U2 Considered Earth Destroyers

U2 traveled a total of 49904 km to give 35 shows, with an average of 1425 km traveled per show. That’s about 3707 pounds of CO2 per show.

(Sept. 7) — Justin Bieber’s place in the musical canon may be a matter of debate, but from an environmental standpoint, at least, he’s on the side of the angels.

Bieber is one of a number of artists — along with Jay-Z, Lady Gaga and the Georgia indie-pop band Of Montreal — to be designated an “Earth Saver” by a new app that measures a touring act’s carbon footprint.

The app, Earth Destroyers, calculates how many pounds of carbon dioxide an artist produces by touring. Using data from the tracking site Bandsintown, artists are classified as either good or bad for the planet depending on how far they travel between shows in a given window of time.

Sometimes the results can be surprising — like when U2, whose front man Bono is well known for his philanthropic and humanitarian work, turns out to be an “Earth Destroyer” at 3,707 pounds of CO2 per show.

The app is the brainchild of Paul Lamere, a director of developers for the Massachusetts music-software company The Echo Nest. Lamere created Earth Destroyers during the most recent Music Hack Day, an event held every couple of months where developers try to create new pieces of music-organization technology in a single weekend.

Reached for comment, Lamere cautioned that the methodology Earth Destroyers uses means its conclusions should be taken with a grain of salt. Specifically, he said, “I would not put a whole lot of stock into that CO2 per show [number] being accurate.”

The figure, Lamere explained to Surge Desk, was calculated based on an estimate of how much carbon dioxide a band would produce by flying to every stop on its tour. But a lot of artists travel by bus, and in their cases the numbers won’t reflect reality very closely.

Istanbul was rocked U2

Sunday evening in Istanbul, an unsusal night for a live event. The boys gave an unforgettable concert. Approximately 50 thousand spectators filled the stadium, despite the rain. There was some word that the concert may be canceled due to rain, however no offical word had ever been suggested. The world’s biggest stage and rock band was ready to shake the ground.

Bono went on stage and making the victory sign. Rock fans filled the stadium when you see the enthusiasm of “Why we so late?”. There was a great audience. Beautiful Day U2 concert began with the track. The scene resembles a spider under her husband Bill and his team dominated the entire audience. Concerts throughout the audience, always stood. Approximately 50 thousand people filled the stadium.

In a few generations that followed was a concert. U2 came to Istanbul for the first time, sang the songs became classics. 

Bono had preferred to talk about the bridge. “This bridge is a bridge that combines religion and secularism, as a bridge between cultures. A bridge carrying the past into the future.” he said. Bonds outside the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen’ın was a performance worth seeing. Experienced, rather than a concert was a splendid show. Her husband became smaller stadium, the scene covering the entire area seemed. Bonds, one to a spectator on the scene and danced with him. Later, Bono was invited on stage Zülfü Livaneli. Sang a track together. Livaneli, “U2’ya give a gift.” and he said ‘I Aslanım’ı Yigit said. Concerts, in Istanbul’s most glorious music event that was ever seen. As well as Bills fans were lucky. Because the rain had stopped early.

Did you know this ?

  • U2 fans from around noon to come to the Olympic Stadium began.
  • City had put additional buses, but long kuyuklar occurred in Taksim.
  • Due to Traffic Ataturk Olympic Stadium was not easy to get to the stadium.
  • 9:00 p.m. at the concert will begin approximately one hour delay announcements began.
  • U2 hit the stage when the stadium was half empty, but later in the minutes full.
  • Black Market items umbrellas and raincoats.
  • Pirates ready to record and sell U2 Concert DVD’s and Audio
  • Concert was the color, combo variety of different country flags were displayed.
  • ‘Prayer room’ because of Ramadan has seen a lot of interest.

Young and Old Turks Love U2

The boys spent three days in Istanbul, talked the bridge Bosphorus and played to the a crowd of 70,000 screaming fans. The setlist a little different from the last three shows and we expect to be posting videos over the next few days. 

Bono did meet witht he PM at Dolmasbahce Palce. The band greeted their fans that greeted them at their arrival with song and flowers.
U2 members, fans show love for their allocated among the vehicles went to the hotel from the airport will remain separated.

U2, Live Nation up by the Istanbul Culture and Arts Foundation in collaboration with the contribution of the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency held on September 6 concert at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium will meet with Turkish fans.

Russia’s fondness for rock music, known as the August 25 President Dmitry Medvedev in Sochi with Bono had come together.

U2 frontman Bono before the concert will be famous, in an interview to Arman Ayşwe greatest desire to combine the two continents of the Bosphorus Bridge that had indicated that stride. ,

Speaking recently in a television program, Secretary General of the Istanbul 2010 ECOC Agency Yılmaz Kurt, Bono’s Bosphorus Bridge and the State Minister of State Minister Hayati Yazıcı Bagis said he would play with. What time in history to walk which is stored as state secret.



U2 Arrives in Turkey

U2 fans in Turkey where treated to a special from Bono and The Edge. A large crowd welcomed the boys to town as they landed in Atatürk International Airport. The band did not just sign autographs. The Edge started playing his acoustic guitar and performed Desire with Bono.

360 ° Tour U2, 6 September, up by Live Nation and İKSV in collaboration with the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency’s contribution to the Istanbul Ataturk Olympic Stadium!

Bono Meets Turkish PM

With his band’s visit one of the most anticipated events on Istanbul’s cultural calendar this year, U2 singer Bono took time out of preparations for Monday’s concert by meeting Sunday with Turkey’s prime minister.

The meeting at the prime minister’s office at Dolmabahçe Palace featured Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the leader’s daughter, Sümeyye Erdoğan, Turkey’s chief European Union negotiator, Egemen Bağış, and State Minister Hayati Yazıcı.

Bono gave the Turkish prime minister a red iPod Nano, which he said would benefit the Global Fund to Fight Against AIDS.

The Irish rock star also told Erdoğan he knew the prime minister was a great fan of Turkish classical music. The prime minister then posed with the band for the press to take photos although the rest of their meeting occurred behind closed doors.

Bono’s program for the later part of the day was to include a walk on the Bosphorus Bridge with ministers.

Yazıcı and Bağış were to accompany him as the Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review went to print.

U2 will perform in Istanbul for the very first time Monday as part of its 360º Tour on Monday evening.

The rock band will be on stage at the Istanbul’s Atatürk Olympic Stadium, contributing to Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture festivities. The U2 Istanbul concert is being organized by LiveNation, in collaboration with the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, or İKSV, and Pozitif.



NZ Sells Out Second Show !

NEW ZEANLAND – Tickets to U2′s Auckland show sold out within an hour yesterday morning.

In excess of 50,000 tickets  , with prices starting at $39.90, went on sale at 9am and were sold out by 10am. The Irish superband will bring their U2 360 Tour to Mt Smart Stadium on November 25.

Support will be provided for the New Zealand and Australian leg of the tour by Jay-Z. Within minutes of the concert selling out tickets were appearing on the TradeMe auction site with general admission tickets attracting bids of over $400, four times their face value. A Christchurch U2 fan who started an online campaign to see the band play in the city is “gutted” she missed out on tickets to the band’s Auckland gig. Chelsea Daly, from Ilam, logged on to buy tickets this morning but they sold out before she could buy any. “I was on the site at 8.30am and still failed to get a ticket, so gutted.”

Daly had started a campaign on Facebook called Bring U2 and Jay-Z to Christchurch in Nov 2010 last week. The online approach worked for Metallica fans earlier this year when thousands of people joined en masse to convince that band to schedule a Garden City gig. Despite her efforts, Daly had received an email yesterday from concert organisers to say no Christchurch concert would be announced.

“It’s just too hard with 360 stage,” she said. “Hopefully they take notice of the page for next time.”



 

U2 announces second Auckland show

Irish rockers U2 have added a second Auckland date to their “360 degrees” world tour.

Tickets for the first concert at Auckland’s Mt Smart Stadium on November 25 sold out in less than an hour on Friday. The second conert will be on November 26, and tickets will go on sale on Thursday.

Second dates were also announced for Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney and Perth.

The band will bring American rapper Jay-Z. It will be the first New Zealand stage appearance by the hip hop artist and partner of singer Beyonce Knowles.

Ticket prices start from $39.90, but a surcharge of almost $20 per transaction by an online outlet has upset many concert goers.