Welkom U2 naar Brussel

BRUSSELS - The two concerts in Baudouin Stadium are much more than a musical event. This technology is the future of the live events.

 

Jake Berry shines. The production manager of the 360 ° tour expects to have nice weather in Brussels and he heard that today  will be even better.  The first U2 concert in Brussels will be perfect.

Behind him, on one half of football, is “the claw” up, colloquially known as the enormous stage. It is 65 meters wide, 27 meters high, with a “cigar” in the middle which, 45 meters high above the stadium overlooking Baldwin. Tonight, this bizarre structure, almost walked away from a comic strip, the main character in a U2 concert.

The 360 ° tour was launched last year in Barcelona and was immediately hailed as a revolutionary step for the live entertainment. “Bigger is not,” Berry put on a high chest. Somewhat misplaced, since the characteristic of U2 is that the ‘sky’ never ‘the limit’ is. The band always wants to evolve, innovate, continue.

Between Irish supergroup and some Flemish companies over the years has grown a warm story that both parties have pushed forward. The stages of Stageco have been used on pretty much all world tours since 1992, all U2 video screens made in Belgium, and every concert of the band live is portrayed by XL Video, from Ghent.

Frederic Opsomer Technologies of Tait is the man behind the innovative oval video screen, and fold-in and also transparent. Whether it’s been down more often than that for the first time in Barcelona, I ask him? “You’ll see tomorrow,” he grins. But seriously: “When that screen to expand the stage, this should be a moment of magic. The idea is that you will be surprised, not that spectacular a yo-yo is. “

Hedwig De Meyer, the patron of Stageco, hesitates, but calls “the claw” still “the strafste we ever did.” Special thanks to U2: “The producer Willie Williams showed me at the end of the Vertigo tour has a picture of a spider-like structure, asking if I could make such a stage.

That’s the good thing about that band. Of course U2 is a good customer, but he always asks again for a revolution. Live entertainment has become essential for the income bands and so we need to innovate, and it is good that such large developments help pay bands. “

The two Brussels concerts are the 16th and 17th in the second part of the European tour. Constant three stages on the road in Europe right now are the last parts in Paris again in one of forty trucks loaded, while the stage in San Sebastian is built to be ready by September 26.

Its steel structure is heavy and costs a lot to transport, but according to him, the greatest environmental nuisances caused by millions of fans who come to the concerts. That’s in line with what guitarist The Edge said. He thinks it is unfair to rock ‘n’ roll laden with sins that others commit regularly. Soccer Matches example.

Tonight U2 plays about 25 songs, interspersed with about half as many quotations from other songs. Except that the summer weather and music fans will carry, the main thrill in life, however, that anyone anywhere a good view of the live action, and to each other. The revolutionary 360 ° to the production is that a football stadium for concerts once a living place is slowly.

Both concerts were sold out. Interpol is the schedule.

Promoter Live Nation advises the public to carpool to and asked to come to Brussels.

U2 Comes to Mexico 2011

Just reported U2 360 Tour will visit Mexico CIty’s Estadio Azteca on May 14th 2011. It will be over 5 years since the boys have played in Mexico. Remember the Vertigo Tour of 2006. Tiickets will go on sale to Banamex Cardholders on Tuesday 28th at 11 am (local time) and the general public on Thursday September 30th at 11 am (local time)

U2.com subscribers can enter a special advance presale ahead of the public on Friday September 24th at 11:00 AM ( local time) Subscribers should watch their email for details on the whole pre-sale process.

(F)UCK BONO !

Fuck Bono the email starts off ! As I click to open the email send to our office late yesterday afternoon I wondered what the hell this was going to be about. You see its not the first time that in the millions of emails sent to our fan email box that we have someone posting their vents and making a statement. This one was different. This one really stirs up some interesting hate, anger and disrespect. We warned you in advance that this is an open letter to Bono. Colorful. We of course invite you to comment and speak up.

Dear Bono:

I find you to be nothing more than a mouth piece for your ownself. I really hate you. I saw you at the G8.  You had the gall to knock our PM ‘cos he wouldn’t agree to meet you.

It’s not so much that Bono thinks he has the right to influence democratically-elected World leaders, but that he thinks he speaks for the conscience of everyone under 40. What a prat. (And his music’s shit!)

Bono does not speak for me. I wish I could take those annoying wrap-around shades of his and shove them up his pompous poo-hole. I truly despise the certainty that the policies of the world’s biggest economies have been swayed by this self-appointed tit.

I was thinking about writing this letter to tell you that your a fucking asshole the way you treat countries that do not agree with your views. Yea sure the world needs some improvement who the fuck are you to push your ideas on everyone. Your a guy playing in a fucking band. So fucking what asshole. You should give your music away at this point since you have said time and time again you have more money that you will ever need.

Now I did not write the 10 reasons to hate you and your band but shit they do read pretty fucking good.

1. They have a guy in their band named Larry.

2. They still haven’t found what they’re looking for?  Would it kill them to ask a clerk?

3. “The Edge” sounds like a disposable BIC product.

4. How awful is Bono?  If given the choice of sparing either Sting or him, we would actually have to think about it.

5. In the name of love? How about in the name of God?

6. Bono is an anagram of Nobo, Noob, and Pompous Dickhead.

7. They care so much it makes our teeth hurt like we’re chewing tinfoil. 

8. If given the choice of sparing either Bono or Oprah, we would actually have to think about it.

9. James Joyce counseled his fellow Irishmen to adopt “silence, exile and cunning.”  In Bono’s case, we’d have settled for the silence.

10. They’re going to be around forever, aren’t they?  Like a turd stain on a gas station wall.

U2 Fans: What I find amazing about this letter is the fact that this person sat down and typed out all of this hate for one person. Also that he did do his homework to find some other people to share in his hate. We support the idea of freedom of expression however we can not publish letters that are harmful or suggest to harm anyone. We also have editoral right to slim down the language as we see fit -  Dre

Julian Lennon and U2

Lennon says U2 approached him earlier this summer looking for a studio to finish some tracks. He offered at his 14th century home in the South of France. “The Edge came to me and said ‘Please take some pictures,” Lennon recalls. Displayed were several intimate black-and-white shots of the band: a close-up of Bono’s weathered-seeming face, a candid of Adam Clayton sitting alone on a white stairwell, and the Edge sitting in a booth on a plane, with a lyric sheet in front of him. “To a degree, it’s a side of the boys that hasn’t been seen before … I just didn’t want to get in the way,” Lennon said. “The moment I thought there was any heavy air, I would clear out.”

One of the most striking U2 shots is of Bono in the studio, sitting underneath a headshot of John Lennon in his early greaser days. “Initially, I called it a Lennon sandwich,” Julian said. “Now I call it ‘Someone to Look up to.’ Bono was there, and I look up to him, and he looks up to dad.” Lennon also shot the band onstage in Vienna in late August. “They’re mates, so if they’re on the road and I’m in the neighborhood, I’m there.”

Rolling Stone does not have any of the photos we are looking around for them.



96,000 French Fans Love U2

U2 in concert is always a great show, but yesterday the group reached the summit. At the Stade de France, with 96,000 persons, the public has experienced a great moment in rock tour 360 ° Tour of way for the third time in two years in Paris.

The group has not disappointed and Bono who had back problems showed that he was in great shape.

Previously, Bono had gone alone to the Elysee Palace to meet with Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni. They discussed the summit “Millennium” which takes place this weekend in New York. Bono also discussed efforts against AIDS with the first lady of France. And he specifically requested help more African populations affected by this scourge.

Interpol opened the show and played for about an hour. Fans screaming BONO, BONO it was pretty clear that that Paris was ready to be rocked.  The setlist was pretty much the standard as the boys have settled into their show. Starting at 21:30 the intro pulls the fans from their seats that the crowd begins to swell as the Bono and the boys entered the stadium. The sound of the crowd was deafening, the walk in was pretty much a non event.  Beautiful day starts off the 2 hour show. Bono is in great shape, the boys Adam Larry and The Edge all ready to take the French down a musical road of bliss.

“I Will Follow”, Get on Your Boots and Magnificent have the audience ecstatic and yet you can sense that the boys may be playing for something they have yet to find. North Star and Mercy should be considered as testing songs. We have heard that we can expect a release 2010 (Late)

The band followed with a moment of atmosphere. Militant first with the classic Sunday Bloody Sunday when Bono and his band were introduced a few words of Get Up Stand Up by Bob Marley. And the public has not hesitated to use these words to heart, the little Irish recalling that France was the country of Human Rights and should not be forgotten. Then came the moment when the stadium became the largest nightclub in the world. Chaining City Of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, and a remix of I’ll Go Crazy If I Do not Go Crazy Tonight.

The screens came down full length and it surprised many, as they chained some of their classics; One, Where The Streets Have No Names and With or Without You.

Before leaving, Bono asks the Stade de France to make a vow that by 2015 no child in the world are born with the AIDS virus, especially in poor countries…

We will always have Paris – As the Boys move forward in during this massive tour



Paris Show Starts

The shift began in the early 1990s with the Zoo TV tour Tour: the group that had previously built his career on stage benefits minimalist emphasis on wireless communication device with the audience began to give his shows in pride of place to latest technology. U2 became one company very big shows where the music was just one element among others.

In this genre, no one is more massive than themselves and their scene today to 360 degrees - the very one who baited the beginning of the break between Johnny and Jean-Claude Camus, Johnny accepting someone evil make greater than he - is, in itself a good reason to come see them tonight. Obviously, there’s always music, but it involves so many mixers and sound engineers that it is difficult to distinguish between what is actually live, which is remixed and what has been preregistered. This would have shocked the past, present, it is accepted without problem by a public that understands that the Irish group makes the junction between the classic rock of yesteryear and the technological, the twenty-first century.

U2 to reissue 'Achtung Baby'?

U2 could be set to reissue their 1991 album ‘Achtung Baby’.

According to singer-songwriter John Vanderslice, the Irish group’s seventh studio effort was being remastered in the next room to his in a Los Angeles studio.

“They’re remastering ‘Achtung Baby’ in next room,” he said on his Twitter page - Twittter.com/JohnVanderslice, before later asking his followers. “Any suggestions for witty opening salvos to drop on U2 crew when I barge in on ‘Achtung Baby’ remastering session?”

Confirmation on the reissue has yet to be announced, but a 2011 remastered edition of the LP would coincide with the 20th anniversary of it’s release in November 1991.

Peru, Argentina and Brazil Expect U2 in 2011

Peruvian fans are crossing their fingers and keeping hopes high about actually attending a U2 concert in Lima, since many rumors say that the famous Irish band may perform in Chile and Argentina during their Latin American tour.

As we have stated rumors keep coming in about next years possible shows in South America, we have yet to hear anything offical. The rumor suggests that March 31st could be the date for Argentina.  Which than makes way for a South American tour that would include Brazil, Chile and possible Peru.