La Plata Fans Camp Out

La Plata Fans 2011U2 fans started to camp outside the stadium as the boys get ready to launch a couple of dates in Argentina, U2 has not played in here in over 5 years. Early numbers suggest about 70,000 fans will be attending the show.

The chance to hear “With or without you”, “Moment of Surrender”, “One”, “Beautiful Day”, “I Will Follow” and “Pride“are some of the 23 songs the band addressed in these shows that offer in the country , which was introduced 11 years ago under the “Pop Mart Tour” and for five of its “Vertigo Tour “.

Fans arrived with sleeping bags, tents and chairs as they await the start of the show.

Meanwhile, about 1,200 workers continue working in the vicinity of the stadium to mount the revolving stage, called “The Claw”, which weighs over 180 tonnes.

After the 2,000 seats were sold out hotel, La Plata 243 families enrolled in a municipal register in order to welcome into their homes to the thousands of tourists who come to the city.

U2 Fan Alert - New Song !

first up- Bono was attending Alicia Keys wedding this past weekend. Alicia married Swizz Beatz and was not in New York as reported by others.

Sunday night  the whole band got together onfor rehearsals — and, best of all for fans around the world, they rehearsed outside at Olympic Stadium rather than indoors at the Olympic Sports Hall. Other than Bono’s arrival, the two biggest pieces of news are probably these:

Reports coming in from U2 Place and U2 Itlatia suggesting a new song was rehearsed.  Also the following Songs

  One Day Like This (cover: Elbow)> Beautiful Day
- Magnificent
- Soon> Moment of Surrender
- New Year’s Day
- Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
- Get On Your Boots

A second rehearsal included the following

 Beautiful Day
- Get On Your Boots
- Mysterious Ways
- I Still Have not Found What I’m Looking For
- Many River to Cross (snippet) ( Possible New Song)
- Miss Sarajevo

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THREESIXTYAIR Boarding Now

You may not know that for years U2 has traveled by charter. AMP Visual has been the company hired to produce the graphics for the charter tour planes. Graphics are updated each leg of the tour. In our photo section we have a couple of action shots of the plane as it flys around the world.

“For this U2360° tour, we called the airline, THREESIXTYAIR with the name featuring above the first passenger windows. For the US leg of the tour, we called the plane ‘Infinity’ from the song Breathe. We also added ‘The Future Needs A Big Kiss’ from the song Get On Your Boots as a sign-off near to nose of the plane.”

Easter Eggs on U2 Blue Ray !

Last month, the band gave a push to another up-and-coming technology — BD Live, which was installed on copies of its “U2 360° Tour” Blu-ray DVDs.

Using an Internet-connected player, BD-Live connects discs to a website where content is uploaded from a host.

Every time a user inserts the disc, new items and feeds, such as clips from the band, can be accessed through their television set.

Users are given a live feed of the band’s progress throughout the tour: The first download will feature a video that U2 filmed for users, in which they apologize to fans for missing a leg of their tour.

“U2 360° Tour,” released through Universal Music, marks the first Blu-ray title to be produced in the U.K. with BD-Live content. It was installed through specialty content production company the Pavement.

Cost to install the program code is around £200-£300 ($300-$450), while cost to manage the website averages approximately $7,600 per year.

“It’s important that the world knows the tech is out there,” says Pavement founder Andy Evans. “One of the biggest concerns I hear from clients is that they fear BD-Live costs too much to install and maintain. The reality is it probably costs less than a full-page magazine ad.”

Evans adds that while Hollywood majors currently use BD-Live as a means of streaming up-to-date trailers on Blu-ray discs, it also a marketing tool for distributors.

“With BD-Live, you can monitor how often people are watching your DVD, who they are and where they are viewing it,” he says.

Evans says that soon users will be able to buy tickets through their Blu-ray disc and link up to friends and communicate through the disc.

We are coming back ! U2 2011

The 2010 European tour, which has not been affected, begins as scheduled on August 6th in Turin.

U2’s manager Paul McGuinness thanked fans for their ongoing support, “We’re delighted the dates are rescheduled and in all the same venues we originally planned to play. It hasn’t been easy to accomplish this and I’d like to thank the managers of the many venues and sports teams across North America and Live Nation Global Touring for their help and cooperation in making this complex new plan possible. Above all we want to thank the U2 fans for bearing with us. They’re the best and the band wants to get back to where they belong, surrounded by their audience.”

The U2 360° Tour is produced by Live Nation Global Touring and sponsored in 2010 by BlackBerry.

The North American Tour rescheduled dates, are confirmed as follows:

May 21	Denver, CO	Invesco Field	(formerly June 12/10)
May 24	Salt Lake City, UT	Rice Eccles Stadium	(formerly June 3/10)
June 01	Edmonton, AB	Commonwealth Stadium	(formerly June 23/10)
June 04	Seattle, WA	Qwest Field	(formerly June 20/10)
June 07	Oakland, CA	McAfee Coliseum	(formerly June 20/10)
June 17	Anaheim, CA	Angels Stadium	(formerly June 6/10)
June 18	Anaheim, CA	Angels Stadium	(formerly June 7/10)
June 26	East Lansing, MI	Spartan Stadium at MSU	(formerly June 30/10)
June 29	Miami, FL	*Sun Life Stadium previously Dolphin Stadium	(formerly July 9/10)
July 05	Chicago, IL	Soldier Field	(formerly July 6/10)
July 08	Montreal, QC	Hippodrome	(formerly July 16/10)
July 09	Montreal, QC	Hippodrome	(formerly July 17/10)
July 11	Toronto, ON	Rogers Centre	(formerly July 3/10)
July 14	Philadelphia, PA	Lincoln Financial Field	(formerly July 12/10)
July 20	East Rutherford, NJ	New Meadowlands Stadium	(formerly July 19/10)
July 23	Minneapolis, MN	TCF Bank Stadium	(formerly June 27/10)

Tickets for the previously scheduled performances will be honoured at the door. Tickets for the rescheduled performances will be available at www.livenation.com and all usual outlets.  Refunds if required available at point of purchase.

Additional dates and cities to be confirmed.