Atlanta U2 Fans tonight we are about to launch our 360 view from your view. Yes we have selected 20 people from around the stadium to send live as it happens updates to our photo collection. The people selected are just like you fans, from all age groups. Remember to follow us on twitter.com/u2tourfanns for real time updates. Thank you Atlanta for making us feel so welome.
Were you contemplating staying home from the U2 360º show at the Georgia Dome Tuesday night, due to the expense?
How does a $30 ticket grab you?
On Monday afternoon, Live Nation released a fresh batch of cheap seats to the iconic Irish band’s show. Granted, the lower level tickets are behind the stage.
Explains the Live Nation folks in an email to Buzz Central: “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 a intimate 360º experience for concert goers. And with the production set and the show ready to lift off in Atlanta, tour promoters announced today that the sight lines are better than anticipated and a new block of lower level rear stage seats at $30.00 has just been released.”
The tickets are on sale now at www,livenation.com, the Georgia Dome Box Office or charge by phone at (800) 745-3000.
Also, be advised that the following items are prohibited:
* Video or audio recording devices
* Cameras
* Laser Pointers or Glow Sticks
* Balloons or inflatable balls of any kind
* Backpacks or large bags
* Blankets, sleeping bags or folding chairs
* Weapons or fireworks
* Noise-makers, air horns, instruments, whistles or bells
* Skateboards, scooters, bicycles or “heelies”
* Banners or flags on poles
* Coolers, cans or bottles
* Food or beverage
North Carolina Fans Disappointed
Days after the show disappointed U2 fans were still horror-struck by traffic so snarled that dozens abandoned their cars on Wade Avenue(N.C), ducked behind trees to use the bathroom and wept openly as the music played without them.
Brad King of Winston-Salem never even parked. He spent three-plus hours driving from his parents’ house in Durham, watching the bathroom-goers and the crying fans stuck outside, before he spotted the stadium several songs into U2’s set and decided to eat his pair of $50 tickets.
“We could clearly hear the music through the sunroof,” he said. “I thought, ‘Who’s to say we don’t spend five hours getting out of here?’ I don’t want to get home at 5 in the morning. So we turned around.”
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Tampa fans will be getting a double dose of U2 this weekend, The boys from Ireland will be playing Raymond James stadium. Consider it a mile stone, its the 10th concert in Tampa. They first played Tampa in 1981. Does anyone remember a sports bar called the “End Zone” In 2005 Bono referred to “The Beginning Zone is more like it.”
Now the sell out venues at 100K and invest millions of dollars for their fans. The opening torch has been handed to Muse for the Tampa show. Expect this to be the who’s who event of Tampa. Already private parties have been popping up all around the venue.
It Might Get Loud
The second dose The release of It Might Get Loud is finally adding a Tampa movie theater to its tour. The movie will open on October 9th( yes the same day as the concert) only at the AMC Veterans. The documentary piece explores the history of one of the greatest instruments ever invented…the electric guitar. The flick opened in mid-August but is slowly tuning into more cities.
U2TOURFANS: Normally we stay away from becoming the news story. However with all that has been going on over the last three months we have yet to really Thank you the fan for visiting and supporting our reporting team. Over the last couple of months we have increased our viewers by some unbelievable numbers. What we have come to find out about our readers was pretty amazing. We report the facts, stories that interest your our views and of course the fan. We have given you the reviews good and bad. Most all you have enjoyed th straight talk. We had 1 Million visitors over the last 30 days. Our viewers come from everywhere. We have watched our social media fan grow. On behalf of our team, a big Thank you goes out to each of you. We have a busy week ahead concert in GA on Tuesday and then off to Tampa, nine more shows to the end of this leg.
U2 performs Tuesday, Oct. 6 at the Georgia Dome. There are still some tickets left for the 7pm show, and if you are planning to go, you can ride MARTA there and avoid rush-hour traffic that will likely back up the connector.
You can park your car at several of the MARTA stations and ride in. Best bets for MARTA parking include Inman Park, West End, Lindbergh Center, Dunwoody or North Springs (see the MARTA rail map).
Also, be advised that the following items are prohibited:
* Video or audio recording devices
* Cameras
* Laser Pointers or Glow Sticks
* Balloons or inflatable balls of any kind
* Backpacks or large bags
* Blankets, sleeping bags or folding chairs
* Weapons or fireworks
* Noise-makers, air horns, instruments, whistles or bells
* Skateboards, scooters, bicycles or “heelies”
* Banners or flags on poles
* Coolers, cans or bottles
* Food or beverage
The Devils are apparently ready to reach rock star status.
Word is that the team will be
Of course, the Devils have traveled first class on chartered jets for years. But using the plane in which Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen travel will be tickle some of the team’s rock fans.
“Pretty cool,” defenseman Paul Martin said. “Some guys are pretty pumped up. I actually got to see them when they were here. That was the first time I’d seen them. I’m not a huge fan of their music, but the live show is one of the best I’ve ever seen.”
Seating on the plane could be a problem.
“Who gets Bono’s seat?” Jay Pandolfo asked. “I’m going to see if I can pull that off.”
They’ll get to experience a little of the rock star life.
“At least we can pretend,” Martin said.
DURHAM — Natalie Baker flew 36 hours from her home in Melbourne, Australia, to Durham to indulge her two loves: the music of Irish rock band U2 and being with her U2 fan community.
She was one of dozens of ultra-devoted fans at this weekend’s conference at N.C. Central University to explore the music, work and influence of U2.
“Their music inspires me to make a difference,” she said Saturday morning with an enthusiasm that showed no hint of the exhausting plane trip from the previous day. “It inspires me to make a difference, even a small difference, and encourages me to look at the world in a different way.”
Baker said she’s attended a dozen U2 concerts all over the world in the past 20 years, and planned to be at Saturday night’s U2 concert at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh.
“You don’t think I’d come all this way and not be at that concert, do you?” she asked.
A friend she met at the airport, Michelle Hakim of Newton, Mass., said she’s been a U2 devotee for 30 years.
“I’ve had this bond with the band since I was young,” Hakim, a child psychologist, said, ”because they really opened up my consciousness to humanity and the world and what you can do to make it a better place in the global community. So I just felt this was a really good place to expand on that and be part of it.”
Also at the conference was Diane Yoder, representing the African Well Fund, a nonprofit that has raised $700,000 to build wells and other water and sanitation projects in Africa. Her inspiration: U2.
“A group of U2 fans met on the Internet about six years ago with the intention of raising money for a well in Africa,” she said. “We saw a special on TV where [lead U2 singer] Bono had gone to Africa. They visited a village in Uganda and talked about how a well only costs $1,000.”
That was the spark that ignited their effort.
One of the keynote speakers at the conference was Anthony DeCurtis, an author, music critic and contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine.
DeCurtis said U2 is the perfect band for today’s world.
“They remain inspirational figures, beacons of hope in impossible times,” he said. “Their belief that divides can be bridged by the strength of rhetoric and vision confounds the frustrations that we, or at least I, sometimes feel. They continue to believe that we can be better people, and that we can build a better world.”
In an earlier interview, DeCurtis said the band often takes risks that pay off.
For example, after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U2 scrolled the names of those who died on the screen during a performance in New York.
“That’s a risky move,” he said. “Everybody was wrought and so vulnerable, like a burn victim is vulnerable. Your skin is so sensitive that somebody making a wrong move can really set you off. And people were just so moved by it.”
During a reception after the concert, DeCurtis talked to Bono.
“There was a feeling that a lot those people who died were Irish cops and firemen, and that was their people, man. And I think they felt that they had earned the right to a statement like that, and that it was almost a responsibility. And that’s not what you would get from a lot of bands.”
DeCurtis said he’s attended at least a dozen U2 concerts over the years.
”There’s a sense of engagement with the world that I get from them in a particularly powerful way. And so when I go to their music, that’s what I leave with. I think it’s that sense that things matter — the music matters and all the things in the world outside of music matter as well.”
“Their music continues to be a call to action,” he said. “For this band, there is truly no line on the horizon — no line between earth and sky, between young and old, between the face of the poorest and the richest, between who are and who are aspire to be.”
@U2 (www.atu2.com) is proud to present a special screening of U2 3D to wrap up The Hype & The Feedback. Our showing will begin at 8:00 pm on October 4th at the Wachovia IMAX Theatre in Raleigh, NC. After the movie, stick around for a special live chat with Neil McCormick and some great giveaways from the @U2 prize closet. It’s a perfect way to unwind after the conference with your fellow U2 fans and friends.
U2 3D is a stunning concert film with performances recorded during the band’s 2006 concerts in South America. If you haven’t seen it, don’t miss this chance — there’s nothing like seeing U2 3D on the big screen at an IMAX theatre. Movie tickets will cost $11.95 for adults ($10.95 for college students and senior citizens), and there’s no extra charge for the after-movie festivities.
After the film, @U2’s Matt McGee will chat with Neil McCormick about his long history with U2, going back to his days with the band as students at Dublin’s Mount Temple Comprehensive School. They’ll also take questions from the audience in a casual setting. Neil is the author of the popular book, Killing Bono: I Was Bono’s Doppelganger, which is currently being made into a film, and collaborated with the band to write their official biography, U2 By U2. Neil is currently a music writer and critic for the Daily Telegraph, and began his journalism career writing for Dublin’s Hot Press magazine.
The Wachovia IMAX Theatre is located at the Marbles Kids Museum, 201 E. Hargett Street in Raleigh.
