It may seem ridiculous for a four-man rock band to need 5, 900 staff for a two-date tour, but rock royalty U2's juggernaut is not a usual series of concerts.
On February 13, at the FNB stadium, in Soweto, Bono and his band will play in front of "probably their biggest crowd they've played to" -- 110,000 people.
Concert promoter Penny Stein said that only 2,000 tickets were still available for the Johannesburg concert, which forms part of the Irish band's 360-degree World Tour.
The 70,000 tickets for the February 18 concert at Cape Town stadium were sold out within a week in October.
The idea of a 360-degree stadium stage came from a model built with dinner forks during the band's 2006 Vertigo Tour.
The shows will have the largest concert stage structure ever assembled. It revolves, allowing the audience to surround it and get a good view from all sides.
Stein said 200 containers carrying both international and locally-hired equipment had already arrived.
"This is a massive set and rig. It is a total of 300 international and local staff, 2,600 security guards, 1,000 bar staff and 2,000 other support staff for four people on stage," she said.
The band will arrive next week "at various times" because they will take different flights.
Asked whether front-man Bono, a philanthropist of note, will have time for humanitarian work between concerts, Stein said: "We don't know their plans, but we are sure they will be doing some interesting stuff."
source : http://www.timeslive.co.za/ by Andile Ndlovu
On February 13, at the FNB stadium, in Soweto, Bono and his band will play in front of "probably their biggest crowd they've played to" -- 110,000 people.
Concert promoter Penny Stein said that only 2,000 tickets were still available for the Johannesburg concert, which forms part of the Irish band's 360-degree World Tour.
The 70,000 tickets for the February 18 concert at Cape Town stadium were sold out within a week in October.
The idea of a 360-degree stadium stage came from a model built with dinner forks during the band's 2006 Vertigo Tour.
The shows will have the largest concert stage structure ever assembled. It revolves, allowing the audience to surround it and get a good view from all sides.
Stein said 200 containers carrying both international and locally-hired equipment had already arrived.
"This is a massive set and rig. It is a total of 300 international and local staff, 2,600 security guards, 1,000 bar staff and 2,000 other support staff for four people on stage," she said.
The band will arrive next week "at various times" because they will take different flights.
Asked whether front-man Bono, a philanthropist of note, will have time for humanitarian work between concerts, Stein said: "We don't know their plans, but we are sure they will be doing some interesting stuff."
source : http://www.timeslive.co.za/ by Andile Ndlovu
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