We willl have the full review, video and photos later tonight for now here is the set list. Show Ended at 5PM EST -
Hello Frankfurt !
The cult Irish band U2 comes with its giant 360-degree tour today to Frankfurt. But transporting the Rundumbühne that looks like a giant octopus or a giant spaceship on four legs, are about 120 large tractors needed, the organizer Marek Lieberberg reported on Monday. “This is the biggest production that there has ever been in the Commerzbank-Arena.” U2 lead singer Bono, (50) just three months after his slipped disc is only the second time on stage again. The comeback world tour and the start of 2010 had celebrated the four musicians on Friday night before 45,000 fans in Turin, Italy. Where three new songs have played. The opening tonight Frankfurt, the British rock group Kasabian.
U2 fans have been lining up all night. The GA Line has picked up after a night of fans sleeping on ground or whatever they could find.
Currently its
Frankfurt, where the Irishman last played occurred in 1993 with their “ZooTV Tour” is the second stop of world tour 2010th After months of pause had Bono and his band celebrated in Turin last Friday in front of around 45,000 fans his stage comeback.
The business side of U2
Worldwide, there are few bands like U2 can transform all stages in a stomping ground. The four creative minds from Dublin who play together since 1976 and carry with appearances in almost all the relevant charities and rescue world events, good intentions and its image are the last true superstar band.
U2 shows what is possible in the heavily beleaguered music business, which has through the triumph of the Internet and piracy since 1998, lost a good third of sales. “Before, the money brought CDs, and concerts were little more than advertising for it, now runs the other way usually,” says Bernd Hocke, General Manager of the Hamburg group’s Edel, the new reality.
Bono & Co. are also in the supposedly dead areas such as merchandise, CDs and licenses music for top earners. Of the $ 500 million, the U2 is expected this year and last year earning after deducting all costs, nearly half of which comes from business outside the concert arenas.
The rain of money owed the band of musical creativity and business sense. The U2 AG provides business law challenged again and again, as in its current stage. So far bands in stadiums sell any tickets for the area behind the stage as speakers and decoration with increasingly large video screens to the fans there, obstructed the view. With U2’s “360-degree tour this screens in 30 meters height depend on steel beams. This provides an unobstructed view and up to 10,000.
Tonight U2 makes its second stop it whats going to prove out to be a long tour for both the boys, fans and crew. We can only trust that all stay well.
U2 Possible new ablum !
It is the kind of news likely to have the top dogs at Universal Music rubbing their hands in glee. And it has been confirmed to Hot Press by U2 manager Paul McGuinness.
“I hope there will be another record pretty soon,” Paul told Olaf Tyaransen.
Pressed as to how soon might “pretty soon” be, the prospect of an album this side of Christmas was revealed.
“If I was being wildly optimistic, I’d say before the end of the year,” he laughed.
The band have already discussed a work in progress under the working title of Songs Of Ascent, a lot of material for which had been recorded before the year’s plans were disrupted by the back injury that put lead singer Bono out of action and required spinal surgery.
Fans may take encouragement from the fact that U2’s current touring activities will come to an end early in October – opening up the possibility that the final shaping of an album could take place over the following month.
“There’s a mixture of material available now,” Paul McGuinness reveals. “Some of it’s been recorded. Some of it is called Songs Of Ascent, then there’s Spiderman material, then there’s some new stuff. I mean, Bono’s always a bit over-optimistic on these occasions, but I heard him telling an Italian journalist that he had four albums ready. That’s not quite it! But that’s what he was saying [laughs].”
A considerable batch of material was close to being finished in the Spring.
Bono came through his first gig back in flying colours, further encouraging speculation that the U2 flying machine is fully back on track.
“The show went extremely well,” Paul McGuinness reflected, speaking from a police motorcade immediately after the show. “It was really superb. No weakness, no mishaps physically. And I thought he sang particularly well. The production performed perfectly. It was kind of a perfect night, really.”
So it’s business as usual for U2?
“Yes… we’re much relieved.”
Happy Birthday The Edge
Happy Birthday to you
David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961 in Barking, Essex, England), more widely known by his stage name The Edge (or just Edge), is an English-born Irish musician of Welsh heritage. He is best known as the guitarist, keyboardist, and main backing vocalist of rock band U2.
His distinctive electric guitar timbre and percussive style of playing, along with his use of digital sound processing — delay and chorus in particular — have been crucial in defining U2’s sound. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named him at #24 on its list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”.
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U2 Rocks Tornino
Italian Press calls Bono: A bit ‘ham a bit,’ holy, devoted husband and womanizer, rockstar in the odor of Nobel Bono yesterday also managed to magnetize the crowd like no other in our time.
He has charisma, is a common killer, with a supple voice that seems born to sing the elevation of the spirit and the torments of the flesh (including back pain that landed him for two months).
But we calculate also the glaring contradictions of his character that make it so similar to most humans. Value added is the band. Every good boy common sense that is left in the world, demands to be devoted to a band, so that together is better.
With a great guitar like The Edge, a large dusting, and two old guys grinding the pace of job as bassist Clayton (last all-white) and drummer Mullen (U2 were baptized in the kitchen of his mother in Dublin) The training does not lose its appeal.
Last night was an event because it marked the return after two months of forced stop operation for disk hernia Bono in late May, which made it mandatory cancellation of U.S. tour.
“Let’s go home too,” he said waving wearily. After all, 50 being shot, and 49 will arrive tomorrow for The Edge, celebrated early with large ‘Happy Birthday’.
Bono U2 set the stage a “family business”. The huge bridge round is often left unused. He dominated the play the songs. An eye to the sky, one at a disco.
The universal dream, which is open the concert with David Bowie’s Space Oddity (and closes Rocket Man by Elton John), to enhance the joy after pagan Beautiful Day, and then a tribute to the enthusiastic audience Magnificent, one of the few ’ latest album No Line On The Horizon, still waiting - because of slow sales - to be valued.
The giant machine technology is the largest and most sophisticated ever designed with the screen cone that rises and falls to the drawing stage another saint, Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks of the poor to save Africa: Africa is always in Bono’s heart is in Africa talking before the concert, in a room where he meets Microsoft founder Paul Allen, Alex Del Piero and the Director of Printing Mario Calabresi to thank the special issue on Africa: “You must not give up in the battle over Third World debt relief - he says - continue to support our organization. You made one of the best special editions on Africa I’ve ever seen. ”
Strong ugly, unreal, ragnone light green dotted with orange buttons, widens the four tentacles on the lawn. A technological marvel, created to allow full view of those who are on the backstage. Satisfied that everyone who paid 34.50 euros to 287 euros pigeon and who is in the pit (and upheld the band waving colored flags that drew the Irish).
Plays the delightful Miss Sarajevo antibellica written with Brian Eno on the Pavarotti & Friends: Bono sings the tenor part in Italian, with lots of sharp.
But here is even MLK, a lullaby for the 1984 Martin Luther King, who extended his tribute to the Burmese Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Sunday Bloody Sunday is no longer dedicated to Irish Bloody Sunday in Belfast: the Arabic script, a green diffused images, reminiscent of the tragedy of Tehran.
The One who gives his name inspired the organization of humanitarian Bono, Archbishop Tutu’s speech closes on redemption of debt and the chances of African countries: Bono dedicated the last song Moment of Surrender to Bill Gates’ is a genius and given so much to the poor.
U2 Kicks off Show
The show has just started and the fans are pumped - We believe based on the songs played so far that this is the set list they will be following
- New Intro
- Beautiful Day
- Magnificent
- Get On Your Boots
- Mysterious Ways
- I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
- North Star
- Glastonbury
- Elevation
- In A Little While
- Miss Sarajevo
- Until The End Of The World
- The Unforgettable Fire
- City Of Blinding Lights
- Vertigo
- Crazy Tonight / Discothèque
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- MLK
- Walk On / You’ll Never Walk Alone
- Encore Break and Desmond Tutu video
- One
- Amazing Grace / Where The Streets Have No Name
- Encore Break
- Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
- With Or Without You
- Moment of Surrender
U2 Asked Glastonbury 2011
U2 have been offered the chance to headline next year’s Glastonbury festival after the Irish rockers were forced to pull out of this year’s event.
Now the celebrated music festival’s organiser, Michael Eavis, has invited the Achtung Baby chart toppers to appear in 2011, the Express reports.
Lady Gaga and the Rolling Stones are also rumoured for top slots.
U2 Arrives and Pizza Too
The day has finally arrived, after months of canceled shows, displaced crew members we are here. The band is ready and the crowds are picking up. GA Line looks to be filled up pretty nice.
We have set updates, videos and photos coming in all day long. Check the clock out for local time.
U2 did a couple brief rehearsal segments on Thursday in Turin, and surely made a lot of fans happy by rehearsing one song that had been missing all week from the rehearsal setlists.
After the rehearsals concluded when the band delivered several boxes of pizza!
