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U2 on to a three-day break in Horsens, Denmark as part of its 360 world tour. U2 in Horsens give two concerts - on Sunday (15.08.) And Monday (16.08.).

The cult Irish band U2 rocked at 12.08. the Cebit Hannover before 55,000 enthusiastic fans and played a total of 23 songs curious - Lary Mullen Jr. (drummer of the band wore) during a concert Hannover 96 Fan T-shirt. The beautiful ballad Moment of Surrender, they dedicated it to the late keeper of Hannover 96.

U2, in the context of their world tour at 360 ° 15.08. and 16.08. stop in the port town of Horsens in Jutland in Denmark. It has about 50,000 inhabitants and is located 45 and 75 km from the airport and Aarhus Bill and removed. The town is famous for its annual Medieval Festival in late August, will travel to the fans from all over Europe.

The four Irishmen: Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr. and Adam are in the Casa Arena Horsens from approximately 35000-45000 fans from around the world about a two hour concert with a worldwide hit as follows: One, I Still Have not Found What I ‘give m Looking For Beautiful Day or for the best. U2 certainly be tomorrow and the day after, to give the best Glastonbury 06.08.2010 unreleased song. 

360 degrees! Bono makes Hannover hot

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Distorted Space sounds, powerful guitar sound in the boiler of the AWD-Arena, mega-impact of the world stars U2 before 57 000 fans sold out!

“Beautiful Day” - and what a beautiful day!

Front man Bono is dancing on the outer ring of the gigantic spaceship stage: with typical cool sunglasses, black leather outfit. Fog, light explosion, hit fireworks. Crazy good, these Irishmen. Your superheated “360” show brings the stadium quickly to a boil. U2 rock Hannover!

And in the middle: President Christian Wulff (51, white shirt with no tie) and First Lady Bettina (36, black pantsuit know). Insider, Bettina Wulff is that for years a big fan of Bono - for his music, but also because of its commitment to Human rights and the environment. Wulff: “That’s why I have given her the inside cards for Christmas.” Half an hour before the show gave it a meeting behind the stage.

Wulff, “Bono is an impressive personality, credibility and a great model to make the responsibility of African popular!”

It was long uncertain whether Wulff after the rise in the Bellevue Palace are actually for the U2 concert. Security concerns! Compromise: Only rocked the presidential couple with the interior. Then when it got dark, brought bodyguards for security reasons the other two for a place.

Iconic pieces of three decades, thundered from the speakers: “New Year’s Day,” “Where The Streets Have No Name”, “Still have not found what I’m looking for”. In between songs from the new album “No Line On The Horizon” (“Magnificent”, “Got Your Boots On”).

Again and again inspired Bono with personal notes, even neighboring Maschseefest as “the festival of beer drinking mentioned outside.”

At the finale Bono recalled the late 96-hero Robert Enke, sang the mega seller “With or without you” and “One”. Soulful goosebumps-end …

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U2 and the 700-ton monster arrive in Hanover

Just over a week before the start of the Bundesliga season in the AWD Arena in Hanover from the green grass is not much to see.  

A total of 700 tons of steel and technology currently dominate the stadium on Thursday evening and prepare the stage for the concert. 

After 13 years, the band is the first time to see again live in the state capital.

Six days and more than 8,000 hours was the construction of the 360-degree stage - a futuristic, spider-like structure - claim that it has, according to organizers in these dimensions so before given only U2.

The approximately 50,000 fans are expected to forward to an appropriate spectacle, production manager Jake Barry promised yesterday, while in the truest sense of the word were the latest work on the stage.

Hanover, the second of three German stations during the 2009 world tour the band started. On Tuesday evening, the rocker is already in the Frankfurt Commerzbank-Arena had occurred.

It had come to the end of the presentation for a moving invocation. Before the very last song called “Moment of Surrender” singer Bono recalled the 21 victims of the Love Parade in Duisburg. He then expressed his hope that the disaster should not lead to perish in Germany, the joy of music.

Quite easily, the German tour start was, however, does not. During the construction stage to comply with the giant screens, there was in Frankfurt a lot of trouble.

At 52 meters height, the steel structure for the stadium roof was too high. “In Hanover, there has been no trouble,” said the head of production.

Ensure that the lawn just before the season start of the Bundesliga season is not damaged, make special shoes. If the Green still suffer, there is a new turf by U2.
  

Opening is Kasabian. U2 starts at 20.45 Local Time

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U2 Istanbul concert

U2 360 Tour Tickets for the Istanbul concert of world-famous rock group U2, playing Sept. 2, have gone on sale all around Turkey.

According to a statement made by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, or İKSV, tickets for the concert, being organized by Live National in collaboration with Pozitif, İKSV and the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency, were previously only available from the Biletix website.

Fans are now able to buy tickets at all Biletix sales points in Turkey.

Tickets for the concert, to be held at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium, are also available at Babylon box offices and Garanti Paramatik points and prices range from between 50 and 750 Turkish Liras. Lodge tickets, costing 750 liras, have sold out.

The concert, which will be the largest stadium concert ever performed in Turkey, also features a support concert by important British alternative rock group Snow Patrol.

The European leg of U2’s “360° Tour” kicked offFriday night in the Italian city of Torino. After Italy, and just finished Franfurt Germany, Denmark, Finland, Russia and Austria. U2 will arrive in Istanbul on Sept. 6 after a concert in Athens Sept. 3.

Bono Fingers Frankfurt

Bono Fingers You 2010 With Bono bravely bounding around the stage, acting all born again after recovering from his back injury, the European reboot of the U2 360 tour moved to Frankfurt on Tuesday night. With REM’s singer Michael Stipe in the crowd, Bono injected an energetic end-of-the-world snippet into “Vertigo.”

Other than dropping new song “North Star” and adding “New Year’s Day,” setlist changes were minor. The show ran its normal event however there was at least one interesting event.

Really we are not sure what Bono was thinking at the time. However the photo clearly shows his feeling towards something. We need to check in with our German press office to learn what’s up. Ah I guess we know what’s up, rather we need to know why ?

Last nights show by the Frankfurt fans was considered fantastic and it was clear that U2 and Bono are back in business. If you compare the show in Turn to last nights. We agree we spent most of the show wondering how Bono will perform? For last nights show it was almost as if we did not even know anything about a back “issue” it was  hard to tell he’d had any back surgery just a few months ago! He was swinging on the steering wheel mic like a kid during the encore.

The different between shows lots of emotion and drama on the first night. Last nights show was just freaking great said one fan. Amazing. Larger than life. As you can expect twitter was all a buzz with the setlist and comments about the Boys, and bits of information from U2GIGS vast database of concert details.  The audio stream ran fast and most fans listening on line suggested the show was running fast which it was not just simple compression.

The German crowd was loud. They seem ready to jump out of their skin for this event. Lots of singing, clapping and most fans up off their fat asses for most of the show. ( Hey thats what Bono said)

Larry gave Bono what we thought was a very warm standing ovation just after Bono’s prance around the outer stage which during the first show remained empty for most of the time. Bono returned the warm overation and off the show went.

We have finally settled the conversation about what was the first song. Beautiful Day starts the show off. We have posted the set list. Beautiful Day works to start the show off while some miss Breathe which really never got the crowd up off their feet BD take set the tone.“New Year’s Day” was an inspired second choice, pumping some more fuel into the fire, with some extra Polish passion added to the mayhem in the pit. Six Poland flags were hoisted by fans in different parts of the pit, one was thrown onto the stage, and Bono draped it over one of his monitors where I think it stayed for the rest of the show.

As we said earlier the German crowd was LOUD and stayed that way for most of the show.

“I Still  Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” “Mysterious Ways.” with some props to REM throwen in as Michael Stips was in the house.

Miss Sarajevo was amazing, Bonoo strained to hit the highs and Until The End of The World was amazing. The Edge had his full game on dredging some filthy sounds.

For U2 moved one fuminante show from Germany and towards the end of the upbeat, the singer also showed his heart. came the terrible disaster of Duisburg (at the Love Parade is a mass panic) moved even U2. She dedicated her song “Surrender” the 21 dead of the Love Parade.

Bono announced at the end of nearly two-hour concert on Tuesday evening that he hoped that the tragedy of Duisburg did not lead to “the joy that goes down to the music and the culture here.”

55 000 spectators cheered their stars, but the World Cup Stadium was not quite sold out. But whatever - the arena was cooking, no wonder: At 360 degrees hot guys who want to know on their tour around the globe once again really.

Coming Next  Hanover and Munich

Frankfurt Setlist (early news)

We willl have the full review, video and photos later tonight for now here is the set list. Show Ended at 5PM EST -

The return of the stingray guitar (intro)

Beautiful Day

New Year’s Day

Get On Your Boots

Magnificent

Mysterious Ways (with My sweet lord snippet)

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (with Moving on up snippet)

Glastonbury

Elevation

In A Little While

Miss Sarajevo

Until The End Of The World

The Unforgettable Fire

City Of Blinding Lights

Vertigo (with The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) snippet, Michael Stipe in the house)

I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight remix (with Discotheque snippet)

Sunday Bloody Sunday

MLK

Walk On

One

Amazing Grace / Where The Streets Have No Name

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me!

With Or Without You

Moment Of Surrender 

Hello Frankfurt !

The cult Irish band U2 comes with its giant 360-degree tour today to Frankfurt. But transporting the Rundumbühne that looks like a giant octopus or a giant spaceship on four legs, are about 120 large tractors needed, the organizer Marek Lieberberg reported on Monday. “This is the biggest production that there has ever been in the Commerzbank-Arena.” U2 lead singer Bono, (50) just three months after his slipped disc is only the second time on stage again. The comeback world tour and the start of 2010 had celebrated the four musicians on Friday night before 45,000 fans in Turin, Italy.  Where three new songs have played. The  opening tonight  Frankfurt, the British rock group Kasabian. 

U2 fans have been lining up all night. The GA Line has picked up after a night of fans sleeping on ground or whatever they could find. 

Currently its

Frankfurt, where the Irishman last played occurred in 1993 with their “ZooTV Tour” is the second stop of world tour 2010th After months of pause had Bono and his band celebrated in Turin last Friday in front of around 45,000 fans his stage comeback.

The business side of U2

Worldwide, there are few bands like U2 can transform all stages in a stomping ground. The four creative minds from Dublin who play together since 1976 and carry with appearances in almost all the relevant charities and rescue world events, good intentions and its image are the last true superstar band.

U2 shows what is possible in the heavily beleaguered music business, which has through the triumph of the Internet and piracy since 1998, lost a good third of sales. “Before, the money brought CDs, and concerts were little more than advertising for it, now runs the other way usually,” says Bernd Hocke, General Manager of the Hamburg group’s Edel, the new reality.

Bono & Co. are also in the supposedly dead areas such as merchandise, CDs and licenses music for top earners. Of the $ 500 million, the U2 is expected this year and last year earning after deducting all costs, nearly half of which comes from business outside the concert arenas.

The rain of money owed the band of musical creativity and business sense. The U2 AG provides business law challenged again and again, as in its current stage. So far bands in stadiums sell any tickets for the area behind the stage as speakers and decoration with increasingly large video screens to the fans there, obstructed the view. With U2’s “360-degree tour this screens in 30 meters height depend on steel beams. This provides an unobstructed view and up to 10,000.

Tonight U2 makes its second stop it whats going to prove out to be a long tour for both the boys, fans and crew. We can only trust that all stay well.

U2 Possible new ablum !

U2 360 Tour 2010A new U2 album is potentially on the cards before the end of the year.

It is the kind of news likely to have the top dogs at Universal Music rubbing their hands in glee. And it has been confirmed to Hot Press by U2 manager Paul McGuinness.

“I hope there will be another record pretty soon,” Paul told Olaf Tyaransen.

Pressed as to how soon might “pretty soon” be, the prospect of an album this side of Christmas was revealed.

“If I was being wildly optimistic, I’d say before the end of the year,” he laughed.

The band have already discussed a work in progress under the working title of Songs Of Ascent, a lot of material for which had been recorded before the year’s plans were disrupted by the back injury that put lead singer Bono out of action and required spinal surgery.

Fans may take encouragement from the fact that U2’s current touring activities will come to an end early in October – opening up the possibility that the final shaping of an album could take place over the following month.

“There’s a mixture of material available now,” Paul McGuinness reveals. “Some of it’s been recorded. Some of it is called Songs Of Ascent, then there’s Spiderman material, then there’s some new stuff. I mean, Bono’s always a bit over-optimistic on these occasions, but I heard him telling an Italian journalist that he had four albums ready. That’s not quite it! But that’s what he was saying [laughs].”

A considerable batch of material was close to being finished in the Spring.

“There was a lot of very strong material already in the can earlier this year,” Hot Press editor Niall Stokes confirmed. “They debuted ‘Glastonbury’ last night in Turin, which is a really beautiful song, and a potential single. And also ‘North Star’, which was performed acoustically – it is a classic U2 idea, which has fantastic resonance. And there is a lot more brilliant stuff where they came from.”

Bono came through his first gig back in flying colours, further encouraging speculation that the U2 flying machine is fully back on track.

“The show went extremely well,” Paul McGuinness reflected, speaking from a police motorcade immediately after the show. “It was really superb. No weakness, no mishaps physically. And I thought he sang particularly well. The production performed perfectly. It was kind of a perfect night, really.”

So it’s business as usual for U2?

“Yes… we’re much relieved.”