U2 Wednesday Night Rehearsal News

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

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

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

Mini Set

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

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

 

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

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



U2 New Zealand Show ?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

By Michael Dickison 

 

U2 Fined for Noise

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

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

Tuesday Rehearsal Video

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

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

 

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Rehearsal News for Monday

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

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

Miss Sarajevo

City Of Blinding Lights

Magnificent

Mysterious Ways

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

Elevation

In A Little While

Unknown Caller

Gloria

Get On Your Boots

Until The End Of The World

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

In A Little While

Elevation

Tryin’ To Throw Your Arms Around The World several times

Soon / Beautiful Day

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

Beautiful Day

Slow new song

Uptempo new song

Elevation

In A Little While

Miss Sarajevo

Until The End Of The World

The Unforgettable Fire

City Of Blinding Lights

Vertigo

Crazy Tonight remix / Discothèque (snippet)

Sunday Bloody Sunday

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

U2 Fan Alert - New Song !

first up- Bono was attending Alicia Keys wedding this past weekend. Alicia married Swizz Beatz and was not in New York as reported by others.

Sunday night  the whole band got together onfor rehearsals — and, best of all for fans around the world, they rehearsed outside at Olympic Stadium rather than indoors at the Olympic Sports Hall. Other than Bono’s arrival, the two biggest pieces of news are probably these:

Reports coming in from U2 Place and U2 Itlatia suggesting a new song was rehearsed.  Also the following Songs

  One Day Like This (cover: Elbow)> Beautiful Day
- Magnificent
- Soon> Moment of Surrender
- New Year’s Day
- Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
- Get On Your Boots

A second rehearsal included the following

 Beautiful Day
- Get On Your Boots
- Mysterious Ways
- I Still Have not Found What I’m Looking For
- Many River to Cross (snippet) ( Possible New Song)
- Miss Sarajevo

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Lights Sound and Crew

Diego Spagnoli: 2010Turin news: The first sound check at the stadium happened yesterday suggestions that it was U2 was a bit wrong. The taped music is part of the normal process of setup. The crew always plays some music over the PA’s to run meter tests and RF tests. Dallasm Sam and Joe have all been spotted in the statium. The stage is complete. Now all we need is the band.  

credit U2GIGS