With two U2360° shows at the Azteca Stadium already sold out, the third show announced today will take place on Wednesday May 11th. As we’ve seen over the summer in Europe, the band have been mixing up the set list night after night and this additional Wednesday show is set to warm things up for those lucky Saturday fans who got tickets early.
Tickets for this May 11th show will be available starting at $350 MXN, with general admission floor tickets at $850 MXN. Additional seated tickets also available starting at $750 MXN. Tickets go on sale to Banamex cardholders on Tuesday, November 16th at 11AM and to the general public on Thursday, November 18th at 11AM.
The March of U2
St Louis !
ST. LOUIS – Busch Stadium will transform from baseball field to rock concert venue next summer when the legendary group U2 makes a stop during their 360 degrees tour on July 17, 2011.
The Cardinals announced the concert at a press conference Monday morning at Busch Stadium, calling it the largest event to be hosted at the five-year-old stadium to date and likely for some time.
One of only 16 American cities chosen for the tour, the Cardinals hope to have a crowd of more than 50,000 on hand. The concert comes in the middle a 14-day break from baseball at Busch Stadium with the Cardinals following the All-Star break with a nine-game road trip to open the second half of the season.
“I’m a huge fan so it’s particularly exciting for me to get them here at Busch Stadium in what will probably be the biggest concert ever here,” said Cardinals president Bill DeWitt III. “I can’t imagine there will ever be a bigger one based on the size of the stage.
“I went to the Chicago show and I remember thinking there’s no way we can get this thing into Busch Stadium but sure enough after planning and thinking about all of the dimensions and the logistics and the window of time, we were able to think it through and pull it off.”
U2 will bring the largest stage in concert history with them to St. Louis, with the top of the steel structure 90 feet and the center pylon 150 feet into the air. The stage design can support up to 180 tons and will take up virtually the entire Busch Stadium outfield.
2 More North American Shows Added !
Another two shows have been confirmed today for U2’s North America tour in the summer of 2011.
On June 22nd the band will play at the M&T Stadium in Baltimore, MD with special guests Florence and The Machine.
On July 17th the band will play at Busch Stadium in St Louis, MO with special guests Interpol.
Tickets for both shows go on sale to the general public next Monday November 8th at 10am (local) but U2.com subscribers can enter a special advance PRESALE beginning this Wednesday, November 3rd and running until Friday November 5th.
Subscribers will be emailed ahead of this presale with details of timings.
U2 Releasing Three-Track Vinyl EP
(NEW YORK) — U2 fans will need to rush to their local independent record store on Nov. 26 if they hope to pick up a copy of the band’s new three-track vinyl EP, Wide Awake in Europe.
SlicingUpEyeballs.com reports that only 5,000 copies of the EP will be released and that it features live versions of the songs “I’ll Go Crazy if I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight,” “Moment of Surrender,” and a song called “Mercy,” which was originally recorded during the sessions for the 2004 album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.
All the songs were recorded during U2’s 2009-2010 360 tour.
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Killing Bono Trailer Released
A couple of fans found this link to the trailer Killing Bono. We can not comfirm that the movie will even be released. No offical date has been posted.
Nick Hamm’s film based upon Neil McCormick’s memoir of growing up in the 70s and attending the same school as U2′s Bono. Ben Barnes stars as McCormick and Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais did work on the screenplay, so I’m quite keen. We’re pretty much guaranteed some cracking gags and a few good character touches at least.
U2 break Computicket record
U2’s ticket sales have broken ticketing agency Computicket’s record for the number one selling show in South Africa.
Sales for the 22-time Grammy award-winning band, who are expected to perform their 360 Degrees tour on February 13 in Johannesburg and on February 18 in Cape Town, started at the weekend.
By yesterday, they managed to sell 114000 tickets.
Concert promoters Big Concerts’ financial officer, Justin van Wyk, said: “U2’s ticket sales smashed the record that UK singer Robbie Williams held at 98000 from November 2005.”
“This is the biggest event since the Fifa World Cup to happen in our country,” he said. – The Times, Avusa Group News
U2 North America News !
After announcing additional dates in Australia, New Zealand, Mexico City and South Africa, Billboard.biz confirms that U2 will take its record-breaking 360 tour to Nashville’s Vanderbilt Stadium on July 2 of next year, the band’s first trip to the market in more than 29 years.
By the time the tour returns to North America, it will have been seen by well over 4 million fans and is marching toward becoming the highest-grossing tour of all time. A press conference is announcing the Nashville show today.
U2 is adding some select dates to its re-scheduled second North American leg, which was postponed due to back surgery for the band’s frontman, Bono. The will be U2’s first appearance in Nashville since December 2, 1981, also at Vanderbilt. Commenting on U2’s return to Nashville after such a long absence from the market, tour producer Arthur Fogel, chairman of Live Nation Global Touring, tells Billboard.biz, “In rescheduling the postponed dates to 2011 it opened up the opportunity to add a few additional cities. It has been a very long time since U2 has played Nashville — too long — and it will be a great show in a great city.”
At about 50,000 capacity for the show, Vanderbilt Stadium will be one of the smallest-capacity venues to be played on the tour, which boasts a ground-breaking production and staging that allows for an attendance-boosting 360-degree configuration, a first for a touring stadium show. U2 is a finalist for the Top Tour and Top Draw awards at the 2010 Billboard Touring Awards in New York Nov. 4, and band manager Paul McGuinness’ Principle Management is a finalist in the Top Manager category.
Tickets for the Nashville show go on sale Oct. 29 and are priced at $30, $55, $95 and $250.