The stay of a machine as big as U2 are today, that may well compare himself to a company, it is projected into the tiniest detail, because only then will we understand how, the very moment of action, nothing fails .
Remember that this tour of U2 (360 º Tour) was started last year, goes to the end of this and the next will be in full in North America. That is, three years to act in different countries, in what already is considered the largest and perhaps most profitably tour ever.
At this point, it is the band that comes, for example, our own accommodation and catering, leaving the local producers mere logistical aspects, such as the hiring of venues, the organization of the entries or traffic issues.
After the performance the day before yesterday in Coimbra, the musicians traveled by helicopter to the Invicta (as, indeed, had made hours earlier in reverse) and settled in the luxury hotels in the city with the highest traditions, Infante de Sagres, where drummer Larry Mullen was unable to escape the autograph hunters.
However, for lunch, the Irish band chose the restaurant PDO, at Largo de São Domingos, the Ribeira.
To experience the good food Porto, Bono and his partners chose cream of asparagus with bacon foam, followed by Samosa Spicy sausage with sauteed mushrooms and in the end bass. To accompany a Sunny Green - First Vineyards, 2009.
The singer refused to eat dessert not to be too heavy for the performance of the night.
Bono Admits No College Degree to Fans
Bono has never been to university. He confessed it in Coimbra, in response to the reverent allusion to the old tower. Had he gone, he would have left with a degree in sales. A salesman that instant translation of the concert turned into a traveling salesman and the Irishman added: “Seeing songs with my friends.”
In concert absolutely stunning, it had been, perhaps, the moment less mainstream, perhaps the least populist, despite the nod to the Academic and Coimbra, with the unexpected cry “Brioooooosa” at the entrance of the band.
Admittedly, there are details that, despite already dissected too, deserve special attention: the political message of support to Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese dictatorship has, for years under house arrest, the social message with a call to combat extreme poverty, the poetic message, with the usual choice of a girl in the red zone for a dance to “All I want is you” and of course the technological paraphernalia brought by hundreds of trucks and the stage sui generis embodies so well; And yet, everything else was noteworthy, in Coimbra, on weekend of frantic year. First, the massive influx of outsiders, especially the Grand Harbour. Which, of course, caused clogging the main entrances and exits of the city. On the night of Saturday to Sunday, for example, the broad lines of IC2 recorded miles, or north to the junction of the A1 southbound, until Condeixa.
In general, signs of recommended routes and car parks, combined with transport services to the Calhabé, functioned effectively. There were complaints, of course, and even some discomfort by those who expect more fluidity. But the overall tone was pleasing.
Rain and wind did not scared fans Even yesterday, with the setback of the winter day that startled many people, the logistics set up by the city of Coimbra worked more than satisfactory. And despite the unexpected difficulties, it is certain that fans who yesterday were waiting at the gate of the Cidade de Coimbra Stadium for the second concert of the Irish band kept expectations high.
At least that was the image that passed through the many groups in line the streets near the stadium, for example, a group of six friends from Ovar, Aveiro, keys and even in Norway who was one of the terraces in the area.
The fellows, who only asked for a “lively concert,” were not worried “because of bad weather, because they came” equipped “with protection against the rain.
Yet another group of eight fans showed the same relaxed attitude about the rain. “That [the concert] is at least equal to that of yesterday,” they asked.
More unusual was the situation of Ivan Oliveira, Fernão Ferro. Like “had no tarp” to protect from rain, was wearing a fluorescent yellow reflective apparel. “If I lose, it’s easy to identify where I am,” he explained. The bad weather has come to let the young worry. However, already in line to enter the stadium and the place secured, he expressed a desire “to be insane, the best show of my life.”
Spiderman Debuts in Coimbra
Today,U2 performed their second show in Coimbra. As we reported earlier this was the first time the boys played back to back shows in Portugal during a single tour. The soundcheck (crew) included Pride, Desire and Bad.
Check out the surprise appearance on the setlist. The new song ” Boy Falls From The Sky” This was written by U2 and currently can be hear on Braodway Bono annouced that they had a surprise for the great audience.
Noticable changes from the show the night before. Pride returned to the middle of the set. New Years Day and Ultra Violet made an appearance too. Of course so did the rain. We can call this the Rainy U2 Leg.
A great night of U2 in Coimbra
Five years after the act in the Alvalade Stadium, U2 kicked off yesterday in Coimbra with a memorable concert, flawless, energetic, and consistently with a near-perfect alignment. The Irish band, for many the best (or higher) of the world, fully justified the pilgrimage north to south (or abroad), the waits, travel, money. No one present at the Stadium of Coimbra on October 2, 2010 should have repented, and even the most skeptical, ‘fans just a few disks’, or mere companions are caught up by the phenomenon U2.
After an afternoon of authentic pilgrimage on campus, a full train, and some transit lines to enter the stadium since early afternoon, and preceded by a good concert of Interpol (the audience was not 100% turned to them but reacted well qb, Bono later he got fed up of the praise), U2 entered the stage of the stadium just before 22h.
Before, he had already given to realize the scope of the famous structure 360, a stunning ‘Spider’ giant (or a ‘claw’ as you call the band), with a circular stage, screen huge on top all the way around, a potential light, color and unlimited media. Impressive, although not located exactly half of the enclosure and as some expected, but towards the end of it - and so, despite containing several movable elements, gives certainly raised the profile of who is in front of the stage than the who is on the ‘back’. Some surprise was also the realization that, after the huge rush for tickets which lasted until the last (and which continues today, with over 500 tickets on sale for the second time), there were plenty of empty spaces at the end of the public, probably by legitimate security concerns, but could present some comments.
As for the great show of 2 hours of U2, the motto was launched with Space Oddity David Bowie, and a pompous entry of the band on stage, all the lights are still lit, the audience alight, and Return Of The Stingray Guitar sung this record . Beautiful Day in the lights dim, and the sequence I Will Follow, Get Your Boots On, Magnificent Mysterous and Ways is unstoppable and lived in party total, absolute, in all corners of the stadium.
Then begins the friendliness, the great sympathy of Bono, who surprised everyone to scream twice the student motto ‘Briosa!’, Then calling at Lisbon, Porto, Braga, Coimbra. We realized then that the concert is not just a light show, the band is there for the public, with care and scenic impressive logistical details, and get a hustle of emotions. Sequences with excerpts of music covers the middle, like “Let It Be Beatles and Bob Marley’s One Love, Bono of phrases in Portuguese as’ Hello Malta”, or in English with Portuguese subtitles on the screens giants. Elevation, Until The End Of The World and a praise singer of the University of Coimbra following a long moment of conversation, ” this band never went to university ‘, then asks if the Edge had gone to the University of Coimbra what would respond guitarist ‘male model’, to what Larry wants to be when he grows up, “professional musician”, Adam another possible future, a chemical engineer, “I have [Bono] would be what I am listening to these hawker My dear fans ‘,’ and it follows I Still Have not Found What I’m Looking For, sung by Bono choice almost entirely by the public.
We began to realize that it is the themes of recent albums, live very powerful and energetic, the more public dances and vibrates, but the older the essence of U2 is revealed in full and the tentacles, lights and stairs that move almost seem unnecessary, or mere accessories, almost felt like a more intimate concert.
But U2 deserve especáculo giant that created around it, and their audience, as faithful few, too. After two new songs! very, very promising (North Star and Mercy), there is very accomplished at another time Miss Sarajevo, with sentences to run on giant screens in Portuguese, ‘the you’ve been looking, believe that everything happens for a reason,’ and comes to the over the more political aspects of the band. First the big Sunday Bloody Sunday, with pre-dedication to Israel, Palestine and Washington (“Can you hear us?” Cries Bono), and then to San Suu Kyi of Burma, ‘let’s send a message of love from Portugal to Burma ’, followed by Walk On, Amnesty International’s candle on stage.
After the threat of the first group match, the return is ready and it follows one of the highlights of the night, with the following One, the audience sing in unison, the lights, and many will stand up posters with a ‘1 ‘, followed by an excerpt from Amazing Grace, by Bono, solo and alone on stage, and Where the Streets Have No Name, the total public hysteria. In the second encore, Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me, With Or Without You and Moment of Surrender, farewell to the present 45 000 (plus many who tried to listen to the lawns surrounding), in a farewell concert that he knew the short.
Above all, U2 still fit and still look genuinely fun on stage, having the spirit of the band, spirit of commitment, public spirit, love music and the causes. A U2 concert is still a great experience, and not (only) to include the biggest stage that Portugal has ever seen.
Setlist:
Return Of The Stingray Guitar
Beautiful Day
I Will Follow
Get On Your Boots
Magnificent
Mysterious Ways
Elevation
Until The End Of The World
I Still Have not Found What I’m Looking For
North Star
Mercy
In A Little While
Miss Sarajevo
City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
I’ll Go Crazy If I Do not Go Crazy Tonight
Sunday Bloody Sunday
MLK
Walk On
1st Encore:
One
Where The Streets Have No Name
2nd Encore
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
With Or Without You
Moment of Surrender
The Destak prepared readers and fans of U2 a special supplement to the history and greatest moments of the band, which was distributed yesterday (and is today), next to the stadium. The fans seemed to have joined and thank the reading and extra information, with all the details about your favorite band.
Being held today the 2nd of the U2 concert in Coimbra
Today it holds the 2nd at 21.30 U2 concert in Coimbra. Doors open at 17h30, 20h00 take center stage in the Interpol. According to the organizer, Rhythm and Blues, in a statement, despite the concert being prepared to perform under any weather conditions, according to Civil Protection, a front surface that is crossing the zone will dissipate by late morning and the rain will showers during the afternoon, with a tendency to improve throughout the day.
The organization also said that for security reasons will not be allowed to come with umbrellas in recintoe advised the use of hoods and raincoats. The rhythms also noted that at the Worten CoimbraShopping are the last tickets on sale today.
100K Fans Love Bono !
The uproar began last week. “London will plant trees to reduce the environmental impact of the concerts of U2,” “There are still tickets on sale for the U2 concert.” The news in newspapers and on radio basted in the same direction.’Magnificent’, ‘No Line On The Horizon’, ‘Get On Your Boots’ to demarcate themselves from compelling ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, ‘Where The Streets Have No Name’ or ‘One’. Stir the frenzy of information, the Internet, fan sites and blogs spun reports of previous concerts, alignments predictable, particular experiences that conversation flowed in coffee. “Are you going?”, “Got a ticket for the first or the second day?” “Where do you get to sleep?”
It always does. Invariably so each time the band comes from Dublin to Portugal, except for the mythical and contributed so little to show Vilar Moors, was in 1982, was “Boy,” the first album the group released two years earlier, single record is still available in Portugal - “October” of 1981, would arrive later. The reasons for this state of euphoria (natural in many cases, exaggerated in others) are manifold.
The production literally overwhelming in terms of technology and visual impact that the group of Bono makes a point of bringing the world are the starting point, alongside the band’s popularity.
The title, played with the Rolling Stones, the greatest rock band in the world, makes the Portuguese feel great, important, it also invited to participate in the largest concert no less the world. And sticks. Adheres immediately.
Without much thought in most cases or truly “in love with the music that changed his life,” it is not uncommon to hear him say. True mass phenomenon, U2 are high level professionals and not left, at least in Portugal, their claims by alien hands. In each concert celebrates the ecstasy among an audience of thousands. “Today we have become the Portuguese,” Bono yelled at Alvalade XXI 2005 to alight from the first minute of the Portuguese version of the Vertigo Tour. On stage, he, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen of wear left breast the Order of Liberty with the then President of the Republic Jorge Sampaio was knighted. It was not necessary, I believe, but the crowd was grateful and accepted the compliment from Bono in all honesty.
In fact, it is virtually impossible not (s) to take seriously when they are on top of a stage, however they interpret characters and paraphernalia that surrounds them. Its authenticity exists only when in full play. Return to a rebellious youth healthy, happy children who enjoy their favorite toys, a thousand roads mature, hard, less hard, so easy. Adults living the dream that brought them together, come true through this so many times proclaimed naivety of wanting to “change the world.”
The absence of U2 had lasted seven years. Portugal had not seen the Elevation Tour, and in most recent memory was only the Popmart Tour. 60 000 people surrendered to one of the virtual band’s concerts. The spectacularity beginning with the largest screen of LEDs ever built, he shared the stage with a giant yellow arch to remind the logo of McDonald’s, where he established the PA, along with a huge lemon opened to bring out the new fab four . It was the first time that a second stage, placed near the middle of the stage, approached the band to its audience, creating moments of intimacy very implausible in concerts of this size. But everything worked. It was all what the public craved fat in 90 years and is not that the Zoo TV Tour, which landed at Alvalade in May 1993, the first tour of U2 high global and megalomania, had not already experienced the same concepts. The giant screens were already there and there were direct links and real-time, first to RTP, which broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest in a simultaneous broadcast with Ireland, then with the famous telephone call to Teletaxi whose operator failed more turn off the phone, but memorable comic episode, even if they leave a taste of the little remembered with the mythical call to the White House during the same tour. Virtual was attended by Lou Reed “Satellite of Love ‘. However, more than the minutes with the former Velvet Underground, which was in memory was the interpretation of ‘Mysterious Ways’, the dance of seven veils starring Morleigh Steinberg, with whom he later married the Edge, went home of 63 000 people who attended the show. And there is still very likely.
These times or better than what they are now around 100 000 spectators expect to see and live in Coimbra. The 360 Tour is billed as the biggest production ever of the band. U2 have spared no efforts to bring the four corners of the world that never arrived there. The priority, ensure it is the public, but the monumentality of the stage, where the spacecraft, they say, which causes loosening ahs! admiration. The music is a winning bet. It is the 10th production signed by Willie Williams for U2. Already devised shows for stadiums, pavilions for larger and smaller venues. This time the challenge was definitely come off of the hallmarks of both the Zoo TV and Popmart had left to stay for any concert stage. The Elevation Tour was more measured but will work indoors. The ultimate goal was to find new and interesting ways of presenting music, with no way to escape from work, thinking and feelings of the protagonists. The LAX Theme Building, an old and iconic building in the Los Angeles airport, was the starting point, says Willie Williams. A spacious, with four legs and architecturally smooth curves. These legs are today The Claw “the claw”, as is known the structure of the new stage, the landing of such a ship illuminated by a cylindrical screen and surrounded by huge audience from all sides, as the name indicates the tour. It took more than four years for the project is completed. Today it costs $ 750,000 per day (about € 560 000).
Costs pertaining to executive produce each show, with the assembly and disassembly of the stage, task-laden detail. The most important details of the tour. None of them may fail because the show must go on. To avoid unexpected, U2 has three stages and three teams of roadies. That is why even though the general strike in Spain was delayed one day concert in Seville, passing it two days before the first date of Coimbra, there is nothing to fear, at least from a technical standpoint. Remember that the only dramatic moment of U2 360 Tour was the fall of Bono last May in a trial of a concerto, prompting the singer to a recovery three months after an operation forced the column and the group to postpone the American tour for next year. The return to the road and happened in Turin so far no one has complained of his way on stage. Quite the contrary. The surprises have been mainly on music. ‘Angel of Harlem’ is one of the most acclaimed young stars. The tour, well, maybe it broke all records of tickets sold and tops the list of the most successful ever in financial terms.
Demigods and the priests
Nietzsche may have killed the god of Judeo-Christian but pagan gods of rock’n’roll still apparently in good health and cathedrals where they celebrate their worship are not, of course, works of architecture and engineering inferior to those released the masters of gothic Despique a dizzying height for the building that only ended in 1284 with the collapse of the vaults of Beauvais. A ‘space station’ (or ‘claw’), huge gazebo sci-fi, which is the stage / scenario of the tour “360”, U2, will not run, surely, such a risk - the wonders of conceção and technological innovation that required have been proven in more than six dozen concerts before arriving at Coimbra, are sufficient guarantee - the fervor and intensity of the folk masses (Bono dixit) that rivals are taking place there, no doubt, with the Middle Ages.
In fact, the best vantage point is always the sofa, before viewing the DVD: the participation, live in community act of faith is reduced to zero, the multiplication of angles and points of view is far superior to who, in the stadium / arena, remains confined to his half-meter square helpful and sentenced to accompany the liturgy by what he sees projected on the screen (but giant conical screen). Basically, the less that what really counts is the fellowship of the ring of sweating bodies immediately contiguous and merger of the major voices in the choral clipping sound quite similar to those of show business ‘sports car’ that there usually occur , or on the couch choking the lawn, everything is virtual identity.
Since the “Zoo TV Tour” (which, between 1992 and 1993, led the new gospel cyberfiction of “Achtung Baby” to the masses), a U2 concert never ceased to be a meeting point between the state of the art technology, planetarily ecumenical convention of all faiths, sensory overload of epic agitprop in favor of the many causes of ‘human rights’, the glorious scenario of an audiovisual synthesis of eclectic self-help literature and music that has survived from an ancient punk quartet Dublin. In the “360 ° Tour” under the spotlights that gush claw crustacean crowned by a cupola Muslim / Orthodox onion, while demi-object of veneration and priest celebrant, U2, in the words of Bono, assume temporarily the skin other deities: he would be a combination of Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito and Dennis Hopper, Larry Mullen embody James Dean, The Edge had kidnapped the body of Mr. Spock, and Adam Clayton (in fact, a certain light, an almost perfect clone the Finance Minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos), slap the face of Clark Gable. And running, walking, flying over the dual circle sometimes altar, pulpit now, leaning over the bridge the approaching swarm of buzzing down there, inspires them the power to the corner with it can repeat that also have not found what you go on demand, it is time to wipe the tears from her face, and immediately following the exhortation self-criticism “of the folk mass Enough!” chant (in ‘Until the End of the World’) “We broke the bread, we drank the wine.” From heaven or video with fireworks, firework, also descend Bishop Desmond Tutu, the martyr of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi, the commander Frank De Winne, of the International Space Station, reciting the lyrics to ‘In A Little While’ , a replica of the car-BD of God / Biblical Ezekiel’s mothership and green Islamic peace. “At the altar of the dark star ‘and’ through the Stations of the Cross”, after appealing to a Milky Way of mobile phones with ‘Moment of Surrender’, the show ends.
U2 drop big Glastonbury hint!
U2 have dropped a big hint that they’ll be at Glastonbury Festival next year.
Posted on their official website (here) last night, around 36 hours before tickets are due to go on sale, are the following words…
Tickets for Glastonbury 2011 go on sale this weekend. Will U2 fans finally see ‘Glastonbury’ at Glasto?
Glastonbury’s Michael Eavis has said he’d like U2 to play in 2011 after they missed their slot at Worthy Farm this past June.
Looking at the tour dates - there is a gap in the band’s schedule ahead of the East Lansing show on June 26th which would make the Friday night a possibility.
The most Paul McGuinness would say was, ‘We’re certainly excited about our plans for next year. Watch this space!’
The fact that they’re putting these words on their website suggests that they’re likely to play and to encourage people who want to see them to buy tickets.
U2 album was failure
LEGENDARY U2 producer Steve Lillywhite has said the band’s latest album No Line on the Horizon did not achieve what it set out to achieve and its relative failure had affected them.
The album, released last year, sold a fraction of its predecessors and received mostly lukewarm reviews though it did get a five-star rating in Rolling Stone magazine. Lillywhite, who was its co-producer along with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, said No Line on the Horizon lacked a big song and the North African ambience that it tried to recreate did not work.
“At the end of the day, the public are always right especially when you have a platform as big as U2,” he said. “Of course it affects them . They are only human. They put their heart and soul into everything they do, but the sales were not what they expected because they did not have the one song that ignited peoples imaginations.
“It’s a pity because the whole idea of Morocco as a big idea was great. When the big idea for U2 is good, that is when they succeed the most, but I don’t think the spirit of what they set out to achieve was translated. Something happened that meant it did not come across on the record.”
Lillywhite will be one of the star turns at the Hot Press Music Show this weekend at the RDS, the biggest showcase for the music industry in the country. He will speak on Sunday afternoon on the theme of producer as star. Others taking part over the weekend include Bob Geldof and Louis Walsh along with two Government Ministers, Eamon Ryan and Mary Hanafin, while the artists performing include Cathy Davey, Fight Like Apes and Sharon Corr.
Lillywhite (55) has been synonymous with U2 from the beginning having produced or co-produced almost all their studio albums. He also produced some of The Pogues’s best work and his late wife Kirsty McColl’s vocal was part of what made Fairytale of New York an all-time classic.
Lillywhite described Pogues singer Shane MacGowan as an “underachiever” who knows his best work is behind him.
“Shane MacGowan has not recorded a song recently because it wouldn’t be any good,” he said.
“He is one of the most talented people I’ve ever met, but he is also an underachiever. Sometimes such a fantastic natural talent means you don’t have to try so hard. Bono is the biggest overachiever I’ve ever met. His talent is not inconsiderable, but what sets him so far ahead of everybody else is his determination. “That determination to succeed is overachieving.”
Warner Music Europe’s Irish-born chief executive John Reid will speak at midday today on the crisis in the music industry. He said rumours of the demise of the record were “greatly exaggerated”
“You name an act that can thrive on the internet and go on and have commercial success and get their music out to millions of people without having a record company behind them?”
Mr Reid said the “three strikes” policy to stop illegal downloading will pave the way for Ireland’s first internet access model which would allow people to access any music they want for a set fee every month. He anticipated such models would cost between €10 and €15 a month as they do in other parts of Europe.
“When you have got legislation in there and when you have an Internet Service Provider that is going to charge for music instead of facilitating for free, then we will do it and that is what we are discussing with people like Eircom. I hope it will be in Ireland within months,” he explained.
Hola Mexico ! Second Show Added
U2 will play a SECOND 360° SHOW IN MEXICO.
With the 360° May 14th show at the Azteca Stadium selling out so quickly, news was released today that a second show has been added - this will take place on SUNDAY MAY 15th.
Tickets go on sale to Banamex cardholders on Monday October 4th at 11am (local time) and to the general public on Wednesday October 6th at 11am (local).
But U2.com subscribers can enter a special advance presale ahead of this public onsale beginning tomorrow, SATURDAY October 2nd at 11am and running through to Monday October 4th at 11am (local). Subscribers will be emailed today with details of presale timings.