Rumors have begun to circulate that U2 will be returning to Nashville this summer for a July 2nd show at Vanderbilt Stadium. According to U2Gigs.com, “U2 are going to return to Tennessee for the first time since the Popmart Tour and perform in Nashville. The rumour suggests that the concert will take place on 2 July 2011 at Vanderbilt Stadium. There is a sufficient gap in the schedule between the Miami show on 29 June 2011 and the Chicago show on 5 July 2011. Furthermore, since Nashville is on the way from Miami to Chicago, this rumour seems pretty plausible. A somewhat weaker rumour hints that tickets for this show could go on sale as soon as the 30th of October.”
M&T Bank Stadium won't confirm 2011
U2’s blockbuster 360 Degree tour could come to Baltimore next year, but nothing has been locked in yet.
Representatives of the band and the venue will not comment on the show.
Earlier this week, U2.com accidentally revealed a previously unannounced date at M&T Bank Stadium on June 22. In the post, the Baltimore date was not in question; instead it was a performance at the Glastonbury Festival the band is trying to sneak in between Baltimore and East Lansing shows.
The post was taken down soon after, but not before a fan site captured a screen shot.
On Wednesday, Rob Muller, a spokesman for promoters Live Nation issued a stern “no comment” on the tentative performance at M&T. He also wouldn’t discuss if negotiations are happening.
The stadium took the same course of action, but vice president of marketing Gabrielle Dow said the act would be a major get for the stadium.
“I can’t imagine any arena that wouldn’t want U2,” she said. The last headliner at the stadium was Kenny Chesney in 2009 2008.
Ravens president Dick Cass has tried to book the band before, but it conflicted with the team’s schedule.
In 2011, though, the date could work out because it would happen in June. The stadium’s website so far lists one special event for next year: Baltimore Lacrosse. Its championship will be held over memorial day weekend, in late May.75,000 Fans Ready in Rome
The stadium gates will open tomorrow (to 16.30) as the music starts (at 19.30) with American indierock band Interpol. At 21, U2 will play on stage.
U2 has been on a roll since Bono has come back to the stage. Most cities have been sold out or close to a sell out. Rumors are rising that the boys will hit South America and have some extended North Ameican dates. So far the recovery of the lost shows has not proven to hurt the boys, only added more dates, which is standard in the tour business.
U2 Fans are asked to send videos and photo’s of the show directly to fanmail at u2 tourfans dot com.
Irish Times Misquote U2 Producer
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U2 producer Steve Lillywhite has accused The Irish Times of misquoting him, in the headline on an article which appeared in the run-up to his appearance at The Music Show.
The news story was headlined “Producer admits last U2 album was a failure” — but the man who produced Boy, October and War, and later co-produced both How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb and No Line On The Horizon for the band, with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, insists that this is not what he said.
“I never called U2 a failure,” he told the audience at the panel ‘Are Producers The Real Stars?,’ where he appeared alongside Van Morrison and Waterboys producer Mick Glossop and Julie Feeney.
“It was said that I said No Line On The Horizon was a failure. That is a complete misquote, I never said the word ‘failure’ to that journalist.”
In fact the words do not appear in quotes in the article and so the headline — presumably tagged on during production — is totally unrepresentative of what was written by Irish Times reporter, Ronan McGreevy.
“I just wanted to clarify what I said (here),” Lillywhite continued. “I was saying that with albums like The Joshua Tree, which is set in the desert, the album and the sound invokes this mood as a whole, you just feel it. I just said that I didn’t think No Line On The Horizon did that as well. It was meant to invoke the whole feel of north Africa, of Morocco, and I didn’t think that was achieved as well as on other albums, where the atmosphere hits you. I would never call any of U2’s work a failure, and I did not.”
A sub-headline on the news story says that the album sold only “a fraction” of previous albums, by which one would normally understand that sales were well down on previous efforts. In fact the record has gone to No. 1 in at least 14 countries. outperforming even Achtung Baby. Its sales of over 5 million copies, against the 9 million sold by its predecessor How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb have to be seen in the wider context of shrinking record sales — and so represent a relatively good result for the band in a diminishing market.
Lillywhite is currently seeking a retraction from the newspaper.
“You’d expect better of The Irish Times,” he said afterwards. “They’re supposed to be a newspaper of record.”
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U2 Fans Go to Broadway
“Some specially priced seats have been made available if you’d like to see the show and hear the new songs ahead of everyone else,” read the message, which offers the discount for preview shows running from Nov. 17 - December 20.
The musical officially opens on Dec. 21.
U2 performs first song from 'Spider-Man' musical
That’s one way to resuscitate the buzz around your new Broadway musical.
Over the weekend in Portugal, U2 reportedly performed the first song from the superhero show “Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark,” the Bono/The Edge/Julie Taymor production that begins previews next month in New York. The first tune — featured recently on the morning talk-show circuit — is titled, “Boy Falls From the Sky.”
The long-hampered, mega-million-dollar production announced last month that it will begin previews Nov. 14 and open Dec. 21. After a much-publicized casting call, Reeve Carney was cast as Peter Parker.
U2 at Heinz Field in 2011
KDKA-TV is reporting that sources have told the station that U2 will close out its 2011 tour at Heinz Field on July 26. The report says that former Steelers chairman and U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Dan Rooney is a fan of the band and has been working to get a concert here. U2 was forced to cancel shows earlier this summer due to Bono’s back surgery, but is back in action now.
Bono Drinks Green Wine in Porto
The stay of a machine as big as U2 are today, that may well compare himself to a company, it is projected into the tiniest detail, because only then will we understand how, the very moment of action, nothing fails .
Remember that this tour of U2 (360 º Tour) was started last year, goes to the end of this and the next will be in full in North America. That is, three years to act in different countries, in what already is considered the largest and perhaps most profitably tour ever.
At this point, it is the band that comes, for example, our own accommodation and catering, leaving the local producers mere logistical aspects, such as the hiring of venues, the organization of the entries or traffic issues.
After the performance the day before yesterday in Coimbra, the musicians traveled by helicopter to the Invicta (as, indeed, had made hours earlier in reverse) and settled in the luxury hotels in the city with the highest traditions, Infante de Sagres, where drummer Larry Mullen was unable to escape the autograph hunters.
However, for lunch, the Irish band chose the restaurant PDO, at Largo de São Domingos, the Ribeira.
To experience the good food Porto, Bono and his partners chose cream of asparagus with bacon foam, followed by Samosa Spicy sausage with sauteed mushrooms and in the end bass. To accompany a Sunny Green - First Vineyards, 2009.
The singer refused to eat dessert not to be too heavy for the performance of the night.