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New Years Day Dublin
All is quiet on New Year's Day. A world in white gets underway. I want to be with you, be with you night and day. Nothing changes on New Year's Day. On New Year's Day. I... will be with you again. I... will be with you again. Under a blood-red sky A crowd has gathered in black and white Arms entwined, the chosen few The newspaper says, says Say it's true, it's true... And we can break through Though torn in two We can be one. I... I will begin again I... I will begin again. Oh, oh. Oh, oh. Oh, oh. Oh, maybe the time is right. Oh, maybe tonight. I will be with you again. I will be with you again. And so we are told this is the golden age And gold is the reason for the wars we wage Though I want to be with you Be with you night and day Nothing changes On New Year's Day On New Year's Day On New Year's Day
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Live Nation Announces U2 360° Tour Environmental Impact Strategy
Live Nation Announces
U2 360° Tour Environmental Impact Strategy Unprecedented commitment to a net zero emissions goal for the global tour
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Claws, Trucks and Crew all add up
Claw by the numbers
Vital statistics for the superstructure for U2’s 360˚ Tour. There are three of these on tour. The flown production load, which is normally loaded in during the 24 hours preceding the show, weighs almost as much as the superstructure from which it is hanging.
Superstructure Statistics
Across stage width across bases: 64m (210’)
Up/down stage width across bases: 48.5m (159’)
Height of the superstructure: 30m (100’)
Height to lightning conductor (tip of pylon): 51.8m (170’)
Clear span across stage: 57.5m (189’)
Clear span up/down stage: 41.5m (136’)
Height to underside octagon truss: 25m (82’)
Tip to tip length of pylon: 43m (141’)
Total unloaded weight of superstructure: 190 tons
Total production load applied to superstructure: 176 tons
Stage Statistics
Ellipse major axis: 22.5m (74’)
Ellipse minor axis: 15.5m (51’)
Height 2.5m: (8’ 3”)
Under-stage tech area (including under upstage runway): 289m² (2900’²)
B Stage Runway Statistics
Ellipse major axis: 53m (174’)
Ellipse minor axis: 46m (151’)
Width: 2.4m (8’)
Height: 1.3m (4’ 4”)
Circumference on centerline: 147.5m (484’)
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Sour Notes begin to play in Dublin
Just as we thought would happen.
Dubliners decry U2's noisy all-night stage removal
DUBLIN — Dubliners angry over the around-the-clock dismantling of U2's monumental concert stage mounted street protests Tuesday, snarling the Irish band's plans for the next stages of their European tour.
Residents around Croke Park stadium said their aim was to embarrass Dublin City Council and the Gaelic Athletic Association — which authorized the all-night noise — not delay Ireland's most famous musical export.
But 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.
"We should all not be talking to you and (should be) on a boat," the tour's production director, Jake Berry, told reporters as several dozen residents protested beside three road junctions outside Croke Park, Ireland's largest stadium.
Berry said U2 did not want to risk accidents by driving any heavily laden trucks past protesters straddling roadways outside the stadium. He expressed surprise at the protests, even though plans for them have been widely reported in Ireland since last week.
Berry said he wasn't sure whether Tuesday's lost hours — and potential problems fitting trucks on later ferry services to Britain — would jeopardize any upcoming concert dates.
"It affects the tour schedule. Read that any way you want," he said.
Croke Park Area Residents' Committee spokesman David Purdue said that no one was "interested in any way in delaying U2 in any shape or form."
"This is primarily to get Dublin City Council and the Gaelic Athletic Association to take notice of us and recognize the damage they're doing to the local community," he said.
Berry said singer Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. were told of the Dublin disruption about 5 a.m. Tuesday as their private jet landed in Nice, France, where they are staying in between European gigs.
He said the band felt "pure disappointment. It's just really put a damp squib (sponge) on something that was a fantastic experience and fantastic show."
The protesting Dubliners complained that the council and sports authorities should not have cleared U2 to dismantle its stage over a continuous 44-hour period starting at 1 a.m. Tuesday — just two hours after the last of three Dublin concerts concluded before roaring crowds of 80,000.
In practice, the schedule means the area will suffer heavy nighttime noise for more than a week.
Activists from the residents committee, which plans protests throughout Tuesday, said they were willing to let U2's truck convoy carry out the most critical parts of the stage, including a telescoping bank of television screens and the stage's disco ball-topped spike.
The U2 concert promoters, MCD Productions, delivered a legal letter to the protesters, warning they could be sued for any financial losses incurred by the promoters, U2 or others with a financial stake in one of the world's biggest musical ventures.
U2 has three "Claw" stages — one of which is being constructed, another being dismantled, and a third being transported or in use any given moment of the tour.
The band is scheduled to perform in Goteborg, Sweden, on Friday and Saturday; Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on Monday; and Chorzow, Poland, on Aug. 6. Tour directors declined to specify the next destination of the Claw being dismantled in Dublin.
Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Sour Notes begin to play in Dublin
The show is over, hang overs begin to take hold and the crew has begun the task of packaging up a three party to head out to another city. As with most tours, delays will happen "Shit Happens" and of course the other saying "The Show must go on" Everyone from the crew,production to drivers knows that a few people standing around blocking them from leaving will not hold them up. Thanks for the memory Dublin a good way to send the boys off around the world. Don't worry when you arrive over here, trucks, people and fans will roll around all night long. Its the American way. Cheers mate
Dubliners decry U2's noisy all-night stage removal
DUBLIN — Dubliners angry over the around-the-clock dismantling of U2's monumental concert stage mounted street protests Tuesday, snarling the Irish band's plans for the next stages of their European tour.
Residents around Croke Park stadium said their aim was to embarrass Dublin City Council and the Gaelic Athletic Association — which authorized the all-night noise — not delay Ireland's most famous musical export.
But 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.
"We should all not be talking to you and (should be) on a boat," the tour's production director, Jake Berry, told reporters as several dozen residents protested beside three road junctions outside Croke Park, Ireland's largest stadium.
Berry said U2 did not want to risk accidents by driving any heavily laden trucks past protesters straddling roadways outside the stadium. He expressed surprise at the protests, even though plans for them have been widely reported in Ireland since last week.
Berry said he wasn't sure whether Tuesday's lost hours — and potential problems fitting trucks on later ferry services to Britain — would jeopardize any upcoming concert dates.
"It affects the tour schedule. Read that any way you want," he said.
Croke Park Area Residents' Committee spokesman David Purdue said that no one was "interested in any way in delaying U2 in any shape or form."
"This is primarily to get Dublin City Council and the Gaelic Athletic Association to take notice of us and recognize the damage they're doing to the local community," he said.
Berry said singer Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. were told of the Dublin disruption about 5 a.m. Tuesday as their private jet landed in Nice, France, where they are staying in between European gigs.
He said the band felt "pure disappointment. It's just really put a damp squib (sponge) on something that was a fantastic experience and fantastic show."
The protesting Dubliners complained that the council and sports authorities should not have cleared U2 to dismantle its stage over a continuous 44-hour period starting at 1 a.m. Tuesday — just two hours after the last of three Dublin concerts concluded before roaring crowds of 80,000.
In practice, the schedule means the area will suffer heavy nighttime noise for more than a week.
Activists from the residents committee, which plans protests throughout Tuesday, said they were willing to let U2's truck convoy carry out the most critical parts of the stage, including a telescoping bank of television screens and the stage's disco ball-topped spike.
The U2 concert promoters, MCD Productions, delivered a legal letter to the protesters, warning they could be sued for any financial losses incurred by the promoters, U2 or others with a financial stake in one of the world's biggest musical ventures.
U2 has three "Claw" stages — one of which is being constructed, another being dismantled, and a third being transported or in use any given moment of the tour.
The band is scheduled to perform in Goteborg, Sweden, on Friday and Saturday; Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on Monday; and Chorzow, Poland, on Aug. 6. Tour directors declined to specify the next destination of the Claw being dismantled in Dublin.
Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Dublin 3rd Final Show Set List
Setlist
- Breathe
- No Line on the Horizon
- Get on Your Boots
- Magnificent
- Beautiful Day
- New Year’s Day
- I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Snippet: Movin’ on Up)
- Stay
- Unknown Caller
- The Unforgettable Fire
- City of Blinding Lights
- Vertigo
- I’ll Go Crazy Remix (Snippets: Relax, Two Tribes)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday (Snippet: Rock the Casbah)
- Pride
- MLK
- Walk On (Snippet: You’ll Never Walk Alone)
- Where the Streets Have No Name (Snippet: All You Need Is Love)
- One
- Bad (Snippets: 40, Fool to Cry)
- Ultraviolet
- With or Without You (with Shine Like Stars verse)
- Moment of Surrender
Break the Law in the name of music ? U2