot more brilliant stuff where they came from.”

    Bono came through his first gig back in flying colours, further encouraging speculation that the U2 flying machine is fully back on track.

    “The show went extremely well,” Paul McGuinness reflected, speaking from a police motorcade immediately after the show. “It was really superb. No weakness, no mishaps physically. And I thought he sang particularly well. The production performed perfectly. It was kind of a perfect night, really.”

    So it’s business as usual for U2?

    “Yes… we’re much relieved.”

    

    Happy Birthday The Edge

     

    Happy Birthday to you

    David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961 in Barking, Essex, England), more widely known by his stage name The Edge (or just Edge), is an English-born Irish musician of Welsh heritage. He is best known as the guitarist, keyboardist, and main backing vocalist of rock band U2.

    His distinctive electric guitar timbre and percussive style of playing, along with his use of digital sound processing — delay and chorus in particular — have been crucial in defining U2’s sound. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named him at #24 on its list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”.

     

    Post your birthday wishes all day today: Happy Birthday The Edge

    U2 Rocks Tornino

    Italian Press calls Bono: A bit ‘ham a bit,’ holy, devoted husband and womanizer, rockstar in the odor of Nobel Bono yesterday also managed to magnetize the crowd like no other in our time.

     He has charisma, is a common killer, with a supple voice that seems born to sing the elevation of the spirit and the torments of the flesh (including back pain that landed him for two months).

    But we calculate also the glaring contradictions of his character that make it so similar to most humans. Value added is the band. Every good boy common sense that is left in the world, demands to be devoted to a band, so that together is better.

    With a great guitar like The Edge, a large dusting, and two old guys grinding the pace of job as bassist Clayton (last all-white) and drummer Mullen (U2 were baptized in the kitchen of his mother in Dublin) The training does not lose its appeal.

    Last night was an event because it marked the return after two months of forced stop operation for disk hernia Bono in late May, which made it mandatory cancellation of U.S. tour.

    Bono’s not jumping as usual, however, in his full black leather, some jog, but has not yet regained full form; earned us the song, sometimes more accurate and heartfelt, though at the end of the two and a half hours of music

    “Let’s go home too,” he said waving wearily. After all, 50 being shot, and 49 will arrive tomorrow for The Edge, celebrated early with large ‘Happy Birthday’.

    Bono U2 set the stage a “family business”. The huge bridge round is often left unused. He dominated the play the songs. An eye to the sky, one at a disco.

    The universal dream, which is open the concert with David Bowie’s Space Oddity (and closes Rocket Man by Elton John), to enhance the joy after pagan Beautiful Day, and then a tribute to the enthusiastic audience Magnificent, one of the few ’ latest album No Line On The Horizon, still waiting - because of slow sales - to be valued.

    The giant machine technology is the largest and most sophisticated ever designed with the screen cone that rises and falls to the drawing stage another saint, Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks of the poor to save Africa: Africa is always in Bono’s heart is in Africa talking before the concert, in a room where he meets Microsoft founder Paul Allen, Alex Del Piero and the Director of Printing Mario Calabresi to thank the special issue on Africa: “You must not give up in the battle over Third World debt relief - he says - continue to support our organization. You made one of the best special editions on Africa I’ve ever seen. ”

    Strong ugly, unreal, ragnone light green dotted with orange buttons, widens the four tentacles on the lawn. A technological marvel, created to allow full view of those who are on the backstage. Satisfied that everyone who paid 34.50 euros to 287 euros pigeon and who is in the pit (and upheld the band waving colored flags that drew the Irish).


    The concert is a Scottish shower atmospheres. There is first a spiritual tension, with Mysterious Ways “and” I Still Have not Found What I’m Looking For, there are two of the three unpublished announced: the insinuating voice and guitar ballad North Star and the famous Glastonbury rock festival Bono, motionless in bed, had to snub.

    Plays the delightful Miss Sarajevo antibellica written with Brian Eno on the Pavarotti & Friends: Bono sings the tenor part in Italian, with lots of sharp.

    But here is even MLK, a lullaby for the 1984 Martin Luther King, who extended his tribute to the Burmese Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Sunday Bloody Sunday is no longer dedicated to Irish Bloody Sunday in Belfast: the Arabic script, a green diffused images, reminiscent of the tragedy of Tehran.

    The One who gives his name inspired the organization of humanitarian Bono, Archbishop Tutu’s speech closes on redemption of debt and the chances of African countries: Bono dedicated the last song Moment of Surrender to Bill Gates’ is a genius and given so much to the poor.

     

    U2 Kicks off Show

     

    The show has just started and the fans are pumped - We believe based on the songs played so far that this is the set list they will be following

     

    • New Intro
    • Beautiful Day
    • Magnificent
    • Get On Your Boots
    • Mysterious Ways
    • I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
    • North Star
    • Glastonbury 
    • Elevation
    • In A Little While
    • Miss Sarajevo
    • Until The End Of The World
    • The Unforgettable Fire
    • City Of Blinding Lights
    • Vertigo
    • Crazy Tonight / Discothèque
    • Sunday Bloody Sunday
    • MLK
    • Walk On / You’ll Never Walk Alone  
    • Encore Break and Desmond Tutu video
    • One
    • Amazing Grace / Where The Streets Have No Name
    • Encore Break
    • Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
    • With Or Without You
    • Moment of Surrender

    U2 Asked Glastonbury 2011

    U2 have been offered the chance to headline next year’s Glastonbury festival after the Irish rockers were forced to pull out of this year’s event.

    Now the celebrated music festival’s organiser, Michael Eavis, has invited the Achtung Baby chart toppers to appear in 2011, the Express reports.

    Lady Gaga and the Rolling Stones are also rumoured for top slots.

    U2 Arrives and Pizza Too

    The day has finally arrived, after months of canceled shows, displaced crew members we are here. The band is ready and the crowds are picking up. GA Line looks to be filled up pretty nice.

    We have set updates, videos and photos coming in all day long. Check the clock out for local time.

    U2 did a couple brief rehearsal segments on Thursday in Turin, and surely made a lot of fans happy by rehearsing one song that had been missing all week from the rehearsal setlists.

    After the rehearsals concluded when the band delivered several boxes of pizza!

    U2 to sold-out in Turin

    TORINO musical highlight of the summer, the opening concert of U2’s 360 Tour and the atmosphere at the Olympic Stadium in front is heating up. For three days, since the group began Bono sound check at the stadium, one of the gifts of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, the city ‘does not speak anything else.

     From outside you see the famous’ spider ‘mechanical tall as a 10-story building, mastering the stage and’ look at all particular.

    All delivered in Turin last week, 120 trucks and put on by 350 people who work there. And they feel good even out the voice of Bono, who has’ taken well after the back injury two months ago in Germany, and the instruments played by the three big, guitar by The Edge, Larry Mullen’s drums, Adam Clayton’s bass.

    Fans have also recognized three unpublished songs, two of them titled ‘The Flowering Rose of Glastonbury’ and ‘For Your Love’. The first and ‘was composed expressly for the Glastonbury festival which the band could not attend because of back trouble.

     But despite the wait, some tickets are still available, including the lawn, it will be ‘why’ in August, however many are on vacation, or for the crisis, who knows’. Meanwhile, still in front of the stage begin to see mattresses, curtains Canadian backpacks camping. Dozens of the Irish fans willing to spend one or two nights in the open just to grab a seat in the front row in the ‘pit’, under the stage.

    John Rocco, tomorrow will bring’ 1,000 numbered wristbands to ensure the order of entry gates opening Friday ‘at 16. The principle and ‘simple: the first come will receive a rubber bracelet. ”They can leave the line for an hour without fear, ‘said John.

    Now if you’re one of the fans camping out we want to hear from you. Tweet or facebook us U2TOURFANS.

    U2 Press Interview

    Looking over the interview with the band we noticed that the press had a love fest with them. Many media outlets where invited to the interview. Heres the highlights of that interview.

    How is Bono? Ready to reboot?


    “Every hour that passes I feel better; it is also just discovering that you are indestructible. I took it easy, there was my birthday, and lying motionless I could think about the future because I never think about the past. I am not an Iron Man: I ate ice cream and started smoking again. Instead, our manager came to a heart attack and a hysterical pregnancy, had to cancel tickets million Americans. But since one of the things you can do is to write lying down, I wrote. ” (The Edge, who was also in France, he adds, “I realized we had two months empty, and I started to play for the next hard rock.”)

    You have accumulated a lot of material?
    “We have 25 songs ready and four new projects. First, an ambient album, Songs of Ascent, according to a rock album, one third of clubmusic, DJ and fourthly, the soundtrack of Spiderman, the musical debuted on Broadway in November, directed by Julie Taymor is a pure tends to play, inspired by the U.S. after September 11, a time of anxiety, with myths that speak of contemporary life. “

    25 new songs how much will end up on stage this Friday night?

    “We will have at least three new songs from various projects. Who knows what? The first you have heard the evidence from outside the stadium, Glastonbury is: we could not go to the Festival for my accident but had written for the occasion, during a crazy week in Vancouver, the Rock’n’roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland with Patti Smith, then Berlin with Jay Z. You exit the “roar” the crowd in the notes.

    “The Edge: “Better to sing live before recording them some.”

    This tour is so large!
    “Some directors, like Coppola and Fellini were attracted by greatness. And even us. ”

    Many young bands come go in short time, how do you stay together after 32 years?
    The Edge: ‘I’m here because I do not know what is life without U2. What would these three, without me? “.

    Bono: “When I am in a room and somebody contradicts me, I get nervous. But with my colleagues at work, there is never a problem Ego. You see, Sting is a great author, but his best has made with the Police. Being in a band is the highest degree of evolution, especially for males. We laugh a lot, there’s chemistry between us.

    U2 Wednesday Night Rehearsal News

    Four days, many rehearsals later and the band is ready. Rehearsals at Turins Satdio Olimpico last night have been full setlist for the most part.  So what’s different?  Well a reduced amount of songs from NOLOTH with an increase of brand new songs.

    The boys have been working on a new intro for the show was not true as been reported. Space Oddity will remain the intro song so we are told. Even that is subject to change as you will spot in the second rehearsal.

    Taking a look at yesterday’s rehearsal setlist the band has settled into the show. Two rehearsal sessions the first designed to warm up and lead them into an extended session. The bands first rehearsal started at 6pm local time (EAST COAST U.S.A add 5HRS)

    Mini Set

    • In A Little While
    • Miss Sarajevo
    • Until The End Of The World
    • Magnificent (Edge solo, not by design)
    • Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

    Second Rehearsal started at 9:15 – Running Time has not been worked out however the band did play 22 songs and a new intro.

     

    • New Intro
    • Beautiful Day
    • Magnificent
    • Get On Your Boots
    • Mysterious Ways
    • I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
    • Flowering rose of Glastonbury ( Title Not Correct)
    • Elevation
    • In A Little While
    • Miss Sarajevo
    • Until The End Of The World
    • The Unforgettable Fire
    • City Of Blinding Lights
    • Vertigo
    • Crazy Tonight / Discothèque
    • Sunday Bloody Sunday
    • MLK
    • Walk On / You’ll Never Walk Alone  
    • Encore Break and Desmond Tutu video
    • One
    • Amazing Grace / Where The Streets Have No Name
    • Encore Break
    • Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
    • With Or Without You
    • Moment of Surrender

    Well that’s looks to be the set list tonight’s rehearsal should be a full rehearsal with a correct running time and breaks.

    

    U2 New Zealand Show ?

    Speculation is rife that U2 will bring their large, state-of-the-art concert here in November.

    Fans are eagerly awaiting an announcement from the band, who are expected to confirm dates not long after they resume their world tour tomorrow.

    International reports say U2 are finalising their plans to play in New Zealand in November - possibly at Mt Smart Stadium - and Australia straight after.

    But sources say New Zealand concerts could be called off, depending on the condition of frontman Bono’s injured back.

    The U2 360 Degrees tour has featured a 50m-tall, four-legged stage shipped around the world to concert venues.

    The stage, nicknamed “The Claw”, lets audiences encircle the band and watch from all sides.

    The tour has earned $400 million since it began in Europe just over a year ago, but it hit a snag in May when Bono suffered a slipped spinal disc.

    The band pulled out of the Glastonbury festival in England and rescheduled their North American concerts to next year.

    Bono had surgery on his back and has since been recovering.

    Negotiations for a New Zealand tour have been going on since last year, and Wellington’s Westpac Stadium has been put forward as another possible venue.

    The world tour has been organised by promoters Live Nation, who have just opened an office in Australia.

    Live Nation’s Asia office, based in Hong Kong, said the new Australian office was involved in preparations for U2’s Oceania tour.

    Australian promoters Michael Coppel Presents, which organised U2’s previous tours in the region, said it could not comment on a possible U2 tour.

    Bridget de Launay, the company’s New Zealand representative, also would not comment.

    Hardcore fans said they were holding off making any concrete plans, but many were confident an announcement was imminent.

    “I’m quite used to the ‘frustration’ that happens every U2 tour of not knowing,” one fan said. “To be honest, I think that’s part of building the anticipation.”

    All would be forgiven and forgotten as soon as the band announced the tour dates, she said.

    “So we wait, patiently - sort of,” she said.

    Another fan, Andrew Briscoe, said he was waiting to book flights and accommodation to travel to see multiple shows.

    It would be a “frenzy” when an announcement was made, he said.

    “Am I excited? Hell yeah. My wife, not so much - she loses me for the best part of three weeks.”

     

    By Michael Dickison 

     

    U2 Fined for Noise

    Its summer in Turin and most everyone has their windows open. Don’t think about waking up the the neighorhood with some loud music. Its seems that Bono and the boys have been bad. Well according to the Italian press.

    Firefighters where rushed to the stadium and pulled out their meter and detected “heavy night time noise” Hum you think ? Well the Italian promoter took the fine and wishes the boys a good evening. U2 and the locals have had an interesting time not only at this location but at others too. They just can’t seem to get the noise levels right for reshearsals. Can we blame them ?

    Tuesday Rehearsal Video

    This plans to be a very busy week for U2 and the crew as the media descends upon Turin. The fans have expectations of the new improved Bono. Many questions have raised if Bono would be running the stage. Closed rehearsals have not proven anything as of yet.  Friday begins the next round  U2. 

    Check the video recording of one of the brand new songs U2 has rehearsed in Turin. This post comes from U2Place.

     

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    Rehearsal News for Monday

    Rehearsals today had a few more surprises, two new songs were rehearsed as well as a song that was performed about 17 years ago at the final ZooTV show 12/10/93 (U2gigs Database)

    Sound checks started midday with no vocals which means that the bands crew could be playing.

    Miss Sarajevo

    City Of Blinding Lights

    Magnificent

    Mysterious Ways

    Bass and drum checks  of Tryin’ To Throw Your Arms Around The World, and a short while later, some guitar riffs could be heard.  Dallas Schoo was doing the guitar riffs (he is the guitar tech) The following songs where played:

    Elevation

    In A Little While

    Unknown Caller

    Gloria

    Get On Your Boots

    Until The End Of The World

    The band showed up during the evening hours, which seems to be the norm. All of them played and the short set included the following:

    In A Little While

    Elevation

    Tryin’ To Throw Your Arms Around The World several times

    Soon / Beautiful Day

    The band took their evening break and returned to the stage about 10pm to play what could be the new set list. The intro song stayed the same Space Oddity by David Bowie, the band played:

    Beautiful Day

    Slow new song

    Uptempo new song

    Elevation

    In A Little While

    Miss Sarajevo

    Until The End Of The World

    The Unforgettable Fire

    City Of Blinding Lights

    Vertigo

    Crazy Tonight remix / Discothèque (snippet)

    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    We have to note that not only are we using our own sources we also have collected and confirmed our facts from U2Place and U2Italia as well as using U2GIGS database to look up songs.