Stockhom Show Review, Brazilian Hopes

New York City:  So earlier in the week U2.com rock shop posted a "U2ie Tour Brazil Logo" ladies' shirt. We normal would have thought nothing of it. However The Innocence + Experience Tour does not have any Brazil dates planned.

The main inevitable dates are those on the current European leg. Bits of gossip have for some time proposed there will be a South American leg in 2016. Now that's clearly not possible since Dublin and Belfast dates has been posted as the last 2016 dates. So what does the posting of this shirt mean? Brazilians want to know ! This would be in poor form if the shirt was simply produced as part of an over all campaign. Well friends in Brazil we will all await some news.  Now on to last nights show.

Lukas Biba / U2TOURFANS 2015

Stockholm: The second of a total of four nights went off as scheduled.  Set list pretty much has been baked for sometime. A couple of changes in and out however for the most part the band has settled into a rhythm that allows for the full experience of the new album and a throw back to the more staples that fans have come to expect from a U2 show.  The band performances continue to fans mixed into the set as well as interconnecting the social media application for web streaming.

Venue:  Stockholm

Setlist:

1. The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
2. Out Of Control
3. Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? (snippet) / Vertigo
4. I Will Follow
5. Iris (Hold Me Close)
6. Cedarwood Road
7. Song For Someone
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday
9. Raised By Wolves / Psalm 23 (snippet)
10. Until The End Of The World / Love And Peace Or Else (snippet) / Words (snippet)
11. (Intermission)
12. Invisible
13. Even Better Than The Real Thing
14. Mysterious Ways / Burning Down The House (snippet)
15. Desire / Love Me Do (snippet)
16. Angel Of Harlem
17. Every Breaking Wave
18. October
19. Bullet The Blue Sky / Ode To Joy (snippet) / 19 (snippet)
20. Zooropa
21. Where The Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet)
22. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
23. With Or Without You

Encore(s):

1. City Of Blinding Lights
2. Beautiful Day
3. Mother And Child Reunion (snippet) / I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / People Have The Power (snippet)

*Snippets provided by U2gigs

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Belfast and Dublin Shows Sold Out

Tickets for U2's "homecoming" gigs in Belfast and Dublin sold out around 30 minutes after they went on special on Monday morning.

The Irish rock band will complete their current European visit with two shows in Belfast on 18 and 19 November, trailed by four dates at Dublin's 3Arena.

Tickets went at a bargain at 09:00 BST on Monday, however a few fans lined overnight outside the show venues.

As expected, there was a scramble this morning to buy tickets for U2's Irish concerts, with 40,000 tickets for the Dublin dates selling out in 35 minutes and 17,000 tickets for the Belfast dates snapped up within hours of going on sale. The band will play four gigs in Dublin and two in Belfast in November, and tickets were only available from the venue box offices, Dublin's 3Arena and Belfast's SSE Arena, and Ticketmaster online. Tickets were limited to two per person and were priced from €30 to €185 for Dublin and from £30 to £165 for Belfast.

People started queuing outside Dublin's 3Arena on Sunday afternoon. Fans were later allowed to wait inside overnight. It is estimated that there were a couple of hundred fans queuing at the venue this morning.

Amsterdam U2 Beats As One

The first of four shows performed yesterday in Amsterdam. The band have had a profound and supported association with The Netherlands going back to their first shows in the nation amid October 1980 on the first leg of the Boy Tour. 

The set list had a couple of surprises with the incorporation of Two Hearts Beat As One, played at the solicitation of a fan. It has just been played once already this visit, on 27 July in New York. This was only Two Hearts' second live appearance since 27 December 1989, and third since 29 April 1985. Two Hearts has at no other time been performed in Amsterdam; its just two past Dutch exhibitions went ahead 30 and 31 October 1984 in Rotterdam.

http://www.u2gigs.com - U2 performing Two Hearts Beat As One live during their Innocence + Experience concert in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Ziggo Dome on September 8th, 2015.

Set List

Amsterdam September 8, 2015

1. The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
2. Out Of Control
3. Vertigo
4. I Will Follow
5. Iris (Hold Me Close)
6. Cedarwood Road
7. Song For Someone
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet)
9. Raised By Wolves / Psalm 23 (snippet)
10. Until The End Of The World / Love And Peace Or Else (snippet)
11. (Intermission)
12. Invisible
13. Even Better Than The Real Thing
14. Mysterious Ways / Burning Down The House (snippet)
15. Elevation
16. Two Hearts Beat As One
17. Every Breaking Wave
18. October
19. Bullet The Blue Sky / Ode To Joy (snippet) / 19 (snippet)
20. Zooropa
21. Where The Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet)
22. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
23. With Or Without You

Encore(s):

1. City Of Blinding Lights
2. Happy Birthday
3. Beautiful Day / I Remember You (snippet)
4. Mother And Child Reunion (snippet) / One / Invisible (snippet)

*Snips and Video U2GIGS

U2 Annouces Belfast and Dublin Shows

Nick Walker / U2TOURFANS 2015

New York: U2’s iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE  European Tour 2015 will finish with six home shows in Ireland -  two shows in Belfast on 18th & 19th November and four shows in Dublin on 23rd + 24th, 27th + 28th November.

Tickets for the Irish shows go on sale at 9am on Monday 14th September,  will be limited to 2 per purchaser and are priced from £30 to £165 for Belfast and from €30 to €185 in Dublin, plus charges. Tickets can be bought at the venue box offices and online.
 

U2 To Will Tour Ireland

Lisa Heinzel/ U2TOURFANS 2015

Bono has confirmed that U2 will be playing “Innocence and Experience” shows in Ireland at the end of November.

“We are coming home... it was really hard to figure out a way of doing it, but we just had to make it happen,” he told The Irish Times after coming off stage on Saturday night in Turin following the band’s second show in the city.

The city or cities they will play in, the exact dates and venue names will be made public soon as well as information about ticketing for the shows.

The difficulty for the band in playing Ireland was that the stage configuration of the current tour is simply too big to fit into any Irish venue.

“We found a way to reformat the show, to literally rebuild it for the Irish shows,” says Bono.

“It got to the stage where we just had to tell our people “You have to make this happen, you have to make this work, this is where we are from and we have to bring the tour home.”

“I am so happy we are bringing this home,” adds Bono. “These Irish shows will be like an Irish wedding. It is always tricky planning a wedding – who sits besides who could ruin it!”

U2 Possible Belfast Venue Choice / Turin Show Update

U2 are doing everything they can to take their world tour to Ireland - with The Edge saying not playing to a home crowd would be a "huge disappointment" to the band.

The Edge told the Press Association that a venue in Northern Ireland may the right choice for the show.

"This show is intended for a kind of venue and tragically there isn't one, absolutely in the south, I think there may be one in the Belfast territory so we're taking a gander at that also.

"In any case, you can't design a venue. It's either there or it isn't. So we're doing a considerable measure of head scratching at this moment to check whether we can make sense of something," he said.

Proceeded whether U2 may be coming to Belfast, The Edge said: "I wouldn't preclude it."

There has been much hypothesis about U2 adding dates in Ireland to the visit, and The Edge said: "We are absolutely living up to expectations hard on it and we can't declare anything at this moment yet it would be a gigantic disillusionment to us on the off chance that we lacked the capacity play in Ireland thus every exertion is set into make that conceivable."

The band has recently commenced the European leg of their reality visit and will be playing a series of dates at The O2 in London and dates in Glasgow, before completing up in Paris in November.

Turin Update

Today U2 performed their second of two shows in Turin. On the off chance that you missed the premiere night of the leg yesterday, you can see the set here.

Ahead of schedule in the show, Out Of Control pivoted once again into the set in the second spot. This is only the second time it has ever been played in Italy after first showing up as an astonishment closer in Turin on 21 July 2001. Amid the second set, Desire and Angel Of Harlem both showed up of the European leg; Desire had last been played at the last night in North America on 31 July 2015, while Angel Of Harlem's latest execution went ahead 27 July. With Or Without You contained its additional live verse Shine Like Stars for simply the fifth time this visit. Toward the end of the show, I Still Haven't Found was turned into the set as the closer; like Desire, its latest execution was on 31 July.

A gathering of artists were carried in front of an audience to perform with U2 on Desire, and the guitarist got the chance to keep Edge's guitar. Toward the end of Angel Of Harlem, Bono wished Van Morrison a glad birthday (a week late!) and sang a piece of Into The Mystic. He then identifies with the group about Pavarotti, as tomorrow is the commemoration of Pavarotti's demise, and sang a snip of Torna A Surriento before Every Breaking Wave. Zucchero joined U2 to sing amid I Still Haven't Found.

Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. live at Pala Alpitour, Turin, Italy on September 5th 2015, during U2's new Innocence + Experience World Tour. Song performed: "The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)". Filmed and Edited by Mek Vox. Watch the whole show with this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgLMHq2DY0bONLGNtBSBcU7cprFG3cDWi Below the setlist of this event: 1.

SetList

Venue Pala Alpitour September 5 2016

1. The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
   
2. Out Of Control
   
3. Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? (snippet) / Vertigo / God Save The Queen (Sex Pistols) (snippet)
   
4. I Will Follow
   
5. Iris (Hold Me Close)
   
6. Cedarwood Road
   
7. Song For Someone
   
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday
   
9. Raised By Wolves / Psalm 23 (snippet)
   
10. Until The End Of The World / Love And Peace Or Else (snippet) / Singin' In The Rain (snippet)
    
11. (Intermission)
    
12. Invisible
    
13. Even Better Than The Real Thing
    
14. Mysterious Ways
    
15. Desire
    
16. Angel Of Harlem / Into The Mystic (snippet)
    
17. Torna A Surriento (snippet) / Every Breaking Wave
    
18. October
    
19. Bullet The Blue Sky / Ode To Joy (snippet)
    
20. Zooropa
    
21. Where The Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet)
    
22. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
    
23. With Or Without You / Shine Like Stars (snippet)

Encore(s):

1. City Of Blinding Lights
   
2. Beautiful Day / Torna A Surriento (snippet)
   
3. Mother And Child Reunion (snippet) / I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / People Have The Power (snippet)
   

Snippets provided by U2GIGS

U2 Opening Night In Turin

U2 commenced the European leg of their iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour in Turin on Friday night, with Bono attracting regard for the situation of evacuees attempting to reach Europe.

The band opened their show at the Pala Alpitour in the city with The Miracle of (Joey Ramone) and raged through a set which included more tracks from new collection Songs of Innocence and hymns from all through the quartet's profession.

Its unquestionably perhaps for U2 shows in Dublin before the end of the year. Albeit just before making that big appearance in Turin on Friday night the band and their administration were not able to affirm precise dates or a venue.

U2 were commencing the European leg of their visit to a pressed house in Turin's Pala Alpitour venue. They play 34 shows altogether on this leg of the visit, completing up in Paris on November fifteenth. Press reports have it that the band have piece booked rooms in Dublin's Gibson Hotel, which is contiguous the 3Arena, from November 25th to November 29th. The 3Arena is free on these evenings, as it is over the Christmas-New Year period.

Direct from a couple of weeks occasion in the south of France, the Euopean Innocence and Experience visit won't vary that definitely from that performed in north American venues.

The band are avid to play Dublin on this keep running of shows however there is an extreme logistical issue in that their stage setup just does not fit into the 3Arena.

A monstrous stage is partitioned into three segments, the conventional rectangular stage for the "Purity" some piece of the show and a littler "B" stage for the "Experience" part. A uniting walkway runs the length of the venue over which a 96ft multiplied sided feature screen hangs.

Venue: 3Arena

It is still misty if or when they play Dublin shows, how they will display the show given the constrained floor space of the 3Arena.

All that much an account driven show, enumerating their ascent from Northside wannabes to worldwide supergroup, it's a significantly more close and individual excursion that the past 360 visit.

In any case, in the event that they choose to do the Dublin demonstrates to it is likely that the visit will proceed into 2016 and potentially go outside in another arrangement.

Be that as it may, for the minute late November-December resembles a positive possibly for the Innocence and Experience leg in Dublin.

Set list

Venue Pala Alpitour September 4, 2016

1. The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
2. The Electric Co. / Send In The Clowns (snippet) / I Can See For Miles (snippet) / Two Hearts Beat As One (snippet)
3. Vertigo / God Save The Queen (Sex Pistols) (snippet)
4. I Will Follow
5. Iris (Hold Me Close)
6. Cedarwood Road
7. Song For Someone
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet)
9. Raised By Wolves / Psalm 23 (snippet)
10. Until The End Of The World / Words (snippet)
11. (Intermission)
12. Invisible
13. Even Better Than The Real Thing
14. Mysterious Ways
15. Elevation
16. Ordinary Love
17. Every Breaking Wave
18. October
19. Bullet The Blue Sky / Ode To Joy (snippet)
20. Zooropa
21. Where The Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet)
22. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
23. With Or Without You

Ecore(s):

1. City Of Blinding Lights
2. Beautiful Day / I Remember You (snippet)
3. Mother And Child Reunion (snippet) / One / Invisible (snippet)

Uploaded by Mek Vox on 2015-09-05.

Brand New 'Song For Someone' Video

Their new feature for "Song For Someone" will be online for only 24 hours. Video posted below.

At the point when U2 dropped their first music features, you needed to keep your eyes on the TV on the off chance that you needed to catch them. Unless you were particularly VCR-slanted, taking it in at whatever point MTV chose to reveal to it was your opportunity to catch Bono's legend in its transitory, 1980s greatness.

For their most recent feature, U2 is having a go at something kinda-sorta thusly, maybe a cutting edge identical. They've shared a feature for their Songs of Innocence track "Tune For Someone" that is spilling on Facebook as a 24-hour selective. Don’t let it go out…’ Illustrator and photographer Matt Mahurin directs this visual meditation on 'Song For Someone', from U2’s latest album Songs of Innocence.

Song For Someone (Directed by Matt Mahurin)

‘Don’t let it go out…’ Illustrator and photographer Matt Mahurin directs this visual meditation on 'Song For Someone', from U2’s latest album Songs of Innocence.

Posted by U2 on Thursday, August 27, 2015