Belfast and Dublin Shows Sold Out
Tickets for U2's "homecoming" gigs in Belfast and Dublin sold out around 30 minutes after they went on special on Monday morning.
The Irish rock band will complete their current European visit with two shows in Belfast on 18 and 19 November, trailed by four dates at Dublin's 3Arena.
Tickets went at a bargain at 09:00 BST on Monday, however a few fans lined overnight outside the show venues.
As expected, there was a scramble this morning to buy tickets for U2's Irish concerts, with 40,000 tickets for the Dublin dates selling out in 35 minutes and 17,000 tickets for the Belfast dates snapped up within hours of going on sale. The band will play four gigs in Dublin and two in Belfast in November, and tickets were only available from the venue box offices, Dublin's 3Arena and Belfast's SSE Arena, and Ticketmaster online. Tickets were limited to two per person and were priced from €30 to €185 for Dublin and from £30 to £165 for Belfast.
People started queuing outside Dublin's 3Arena on Sunday afternoon. Fans were later allowed to wait inside overnight. It is estimated that there were a couple of hundred fans queuing at the venue this morning.
U2 Annouces Belfast and Dublin Shows
Nick Walker / U2TOURFANS 2015
New York: U2’s iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE European Tour 2015 will finish with six home shows in Ireland - two shows in Belfast on 18th & 19th November and four shows in Dublin on 23rd + 24th, 27th + 28th November.
Tickets for the Irish shows go on sale at 9am on Monday 14th September, will be limited to 2 per purchaser and are priced from £30 to £165 for Belfast and from €30 to €185 in Dublin, plus charges. Tickets can be bought at the venue box offices and online.
U2 Possible Belfast Venue Choice / Turin Show Update
Photo Credit: U2PLACEcom
U2 are doing everything they can to take their world tour to Ireland - with The Edge saying not playing to a home crowd would be a "huge disappointment" to the band.
The Edge told the Press Association that a venue in Northern Ireland may the right choice for the show.
"This show is intended for a kind of venue and tragically there isn't one, absolutely in the south, I think there may be one in the Belfast territory so we're taking a gander at that also.
"In any case, you can't design a venue. It's either there or it isn't. So we're doing a considerable measure of head scratching at this moment to check whether we can make sense of something," he said.
Proceeded whether U2 may be coming to Belfast, The Edge said: "I wouldn't preclude it."
There has been much hypothesis about U2 adding dates in Ireland to the visit, and The Edge said: "We are absolutely living up to expectations hard on it and we can't declare anything at this moment yet it would be a gigantic disillusionment to us on the off chance that we lacked the capacity play in Ireland thus every exertion is set into make that conceivable."
The band has recently commenced the European leg of their reality visit and will be playing a series of dates at The O2 in London and dates in Glasgow, before completing up in Paris in November.
Turin Update
Today U2 performed their second of two shows in Turin. On the off chance that you missed the premiere night of the leg yesterday, you can see the set here.
Ahead of schedule in the show, Out Of Control pivoted once again into the set in the second spot. This is only the second time it has ever been played in Italy after first showing up as an astonishment closer in Turin on 21 July 2001. Amid the second set, Desire and Angel Of Harlem both showed up of the European leg; Desire had last been played at the last night in North America on 31 July 2015, while Angel Of Harlem's latest execution went ahead 27 July. With Or Without You contained its additional live verse Shine Like Stars for simply the fifth time this visit. Toward the end of the show, I Still Haven't Found was turned into the set as the closer; like Desire, its latest execution was on 31 July.
A gathering of artists were carried in front of an audience to perform with U2 on Desire, and the guitarist got the chance to keep Edge's guitar. Toward the end of Angel Of Harlem, Bono wished Van Morrison a glad birthday (a week late!) and sang a piece of Into The Mystic. He then identifies with the group about Pavarotti, as tomorrow is the commemoration of Pavarotti's demise, and sang a snip of Torna A Surriento before Every Breaking Wave. Zucchero joined U2 to sing amid I Still Haven't Found.
SetList
Venue Pala Alpitour September 5 2016
- The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
- Out Of Control
- Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? (snippet) / Vertigo / God Save The Queen (Sex Pistols) (snippet)
- I Will Follow
- Iris (Hold Me Close)
- Cedarwood Road
- Song For Someone
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Raised By Wolves / Psalm 23 (snippet)
- Until The End Of The World / Love And Peace Or Else (snippet) / Singin' In The Rain (snippet)
- (Intermission)
- Invisible
- Even Better Than The Real Thing
- Mysterious Ways
- Desire
- Angel Of Harlem / Into The Mystic (snippet)
- Torna A Surriento (snippet) / Every Breaking Wave
- October
- Bullet The Blue Sky / Ode To Joy (snippet)
- Zooropa
- Where The Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet)
- Pride (In The Name Of Love)
- With Or Without You / Shine Like Stars (snippet)
Encore(s):
- City Of Blinding Lights
- Beautiful Day / Torna A Surriento (snippet)
- Mother And Child Reunion (snippet) / I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / People Have The Power (snippet)
Snippets provided by U2GIGS
Was that U2 spotted around Belfast bar ?
Yesterday passers-by were intrigued by the appearance of a massive poster advertising the release of arguably U2’s greatest album, The Joshua Tree.
The iconic image of a very young, sombre-looking group of lads from Dublin has been mounted across the front of the Frames complex, with two side banners heralding the release of the band’s fifth studio album.
Of course, The Joshua Tree was released in 1987. So why the advertisement? Well, the poster (and Little Donegall Street) is part of a scene from music comedy Killing Bono, being filmed in Belfast.
The movie, which stars Ben Barnes from Chronicles Of Narnia fame and Channel 4 ‘Misfit’ Robert Sheehan, is based on a book written by Neil McCormick, who went to school with U2 frontman Bono.
I Was Bono’s Doppelganger tells the story of McCormick and his brother Ivan’s attempt to forge a career in the music industry during the 1970s. But the pair fail to find success, while Bono and Co went on to achieve superstar status.
The last day of filming is tomorrow. There will be a night shoot from 8pm - 5am outside Frames on Library Street. and if you want to be part of it as an extra just go along in 80’s fashion. Text 07792490926 with your full name to confirm you’re going. Remember its outside so wear sensible clothing.
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