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U2's most successful concert tours

2011-10-08T03:39:00.000-07:00

U2's most successful concert tours, a list of trade publication, Pollstar, according to data released by the top slot.

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So far, U2's latest tour grossed U.S. $ 6.8 million, is far behind than other artists.

Country star Kenny Chesney $ 194 million came in with the other.

He's followed by Taylor Swift, singer Sade and Britney Spears.

Average box office gross per city on the list from the ranks of artists and shows in North America are included in the average ticket price.

U2's new documentary is a trailer for the film online

2011-09-22T13:32:00.000-07:00

U2's new documentary is a trailer for the film online.

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The band From The Sky Down debuted at the Toronto film festival earlier this year.

Directed by Davis Guggenheim's film of 1991, 360 of his recent record breaking world tour for Achtung Baby to the group carrier chronicles.

Guggenheim said, "In the terrain of rock bands - implosion or explosion is seemingly inevitable".

"U2 has defied the gravitational pull towards destruction, this band has endured and thrived. The movie From The Sky Down asks the question why."

U2's Bono large amount of money is pocketed around $ 800million

2011-08-17T10:50:00.000-07:00

U2's Bono large amount of money is pocketed around $ 800million after consideration of the investment company bought shares in 2009 in Facebook.

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Bono's investment firm partner promotions apparently tasty to $ 210million in the social networking site was bought two years ago and now the same stake has been valued at a huge $975million.

Believe it or not, but part of $ 975million, which is a wonderful company to $ 65billion over the month is less than 2% of value.

U2 25 Forbes reported only one or two months has been above the top of the most played composer in 2011,

The news comes just a two months after U2 were placed on top of the Forbes Top 25 Highest Paid Musicians of 2011.

U2 dedicated a song for Amy Winehouse during their concert at Minneapolis's TCF Stadium

2011-07-25T14:02:00.000-07:00

U2 dedicated a song for Amy Winehouse during their concert at Minneapolis's TCF Stadium on Saturday 23rd July.

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Dedicated song is 'Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of', who was released on 2001.

Former INXS singer Michael Hutchence wrote originally song for the band, who committed suicide in 1997 and was a close friend of members of the band.

Before playing the song, Bono said from the stage: "We wrote this next song for Michael Hutchence, but you will understand tonight if we play it for Amy Winehouse."

U2 charms Montreal crowd - display

2011-07-10T14:07:00.000-07:00

U2's Bono did not disappoint fans of Miami

2011-07-01T07:04:00.000-07:00

U2's Bono Long for his political and human rights efforts made headlines this week and he did not disappoint fans of Miami.

Bono gave a shout out at AmericanAirlines back during a concert Wednesday to Eliseas Biscet, Cuban dissident Oscar.

Biscet, a doctor and former political prisoner in the communist island. 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom President George Bush awarded Biscet.

Bono everyone in Cuba knows that Biscet "is special to us, and we are watching", asking the audience to sing "Walk On" during the mentioned Biscet.

Amnesty International's campaign was associated with a significant and Florida Republican Congressman Mario Diaz Balart, who is Cuban-American after a recent meeting.

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has often blocks such as concerts, is about the political prisoners.

U2 has been delayed his new album

2011-06-13T10:00:00.000-07:00

U2 has been delayed his new album, which will be released on forthcoming year, according to the news reporters.

The popular Irish rock band said that now that the studio album is expected in the second half of 2012 that will not have time to finish.

The band bassist Adam Clayton told Rolling Stone, "We had to have a meeting and look at the schedule to see if we could pick up any extra time to work on it . We just realized that we couldn't. To be honest, everyone was a bit gutted. But it was the only sensible decision."

U2 band scheduled revealed here that they will perform at Angel Stadium on Anaheim, California on June 17 and 18 with Lenny Kravitz.

U2's Adam Clayton said they wants to put "Glastonbury on steroids" on this June

2011-06-04T09:53:00.000-07:00

U2, a group of protesters allegedly will face when they headline the Glastonbury Festival this year, according to The Guardian.

Art Uncut by a tax on June 24 against the group group "convoluted" campaign against tax matters will participate in performance for U2.

U2 allegedly Netherlands in 2006 from Ireland for their business affairs so that a portion of the attractive tax breaks for artists in the Republic to avoid the limit.

Protest groups said they hope the band's performance ensure that their message is visible is not intended to interfere.

An Art Uncut spokesperson said: "Bono claims to care about the developing world, but U2 greedily indulges in the very kind of tax avoidance which is crippling the poor nations of this world."

A spokesperson for Bono's anti-poverty group One, responded: "U2's business arrangements have nothing to do with illegal tax evasion and transfer mispricing in developing countries, critical issues which Bono and One campaign on."

Adam Clayton is one of the U2 member has said that they wants to put "Glastonbury on steroids" on this June.

U2 Rocks in Mexico City - Images

2011-05-17T13:10:00.000-07:00

U2's Bono said that band record a new album

2011-05-03T14:55:00.000-07:00

U2's Bono has said to band that now record a new album, the Pixies have revealed.

Guitarist Joey Santiago revealed that Bono told fans that their new material to work was one of a large number, in an interview with Spinner

He said: “Bono even asked… He's like, "Please make a record!' Goddamn, we can't leave that unturned. That would frustrate me. It would. I think we should do it. But it's up to everybody.”

U2 new album a clear “futuristic”

2011-04-07T15:59:00.000-07:00

Irish rock legends U2 new album a clear “futuristic” sound RedOne will be the voice recording is said to be.

RedOne, who work for the award-winning latest album is an interview that he is ready to work again with U2 and a project in collaboration with the band during the Billboard confirmed.

He told Billboard: “We have put down a few ideas, but we don't know how many will end up on there.”

RedOne added: “They have a very special way of working. A song is never done until the day before it comes out almost, so you never know.”

When talking about the latest U2 project he said: “They are always experimenting, so it's not like “OK, we're finished”. It is still an ongoing process. Bono described the album as futuristic. U2 going sci-fi, or something. That's how he described it, but I don't know.”

U2 are due to headline the Glastonbury festival this year after being forced to pull out previously. Other headlining acts confirmed for the iconic British festival include Coldplay and Beyonce.

U2 perform "Even Better Than the Real Thing"

2011-03-31T14:25:00.000-07:00

U2 closed their concert in la plata, Argentina amazing performance last night was kicked from their Achtung Baby a "Even Better Than the Real Thing."

Although the song from the band's most famous films and TV and the zoo was a master at PopMart tours, the band did not perform this song live in nearly a decade.

Maybe a good tune Larry Mullen Jr. with a broken version tomorrow night sounds fresh and vital, a strong, danceable has only hinted at recording studio was emphasized was the idea of .

Justin Bieber and U2 being a digital new album

2011-03-22T09:27:00.000-07:00

Canadian pop sensation Justin Bieber Irish rockers U2 being a digital only album from Universal Music is being taken out of Japan funds for earthquake and tsunami victims are from artists including increasing.

Rihanna, Bon Jovi and Nicki Minaj also confirmed.

The world's biggest record labels available by the end of the week is aimed at making an album, though artists lineup yet to be fully finalized. Proceeds will be Japan's Red Cross, a spokesman for the group said on Monday.

He added, "We are doing it only digitally because it is faster, and this will be a worldwide release. The plan is to have it available later this week".

Lady Gaga, part of Universal's stable, used to contribute to the album one of the stars, and Japan already for victims of recent natural disasters by selling a special wristband money can be raised.

U2 360 Tour @ Pittsburgh 2011?

2011-03-09T05:02:00.000-08:00

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2011-02-28T13:11:00.001-08:00

U2 brings the concert online via Facebook and Twitter

2011-02-22T04:35:00.000-08:00

One the most spectacular and memorable entertainment events on the planet credit goes to U2 band concerts.To keep the memories alive a new way is Facebook.

U2 is popular know for its consistently thrust itself to the edge of technological innovation with each new album,recently launched an innovative new social media project. New invention this time is that they allows concert goers to tag themselves at the U2360 degrees concert via email, Twitter or Facebook.

The band has taken one of the significant component of social media, namely photo sharing/tagging, and maximised its reach. Instead of just tagging photos of you and your friends on Facebook, you can tag yourself in U2′s photo of the concert for the whole world to see.

A high-powered camera's has been used to achieve the project which allows individuals to zoom in to every single fan in the stadium.

Once concert goers find themselves, they can then tag themselves or their friends via email, Twitter or Facebook to mark the occasion forever.

The project is also providing the band with information to build a database on their site which should increase sales as well as drive more Facebook ‘Likes’ and follows on Twitter.

U2's Bono Face Criticism For Supporting 'Shoot The Boer' Song

2011-02-17T16:34:00.000-08:00

For publicly supporting an African liberation song that calls for shooting white farmers (Boers) in South Africa,U2 Bono is confronting criticism from several groups.

In South Africa between Julius Malema,the song is currently at the center of a legal controversy.The ANC Youth League president, and white South African lobby groups who want the song to be banned as hate speech.

Bono compared the song to Irish rebel songs.

"It's fair to say it's folk music . . . as this was the struggle of some people that sang it over some time. But would you want to sing that in a certain community? It's pretty dumb. Yet it's about where and when you sing those songs. There's a rule for that kind of music."

U2 are currently on tour in South Africa.

U2-scored 'Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark' musical delayed again

2011-02-14T13:17:00.000-08:00

U2's troubled musical 'Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark' has been delayed yet again.

Sunday night February 6 saw critics listen what was thought to be the Broadway production's final appetizer before opening.

But technological issues on the night now mean the show will not launch to the community until at least March 15. This time, lead actor Reeve Carney was left hanging over the spectators in the final scene, according to Fox New York.

Carney actually veered a little off-mark, leading the flying system to be automatically clogged as part of in-built safety protocols. A orator for the production, for which U2's Bono and The rim have written music for, issued a declaration insisting that the show is making good progress.

"With a show as technically ambitious as this one, you need time and performances to perfect it," they said. "Technical glitches are just that. They are unexpected, but a part of any strange responsibility such as this."

U2 Coming To Cape Town

2011-02-12T04:57:00.000-08:00

As part of U2 360 Degrees Tour that was launched in 2009,band is currently touring South Africa.

Following the Sunday show at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg the 22-time Grammy Award-winning band will move to Cape Town to perform on February 18.

Tickets for the gigs already sold in October and so far 101,000 had been snapped up.The stage will allow all fans at the 11,0000-seater stadium to have a clear view of the group.

The group, which is led by Bono, was formed in Dublin (Ireland) in 1976 and has sold more than 150 million records.

5, 900 staff for U2's two concerts in SA

2011-02-04T14:38:00.000-08:00

To hire 5, 900 staff for a two-date tour for a four-man rock band U2 seems to be ridiculous,, but rock royalty U2's juggernaut is not a usual series of concerts.

Bono and his band will play in front of "probably their biggest crowd they've played to" - 110, 000 people on Feb 13,2010, at the FNB stadium, in Soweto.

For the Johannesburg concert only 2000 tickets are available said concert promoter Penny Stein.

For the February 18 concert at Cape Town stadium around 70,000 tickets have been sold out.

The idea of a 360-degree stadium stage came from a model built with dinner forks during the band's 2006 Vertigo Tour.

The stage would going to be the largest structure ever assembled.It revolves, allowing the audience to surround it and get a good view from all sides.

Stein said 200 containers carrying both international and locally-hired equipment had already arrived.

"This is a massive set and rig. It is a total of 300 international and local staff, 2, 600 security guards, 1, 000 bar staff and 2, 000 other support staff for four people on stage," she said.

Bono Asks Guetta To Work With U2

2011-01-26T01:31:00.000-08:00

Guetta who has an impressive track record, is very happy because U2's bandmate Bono has offered him to work with U2 band for their new upcoming album.

Guetta revealed to MTV.com, "We met with Bono, and I was really excited, really honored because he proposed me to maybe produce some tracks for the next U2 album."

Guetta revealed to MTV.com, "We met with Bono, and I was really excited, really honored because he proposed me to maybe produce some tracks for the next U2 album."

"After those collaborations with all these urban artists, I thought it would be a real challenge for me to try to go in that (rock) direction."

Eventually U2's Spider-Man track will seen on March

2011-01-14T14:48:00.000-08:00

Announcement from the producer Michael Cohl about the U2's Spider-Man track that its musical track has been late for fifth time but now eventually this track will seen on 15 March.

Producer told The New York Times that the late will allow for "more time to fine-tune aspects of the show, including the new ending"

U2 cost $65 million to the produce due on Spider-Man, its too expensive Broadway concert ever and the tricky production is the main factor for the late opening.

Michael said, "[It was] ten times more complicated to tech than anything else. We simply need more time to fully execute the creative team's vision before freezing the show."

U2 might perform in Romania this year

2011-01-09T16:48:00.000-08:00

At new national stadium Lia Manoliu in Bucharest,Irish Band U2 perform in September if talks with the promoter of the band will finalize.Officials at the Bucharest City Hall declared for the Romanian news agency Mediafax.

On the inauguration of the new national stadium a concert will take place in September which will gather 60000 people.There are talks with a promoter of U2 band. If these will fail, there will most certainly be a famous band present on state.

U2's Bono and The Edge attend preview performances of the Spider-Man musical

2011-01-05T07:46:00.000-08:00

According to the reported, U2's member Bono and The Edge will be presenting of all the next preview performances of the Spider-Man musical. The group will be added by director Julie Taymor as they abserved all the preview concerts of 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark'.

When the previous month, after 30ft harness failed stuntman was injured and according to report to the lead actress Natalie Mendoza the production after suffering a concussion at one of the kindly preview performances.

At the Foxwoods Theatre the musical score by Bono and The Edge.

U2 U2's album tiltled U2:Duals release only for fans

2011-01-03T07:09:00.000-08:00

U2 share have spanned many musical genres and introduced their fans to a broad spectrum of music. U2 have shared the stage and recording studio with a wide array of musical artists, including Bruce Springsteen, B.B. King, Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra and Jay-Z.

The U2's album tiltled U2:Duals will be available especially to his fans through the band’s official website and will not be available in shops or online.

Concert schedule to U2 2011:

February 13 - Johannesburg, ZA - FNB Stadium
February 18 - Cape Town, ZA - Cape Town Stadium
March 25 - Santiago, CL - Estadio Nacional
March 30 - Buenos Aires, AR - Estadio Unico de La Plata
April 9 - Sao Paulo, BR - Estadio Morumbi
April 10 - Sao Paulo, BR - Estadio Morumbi
April 13 - Sao Paulo, BR - Esdadio Morumbi
May 11 - Mexico City, MX - Azteca Stadium
May 14 - Mexico City, MX - Azteca Stadium
May 15 - Mexico City, MX - Azteca Stadium
May 21 - Denver, CO - Invesco Field
May 24 - Salt Lake City, UT - Rice-Eccles Stadium
June 1 - Edmonton, CA - Commonwealth Stadium
June 4 - Seattle, WA - Qwest Field
June 7 - Oakland, CA - Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
June 17 - Anaheim, CA - Angel Stadium
June 18 - Anaheim, CA - Angel Stadium
June 22 - Baltimore, MD - M & T Bank Stadium
June 26 - East Lansing, MI - Spartan Stadium
June 29 - Miami, FL - Sun Life Stadium
July 2 - Nashville, TN - Vanderbilt Stadium
July 5 - Chicago, IL - Soldier Field
July 8 - Montreal, QC - Montreal Hippodrome
July 9 - Montreal, QC - Montreal Hippodrome
July 11 - Toronto, ON - Rogers Centre
July 14 - Philadelphia, PA - Lincoln Financial Field
July 17 - St. Louis, MO - Busch Stadium
July 20 - East Rutherford, NJ - New Meadowlands Stadium
July 23 - Minneapolis, MN - TCF Bank Stadium
July 26 - Pittsburgh, PA - Heinz Field

Top Concert Tours of 2010: Bon Jovi, AC/DC, U2,Lady Gaga, Metallica

2010-12-29T13:24:00.000-08:00

U2 highest topping world tour of the year also included AC/DC, Lady Gaga, Bon Jovi and Metallica.

Rock band New Jersey after topping the $200 million mark worldwide gained the title, earning $108 million from its North American world tour dates.

AC/DC , Worldwide ranking list he become a second on Pollstar, tomorrow he sold at least $180 million.

And other including were U2 ($161 million), Lady Gaga ($134 million) and Metallica ($110 million).

A full Top 200 Tour list pollstar release Year End Special Edition kindly past month 2010.

Bono identify himself as a “pain in the arse”

2010-12-22T13:50:00.000-08:00

Rock band U2's member Bono has identify himself as a “pain in the arse”. He wrote about the band history, “I know I can be a pain in the arse. I have an annoying gene; it's in my DNA - I even annoy myself. When righteous anger turns to self-righteous, projectile vomit is the right response.”

Bono also said, “All I can say is that you can become traumatised as well as inspired by the lives you meet along the dirt road of extreme poverty. Watching the bright light of life go out of some kid's eyes gets me to a place I can't explain. Sometimes I forget that I'm an artist, but I shouldn't, because that's what I am, a working pop artist in a big F-Off rock band.”

According to the Gigwise, Now the band U2 on the Australian of their 360 degree world tour.

U2: Transmit Tribute to John Lennon

2010-12-10T15:23:00.000-08:00

Rock band U2 transmit tribute Wednesday to John Lennon, the anniversary of the music legend's death.

They bands celebrate this day to performed in Brisbane gig in Australia Lennon's Beatle songs. Bono sang "In My Life" when the band had over they sang "Beautiful Day"

“Rain,” “Dear Prudence,” and “All You Need is Love” Bono and company had also performed. U2 also changed the path “Pride (In the Name of Love)” in Lennon’s honor with the new line, “1980 December 8. A shot rings out on a New York sky…”

U2 Serenade Hamish and Andy

2010-12-06T15:02:00.000-08:00

U2,made a surprise appearance to give a fine tribute to the rock stars of Australian radio.

U2 lead singer Bono and guitarist The Edge,the world top music band was at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl last night and both singer strode on stage during Hamish and Andy's live broadcast and sang their 1989 hit Desire.

The band interrupted a ditty that Hamish Blake and Andy Lee were singing, called We are better than U2.

U2 working on new album

2010-11-25T10:23:00.000-08:00

It has been revealed that Irish rock stars U2 is working on new album. Band is currently touring New Zealand. They have their two shows on Thursday and Friday.

Paul McGuinness,band's manager confirms that they had a deadline looming and they will try to wrap up the work while they are here and release the album as soon as possible.

''We are trying very hard to use this time in New Zealand and Australia to finish an album that will be released [in autumn],'' he said.

McGuinness said while the band were not actually recording in New Zealand, they were working hard on the finishing touches.

''It's not so much recording as editing and polishing up lyrics and trying to getting it done by the date it needs to be delivered to the record company for release in May.

''It's sounding great: lots of hits.''g on finishing it while they are here.

U2 Add Baltimore Stop To Tour

2010-11-14T13:11:00.000-08:00

U2 have confirmed a date at Baltimore, Maryland's M&T Bank Stadium as part of next year's North American leg of the band's 360° Tour.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie said, "I am very excited about U2's decision to play in Baltimore as part of their 360 World Tour"

as reported by local television,"I can't wait to welcome the biggest rock band in the world to the home of America's greatest football team," added the mayor. "It will be a 'Beautiful Day' for Baltimore."

Next summer's stop will mark U2's second Baltimore stop in two years. They last played nearby FedEx Field in September 2009.

U2 Upcoming Dance Album

2010-11-05T14:40:00.000-07:00

U2 rock bands promising not to disappoint there fans this time, U2 Rock Band has never disappoint there fan clubs and every time they came out they have been amazing all the times

Bono confirmed that he is very thankful to a key collaborator Danger Mouse, he said that Bono says they've already laid down 12 tracks and considering how "easily" the music is coming together, fans might not have to wait so long for the disc.

He also surprised his fans by revealing that there is the dance CD, which we're especially looking forward to hearing. This disc will run as an additional album to the aforementioned and will include collaborations with Will I Am, Guetta and RedOne. Bono explains:

"U2's remixes in the 90's were a real treasure, so we wanted to make a club sounding record."

We're ready for it! Give us the goods! We'll let you know if they stand up to the remixes!

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U2 has announced new dates for their 360 Tour

2010-09-24T01:44:00.000-07:00

U2 is not popular not only in US and UK but also through out the world. U2 almost every shows have been sold out when generally tickets are on sell and people want to try to catch them at any cost inspite they want to expense travel cost as well. That’s why U2’s 360° Tour may have already sold out both in Australia and New Zealand but with the announcement of second shows in Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, fans have another chance to catch them.

“We’re delighted with the reaction of our New Zealand and Australian fans and that we are able to add further dates,” says U2 Manager, Paul McGuinness.

The U2 360° Tour will characteristic a steel arrangement towering 150 feet over the stage and a cylindrical video system.

U2: At A Crossroads Following Disappointing Album

2010-08-23T12:04:00.000-07:00

U2 are struggling to choose between four very different albums for their next release, singer Bono admits. And they're cognisant they have to be more straightforward with a new record after the relative failure of last year's offering.

Bono tells Rolling Stone "Is not very accessible no Line on the Horizon, lyrically or musically. We put out a really difficult record I have to admit that. If I was a teenager, it would be like a European movie. It's arthouse."

He explains: "Songs of Ascent, which is the meditative work that was meant to complement No Line on the Horizon. We've also got a rochalbum and a club sounding album. Then we have the Spider Man musical stuff."

U2 New Song Band Plans Rare Songs for Tour

2010-08-03T05:48:00.000-07:00

U2 new song the band performed during tour rehearsals, has made its way online. Gibson.com has the story (and the song!): their 360 Tour U2 resume on Friday in Turin, Italy, and the Irish rockers have been busy practicing at the city's Olympic Sports Hall Stadium. Fans have been camping out to hear what the boys have in store, and it seems that they might be playing at least one totally new song on this leg of the tour, according toRollingStone.com.
In a video on YouTube a practice rendition of the rocking tune has been posted. The band's rehearsals also have included some rarities, such as "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" from the Batman Forever soundtrack, which U2 have not played since the Popmart Tour in 1998. "Miss Sarajevo," from 1995's Passengers side project, and "Gone," from 1997's Pop, were also played.

U2 tops list of music's biggest earners

2010-07-20T07:58:00.000-07:00

If you can sell a concert ticket, in the music business you can make money. In fact, Forbes magazine suggests, that appears to be the only way to make significant money in the music business.
Forbes has issued its Top 10 earners list of musicians between June 2009 and June 2010, and only two of them, Lady Gaga and the Black Eyed Peas, have had abundant sales of recorded music. On top of that, only two of the acts pulled in more than $100 million, a plateau that Forbes speculates will not be topped next year.
U2 (tickets), which led the list, was one of four rock 'n' roll acts in the Top 10, and of them, only Coldplay, which tied with BEP for No. 10, is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. AC/DC and Bruce Springsteen were Nos. 2 and 3. Springsteen has been off the road since late November; AC/DC just finished a world tour that started in late July. Both acts performed in a mix of stadiums and arena, while U2 played only stadiums.
Beyonce (No. 3) and Jay-Z (No. 6) are now certifiable as pop music's wealthiest family. His income, bolstered by a tour that pulled in $1 million per night, derives from his nightclub chain and most current album; hers is split between tour income and fashion related money.
Madonna clocked in at No. 8, below two of her acolytes, Britney Spears (No. 5) and Lady Gaga (No. 7). Kenny Chesney, at No. 9, was the lone country performer on the list.
Lady Gaga is the only act who is having concurrent hit singles and tours -- not to mention important licensing deals with film and television -- while pulling in endorsement revenue. She is aligned with Polaroid, Virgin Mobile and Monster Cable.
In estimating each act's income, Forbes added touring income plus endorsement and other business deals. It makes complete sense in the case of Spears, who has deals with Elizabeth Arden and Candies, and Beyonce, who pulls in close to half her earnings from Nintendo, L'Oreal and her fashion line.In the case of Jay-Z, however, investments are confused with revenue generators; it's unlikely he is seeing much of a return on his percentages in the New Jersey Nets or the Broadway musical "Fela!"

Denver Show Rescheduled For U2, May 21, 2011

2010-07-14T03:41:00.000-07:00

U2 mega rock band has announced the makeup date for its show that was supposed to take place in June but was postponed because of lead singer Bono's back injury. U2's 360 tour will now hit Denver on May 21, 2011. The concert at Invesco Field at Mile High will be the first American stop on the tour. Bono, whose actual name is Paul Hewson, underwent emergency spine surgery in May. He was released from the hospital and doctors recommend he get extensive rest.

U2: Canadian dates set for U2 gigs next summer

2010-07-13T11:21:00.000-07:00

U2's the new dates for postponed shows are in, and Canadian fans of the Irish rockers will have to wait until next summer to look them in action.
Bono and the rest of the band will play Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium on June 1, 2011, the Hippodrome in Montreal on July 8 and July 9, and the Rogers Centre in Toronto on July 11.
The gigs replace shows originally scheduled for this summer.
They were postponed after Bono injured his back and required surgery.
The North American tour will begin next May 21 in Denver and end in Minneapolis on July 23.

U2 star Adam Clayton is suing bank and accountants

2010-07-04T03:00:00.000-07:00

The U2 guitarist is suing his accountants and Bank of Ireland Private Banking for several million euro in damages for Adam Clayton.
The musician alleges his former personal assistant Carol Hawkins misappropriated over €4.8m from his bank accounts.
Mr Clayton alleges that his accountants Gaby Smyth & Company assured him in September 2008 that the sum involved was around €13,000.
The U2 star claims it was in fact €4.4m.
The case will be heard at the commercial court on Monday.

Glastonbury a success without U2

2010-06-28T01:41:00.000-07:00

This year’s Glastonbury Festival was a huge success, although headline act U2 was forced to pull out as headliner when front-man Bono injured his back last month. The festival celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2010, and although U2 did not appear as a group, band guitarist The Edge made a short appearance on stage with Muse on Saturday.

According to Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis, he anticipates U2 will play at the festival at some point in the future, as The Edge’s experience with Muse Saturday provided him with a taste of playing on the Pyramid Stage. He went on to add during his interview with BBC News that he is sure the band is keen to playing when it suits them, and that festival-goers will be very pleased to be able to see U2 perform live.

Mr Eavis said this year’s festival, which he holds annually on his dairy farm in Somerset, was one of the best in its 40-year history. He went on to say that although he has three headliners in stored for next year’s Glastonbury Festival, at the moment he will keep the names secret, although he did hint that talks were ongoing with U2 to make a return.

While the vast majority of festival-goers enjoyed the music throughout the weekend without problems, high temperatures were a concern with event officials, who announced that over 3,000 festival-goers treated for dehydration and sunburn. Crime was down from last year at the event, with 345 offences reported in 2010, compared to 363 last year.

U2: U2's Edge rocks Glastonbury with Muse

2010-06-27T12:53:00.000-07:00

U2 global rockers may have missed out on their opportunity to headline at Glastonbury, thanks to Bono's injured back, but guitarist the Edge did make it to Britain's premier music festival, appearing with indie band Muse on Saturday night. Muse wooed the delighted audience with a dramatic light show as well as a rendition of U2's hit "Where the Streets Have No Name," which became a massive singalong for the thousands gathered around Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage. Earlier, headliners Gorrilaz -- who stepped in at the last minute when U2 pulled out -- disappointed crowds with their dystopian opening set, leaving many milling away from the scene before the set was over despite the presence of such luminaries as Snoop Dogg, Sean Ryder and Lou Reed. Glastonbury celebrated its 40th anniversary as music fans bathed in sunlight and soaring temperatures. The event was a far cry from the human mudbath it has often proved to be in years past. This festival, which played host to the likes of Shakira, Scissor Sisters and Radiohead, also erected screens so that the audience could watch England's 4-1 defeat at the hands of Germany, before a final playout from Stevie Wonder.

U2 tour cancellation could cost $100 million

2010-06-18T08:53:00.000-07:00

The cancellation of U2's upcoming tour dates following Bono's emergency back surgery last month could cost the band (or at least their insurers) $100 million.

As previously reported, Bono was training for the tour when a bout of "sudden onset disease" rendered him temporarily paralysed. Although surgery to remedy this and prevent further paralysis was successful, the singer must now go through a period of rehabilitation. Amongst the dates cancelled was U2's Glastonbury headline slot, which has now been filled by Gorillaz.

U2's manager Paul McGuinness told: The Sun, "If we play or not, touring still costs us £500,000 a day".

Another source added: "Bono and the band are covered by insurance but the cost of overheads and missed revenue could easily reach $100 million by the time he's fit enough to tour again".

Rescheduled tour dates are expected to be announced shortly.

The Band’s Financial Controller to U2’s Adam Clayton Sues

2010-06-14T11:45:00.000-07:00

Well, the hits just keep on coming for hidden Irish rock act U2 – it seems like pretending to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders isn’t always enough to deflect bad luck. In the wake of a massive tour postponement due to frontman Bono’s emergency back surgery, Spinner reported today that U2 bassist Adam Clayton is suing the band’s financial controller, Gaby Smyth, for alleged negligence.
Smyth “controls the band’s money and knows the intricacies of the group’s investments and holdings,” and, along with “two other accountants in his firm” were named in legal papers filed in Dublin’s High Court. While the accusations have not been made public, Spinner reports that “the case may have its roots in money management issues that surfaced during Clayton’s current High Court case against Carol Hawkins, the bassist’s former housekeeper, who allegedly defrauded him of up to €1.8million.”
“…the legal war just might rip the biggest band in the world apart, as the notion of the bassist taking on Smyth in court threatens to expose every financial detail of the band and its related companies.
“Smyth was responsible for moving the band’s publishing company to Holland in 2007 in a move that save the band millions on royalties it would have otherwise paid under Irish tax law. That decision in Ireland led to heavy criticism of Bono, who took earnings out of his homeland while encouraging the country to aid in anti-poverty initiatives.”
In a related story, Irish scientists are now hard at work, teaming up with various groups of musicologists, designers, and physicists from all over the world, in the hopes of constructing the world’s most miniscule and tiny violin for which the Irish people can play for the band later this year. It’s moment of hope and unity for the scientific nations across the world; kind of like that movie Contact, but, you know, not awful.

U2 producer Daniel Lanois seriously injured in motorcycle crash

2010-06-10T02:16:00.000-07:00

According to published reports, the accident occurred Saturday (6/5) in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles, where Lanois lives. Various news outlets quoted a press statement saying, "Lanois suffered multiple injuries but is expected to be released from intensive care soon. Due to the severity of the injuries, Lanois has canceled all upcoming tour dates and promotional activity and will be recuperating for the next two months."

Lanois' current musical project, Black Dub, had been set to launch a European tour, preceded by a kick-off date at the Montreal Jazz Festival.

Early Saturday morning, prior to the accident, Lanois tweeted that he was headed into town for tour rehearsals. "Sweeping up in LA. Headed to the canoe for Black Dub rehearsals soonish."

Daniel Lanois, a musician and producer whose credits include several U2 Tickets albums as well as releases by Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Peter Gabriel and Emmylou Harris reportedly is in intensive care in a Los Angeles hospital this week for injuries sustained in a weekend motorcycle accident.According to published reports, the accident occurred Saturday (6/5) in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles, where Lanois lives. Various news outlets quoted a press statement saying, "Lanois suffered multiple injuries but is expected to be released from intensive care soon. Due to the severity of the injuries, Lanois has canceled all upcoming tour dates and promotional activity and will be recuperating for the next two months."Lanois' current musical project, Black Dub, had been set to launch a European tour, preceded by a kick-off date at the Montreal Jazz Festival.Early Saturday morning, prior to the accident, Lanois tweeted that he was headed into town for tour rehearsals. "Sweeping up in LA. Headed to the canoe for Black Dub rehearsals soonish."

U2 confirms they will miss Glastonbury after Bono's emergency back surgery

2010-05-26T02:35:00.000-07:00

U2 confirmed yesterday they will miss Glastonbury after doctors ordered Bono to rest for two months to recover from emergency back surgery.

The band have also been forced to postpone 16 shows of a North American tour.

Bono called Glasto organiser Michael Eavis yesterday.

The singer said: "I'm heartbroken. We really wanted to be there to do something really special. We even wrote a song especially for the festival."

Mr Eavis said: "U2 are hugely disappointed. At this point we have no comment about possible replacements for their Friday night slot."

Bono, 50, who hurt his back while training for the tour last week, left Ludwig-Maximilians-University hospital in Munich yesterday.

Dr Muller Wohlfahrt said: "Bono had severe compression of the sciatic nerve." He was in a lot of pain and had partial paralysis but recovery prospects are "excellent".

U2 announce DVD release of ‘YouTube’ Rose Bowl gig

2010-04-01T02:34:00.001-07:00

U2’s 2009 ‘YouTube’ gig from California’s Rose Bowl stadium is to come out on DVD.

‘U2360° At The Rose Bowl’ will be the band’s first live release available in Blu–ray, and deluxe editions also feature a new documentary called ‘Squaring the Circle: Creating U2360°’. It’s out on June 7.

The gig, which took place on October 25 last year, was broadcast over YouTube live at the time.

The tracklisting is:

‘Get On Your Boots’
‘Magnificent’
‘Mysterious Ways’
‘Beautiful Day’
‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’
‘Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of’
‘No Line On The Horizon’
‘Elevation’
‘In A Little While’
‘Unknown Caller’
‘Until the End of the World’
‘The Unforgettable Fire’
‘City of Blinding Lights’
‘Vertigo’
‘I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight’
‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’
‘MLK’
‘Walk On’
‘One’
‘Where The Streets Have No Name’
‘Ultra Violet (Light My Way)’
‘With Or Without You’
‘Moment Of Surrender’

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U2’s remix album on the horizon

2010-03-19T07:35:00.000-07:00

U2 have announced a limited-edition remix album, featuring 13 years of phat beats and, er, genre cash-ins. The album, Artificial Horizon, compiles three new tracks and 10 previously available remixes on a limited edition triple-LP.

isn’t the U2 release that fans were hoping for. In the days before No Line on the Horizon came out last spring, Bono and the boys described a “companion record” due late 2009. Eventually, it was even given a name: Songs of Ascent. But as the seasons wore on, no such songs ascended. The band now say they are working on new material, with an album ETA of June.

In the meantime, there’s Artificial Horizon. Despite its title, only four of the remixed songs are from No Line on the Horizon. The rest stretch from a Grand Jury mix of If God Will Send His Angels, released in 1997, to Trent Reznor’s take on Vertigo. Other highlights include remixes by David Holmes, Hot Chip, Justice and a reimagining of Happiness is a Warm Gun cover.
Artificial Horizon is on sale now, either on CD or as a limited-edition vinyl set. It’s not clear why the album’s 60 minutes of music have been set across three entire LPs, but the gatefold sleeve will doubtless be pretty. According to U2’s website, vinyl versions will only be manufactured after orders close on 14 May, making the album a “collectors must-have”.

U2’s previous remix album, 1995’s Melon: Remixes for Propaganda, was a fan club exclusive. It regularly sells on eBay for upwards of £30.

Michael Jackson, U2, Take That and the biggest deals in music history

2010-03-18T05:17:00.001-07:00

Michael Jackson Estate made history this week when signing a contract with Sony Music Entertainment worth up to £170 million.
The agreement will see ten projects released over the space of seven years as it’s reported that Jackson recorded three albums worth of new material.
This deal propels Jackson’s estate to the top of the list of most expensive record deals ever, but who did he knock off the top spot? And who else has hit the jackpot with mega deals?
1. Irish rock band U2 previously boasted the biggest earnings from a single deal when they agreed to a deal with Polydor Records for a massive £130 million.
2. The acclaimed Queen of Pop Madonna was paid a sum of £120 million for producing just three albums by Live Nation Inc.
3. In 2002, Robbie Williams became ‘rich beyond his wildest dreams’, after striking a £80 million deal with EMI Records to make a four albums.

U2 call rural craftsman to repair broken Grammy

2010-03-15T07:35:00.001-07:00

The trophy – awarded for the band’s 1987 album The Joshua Tree – had split into three pieces including the gramophone horn.
So the band’s managers simply searched “trophy craftsmen” online and found Stuart Allcock, who runs a small shop in Taunton, Somerset.
Mr Allcock said he felt ”dizzy” to receive the call but was disappointed to discover the award was made of cheap cast iron that was sprayed gold.
The lifelong U2 fan, who went to a Joshua Tree gig in 1987 and another in 2001, said: ”Taking the call was bizarre – I though it might have been a joke and said: ‘Is this Bono?’
”It turned out to be someone in their management team on the phone.
”I think it got broken pretty innocently, like someone dropped it or something like that.
”When it arrived with me it was broken into three pieces and looked a bit of a state.”
It is not known how the award was damaged, but Mr Allcock and his team at Alpha Trophies in Taunton, Somerset, took two weeks to repair it.
The gramophone had to be welded back on and other parts had to be glued together and resprayed.
Mr Allcock described the work as ”complex” and admitted that working on the famous trophy made him nervous.
He said: ”I wanted to get it looking as good as new and after some skilled welding, the cast iron piece was completely re-sprayed.
”It was a bit nerve-wracking, especially when I had to give it to someone else to be welded, but I was pleased with the result.”
Asked how much he thought the Grammy was worth, he said: ”If it was just an award, not a Grammy and having been given to U2, I wouldn’t pay more than a fiver for it.
”But as it stands, it’s priceless.”

U2 fan’s joy after getting job to fix band’s Grammy

2010-03-15T07:30:00.001-07:00

A lifelong U2 fan was thrilled when the band called – and asked him to mend a broken Grammy award.
The trophy, for 1987 album The Joshua Tree, was smashed in three pieces with its iconic gramophone broken.
So band managers Googled ‘trophy craftsmen’ and found Stuart Allcock in Taunton, Somerset. Stuart, who went to his first U2 gig in 1987, felt “dizzy” on the phone. He said “I thought it might be a joke and said: ‘Is this Bono?’.”
But he was disappointed to find it was made of iron and had to be welded, glued and re-sprayed gold. He said: “I think someone dropped it. It was a bit nerve-wracking, but the result was pleasing.”
Asked how much it was worth, he said: “If it wasn’t a U2 Grammy, I wouldn’t pay a fiver. But it’s priceless.”

U2 360º Tour 2009/2010 - Promo

2010-03-01T03:54:00.000-08:00

U2 360º Tour 2009/2010 - Promo

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U2 start work on new album

2010-02-01T04:28:00.000-08:00

U2 have revealed that they have begun work on a new album.The follow-up to 2009's 'No Line On The Horizon', the as-yet-untitled album is set to be "really special"."We are working on a lot of new songs," The Edge told EW. "Some of them are really, really happy.

We're convinced that we have something really special."Adding that the band have been working on material in-between legs of their world tour, the guitarist revealed a little more about the making of the album."We are experimenting with a lot of different arrangements, and electronic is one of the things we are playing with," he explained. "But there are other songs that are very traditional, almost folk. That's the thing we haven't figured out yet, where this album is going to end up."Meanwhile, U2 frontman Bono has recorded a new song with Jay-Z, to help raise money for those affected by the recent earthquakes in Haiti.

U2 at the U of M announcement expected Monday

2009-11-13T14:29:00.000-08:00

Monday could be the day when Twin Cities U2 fans finally find what they've been looking for — a local date for the band's massive 360° Tour.
The official announcement of a June 27 stop at the new TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis is expected to happen Monday, capping off weeks of fan speculation and news reports/rumors about when, where and how U2's stadium tour would visit Minnesota. Initially, July 1 was bandied around as the possible date — the band has announced regional shows in East Lansing, Mich., on June 30 and Chicago on July 6.
The tour has already hit numerous European destinations and wrapped up its first run of North American dates last month, grossing more than $311 million in the process. The New York Times described the massive in-the-round stage as "a claw-like, spired structure that's part insect, part spacecraft, part cathedral."
Tickets for the Chicago date range in price from $250 to $30. Paid subscribers to the band's Web site, U2.com, have the opportunity to buy tickets before they go on sale to the general public.
- Ross Raihala

Latest On The U2 Spider-Man Musical

2009-11-08T05:53:00.000-08:00

Here's the latest on "Spider Man, Turn Off The Dark", the musical featuring music from U2's Bono and The Edge. The gig has added a new lead and second producer and full financing is "expected to be in place shortly". Once this happens the show will resume full production. The show will open in 2010 at the Hilton Theatre in New York .The show has also have selected Reeve Carney, the lead singer of Carney, to play the role of Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man. Carney joins previously announced cast members Evan Rachel Wood as Mary Jane Watson, Peter Parker's girlfriend and Alan Cumming as Norman Osborn (aka Green Goblin).Pre sale tickets for the show are on sale now via Ticketmaster.

U2 at New Meadowlands, On Sale Today

2009-11-03T12:04:00.000-08:00

So far, U2’s 360° Tour has played to 3 million fans in 44 cities – but are they ready to throw in the towel? Hell, no! There are still millions who remain to untouched by the second coming of Bono!
So in case you missed their Giants Stadium gig (one of the last at the venue, before Broooce closed the joint), you’ll have a chance to catch the tour on July 19, 2010 at Jersey’s still-in-progress New Meadowlands (which Bon Jovi will inaugurate in May). The bells and whistles for this tour are heavy duty, by the way. Quoth the press release:
"With a cylindrical video system of interlocking LED panels, and a steel structure rising 150 feet from the floor over a massive stage with rotating bridges, the band has truly created an intimate 360 experience for concert goers. In keeping with the concept that this tour is more about a unique staging configuration with excellent sight lines, tickets for the U2 360 2010 tour will once again be scaled so that 85 percent of the tickets are priced at less than $95.00, general admission floor tickets at $55.00 and at least 10,000 tickets per venue priced at $30.00. "
Subscribers to U2.com get a crack at tickets today, with the general on-sale date TBA.

Fall of Berlin Wall, Free U2 Concert Commemorates

2009-10-29T12:52:00.000-07:00

MTV Europen Music Awards Just one of the big acts slated for the on Nov. 5, U2 will play a free concert in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Four days the gig will take place before the milestone’s 20th Anniversary celebration, which looks back on the wipeout of the barrier that stood as the Cold War’s icon, cutting the city in two.
Other artists to perform at the EMA’s include Jay-Z, Green Day, Robbie Williams, Tokio Hotel, Leona Lewis, Foo Fighters and Shakira, reports Billboard.biz.
“It’ll be an exciting spot to be in, 20 years almost to the day since the wall came down — should be fun,” said U2’s manager Paul McGuinness.
Bono & Co. will be in the race for best rock band at the EMA’s.

Tour At the Rose Bowl to U2 360

2009-10-26T14:16:00.000-07:00

The U.S. leg to U2 closed of their massive 360° Tour in front of a record crowd last night, and the experience was nothing short of an extravagant spectacle. 96,000 people descended on the beautiful little town of Pasadena on Sunday, obliterating the 20,000 parking spaces by morning and causing the major transit lines to run overtime. I had refused to believe there was an actual subway in Los Angeles until I was riding it out of the station with the fan masses, but it's very real, and was very packed with Bono disciples yesterday.
The gates of the Rose Bowl opened nearly an hour after the listed 5 p.m. doors time, which led to desperate bottlenecking that would've turned massively fatal at the drop of a hat, had someone screamed "fire" or "bomb" or "Fergie pissed her pants onstage again!" Openers Black Eyed Peas brought their anthemics up to stadium level in pro fashion, recruiting special guest Slash to play "Sweet Child O' Mine" to the squealing delight of the crowd. The former Gunner wasn't the only famous face at the bowl, however; other stars in attendance included Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor, Paris Hilton, J.J. Abrams, Chris O'Donnell, Cindy Crawford and Michael Bay.

Of course, the biggest spectacle - what apparently justifies spending in excess of $300 million without turning a dime of profit - is the Claw, a giant, spider-like contraption that stands 170 feet tall, looks like a giant spaceship and is completely distracting as a stage prop. It's neat to look at, but when one considers that they've played to 3 million fans and are still in the hole, it begs the question: what's the point? Is the goal to cram as many people as they can into arenas? If so, U2 certainly succeeded.

But what about the music? Aside from the fact that the set was unreasonably heavy on newer material, I was four rows from the floor, and for all the hype about rotating platforms and "intimate" experiences courtesy of the Claw, I've had more intimate music moments watching YouTube. In fact, the show was broadcast on YouTube (and filmed for a future DVD as well), and those at their computers likely had far better a concertgoing encounter than anyone in the stadium that wasn't on the general-admission floor. Sure, the spectacle and energy of the staggeringly massive Rose Bowl crowd doesn't translate through a computer screen, but the songs didn't hit nearly as hard as they could've - for the simple fact that it seemed they (particularly Bono) were playing up more to the cameras than to the audience itself.

U2 felt like a company. They didn't strike me as a band trying to reach an emotional apex with their audience. Is this the price of a band constantly trying to outdo their own gimmicks? Is it truly better for millions of people to share an experience if that very experience is diminished by the grandiosity of it? The answer is no, and for all their noble efforts and seasoned showmanship, U2 just didn't pull it off.

All the same, the night was still full of beautiful moments. The snippet of Beethoven’s Ninth as the intro to “Get On Your Boots” was gorgeous, and a few lines from Daniel Lanois’ “The Maker” at the end of “Beautiful Day,” was memorable as well. The “Amazing Grace” lead-in to the deafening singalong “Where the Streets Have No Name,” as well as the uber-anthem "Sunday Bloody Sunday" didn't suffer from the grandiosity, but the general sense of spectatorship felt more like a football game than a concert. And in a climate where corporate generics are ripping the human experience out of life at every turn, what we need is intimate heart. You may still be able to find it on a U2 album, but certainly not beside 96,000 other fans, under a giant Claw.

U2 pays tribute to Boyzone singer at U.S. concerts

2009-10-21T11:20:00.000-07:00

U2 consecrated part of their latest concerts to Boyzone singer Stephen Gately, who tragically passed away on October 10.
On their stops in Houston and Dallas on their 360 Tour, the Irish rock band paid tribute to the singer, dedicating “Unforgettable Fire” to his memory.
Bono shared with the crowds that the 33 year old Irish boyband star was “a beautiful spirit and a bright flame.”
Gately and the rest of the members of Boyzone famously appeared in U2’s 1998 video for “Sweetest Thing,” in which Bono says sorry to his wife by bringing in the boyband to serenade her.
The video also features cameos by Riverdance and former Irish world boxing champion Steve Collins.

U2 concert at Cowboys Stadium

2009-10-12T14:21:00.000-07:00

At the DMN music blog the good folks have scheduled a chat for Tuesday afternoon to rehash U2 concert Monday night's. They'll be going over particular of the previous night's gig and how Cowboys Stadium is working as a concert venue. Start gathering your questions and opinions. I'll join in too as the resident stadium apparencer as well as someone who will be in the seating bowl tonight (the first time as spectator instead of as a journalist).

A video game wants U2

2009-10-11T12:37:00.000-07:00

Rock icons U2 are desperate to follow in the footsteps of The Beatles and Metallica and land their own video game.

Bassist Adam Clayton admits he and his bandmates are impressed with the currently released The Beatles: Rock Band which allows fans to play along to the Fab Four's wonderest hits and they want a piece of the action themselves.
Clayton tells USA Today, "We definitely would like to be in there. I love the idea that that's where people are getting music, and we'd love to be in that world. We'll figure something out. What The Beatles have done, where the animation is much more representative of them, is what we're interested in."

U2 want to follow Beatles by having 'Rock Band' game

2009-10-09T03:04:00.000-07:00

U2 may follow in The Beatles' footsteps by having their own edition of the 'Rock Band' video game released, despite initial discussions with the game's makers breaking down.

Bono and co had talks last year with the makers of the game, MTV Games and Electronic Arts, but a deal wasn't agreed because of what bassist Adam Clayton called "compromises" they wouldn't agree to.

Now, since the release of 'The Beatles: Rock Band', Clayton has told USA Today that the U2 game could still be on the way.

"We definitely would like to be in there," he said. "But we felt some of the compromises weren't what we wanted. That could change. I love the idea that that's where people are getting music and we'd love to be in that world. We'll figure something out."

The bassist confirmed that it was seeing The Beatles' game that renewed his enthusiasm for a possible U2 version.

"What The Beatles have done, where the animation is much more representative of them, is what we’re interested in, rather than the one-size-fits-all animation," he said. "We didn't want to be caricatured."

U2's new album: 'We believe in the songs'

2009-10-09T02:57:00.000-07:00

U2's 360° Tour is selling out globally, but no lines formed for No Line on the Horizon, an album that has sold 1 million copies in seven months -- shy of the tally that 2004's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb racked up in two weeks.

"We didn't have a hit," Bono says. " 'Get On Your Boots' is going over better and better live, but that spongy funky sound didn't connect with rock radio. If your first single doesn't go off, it can knock the momentum. We believe in the songs and we want people to have them in their hearts and their iPods.

"Missing 2008's fourth quarter hurt sales, which in an era of rampant piracy no longer reflect the music's reach.

"You don't know how far the music travels," says bassist Adam Clayton. "The new songs get a great reaction live. Nobody's yawning or groaning. Releasing it outside that last quarter made it more uphill. Other factors skew the numbers. The record business is collapsing, and radio and the media.

"What's beyond Horizon? A trio of albums, starting with the ambient Songs of Ascent, containing surplus material from Horizon sessions. It may include the buzzed-about "Every Breaking Wave."

"It's a very intimate affair," Bono says. "They are beautiful love songs, where the object of love is not always obvious."

The band also wants to finish its shelved rock album with producer Rick Rubin, and Bono and Edge are wrapping up songs for the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark musical."

That's a monster album, a wild ride with very big songs," says Bono, who hopes the pair's project will evolve into a U2 album with special guests. "Edge and I knew it had to be dramatic, melodic and character-based. We'd just dream up the maddest stuff. Spider-Man may be the funnest project I've ever been involved with. Never a dull day, never a dark day until a few weeks ago when we woke up to the news that the production company had run out of cash."

Bono asked Canadian promoter Michael Cohl to help get the project on track. Spidey may be delayed but won't be derailed, he says.

Release dates are indefinite.

"The Spider-Man collection is the most developed but the least appropriate to the band," Edge says. "We've got so much material at different stages of completion, it's going to be a nice problem when we've got a few weeks to look at it."

Their Own Rock Band Game wants U2

2009-10-07T10:08:00.000-07:00

The band U2 is interested in their own Rock Band treatment, according to a report on USA Today. Mommented on t5he band's of the bassist Adam Clayton past with music games and how that perception was changed with The Beatles Rock Band. "We obviously would like to be in there, but we felt some compromises weren't what we wanted," he said. "That could change. I love the idea that that's where people are getting music, and we'd love to be in that world. We'll figure something out. What The Beatles have done, where the aliveness is much more representative of them, is what we're interested in, rather than the one-size-fits-all animation. We didn't want to be caricatured."
After Rock Band managed to snag the holy grail of music licenses with The Beatles, many have wondered what other bands could handle an entire game based on their careers. Led Zeppelin and U2 often enter those discussions, and it's good to know at least one of them is interested in it.

Conference finds a little faith in U2

2009-10-02T10:47:00.000-07:00

DURHAM -- Ten years ago I heard a band from southern Ohio play U2's "Desire" with an acoustic guitar, a washtub bass and a rack of percussive chimes and shakers. At nearby Cedarville College, the Baptist school I attended, we weren't supposed to think about -- let along sing about -- "the fever when I'm beside her ... desi-eeyi-eeyi-eeyi-eeyer."
Growing up in the evangelical church, I learned suspicion of U2. We all knew they had belonged to a charismatic Christian church back in the '80s and liked to sing about Jesus, but what about Mephisto, Bono's "Dark Lord of Rock" from the "Zooropa" album?
I was a sophomore in 1997 when a senior tried to scalp tickets for the "Pop" tour; I was tempted. Then I heard the song "Wake Up, Dead Man," confirming what I had been told about U2 and other so called "Christian" artists: They were wolves beneath that wolfish face paint, leather pants and dark shades.

Back then, the prevailing wisdom at my alma mater was that U2 was just another "secular" band -- useless, at best, for the important work of saving souls and, at worst, a tool of Satan. Bono didn't actually help his case, what with calling the Risen Lord a "dead man" and all.
As a class officer planning student activities, I tried to book a band from Columbus who played original songs but also covered U2, along with some other bands.
"Are these guys a Christian band, or are these just Christians who have a band?" was the e-mail response I got from an administrator.
Students complained to their professors when a guest lecturer showed a U2 video in a compulsory chapel service.
We have all come a long way since then. As a rule, I am indifferent toward celebrity, and I don't want to lay messianic expectations on Bono any more than I do on our president.
But the man is my hero. He has used his one-of-a-kind voice to tell the world about AIDS in Africa and Third World debt and probably helped to save some souls in the process.
At my church, we often sing along to songs such as "Grace," "One" and "Walk On" modern-day hymns that unearth the human condition and let a little heaven shine in.
More important than my own metamorphosis, though, is the fact that Cedarville -- now a university -- has seen fit to give the biggest-band-in-the-world its own academic conference.

My Kid's First Rock Concert and Mission and U2's Music

2009-10-02T10:27:00.000-07:00

Oh no, my eleven year old went to his first rock concert this week! Oh good, it was Bono and U2. That would express the feelings of many parents about their child's introductory rock and roll concert experience. FedEx Field, where the Washington football team plays with much less energy and appeal, was filled with people from bottom to top, in boxes to bleachers, with a sound that seemed to reach every corner of the gigantic stadium, and with lights that inspired admiration and awe.
The stage alone was more than any other contemporary rock band has produced, according to 25 year olds I know, who actually "know" about this stuff. It has been described as a 164-foot high "claw" that loomed over the stadium, to a "cathedral," to a "spaceship" said Bono, "But it isn't going anywhere without you!"
"Mom, how do you know the words to all these songs?" Luke asked Joy Carroll, who has been singing along with this band for its whole 33 year career. U2 roused the huge crowd with its best tunes like "Beautiful Day," "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For;" with the highlight for me coming when Bono began with a solo rendition of "Amazing Grace" that moved right into "Where the Streets Have No Name."
But it was the stunning and extravagant stage, set, and lights of the U2 tour that stole the gig. U2 literally lit up the sky and filled the air over the nation's Capital with a display of sight and sound unlike anything I had ever seen. And in the middle of the show, Joy and I got a light tap on the back, turned around, and lit up ourselves with big smiles as we greeted our long-time friend Willie Williams the man responsible for the amazing grace of all that light. "I heard you were here, and they told me where you were sitting. So I had to come over and just say hi." "This is the person responsible for all the lighting," I told Luke, who could hardly believe this was all happening to him.
And because it was the nation's Capital, the politicos were all on hand. How many concerts feature shout outs to Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Judiciary Chair, Patrick Leahy, (who Bono called the "John Wayne" of Washington), or one to Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick , who were all on hand. "Can you believe it," cried Bono, "A Cardinal at a rock concert!" And we even got to come in on the One Campaign bus with the Cardinal!
"Politics" was indeed part of the concert, not the partisan politics that dominate Washington D.C. (Bono made it a point to praise politicians on "both the left and the right" who have cared about places like Africa, he even dedicated a song to President Bush for increasing foreign aid) - but the moral politics that characterize Bono's clarion call to conscience and action which echoed throughout the evening.
In fact, what I love about a U2 concert, headlined by the Irish tenor with the sun glasses, is how it achieves such a powerful combination of art and social justice, music and message; and all with such fun. The New York Times titled its review of the opening concert in Giants stadium as "Fun With a Mission."
As always on nights with U2, activism for human rights and democracy was lifted up. "Walk On" was dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate under house arrest in Burma/Myanmar. "How long has she been under house arrest," asked Luke. "20 years" I said, and watched the look of concern and indignation on the face of a pre-teenager--at a rock concert. Luke also got to see a short video of a beaming Desmond Tutu, another Nobel Peace Prize winner, talk about "the kind of people" who make a difference in this world, and invited us all to join the One Campaign.
On the way out of the concert, Luke whispered that he had just heard somebody say, "The only thing I don't like about Bono is his political sh*t." Luke asked me what he meant. I said there are some people who don't like the message of Bono and U2, just the music. But it is precisely the incredibly inspiring blend and, dare I say, integration of music, message, and mission that makes U2 not only so compelling; but also so important.
It was a night of mutual affirmation with a band and an adoring audience, their community, who truly seemed to love being together again. It was an evening of joy and justice. The final comment of a first time almost teenager was, of course, "It was awesome," but, unlike most of the moments and venues where this overused affirmation of the younger generation is invoked, this time it was accurate and appropriate. The concert was truly "awesome."

New sod in its wake U2 will leave

2009-10-02T09:52:00.000-07:00

An elaborate plan is in place to have a new field ready for play at Carter Finley Stadium one week after U2's concert Saturday night.
N.C. State officials won't be completely at ease, though, until the Oct. 10 football game against Duke ends without problems with the field.
According to athletic director Lee Fowler, concert arrangers have put money in the six figure range in escrow to build a new field after the concert. Of that money, some will be spent on resodding immediately after the concert, with the rest left for work after the season if necessary.

School officials have consulted with experts who have completed similar turf rebuilding efforts after gigs in other stadiums, but they are anxious to see the results.
"I'm still nervous about next week," Fowler said.
The first time N.C. State officials were approached about having U2 play at Carter Finley, they declined, Fowler said. Then they were promised that concert organizers would pay for the resodding.
Concert promoter Live Nation is paying a sum in the six figures to rent the stadium, and N.C. State gets to keep revenue from parking and concessions. Fowler said the show will provide good publicity and exposure for N.C. State.
"If you happen to be in the path of a tour like this where they go from D.C. to Virginia to North Carolina to Georgia, we just happened to be in the path," said Ray Brincefield, assistant athletic director for outdoor facilities. "We decided to do this to boost the economy and put people to work and be able to show off our stadium."
Brincefield said the huge, globelike structure U2 is building and the accompanying stage will cover 70 percent of the field. The contract for the event requires all materials for the show to be out of the stadium within 48 hours of the concert's end late Saturday.
Half the field will be stripped Monday night and resodded Tuesday. The other half will be stripped Tuesday night and resodded Wednesday.
Precision Turf of Atlanta is handling the work.
N.C. State coach Tom O'Brien said he isn't concerned about the condition of the field.
"It's been done before," O'Brien said. "It's been done, I believe, at the Meadowlands (in New Jersey) and other places before. I likely shouldn't be so quick to say no, but I know it's been done in the past and there haven't been problems."
Fowler and Brincefield also are confident because they believe they have a good plan. But they're eager to bring it to a conclusion.
"It's all long talk until it happens and it's successful," Brincefield said. "Then we can relish it. But until then we're all very cautious."

Scott Stadium; U2

2009-10-02T09:41:00.000-07:00

“My body’s now a begging bowl,” Bono sang at the end of U2’s two-and-a-half hour gig last night, “that’s begging to get back, begging to get back to my heart, to the rhythm of my soul.” It’s the classic U2 lyric, merging social issues (poverty) and world culture (Third World) with intimacy and personal yearning. And in closing the band’s blow out gig at Scott Stadium, “Moment of Surrender” summed up as well as anything the beauty and contradictions of the world’s longest rock band.
David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” signaled the start of the concert as the much reported on, tentacular set billowed smoke, and with all that it became clear that U2 positions itself now as the Band that Fell to Earth. Prophets from above and within, they project their vision of what ails humanity and what can redeem it from a vast sphere of TV screens. And the effect at times was mesmerizing, vital and fresh. The Edge would be on one side of the circular stage and Bono far off on the catwalk, and yet the screen would merge their well lighted images crisply and with style. (But fans of the rhythm section might have noted that it wasn’t until the ninth song of the 25-song show, “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” that Adam Clayton got his proper due in the live video.) Things turned a bit cheesy when, at the end of “Your Blue Room” astronaut Frank De Winne’s visage filled the screen with a genuine message from outer space. Sometimes, I thought, it’s better to allude to a miracle than to actually point to it. And by the time Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s close up floated hundreds of feet in the air, exhorting the crowd to act nobly and aid the poor, The idea of message with I started to grow uneasy with from revered leaders blasting to stadium crowds that are high on shared energy. Sure, Tutu is right and so is Bono, about how to be a world citizen, but the means of communication and the rapt reception that they counted on fleetingly inspired a rather sinister comparison. But it all came back to the music, in the end, and that is U2’s great trick. Right about the time that the words Bono and megalomania start to harmonize in your head, there’s The Edge, wringing waves of sound from his guitar on the brilliant “City of Blinding Lights” or kicking out the jams in “Vertigo.” With age, Bono, like his hero Frank Sinatra, is flattening the high notes or talking through them. Interestingly, that has the effect of making the band sound even tighter, and highlighting the Edge’s quiet musical passion. Not that Bono is without grounding instincts of his own. Riffing on the fact that U2 was performing at a university campus, he introduced his mates (“roommates,” he actually called them) as classic college types. The Edge, he said, was the Nerd. Drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. was the Captain of the Football Team. Clayton was a Friend to Cheerleaders Everywhere. As for himself, Bono said, he was the College Dropout, still trying to learn something from the other three guys. Later, as the band wound up its second encore, he took it a step further. “Thank you, Larry, Edge and Adam,” he said, “for letting me be in your band.”

Plans for Next Album Take Shape, U2 Beyond the "Horizon"

2009-10-02T09:23:00.000-07:00

Go behind the scenes with U2 on their epic 360° Tour in our new issue, on stands now. The blue band with Check out Q&A from our interviews.

On Future Plans
The Edge: We're sort of spoiled for choice right now, because there's a bunch of amazing pieces that we didn't finish from the work we did in Fez, and there's the songs we started with Rick Rubin, some of which are amazing songs that I'd love to get back to at some point. Bono and I also have this Spider-Man [musical] project, which we're very glad about. So there are a lot of things on the stove, and they're all very exciting.
Now that this tour is kind of up and running, I'm actually looking forward to getting into those projects, doing some listening back, seeing where they're all at, seeing which one is likely set to go first. The one thing is we'd love to follow this album up sooner rather than later we'll have over three years i dont think or whatever it was between the last two records. It's hard to say (about a U2 Spider-Man album). There will be a Spider-Man album, but whether it's us or the cast, that's the sort of thing we're not sure about. There are some amazing tunes.
Larry Mullen: I definitely think we should do something good as soon as we possibly can, as opposed to quickly. I'm feeling that it's the unfinished songs from this record that we should be concentrating on. I think there's a part two of this record. That would be my instinct, would be to complete this. I think there is slower, meditative stuff on there, but I think there are other things, as well, and I don't think it will end up being that kind of record. I think it will end up being a mixture of a few different things. I would like to think that we would have a song that would end up on the radio.
Rolling Stone: Did you reconvene with Brian Eno to do any recording?
Larry Mullen: We've talked about it, and how we would do it. He went into the studio to have a listen to some things i think so. We will get back together with him.
RS: Over the break between this year and next?
Larry Mullen: Absolutely, yeah. I'd also like to get back to the (Rick Rubin) sessions. I think there's some actually good stuff there.
Bono: Afew year we certainly don't want to go away. (The next) album is called Songs of Ascent, and it's a very clear idea. If we're going to do another rock record, I want to do Spider Man. I just haven't talked Adam and Larry into that.
I would like to have one of our songs on the pop charts. It's my only rejected (with No Line on the Horizon) People love, love the album it's had rave reviews, not just in the U.S., but all over the world. But I would like a few pop songs on it. So I would like, even on Songs of Ascent, songs that have a shot at that. I would like to come back with a new single in the spring "Every Breaking Wave" was Jimmy Iovine's favorite song, and lots of people got upset when we took that off.

U2 concert stage being set

2009-10-01T11:19:00.000-07:00

The stage isn’t quite set for U2’s reaching in Raleigh, but it’s getting there.
The process of constructing more than 250 people the stage in the center of the football field at North Carolina State University's Carter Finley Stadium, The legendary band will perform in Raleigh for the first time on saturday night.
The 360 degree stage features “The Claw,” a towering, four legged steel structure that holds the speaker system and a cylinndrical video screen over the performance area. A circular ramp will connect the stage to rotating bridges.
The concert on Saturday night is expected to draw 65,000 to 70,000 people. More than 600 event staff will be working the concert, and the Wake County Sheriff’s Office will provide about half the deputies that normally staff a North Carolina State University football game. A security team employed by U2 will handle many of the details for the gig.
To prepare for the event, the sheriff’s office sent a team of deputies to Boston last month to look how the security detail is managed.
The daily costs of the production are an estimated $750,000, and that doesn’t include the stage construction. Truck rentals, transportation and staff wages comprise the majority of that $750,000.
The concert is so long,all the way to Raleigh's Glenwood South it is even spilling. Businessman Niall Hanley, the man behind the Hibernian Irish Pubs in Raleigh and Cary, is holding a pre concert event Thursday at his other major venture, the popular night club Solas. That party will feature U2 cover band “Vertigo.”
“Raleigh has truly arrived,” says Hanley, who, like U2, hails from Ireland. “For a band of U2's caliber to come to Raleigh gigs just how much our city has grown in its reputation as a nice place to live, work and visit.”

U.Va. announces plans to manage U2 traffic

2009-09-29T07:43:00.000-07:00

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Thursday evening, more than 50,000 people will head to the University of Virginia's Scott Stadium as rock band U2 brings its 360° Tour to Charlottesville, the first concert at Scott Stadium since the Rolling Stones played there four years ago.
Although as many as 60,000 people descend on Scott Stadium at least six times every fall for home football games, and football game procedures form the basis of much of the logistics for concerts, a major weeknight concert also poses alone challenges, said Larry Wilson, general manager of U.Va.'s John Paul Jones Arena and an executive with SMG, U.Va.'s event management partner that played a key role in landing both U2 and the Rolling Stones in 2005.
Lessons learned from the Stones concert are guiding several new measures this time around, Wilson explained.
A helicopter and Virginia Department of Transportation cameras will monitor traffic flow on Interstate 64, allowing real-time updates to directions and messages that will be displayed on 25 electronic message boards placed along I-64, U.S. 29 and other roads leading into parking areas.
Based on the color of their parking permits, drivers will be routed westbound on the U.S. 250 bypass from exit 124 (Pantops) off I-64, as well as north on U.S. 29 from exit 118B. Those with black permits will be directed to use exit 120 from I-64 (Ridge Street), thereby distributing the incoming traffic among three of the four Charlottesville exits off I-64.
The message boards will be particularly helpful to out-of-town visitors, Wilson said. For instance, roadside message boards near exit 118B will direct all concert-goers except those with blue, gold and red parking permits to merge left at the bottom of the ramp, around the traffic waiting to exit onto Fontaine Avenue, and proceed to the next two exits off the 250 bypass (at Ivy Road and Leonard Sandridge Road).

Fox performs with U2, Megan

2009-09-29T07:27:00.000-07:00

'Transformers' beauty Megan Fox may not have much musical talent, but the stunner got the opportunity to perform with legendary band U2, who let her play the tambourine.
The 23 year old Hollywood beauty who has twice been voted the 'Sexiest Woman Alive' was hosting the popular TV gig 'Saturday Night Live' when she was invited to play with them, reported Us magazine online.
The 'Vertigo' hitmakers were aroused to be sharing the stage with Fox, with lead singer Bono telling the audience.
"SNL is gonna be excellent this week. Megan Fox will be on the tambourine and that’s a good thing," said Bono.
The brunette beauty, who is often compared to superstar Angelina Jolie, played up on her sex symbol status while playing host, showed some fake naked pictures of herself, including one brought in by a 'fan' in which she had the body of a horse.

U2's tour costs prevent profits

2009-09-29T07:22:00.000-07:00

Rock giants U2 are still to pull in a profit from their sold out 360* world tour - because the mammoth show's overheads are so costly.
The Beautiful Day legends have been on the road since June, rigging a huge steel construction, dubbed The Claw, as their portable stage.
But constructing the giant sculpture at every new venue, plus paying the huge team wanted to put it together, doesn't come cheap costing a staggering $750,000 per show.
And despite selling out tickets around the world, the pair won't really start pulling any revenue back in until the North American leg finishes next month - despite being on the road for three months.
U2 manager Paul McGuinness explains, "The tour's engineering problems are enormous and costly. We had to find a way for it to be aesthetic and figure out a way of doing video.
"Whether we're playing or not, the overhead is about $750,000 daily. That's just to have the crew on payroll, to rent the trucks, all that. There's about 200 trucks.
"Each stage is 37 trucks, so you're up to nearly 120 there. And then the universal production is another 50 odd trucks, and there are merchandise trucks and catering trucks."

U2 to getting Concert Tonight at FedEx

2009-09-29T07:12:00.000-07:00

The eastern side of the Capital Beltway is likely to be filled with regular commuters and concert-goers. The U2 show at FedEx Field in Landover is scheduled to start at 7 p.m.
The challenge: FedEx is a football stadium. Since it's opening, football fans have learned how to get on and off the roads and in and out of the parking lots. When the stadium serves as a concert venue, the regulars are replaced by fans of the pair performing. For thousands of them, it's their first time dealing with the venue.
Driving: Plan on getting there early. You'll likely still get stuck in traffic, as did the fans of Paul McCartney who went to his show there in August, but you'll at least be inside for the first set.
Best Bet: The Arena Drive/Beltway interchange, the closest one to the stadium, is now open all the time. It's one of three Beltway exits near the stadium, the other two being Landover Road and Central Avenue. The Maryland State Highway Administration recommends Central Avenue, because it tends to be less crowded than the other two.
Taking Transit: You can do this. You'll still be traveling with a crowd, but it's likely to be less of a headache than if you were behind the wheel of a car. Take Metrorail to Moran Boulevard Station on the Blue Line, then walk slightly less than a mile north, mostly on a sidewalk, to the stadium. Metro is going to keep the Morgan Boulevard Station open till 1 a.m. for people returning from the concert. They'll be able to transfer from the Blue Line to other lines to get home.

Is There Profit On the Horizon For U2 Tour?

2009-09-29T07:02:00.000-07:00

Rock band U2 have still not broken even on their massive 360° Tour.
Despite being on the road since June and playing dozens of shows across Europe and the US, the Irish supergroup have yet to look a profit.
With overheads of a staggering £470,000 a day whether the pair play or not manager Paul McGuinness said U2 would not go into the black until the end of the North American leg of the tour next month.

"The engineering problems are enormous and costly. We had to
find a way for it to be aesthetic and figure out a way of doing video," McGuinness said.
"That cylindrical screen we have that didn't exist, we had to get somebody to invent that. We had to design this four legged thing (the claw) and build three of them."
And he was coy about how much the whole record breaking tour would gross when it finally grinds to a halt in 2010 or 2011.
"(It won't) exactly (be) gravy, because whether we're playing or not, the overhead is about $750,000 daily," he said.
Each stadium gig features a huge steel claw structure and cylindrical video screen, both designed to give fans an unimpeded view of the gig while increasing bums-on-seats by 20%.
That means the band have broken attendance records for stadiums along the tour.
Three gigantic claw structures, each costing between £15m and £20m, are rigged up ahead of the gigs.
Factor in the support facilities wanted for touring what is essentially a small town, the numbers behind transporting the set between countries and continents are staggering.
"There's about 200 trucks. Each stage is 37 trucks, so you're up to nearly 120 there," McGuinness said.
"And then the universal production is another 50-odd trucks, and there are merchandise trucks and catering trucks."
Ritch Ames, who writes Sky News Online's Rock Against the Recession column, said the tour, in support of the No Line On The Horizon album, should prove profitable despite the global recession.
"The band, conscious of the state of the economy, have a tiered ticket system with recession busting prices, and I'm sure the accountants have worked out that they will more than break even later in the tour, but this would surely depend on all the gigs selling out," he said.
The tour was launched at the Nou Camp in Barcelona on June 30 and travelled across Europe before heading to the US in September.
The band announced this week the tour would return to Europe next summer.

U2 CONCERT DATES IN 2010

2009-09-28T08:11:00.000-07:00

We couldn’t get enough of the 360º Tour. Many cities claimed to have them performing. And it looks like they’ve confirmed some dates to continue their tour next summer 2010:

10 August, 2010 Commerzbank Arena - Frankfurt

12 August, 2010 AWD Stadium - Hannover

15 August, 2010 Stadium - Horsens (Denmark)

20 August, 2010 Olympic Stadium - Helsinki

25 August, 2010 Luzhniki - Moscow

30 August, 2010 Ernst Happel Stadium - Vienna

3 September, 2010 Olympic Stadium- Athens

6 September, 2010 Ataturk Olympic Stadium - Istanbul

15 September, 2010 Olympic Stadium - Munich

18 September, 2010 Stade De France - Paris

29 September, 2010 Olympic Stadium - Seville

2 October, 2010 Stadium – Coimbra

Yes, U2 in Sevile!! All those who missed their concert in Barcelona, have now the chance to look one of the most important Irish bands in History.

Besides, you’ll get a remix album, you’ll be able to join the presale for 2010, and you’ll benefit from many other aspects, such as a u2.com email address! Do you want more reasons to subscribe?

A Futuristic Dazzler At Gillette U2

2009-09-28T07:57:00.000-07:00

Arrogance? Check. Socially conscious anthems? More than you can imagine. Brogues? You 'betcha. A night of consistent entertainment? Without a doubt. On Sept. 20, U2 rolled into Foxboro's Gillette Stadium to give fans, both young and old, all of this and more within a two hour, 23 song set.Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton, and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. arrived on stage as David Bowie's dreary "Space Oddity" poured out of the sound system. The stage, a circular freak with ramps that lead the band farther into the audience, was described by the band as their own spaceship. At various points during the gig, it changed color and emitted bursts of smoke.The band kicked off the night with a quartet of songs from their latest album No Line on The Horizon, beginning with the upbeat rocker "Breathe." Although the album was only moderately embraced by the American public, each of these songs sounded much more vibrant live, even the inane "Get on Your Boots," a boneheaded track perfectly designed for stadium gigs. It was a risky move opening with four new tracks, but U2 managed to pull it off effortlessly. The set did an admirable job providing the crowd with ample offerings of both new and old. Harder songs like "Sunday Bloody Sunday" sat comfortably beside more mellow tunes like "MLK." U2 demonstrated that they are not a band that relies on hits from the past. Recent radio staples like "Vertigo" and "Beautiful Day" were received just as enthusiastically as an old classics like "New Years Day." By playing about half of their latest album, they made it clear that they are making music today because they're still driven, not just as an excuse to tour.The night was marked by a few epic surprises as well. "The Unforgettable Fire," a song from the underrated 1984 album of the same name, provided audiences with a dose of droning 1980s textured new wave as well as an impressive psychedelic light gig. Also, it was somewhat shocking when the second encore began with "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)," a minor track from the album Achtung Baby.

U2 Beat Pope John Paul II Attendance

2009-09-28T07:50:00.000-07:00

More people attended the U2 concert at Giants Stadium in New Jersey last week than turned up to see Pope John Paul II.
U2 had 84,472 sets of eyeballs watching them in Jersey, beating the record held by the Pope since 1995.
The news did not go unnoticed by Bono. "News just in. We've broken every record for attendance in this stadium including the Pope. Sorry Bruce we know it's your birthday and all," he told the crowd before adding, "I know they're knocking this place down...we likely won't be here again before the wrecking ball but it was a magic place for us as well as the Giants."
U2 will finish their North American tour in Vancouver and then take the gig on the road around the world in 2010.
Europe was confirmed yesterday. The tour will head to back to Europe for Germany, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Austria, Greece, Turkey, France, Spain and Portugal.

Up on the Roof With U2, Part 2

2009-09-28T06:41:00.000-07:00

For the LED drivers, I had it in mind to use off-the-shelf products. These days a lot of manufacturers make standard drivers to just drive LEDs with or without DMX. I couldn’t find the right driver that could handle the power but also have a smooth dimming curve and understand DMX. There are a few products out there, but in my opinion, they still have a way to go to get to a smooth dimming curve. Plus, nothing was available in that short of lead time. I ran into James Powell at Lightfair; he was one of the founders of PixelRange and has now moved on from there to his company JAP Optoelectronic, based in Manchester, England. I knew he could deal with the whole electronics and software side of an LED product. James and I discussed this project, and I asked if he was interested, did he have the capacity and more importantly, did he have components in stock, which he did. He decided that it would be best to design a custom driver board for this fixture. It makes more s to have a board that does exactly what’s wanted, that’s not over particulared, and that is dependable. We always had to remember these units were going on tour and are hard to access, so you don’t need to have problems on the road. Once James came onboard in the first week of May, he designed a custom board and laid out all of the electronics and control system, basically with DMX input. He is known for his fantastic dimmer curves and reliable electronics; in my opinion, he has the best dimming in the whole field of LED products. I have known James since I started Xilver back in 2002. It was very exciting to work with him and his well organized professional team.

U2 A Futuristic Dazzler At Gillette

2009-09-28T06:10:00.000-07:00

Arrogance? Check. Socially conscious anthems? More than you can imagine. Brogues? You 'betcha. A night of consistent entertainment? Without a doubt. On Sept. 20, U2 rolled into Foxboro's Gillette Stadium to give fans, both young and old, all of this and more within a two hour, 23 song set. Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton, and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. arrived on stage as David Bowie's dreary "Space Oddity" poured out of the sound system. The stage, a circular monstrosity with ramps that lead the band farther into the audience, was described by the band as their own spaceship. At diverse points during the gig, it changed color and emitted bursts of smoke.The band kicked off the night with a quartet of songs from their latest album No Line on The Horizon, beginning with the upbeat rocker "Breathe." Although the album was only reasonable embraced by the American public, each of these songs sounded much more vibrant live, even the inane "Get on Your Boots," a boneheaded track perfectly designed for stadium gigs. It was a risky move opening with four new tracks, but U2 managed to pull it off effortlessly. The set did an commendable job providing the crowd with ample offerings of both new and old. Harder songs like "Sunday Bloody Sunday" sat comfortably beside more mellow tunes like "MLK." U2 demonstrated that they are not a band that relies on hits from the past. Current radio staples like "Vertigo" and "Beautiful Day" were received just as enthusiastically as an old classics like "New Years Day." By playing about half of their latest album, they made it clear that they are making music today because they're still driven, not just as an excuse to tour.The night was marked by a few epic surprises as well. "The Unforgettable Fire," a song from the underrated 1984 album of the same name, provided audiences with a dose of droning 1980s textured new wave as well as an impressive psychedelic light gig. Also, it was somewhat shocking when the second encore began with "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)," a minor track from the album Achtung Baby.

U2 360° Tour continue in 2010

2009-09-28T02:29:00.000-07:00

U2 have announced that their 360° Tour is set to continue into 2010.

The Irish rockers have exposed particulars of a succession of new European live dates in Germany, Russia, Denmark, Finland, Austria, Greece, Turkey, France, Spain and Portugal.

With a be short of of UK dates in the new timetable, fans have wondered as to whether U2 will instead be hitting the festival circuit.
U2 will play:

10/8/2010 - Commerzbank Arena Tickets - Frankfurt , Germany
12/8/2010 - U2 AWD Stadium Tickets - Hannover, Germany
15/8/2010 - U2 Casa Arena Tickets - Horsens, Denmark
20/8/2010 - U2 Olympic Stadium Tickets - Helsinki, Finland
25/8/2010 - U2 Luzhniki Tickets - Moscow, Russian Federation
30/8/2010 - U2 Ernst-Happel Stadium Tickets - Vienna, Austria
3/9/2010 - U2 Olympic Stadium - Athens Tickets - Athens, Greece
6/9/2010 - U2 Ataturk Olympic Stadium Tickets - Istanbul, Turkey
15/9/2010 - U2 Olympic Stadium Munich Tickets - Munich, Germany
18/9/2010 - U2 Stade de France Tickets - Paris, France
29/9/2010 - U2 Olympic Stadium - Seville Tickets - Seville, Spain
2/10/2010 - U2 Stadium - Coimbra Tickets - Coimbra, Portugal

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shows at the Rogers Centre to U2 to play two sold-out

2009-09-16T11:25:00.000-07:00

One of the world's most popular bands will play in Toronto tonight in part one of two sell out shows at the Rogers Centre.
The unseasonably warm temperatures means that the roof of the dome will be open during the concert something that has only happened once before, when Bruce Springsteen put on a show in 2003.
More than 60,000 U2 fans are expected to attend Wednesday night and Thursday night's concerts.
The band acquired in town Sunday and attended the premier of fellow Irishman Colin Farrell's new movie "Ondine" which was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival Monday night.
U2 frontman Bono and guitarist The Edge were spotted outside the Masonic Temple on Tuesday night, where they filmed a secret taping for Elvis Costello's show "Spectacle."
The band will be playing songs from their new album, "No Line on the Horizon." It is their 12th studio album.
With a report from CTV Toronto's Reshmi Nair.

The Edge in Cardiff Ecstatic fans give U2 performance

2009-08-24T09:20:00.000-07:00

WITH a spectacular £20m stage for the biggest performance ever hosted by the Millennium Stadium, anticipation of U2 were high.
But for the thousands of fans from all over the world who packed into the home of Welsh rugby to see the Irish rockers on Saturday, the show did not fail to impress.
Some even hailed it as possibly the excellent concert in the stadium’s 10 year history.
As iconic front man Bono appeared clad in black and wearing his trademark dark glasses, the crowd erupted.
And what a crowd the almost capacity 70,000 conference made it a record breaking assembly for any performance at the stadium, outselling Take That’s 64,000 conference earlier this year.
After sets from The Hours and Glasvegas, U2 opened with the song Breathe from new album No Line On The Horizon before treating fans to a mix of their many hits from the past three decades and new songs from their latest CD.
Highlights added Beautiful Day, Mysterious Ways, Vertigo, Pride and One, as well as newer stand-out songs Get On Your Boots, I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight and Magnificent.
Homage was paid to guitarist. The Edge’s Welsh roots, with Bono confessing to having once had singing lessons from the musician’s father Garvin Evans, who comes from Llanelli.
“He told me to look after the accordant and the vowels will look after themselves,” Bono told the crowd, who licked up his every word.
The Edge, whose family were in the conference, had manifestly requested that the band end their European tour in Cardiff because of his Welsh estate.
Addressing the adoring masses, the guitarist simply said “Cymru Am Byth” to delighted acclaim before he and his bandmates launched into I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.
Needing minimal comfort from Bono, the crowd led the vocals for the first verse, sounding like an enormous Welsh choir.
Of course, no U2 performance would be complete without a political message of freedom and equality, and this was no exception.
As well as dedicating the songs MLK and Walk On to imprisoned Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the band played a speciall recorded video message from Archbishop Desmond Tutu before launching into the anthemic One.
But while their songs were predictably great and the sound quality fantastic, the performance really stood out because of the enormous and impressive set, dubbed The Claw.
The 160ft high structure correspond the talons of a giant machine, supporting enormous video screens which towered above the band’s circular stage.
The Claw frequently changed colour and at one point became surrounded by an enormous mesh like structure, onto which capture of the band was projected.
Apparently the set aims to make stadium presentation more intimate. Whether it acquired that is up for argument, but it certainly created an impressive concert and an awesome setting for one of the world’s biggest bands to blow their fans away.
As well as the 70,000 inside the stadium, hundreds more were able to follow the action with WalesOnline's Dave Owens providing a running commentary and pictures of the performances.

U2 Aussie tour stage

2009-08-22T11:29:00.000-07:00

U2 will tour Australia in 2011, leaving its agreement stage behind as a gift.
Mark Fisher, who designed the stage, absently announced the band's plan to visit Australia.
Fisher has built three super structures for U2's 360 Tour.
"My vision . . . is we will prove them into enduring agreement pavilions and leave them around the world," he said."For example, we will finish one part of the tour in Australia and another in South America."
Mr Fisher said U2 would donate the stages, which hold 180 tonnes of equipment.
U2's Australian tour promoter, Michael Coppel, said no local tour dates were confirmed.
But industry sources said U2 would perform in Australia in 2011.
The astronomical show is said to be up to 10 times bigger than U2's stadium spectacular, Zooropa, which played at the MCG in 1993.
"This makes the Rolling Stones look small and AC/DC look like a pub band," a source said.
Meanwhile, Neil Diamond will tour next year and Sir Paul McCartney is likely to visit in 2011.

U2 to release unearthed songs from 'The Unforgettable Fire' sessions

2009-08-20T08:02:00.000-07:00

U2 have said they want to release a number of previously unreleased tracks recorded during the band's sessions for their 1984 album 'The Unforgettable Fire'.Bono and The Edge said that a number of tracks have been rediscovered by the band recently, when they were revisiting the LP to remaster it for a 25th anniversary reissue later this year.Speaking on BBC Radio 1 yesterday (August 19), The Edge admitted he'd been listening to several unreleased tracks that are likely to feature on the expanded new version."I listened to some tracks that we're gonna release with the new 'Unforgettable Fire' reissue, some new songs that we discovered that we'd recorded, back in that era - the '80s - that we're gonna put out. And they sound amazing."

U2 : AWAKE IN LONDON

2009-08-17T07:57:00.000-07:00

Another special night and the band mixed up the set list again. Hard to single out any particular moments but as someone says below, 'To see 88,000 people lose themselves in music is a sight you don't forget in a hurry.'
And enjoyed this comment: 'Ultraviolet wins in this tour- it's got real panache- a laser jacket, a rope swing mic, lower lighting, and Bono's voice seems to sound better now singing it than he did on Achtung. Hats off. Oh and that 'Streets' song ;)".

Keep sending us your reviews. What did it feel like to be at the show tonight? Surprises? Shocks? Unforgettable moments you'll never surrender? Here's what they played."

Breathe
No Line On The Horizon
Get On Your Boots
Magnificent
Beautiful Day
Until The End of the World
New Year's Day
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Stay
Unknown Caller
Unforgettable Fire
City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (Remix)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Pride (In The Name of Love)
MLK
Walk On
Where The Streets Have No Name
One
(Bad)
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Ultraviolet
With Or Without You
Moment of Surrender

BBC opens records of two new U2 shows available for sale

2009-07-29T16:59:00.000-07:00

BBC London part of the commercial section of U.K. broadcaster the BBC, has make public two new U2 shows that it is making obtainable for sale to global presenters.

"U2=BBC: The History" and "U2=BBC" mark extra ordinary stuffs from the BBC records and a series of wide interviews and talk shows with the band.

The programs include the Irish band's February rooftop presentation at BBC Broadcasting House in London.

Approximately 5,000 people queued the nearest streets to watch the show earlier this year. "U2=BBC: The History" follows the band's career from their earliest days in Belfast to the Broadcasting House set in 2009. It draws on nearly 30 years of BBC live performances, including "Top of the Pops" and "Whistle Test."

The U2 event shows pursue latest BBC Worldwide music specials on Oasis and Pet Shop Boys from the BBC records.

U2 dedicated one show to Aung San Suu Kyi

2009-07-28T16:00:00.000-07:00

The one U2 social movement got a key enhance last night when jailed Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was named Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience.
U2, who have used their world tour to spotlight calls for her release, formally made the announcement at the last of their three-night run at Croke Park.
This month marks the 20th anniversary of Suu Kyi's arrest.
Irene Khan, Amnesty International's secretary general, said the imprisoned opposition leader was an inspiration to the world.
Suu Kyi a noble prize holder leads the National League for Democracy and has been locked up for over 13 of the past 20 years, mostly under house arrest.
U2, who have been requested friends to wear Suu Kyi masks in support of the 64-year-old during the tour, last night devoted to her their 2000 single, ‘Walk On'.

U2 Tour could be interrupted by demonstrations

2009-07-28T13:14:00.000-07:00

U2’s schedule for its 360-Degree Tour may be disturbed by a demonstrator at Croke Park in Dublin that is holding up the take to bits of the stage after three concerts at the weekend.

People’s near the stadium in U2’s home city demonstrated this morning next to two days of non-stop work at the arena after the concerts. Tour director Jake Berry said the plan was fixed with the council and that crews required that time to make the after that show.

Around 80 demonstrator jammed trucks from incoming and outgoing the area around Croke Park at midnight, when work was due to begin. citizens called off another demonstrator intended for tonight after talks with stadium management today, the Irish Times accounted on its Web site.

“We based all our things on that schedule to make the next show,” Berry said on RTE radio earlier today. The demonstrators “affect” the tour timetable, he said, failing to say whether the band could fail to spot a show.

whilst three stages are leapfrogging each other across Europe as part of the tour, the sound system, lights and screens are moved right away after each show to the next city, according to U2’s Web site.

Barbara Ward, who lives near Croke Park, said that around 1,200 houses in the surrounding area are affected and that residents only get entered in a draw for 200 tickets for the concerts. Almost 250,000 people be presented at the Croke Park concerts on July 24, July

Music Quotes by BONO

2009-07-28T07:22:00.000-07:00

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Guitar tab for October

2009-07-28T07:18:00.001-07:00

U2 October

The tempo is ♩= 92  moderately slow     4/4

 NOTATION KEY:

   (n)   = Ghost note

    %    = Rest

 Intro  Piano arr. for gtr.

    Am                            G              G9sus4          Am

E||-------------|--------------|--------------|---------------|----------------|

B||-1--------0--|--------------|--0-----------|---------------|--1--------0----|

G||-------------|------%-------|-----------2--|--0---------2--|----------------|

D||-2--------2--|--------------|--0--------0--|---------------|--2--------2----|

A||-0-----0-----|--------------|--------------|--2---------3--|--0-----0-------|

E||-------------|--------------|--3-----3-----|--3-----3------|----------------|

                                          G                             Dm7(6)

E|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

B|--1-------3----0---------------------|--0---------------------------------6--|

G|-------------------------------------|---------------2--------------------5--|

D|--2------------2---------------------|--0------------0-----------------------|

A|--0------------0---------------------|------------------------------------5--|

E|-------------------------------------|--3---------3--------------------------|

E|---------------------3------------5--|-(5)----------------------------------||

B|-(6)---------------------5----6------|-(6)----------------------------------||

G|-(5)-----------4---------------------|-(4)----------------------------------||

D|-------------------------------------|--------------------------------------||

A|-(5)---------------------------------|-(5)----------------------------------||

E|-------------------------------------|--------------------------------------||

    G                 F/G           G     G                 F/G             G

E|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

B|--3----0----1-------(1)-----------3--|-(3)---0----1-------(1)-------------3--|

G|--0------------------2------------0--|-(0)-----------------2--------------0--|

D|---------------3----(3)--------------|---------------3----(3)----------------|

A|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

E|--3-------------------------------3--|-(3)--------------------------------3--|

    G                 F/G           G     G                 F/G

E|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

B|-(3)---0----1-------(1)-----------3--|-(3)---0----1-------(1)----------------|

G|-(0)-----------------2------------0--|-(0)-----------------2-----------------|

D|---------------3----(3)--------------|---------------3----(3)----------------|

A|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

E|-(3)------------------------------3--|-(3)-----------------------------------|

    Fadd9(#11)

E|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

B|--1---------0------------------------|-(0)-----------------------------------|

G|--0------------------0---------------|--2------------------------------------|

D|--3----------------------------------|-(3)-----------------------------------|

A|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

E|--1----------------------------------|-(1)-----------------------------------|

    Fadd9(#11)

E|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

B|--1---------0------------------------|-(0)-----------------------------------|

G|--0------------------0---------------|--2----------2-----2-------------------|

D|--3----------------------------------|-(3)-----------------------------------|

A|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

E|--1----------------------------------|-(1)-----------------------------------|

    Cadd9     C

E|--3---------0------------------------|-(0)-----------------------------------|

B|--3---------1------------------------|-(1)-------(1)-------------------------|

G|--0---------0------------------------|-(0)--------2--------------------------|

D|--0---------2------------------------|-(2)-----------------------------------|

A|--3----------------------------------|-(3)-----------------------------------|

E|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

    Cadd9     C

E|--3---------0------------------------|-(3)-----------------------------------|

B|--3---------1------------------------|-(3)-----------------------------------|

G|--0----------------------------------|-(0)--------2-----2--------------------|

D|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

A|--3----------------------------------|-(3)-----------------------------------|

E|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

    F6add9    Fmaj9

                                                          Oc -

E|--3---------0------------------------|-(0)-----------------------------------|

B|--3---------1------------------------|-(1)-----------------------------------|

G|--0----------------------------------|-(0)-----------------------------------|

D|--3----------------------------------|-(3)-----------------------------------|

A|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

E|--1-----1----------------------------|-(1)-----------------------------------|

Am

    to - ber,      and      the           trees  are   stripped  bare_     of

E|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

B|--1---------0------------------------|--1----------------------0-------------|

G|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

D|--2---------2------------------------|--2----------------------2-------------|

A|--0-----0----------------------------|--0------------0-----------------------|

E|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

    G                                               G9sus4

    all they      wear,_                  what  do__   I         care?    Oc-

E|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

B|--0----------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

G|----------------2--------------------|--0------------2-----------------------|

D|--0-------------0--------------------|---------------------------------------|

A|-------------------------------------|--2------------3-----------------------|

E|--3--------3-------------------------|--3--------3---------------------------|

Am

    to - ber,      and                    king-doms    rise,_            and

E|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

B|--1---------0------------------------|--1--------3---0-----------------------|

G|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

D|--2---------2------------------------|--2---------------2--------------------|

A|--0-----0----------------------------|--0---------------0--------------------|

E|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

    G                              Dm7

    king-doms     fall,_            but   you   go     on______

E|-------------------------------------|-----------------------3------------5--|

B|--0-------------------------------6--|-(6)------------------------5---6------|

G|----------------2-----------------5--|-(5)-----------4-----------------------|

D|--0-------------0--------------------|---------------------------------------|

A|----------------------------------5--|-(5)-----------------------------------|

E|--3--------3-------------------------|---------------------------------------|

                                          G                  F/G            G

                  and                     on.________________________________

E|-(5)---------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

B|-(6)---------------------------------|--3----0----1--------(1)------------3--|

G|-(4)---------------------------------|--0-------------------2-------------0--|

D|-(5)---------------------------------|---------------3-----(3)---------------|

A|-------------------------------------|--0------------------------------------|

E|-------------------------------------|------------------------------------3--|

  Outro

                         F/G        Am7(sus4)

__

E|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

B|-(3)----0----1---------(1)--------3--|-(3)---0----1--------(1)------------3--|

G|-(0)--------------------2---------0--|-(0)-----------0------2-------------0--|

D|-----------------3-----(3)-----------|---------------------------------------|

A|-(0)------------------------------0--|-(0)-----------------------------------|

E|-------------------------------------|------------------------------------3--|

                                    Dm7(sus4)                               G

E|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

B|-(3)----0----1---------(1)--------3--|-(3)---0----1--(1)------------------3--|

G|-(0)-------------0------2---------0--|-(0)------------------2-------------0--|

D|-------------------------------------|----------------3----(3)------------0--|

A|-(0)------------------------------0--|-(5)-----------------------------------|

E|-------------------------------------|------------------------------------3--|

E|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

B|-(3)---------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

G|-(0)---------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

D|-(0)---------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

A|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

E|-(3)---------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

 This song is naturally transcribed for guitar, but I prefer play it with a good piano!

HAVE FUN!

The Specialist

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2009-07-28T07:13:00.000-07:00

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Dubliners angry over the around-the-clock U2's noisy stage dismantling

2009-07-28T07:09:00.000-07:00

U2 managers said the protests meant more than 50 trucks carrying much of the band's 390-ton stage, TV screens, lighting and sound equipment missed their intended morning ferry.

Some trucks did depart the stadium several hours late as protesters stood aside. But tour organizers said it was too soon to determine whether any of U2's tightly scheduled concert dates in Sweden, Germany and Poland would be affected.

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2009-07-28T07:04:00.000-07:00

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U2 restore pride in front of 80,000 at Croke Park

2009-07-28T06:52:00.000-07:00

With immense amounts of hype, it is very easy to forget that this is a gig.

Former Artane Boys Band member Larry Mullen leads the band onstage and it's a stirring sight. They audaciously begin with four songs from the much maligned No Line on the Horizon album. Breathe is an unexpected and effective opener, although Get On Your Boots is still an underwhelming lead single.

It's little wonder that U2 only play their home town every four years. If this was an annual bash both the band and audience would be completely burnt out from sheer exhaustion and over-exposure.

protest at Dublin, Croke park could delay U2 Concert

2009-07-28T06:36:00.000-07:00

Protesters who live close to the Croke Park stadium in Dublin have begun a protest over what they describe as "intrusion" caused in the aftermath of three U2 concerts at the weekend.

They picketed the stadium and blocked the exit of some lorries from 0100 BST on Tuesday.

The residents are due to protest again this evening over a second night of work which is planned to lay a new pitch for the all-Ireland gaelic football quarter finals.

The band is scheduled to perform in Goteborg, Sweden, on Friday and Saturday; Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on Monday; and Chorzow, Poland, on 6 August.

U2 tour manager Jake Berry said the delays caused by the protest meant the trucks missed their intended morning ferry.

U2 360° Video Screen

2009-07-28T06:33:00.000-07:00

All of the "360" concerts feature a stunning feat of engineering: the four-taloned "Claw" stage. The 390-ton, green cabana stands more than 10 stories above the band as they strut through the crowds on moving bridges and a ring-shaped stage with concertgoers inside and out.

Once it was designed and engineered by “the dream team” of Willie Williams, Mark Fisher, Chuck Hoberman, and Frederic Opsomer, the high-tech, expanding video screen that visually stuns the audience during the U2 360° tour had to be moved. In other words, the 888 individual hexagonal panels that support 500,000 Barco LED pixels has to move in order to transform during the show, as it expands from seven meters to 22 meters high. That job fell to UK-based Kinesys and their K2 3D software control package.

For Kinesys, “This is probably the biggest job we’ve done in terms of coordinating so many devices all moving at the same time,” says Weatherhead, referring to the 48 interconnected devices that it takes to move the screen. “Fortunately we had a good period of time before the first show to assemble and test everything.”

U2 rocks in Dublin as world tour hits new high

2009-07-28T06:31:00.000-07:00

U2 rocked more than 80,000 fans in Dublin as the Irish supergroup's latest world tour hit new emotional highs Friday night on home soil.

"We are so young — as a nation!" shouted the 49-year-old lead singer Bono.

A deafening roar welcomed the Dubliners as they launched their three-concert homestand at Croke Park, Ireland's biggest stadium and a cathedral to Irish nationalism. The band's "360" tour — featuring its underselling 12th studio album, "No Line on the Horizon" — switches from Europe to North America in September.

Crowds braced for downpours threw their raincoats aside as an unexpected sunset gave way to a starry Dublin night.

U2 Boys returned to Party

2009-07-28T06:03:00.000-07:00

But seeing as the U2ers were back on home soil, there was always going to be a few bevies had. And true to form Bono and the boys (minus Larry Mullen) let lose into the wee hours on Saturday night at Residence on St Stephen’s Green.

By the end of the Irish leg of U2’s 360 tour the uber famous Dubliners will have played live to almost quarter of a million people over the three nights in Croke Park. Such is the popularity of the band’s homecoming show the fourpiece could probably sell out Croker all week. And next week too.

U2 at Croke Park

2009-07-25T13:20:00.000-07:00

The Irish rock superstars played in front of 80,000 fans in Croke Park in the first of three concerts at the stadium."In the words of our good friends the Corrs, we are so young," lead singer Bono, who turns 50 next year, shouted, at the start of Beautiful Day."As a nation I mean," he added pointing to the crowd.U2 had promised fans a night and a stage show to remember - and they weren't going to let anyone down.Once they performed tracks from their latest album, the band launched into their greatest hits.Bono also paid tribute to Ronnie Drew of the Dubliners, who died last year, by playing one of their tracks the Auld Triangle.

U2 dazzled fans from inside a giant steel claw that rose to 60 metres high above the crown - almost as tall as the stands surrounding it.It took a week to construct the impressive setting, that included 550 tonnes of steel, 56 tonnes of video screens and spanned across a third of the pitch.Music aside, the band's political allegiance was clear - with a dedication to jailed Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi, currently on trial charged with breaking a security law.Thousands of concert-goers wore a mask bearing her image when the band played Walk On.Bono (left) and Larry Mullen Jnr from U2 playing at Croke ParkBono and Larry Mullen Jnr from U2 playing at Croke Park.Fans queued from midnight last night in torrential rain to catch the band up close.

Over the coming days more than 240,000 revellers from as far as Japan, Canada and America will descend on the north Dublin stadium - the equivalent to three All Ireland's finals back to back.It is estimated the series of gigs - tonight, tomorrow and Monday - will boost the city's economy by 50 million euro.Celia Braga, from Lisbon in Portugal, was in the audience."I am a big fan," said the 36-year-old."This is my first time seeing them. It will be a fantastic night."

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2009-07-15T14:06:00.000-07:00

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