Monday, June 6, 2011

U2.COM : Follow The Show in Oakland

Coming to the show in Oakland ? Planning to follow online? Here's how.

If you want to follow the build up to the show in Seattle, take a look at this thread and join the chat.

U2.com Subscribers might like to check in here for live updates from fans at the show  as it all happens.

You can upload images, video and even have your own blog directly embedded in our #U2360OAK Group over on our community pages.

On  show day, open another window for the home page of our Community area and join fans tweeting from the show and others following online.

If you're tweeting from - or about - the show, use the hashtag #U2360OAK or #U2360USA, that way we can feature your updates in our rolling feed.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

U2.COM : Beautiful Day from space

U2.COM : 'Emerald City'



'Emerald City, shining in the sun, where are you gonna take us?'

It was the question Bono asked as the show opened in Seattle tonight  and we had the answer during Beautiful Day, when NASA Commander Mark Kelly brought us a message from the final space mission of the shuttle Endeavour. (more on this coming up).

On a glorious evening at the home of The Seahawks, U2360  took Seattle into orbit tonight ...  and safely back to earth again. From the opening chords of Even Better Than The Real Thing to the closing benediction of Moment of Surrender this was a night to remember - with an audience who'll never forget it: 'You're incredible people!'

U2 setlist - June 04, 2011 at Seattle, WA

Venue: Qwest Field

Opening Act(s): Lenny Kravitz

Main Set: Even Better Than The Real Thing, I Will Follow, Get On Your Boots, Magnificent, Mysterious Ways, Elevation, It's the End of the World as We Know It - Until the End of the World - Where Have All the Flowers Gone, All I Want Is You, Beautiful Day - Space Oddity, Pride, Miss Sarajevo, Zooropa, City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, I'll Go Crazy (remix) - Discotheque - Life During Wartime - Psycho Killer, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Scarlet, Walk On - You'll Never Walk Alone

Encore(s): One, Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Where the Streets Have No Name - All You Need is Love, Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me, With or Without You, Moment of Surrender

Comments: A new video debuts before Beautiful Day. It features astronaut Mark Kelly (Gabby Giffords husband, who is still on board the Space Shuttle) holding up a series of word parts that leads into the song, and then saying 'tell my wife I love her … she knows.' Kelly then reappears again later in the song on the video screen, and recites the bridge lyrics ('See the world in green and blue,' etc.) Members of Pearl Jam, R.E.M and Heart are at the show. Also at the show is one of Aung San Suu Kyi's sons.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

U2.COM : Winnipeg and Edmonton On Camera

The U2360° FANCAM was in Winnipeg and  Edmonton. Were you ?

Take a look at this unique 360° image from the show in Edmonton -  and this one from Winnipeg - explore every corner of the venue, then zoom in and tag yourself or your friends.

And share the image with others on Facebook or Twitter or email it to friends.

Here's what FANCAM captured in Denver.

And here's the image from Salt Lake City.

If you're at one of the upcoming shows, the U2360° FANCAM imaging is executed about fifteen minutes after the support act has left the stage. You'll see a camera set up at the downstage area during this time and if you see the photographer rotating the camera, raise your hands towards the centre of the stage to get in the shot as it's taken!

(The FANCAM, in beta-mode with U2.com right now, is flash-based and may not be available on all devices.)

U2.COM : Follow The Show in Seattle

Coming to the show in Seattle ? Planning to follow online? Here's how.

If you want to follow the build up to the show in Seattle, take a look at this thread and join the chat.

U2.com Subscribers might like to check in here for live updates from fans at the show  as it all happens.

You can upload images, video and even have your own blog directly embedded in our #U2360SEA Group over on our community pages.

On  show day, open another window for the home page of our Community area and join fans tweeting from the show and others following online.

If you're tweeting from - or about - the show, use the hashtag #U2360SEA or #U2360USA, that way we can feature your updates in our rolling feed.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

U2.COM : 'Edmonton - Kiss The Future'

It was threatening to rain tonight and once or twice it began to drizzle but in the end it held off right until the close of the show and, compared to Winnipeg, it even  felt quite warm. Anyway,  from the moment Bono greeted Edmonton  as 'City of Champions' after Even Better Than The Real Thing', the forecast was always looking promising.

Or, as The Edmonton Journal  put it, 'Under a partly cloudy Wednesday sky, and a 50-metre alien crustacean known as The Claw or The Spaceship, Bono and his boys took fans to new heights of excess, excitement and hockey hysteria at Commonwealth Stadium - 14 years after the band’s last visit to Edmonton.'

U2 setlist - June 01, 2011 at Edmonton AB, Canada

Venue: Commonwealth Stadium

Opening Act(s): The Fray

Main Set: Even Better Than The Real Thing, I Will Follow, Get On Your Boots, Magnificent, Mysterious Ways, Elevation, Until the End of the World, All I Want Is You, Stay, Beautiful Day - Heart of Gold, Pride, Miss Sarajevo, Zooropa, City of Blinding Lights - Singin' In The Rain, Vertigo, I'll Go Crazy (remix) - Discotheque, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Scarlet, Walk On - You'll Never Walk Alone

Encore(s): One, Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Where the Streets Have No Name, Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me, With or Without You, Moment of Surrender

Comments: It rains a bit during the show, prompting Bono to sing a bit of Singin' In The Rain. U2 plays well past the rumored 11 pm curfew in Edmonton. Bono dedicates Moment of Surrender to victims of the recent fires in Slave Lake, Alberta. Edmonton Oiler hockey player Gilbert Brule is at the show as Bono's guest, after Brule picked up a hitchhiking Bono in Vancouver a day earlier.

source : http://www.u2tours.com/

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

U2.COM : Follow The Show in Edmonton

Coming to the show in Edmonton ? Planning to follow online? Here's how.

If you want to follow the build up to the show in Edmonton, take a look at this thread and join the chat.

U2.com Subscribers might like to check in here for live updates from fans at the show  as it all happens.

You can upload images, video and even have your own blog directly embedded in our #U2360EDM Group over on our community pages.

On  show day, open another window for the home page of our Community area and join fans tweeting from the show and others following online.

If you're tweeting from - or about - the show, use the hashtag #U2360EDM or #U2360CAN, that way we can feature your updates in our rolling feed.