U2 and Jay-Z sure know how to sell out a gig.
Their Subiaco Oval performance scheduled for Saturday December 18 went on sale this morning at 9am and has already sold out.
More than 43,000 tickets sold within 10 minutes.
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Be quick to secure tickets to this unmissable performance, with arguably the world’s most popular band bringing to Australia the biggest concert set-up we have ever seen.
The state of preparations at the Olympic Stadium( Athens, Greece) for the U2 continues days before landing of the Irish band the pitch change form. Panic sets in, no one can say with certainty that the Statium will be ready for September 12 which is the date for the next sporting event.
More than 100 trucks transported all the equipment and no fewer number 300 technicians involved with installing the scene consisting of a cylindrical LED screen, the whole project look like a spaceship inspired by the International Airport Los Angeles.
The entire building will be impressive and according to the steel structure has a height 27.43 meters, while the central pillar reaches 45.72 meters. The construction can support weight up to 180 tons. The monitor weighs 54 tons!
The groundbreaking scene will be set up at the Olympic Stadium for the concert of U2, weighs 400 tons and can support the bottom weight even 180 tons.
4 days needed to set up the stage, screen, lights and speakers used on tour 360.
6 hours needed to be dismantled after the concert.
48 hours are doing to reposition the technical backdrop to the trucks.
50 meters in height the entire landscape of the tour 360.
Innovative screen weighs 60 tons
180 trucks carry the scene of U2 from show to show
400 tons of gear and stage
180 tons can be supported from below.
500 000 pixels is the screen of the concert.
All in a days work,
Hartmann, hailed as the ‘miracle’ man after nursing hurling superstar Henry Shefflin back from injury, is ready to pack his bags to join up with U2 on their world tour-as band injuries therapist.
From there, it will be onto Monte Carlo, on the invitation of the International Olympic Committee, to address sports medical practitioners.
He told the Limerick Post: “It is not generally known that I worked with U2 in the past, but this will be the biggest gig of all.
“Earlier this year I spent time with them in the States in the making of a new film due to be released in 2010. They have a tough schedule ahead and invited me to ensure that fitness levels are maintained. They keep reminding me that it was in Limerick that they took their first step to stardom.
“It is well documented that Bono suffered a serious back injury on stage recently and their tour had to be curtailed….I will be there to offer advice should any such problems be encountered again”.
Tickets to New Zealand’s one and only U2 360 concert are already appearing on TradeMe, two days before they go on sale to the public.
U2.com subscribers had until yesterday to purchase tickets to the November concert, before they go on sale to the public this Friday.
Tickets are already appearing on auction website Trade Me for inflated prices - some have a ‘buy now’ of $1000 for two.
U2 360 organisers would not comment on scalping but the band website www.U2.com states: “We reserve the right to block access to or cancel a ticket order of any user that we believe, in our sole and absolute discretion is or is associated with any ticket broker or scalper.”
Wellingtonian Shelly Mackey subscribed for $50 just to ensure she could get tickets after almost missing out four years ago when U2 last performed in New Zealand.
“The main reason why I did it was because I wanted to get tickets. Last time they had a concert I lived in Hamilton and we broke up into groups, I lined up at the stadium, others were in town and another was online,” she says.
She missed out on tickets which were being sold at Waikato Stadium and at the ticket store in town, but did get them online.
“We almost missed out, so this time I thought ‘stuff it’ and paid the $50.”
She says it was worth paying the extra money because the previous concert was so good.
“Their concert was awesome last time.”
Miss Mackey says she purchased four of the $39.90 tickets, which ended up costing about $62 each after the subscription fee and postage.
New Zealand U2 360 spokeswoman Bridget de Launay says the U2.com subscribers allocation for $349.50 Red Zone tickets sold out, but could not comment on how many were sold.
She says there are still Red Zone tickets available to the public.
Miss Mackey says it is tempting to sell her spare two tickets.
“I am definitely considering it but I would feel a little greedy doing it.”
She says she might just sell them to friends for the amount she paid for them.
“I will just see what happens.”
The Irish superband will be joined by Jay-Z at Mt Smart Stadium on Thursday, November 25, exactly four years after U2 last performed in New Zealand.
About 54 percent of tickets are priced under $100, starting at $39.90.
The low prices are due to the specially built 50m-high stage with rotating bridges and a giant video system.
“The extra capacity U2 360 gives us means that there are a large number, several thousand in fact, of low priced tickets at every show,” says U2 tour producer/promoter Arthur Fogel, chief executive of Live Nation Global Touring.
Bringing the U2 360 production to New Zealand is no small feat. Six 747 freighters are required to fly the production to New Zealand.
The stage weighs 590 tonnes with all of the production gear hanging from it, and covers 6000 square metres.
‘The Claw’ itself stands 30.53m high, and with the pylon it’s 51.8m. That means it’s higher than most stadium roofs. Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium roof will have to be “cracked” and stay open to allow the pylon to be installed.
The “crown” presented on Monday evening, the best band in the world live in the Ernst-Happel-Stadion. U2 enthusiasts with a spectacular show of the “360 °-Tour” and the largest round stage, the stages of this world have seen so far, some 70,000 fans.
We knew that sooner or later we had to have one show that may not be consider the best of the group. This may go down as one of them. Bono is very talkative, suggestions that the pain meds may be the cause of it. Sure that could be possible. The techincal issues after a long sound check may be in question. The issues left long breaks between songs, great for the recording of the show, not so great for the audience. The Edge seemed to have most of the issues.
Traveling family on this show. three women and six children flew in on the private 360 AIR jet of course a police escore and a tight security detail. This show was considered to be a “runner” band came in, band played, band flew out. Adam flew in solo as reported.
Bono with wife Ali and sons Elijah and John. The Edge with children Ava and Ezra and wife Morleigh Steinberg. Larry is accompanied by time girlfriend Ann Acheson and the sons of Levi and Sian.
At the Vienna program includes the concert and a short sound check a platinum award and an exclusive backstage dinner. At midnight, we then jetting back home.
We are a family band: John is here, Elijah, Ava, Ezra, Levi, Sian. “In his address to the mega hit I Still Have not Found What I’m Looking For is Bono (50) on Monday in Vienna Stadium are very personal. Bono made it a point to say that the family was in attendance.
After the show, the band flew home to Nice, and its on to Athens.
Today’s show marks the only show to be performed in Austria. Vienna was a bit cold as some fans tweeted earlier today. This show was to be on the 2009 tour but due to a scheduling conflict was not able to happen. The crew warmed up and had a pretty long sound check that included City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo and Moment of Surrender. So this was interesting, the press had published the setlist thinking that was the “current” list, however just before the show started a new set list appeared. The new song “Every Breaking Wave” was played again, this being the second time. The new set seems to be working well, starting the show off with Beautiful Day gets the crowd off and running. So far reviews are coming very postive and upbeat. Bring back Ultra Violet has been a crowd pleaser. The boys move on to Athens.
U2 arrives into Ernst-Happel Stadium on their world 360 tour. For some fans there will be no show for them. U2 Vienna fans that have tickets from an English Internet ticket provider have yet to ship the tickets. The credit card transaction company has closed up shop and now of course the course is sold out.
Salzburg fan who has purchased the tickets last October now will have to listen from outside the stadium and know that they did everything that could to get their tickets of course now the credit card company will refund her the money but that’s not going to solve the lost tickets.
Peter Niedermayr is responsible for consumer protection in the Chamber of Labour. He confirmed that ticket sales for the consumer is often not transparent. “There is no office in the sense that we would have to inquire directly with the organizers, who may sell official tickets,” he explains. When it comes to coveted concert tickets, the time for a comprehensive search is often not available.
How will the police acted in Internet fraud, said Hermann Rechberger of the Security Directorate Salzburg. From a certain amount of damage a data exchange with Europol. Depending on the situation in that country would then pried open account and IP addresses. But the efforts often ran in the sand as well, sometimes wrong server identities were created. “The fraudsters are clever forever,” says Rechberger. Even if the perpetrators can be pried, a compensation for the damage is often not possible. The money is often already landed on other accounts. Nevertheless advises Reichenberger not entirely off from shopping on the Internet. Passwords can be protected by his credit card on the Internet well.
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NASA and U2 released a commemorative video highlighting a year’s worth of collaboration in space and on the Irish rock band’s 360 Degree tour.
U2 approached NASA in 2009 with an idea to include a dialogue between the band and the crew of the International Space Station during U2’s world tour. The astronauts of Expedition 20, the crew then living aboard the space station, agreed to participate and spoke with U2 several times before recording a video segment the band incorporated into its concerts.
The space station crew members were Michael Barratt of NASA, Frank De Winne of the European Space Agency, Bob Thirsk of the Canadian Space Agency, Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Gennady Padalka and Roman Romanenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency.
“Working with U2 is atypical for NASA,” said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for Space Operations. “By combining their world tour with the space station’s out-of-this-world mission, more people — and different people than our normal target audiences — learned about the International Space Station and the important work we are doing in orbit.”
Speaking onstage in Houston last year, Bono said, “These are the very best people in the world — dedicated to figuring how our little planet exists in this cosmos we call home.” De Winne and Romanenko attended U2’s performance in Moscow on Wednesday and met with the band before the show.
U2.com created the video and presented it to NASA to document the collaboration between the band and the space agency.
