U2 Kicks off Show

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

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

U2 Asked Glastonbury 2011

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

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

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

U2 Arrives and Pizza Too

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

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

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

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

U2 to sold-out in Turin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U2 Press Interview

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

How is Bono? Ready to reboot?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U2 Wednesday Night Rehearsal News

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

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

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

Mini Set

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

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

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

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



U2 New Zealand Show ?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Michael Dickison 

U2 Fined for Noise

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

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