U2 iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour Photo Book

Finally the completed works of Mark Peterson have arrived and are now available on-line for sale. Mark is traveling to the next concert location and will be on site taking photos as he has done many times before. However this time he will be out looking for you the fan. Lets be sure to support Mark and his wonderful work. Thank you

As U2 rocked Madison Square Garden in New York City for 8 concerts back in July 2015 , U2Tourfans very own Mark Peterson was hard at work taking amazing photos for our U2 fans to enjoy. The amazing shows that they were are now available to view through the lens of Mark Peterson. He has produced 2 styles of Photobooks that will take you back to Madison Square Garden through some amazing images. The story line is evident through the photos and this will allow you to relive the set list from start to finish.

The Standard Photo book is 11.25” x 8.75” and has 40 pages. This book would cost you $75 to print yourself, we are selling for $45 USD (45 Euro/35 GBP) + postage.

The Deluxe Edition is 15” x 11.25” and has 50 pages. This book also has high gloss images and lay flat pages, as well as an additional 10 pages of images. This book presents over $180 of Retail value to get it made yourself, we are selling this to you for $90.00 USD (90 Euro/75 GBP) + postage.

Book Options

Standard Edition $45.00 USD Deluxe Edition $90.00 USD

Bono Speaks Out Against Terrorism

Paris, France:  In response to the attacks in Paris as well as a government issued request U2 along with other concert events have all canceled their Friday Night and Saturday night shows. Saturday's nights show was to be the HBO special which industry insiders stated this would be the return of HBO's live event programming to compete against the slew of online entertainment choices. 

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As the events unfolded Brian Murphy Head of U2 security already alerted the band and crew and safely marshaled everyone back to the hotel safely. The city was closed with no airport access, no ground transportation moving in or around the city. The band and crew remained at the hotel to watch in horror as the events unfolded on TV.

Bono spoke out on Dave Fanning's broadcast "This is the first direct hit on music that we've had in this so-called 'War on Terror' or whatever it's called," continued the singer, known for his left-leaning political views. "It's very upsetting. These are our people. This could be me at a show. You at a show, in that venue. It's a very recognizable situation for you and for me and the coldblooded aspect of this slaughter is deeply disturbing and that's what I can't get out of my head."

The band laid bouquets of flowers on a makeshift candlelight memorial on the pavement next to the scene of the deadliest incident, a shooting attack inside the Bataclan Theatre.

Gunmen shot dead at least 110 people watching the American band Eagles of Death Metal perform at the concert hall. The musicians survived, while Nick Alexander, 36, who worked at their merchandise table during the group's our, was killed, his family said in a statement to Rolling Stone.

At least 129 people were killed in all six attacks, the deadliest to take place in Paris since World War II. The terrorist group ISIS has claimed responsibility.

HBO, Live Nation and U2 are "are fully resolved to go ahead with this show at an appropriate time,"

Our crew will be heading to Belfast and Dublin to capture the final shows for 2015. This has been an interesting year for the band one filled with grief, sorrow, loss and as well as many outstanding memorable times. No word has been given yet for 2016/2017 dates however knowing U2 we would expect the boys to head out on the next leg around the world.

U2 Calling U To Paris !

This weekend. 

That's the night HBO in the US are airing the show live... and some lucky fans will be flying to France to take part.

Once we know who's throwing their hat in the ring, we'll be inviting you to check their moves... and vote for the person you want to see called back up on stage in Paris.

We've been in touch with most people already but if your contact details have changed and you haven't heard from us yet, we don't want you to miss out.

Email U2 today at upforparis@u2.com and put 'I'm Up For Paris...' in the subject line

- Tell them what night you were up on stage with the band  (name of city and date) 
- Include a link or photo to your performance (youtube/facebook etc.)
- Add your name, a mobile number and whatever social media handles you use.

If you want to be in the vote, with a chance to fly to Paris this week - email us today.

London Calling ! U2 Forth Night

London, Nigel Brown:   Boys forth night of six in London the band threw in a surprise into the set list with " All I Want Is You" 

Few groups would respect playing six evenings at the O2 as a stage down. For U2, whose past, stadium-filling 360° visit kept going two years and was the most noteworthy earning voyage through unequaled, this keep running of dates considers decidedly imply.

The Irish whizzes are advancing their thirteenth studio collection, a year ago's Songs of Innocence, a record discharged in a welter of debate. Ever welded to the amazing signal, the band dropped the collection complimentary into 500 million iTunes records, setting off some entertaining over-responses from grumblers pompously insulted at being sans given music.

U2 have discussed the collection being the most individual of their close to 40-year vocation, and its cathartic nature is delicately reflected in this present visit's organizing. The band start the set spotlit under a solitary light as they fire into a paean to their adolescent musical epiphany, The Miracle (of Joey Ramone), and the punky The Electric Co from their 1980 presentation collection, Boy.

Bono has talked regularly of the overwhelming impact on his mind of losing his mom to a cerebral aneurysm when he was 14, and new track Iris (Hold Me Close) is less a tune but rather more primal shout treatment conveyed from a stadium rock stage. He murmurs Cedarwood Road, about his childhood road, from a lifted metal enclosure among video projections that make him give off an impression of being strolling down that very road

U2's teases with innovation have dependably veered from the front line to the mushy, a pattern proceeded as they force a lady from the group to film Elevation: the flimsy footage turns into a synchronous live stream for endorsers of a versatile video application. More compelling is Every Breaking Wave, a despairing ditty murmured by Bono joined just by The Edge on piano.

U2 would not be U2 in the event that they didn't enthusiastically merge the individual and the political, and October is joined by frightening pictures of the destruction being fashioned by the besieging of Syria. Escaping transients and Isis preparing camps outline Bullet the Blue Sky, as Bono discusses the grievances of commentators of his worldwide activism: "You're a piece of the issue, not the arrangement."

The full setlist was:

1. The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
2. The Electric Co. / Send In The Clowns (snippet) / I Can See For Miles (snippet) / Live Forever (snippet)
3. Rock 'n' Roll High School (snippet) / Vertigo
4. I Will Follow
5. Iris (Hold Me Close) / Hold Me Close (snippet)
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) / Words (snippet)
11. (Intermission - The Fly)
12. Invisible
13. Even Better Than The Real Thing
14. Mysterious Ways / Burning Down The House (snippet)
15. Desire / Not Fade Away (snippet) / Clair (snippet)
16. All I Want Is You / Into The Mystic (snippet)
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 / Shine Like Stars (snippet)

Encore

1. City Of Blinding Lights
2. Beautiful Day / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (snippet) / Blackbird (snippet)
3. Mother And Child Reunion (snippet) / One / Invisible (snippet) / Hold Me Close (snippet)

*Snips provided by U2GIGS

Via Barcelona ! U2 Rocks October

Luka Biba / U2TOURFANS 2015

Spain: U2 arrives into Barcelona like a freight train rolling in with a massive thunder to waken the masses.  The first of four shows set the tone for the next few days.  The boys did run a couple of numbers thru song check however the set remains tight.

Consider the amount of technical work that has to go into adding or removing a song from the list. Yes at this point is all pre loaded into the systems however the set list does require couple of changes now and again. "One"  closes out the evening and "Sweetest Thing" was placed in rotation after sitting out a couple of shows.

Bona nit Barcelona!’, shouted U2’ leader, ‘Bono’, to the nearly 17,900 people who filled Palau Sant Jordi. All the shows have been sold out for months.  Rocktober is in full swing for the boys.

Setlist

1. The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
2. The Electric Co. / Send In The Clowns (snippet)
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) / Words (snippet)
11. (Intermission - The Fly)
12. Invisible
13. Even Better Than The Real Thing
14. Mysterious Ways / Burning Down The House (snippet)
15. Elevation
16. Sweetest Thing
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) / One / Invisible (snippet)

* Snips Provided by U2GIGS

Berlin, New York, Putin, Obama and The Pope

Berlin:  U2 controls "Mercedes-Benz Arena" for the next few days. While the band performs from their current album and past albums. Bono will slip away for a day to address the UN in New York on some topics that are most dear to his heart.  Bono has never held back is voice for those that can not speak and for a brief moment you might forget he is the leader of the worlds largest rock band. The first of four sold out shows in Berlins' Mercedes-Benz Arena starts off with a sensational spectacle only expected from the boys from Dublin.  The boys have returned to their city. This is the where their boldest work was created some 24 years ago which still sounds current today. "Achtung Baby" the created works all started in a studio in Berlin.  The show for the most part has been set in stone. 

They revolutionized the conventional stage structure. Besides the large main day is on the "Mercedes-Benz Arena" that evening a smaller stage in the other corner of the hall, connected by a walkway. About this depends a housewife large video screen that is still accessible and the hall - is divided in the middle or as a mutant video cube suspended above all - depending on your height. During the concert, the four musicians will be split on this stage design again, so really many of the 20,000 spectators come to one or other times closer

Between takes Bono repeatedly opportunity to use the show as a political arena and to promote a solidary dealing with the refugees: "Europe is so far only an idea, but has a feeling," he says before "One" turn is.

The show on Thursday, it offers the grandiose prelude to the big Berlin U2 concert that lasts until Tuesday with a brief trip to New York to be interrupted. At the UN summit where Bono meets Merkel, Obama, Putin and the Pope.

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 / 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. Zoo Station
15. Mysterious Ways / Burning Down The House (snippet)
16. Elevation
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 / Ultra Violet (Light My Way) (snippet)
3. Mother And Child Reunion (snippet) / One / Invisible (snippet)

*Snips provided by U2GIGS

http://www.u2gigs.com - U2 performing Zoo Station live during their Innocence + Experience tour concert in Berlin, Germany, Mercedes-Benz Arena Berlin on September 24th, 2015. All show details incl. setlist here http://www.u2gigs.com/show1908.html

U2's Runner Show, Off To Berlin Now

Stockhom: When a tour schedule is this tight the room for error tends to be very slim. The band performed their forth show last night in Stockhom and now its off to Berlin.  Right after the final downbeat the crew swung into LOAD OUT mode and startedbreaking everything down. The exit for a show this size should be about 3 hrs.

Most of the time the crew breaks a show down pretty quick because the band and most of the management has already left the building this allows to the crew to push it out the door fast.

Last nights show was the replacement for the "security breach" on Sunday and as of today still no word on who this "security guard" was or if in fact any details.  Due to the rescheduled many fans were not able to make the return and the area was pretty much empty.

http://www.u2gigs.com - Bono speech about the concert cancellation/rescheudle on Sunday and U2 performing Iris (Hold Me Close) live during their Innocence + Experience tour concert in Stockholm, Sweden, Globen on September 22nd, 2015. All show details incl. setlist here http://www.u2gigs.com/show1942.html This show was rescheduled from 20 September 2015.

The upper deck was totally closed off and fans had a chance to push forward. Bono apologized to the fans and stated he had no idea how many fans really traveled to Stockhom to see them. 

The set list had a couple of returns "The Electric Co", "Desire" and "Angel Of Harlem"  and to wrap up the evening "Bad" and "40" 

The best video capture goes out to Matt from U2gigs.  He has always had some of the best videos from around the tour.  Well fans its off to Berlin. We will be on site taking photos and looking for you.

Set List:

1. The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
2. The Electric Co. / Send In The Clowns (snippet) / I Can See For Miles (snippet)
3. Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? (snippet) / Vertigo
4. I Will Follow / (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding (snippet)
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 / Into The Mystic (snippet)
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) / Bad / 40 (snippet)
4. 40

* Snips Provided by U2GIGS

Bono Joins #GlobalCitizen

Bono has joined the lineup of activists, world pioneers and big names who will be in front of an audience for the counter neediness Global Citizen Festival in New York City on Saturday (Sept. 26). In Central Park on the Great Lawn.

Bono will present Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf with a Global Citizen Movement Award for her work on women's equality. Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak and U.S. Congress members Earl Blumenauer, Charlie Dent and Kay Granger also are expected to attend.

The 2015 Global Citizen Festival is on September 26th in New York City’s Central Park. Take Action to end extreme poverty on this page for your chance to earn FREE tickets. The video to the left explains how your actions will earn you tickets.

2015 is the year for the movement to end poverty. This September at the UN General Assembly in New York, world leaders from 193 countries will announce new GLOBAL GOALS designed to fight inequality, protect our planet, and end extreme poverty by 2030.

The festival is a critical lever for achieving policy and financial commitments that will shape the success of the Global Goals over the next 15 years.