Remember the breathtaking 360° images we posted after the shows in South Africa?
The ones where you could zip around the stadium and zoom in anywhere - from your best mate to Larry's drum kit ?
Well - U2360° FANCAM is back!
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
U2.COM : U2360° FANCAM Returns: Denver, Salt Lake City
Remember the breathtaking 360° images we posted after the shows in South Africa?
The ones where you could zip around the stadium and zoom in anywhere - from your best mate to Larry's drum kit ?
Well - U2360° FANCAM is back!
Monday, May 30, 2011
U2.COM : U2 Toast Amnesty International at First Canadian Show
U2 joined the celebrations for the 50th Anniversary of Amnesty at the Canad Inns Stadium in Winnipeg, Canada last night (May 29th, 2011).
With a pint of Guinness in hand, Bono made a toast from the stage, “Tonight is Amnesty International’s 50th birthday. Fifty year’s ago Amnesty was formed because two Portuguese students were imprisoned for seven years for raising a toast to freedom… so in their honour - tonight we raise a toast to freedom and might you join us to sing happy birthday to Amnesty International”
The 50,000 strong Canadian crowd joined U2 in a rousing version of “Happy Birthday”.
Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi appeared on the cylindrical screen above the stage, with a video message for the crowd, “We are not bystanders in our own history, every one of us writes a story that is told… I see it through your support for Burma, for Amnesty International. Where basic human rights are denied or basic human needs are not met, the struggle may be hard, it make take time… but if we demand it, change will come.”
The Winnipeg show was U2’s first concert in Canada on this - the second leg of U2 360° Tour.
U2.COM : 'A Toast to Freedom'
'People have been saying it's cold? No, not at all!' mused Bono, as a huge Canadian audience cheered in agreement. ' I don’t know what they’re talking about. You’re Canadian…we’re Irish… and we have some real men in the band, you know who you are...
'Fourteen years ago we played a show here we will never forget. It's a privilege for us to come and play for you.
'What are you going to play for us The Edge?
The Edge had prepared a number called All I Want Is You and with its opening bars, Winnipeg could hardly have been hotter. Earlier, planes from the Canadian airforce aerial team The Snowbirds had offered us three dazzling fly-bys in the minutes before the show, including one which spectacularly circled the stadium, but it was Even Better than The Real Thing that signalled the arrival of the main space attraction of the evening.
U2 setlist - May 29, 2011 at Winnipeg MB, Canada
Venue: Canad Inns Stadium
Opening Act(s): The Fray
Main Set: Even Better Than The Real Thing, I Will Follow, Get On Your Boots - Oh Canada, Magnificent, Mysterious Ways, Elevation, Until the End of the World - Where Have All The Flowers Gone, All I Want Is You, Stay, Beautiful Day - Heart of Gold, Pride, Miss Sarajevo, Zooropa, City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, I'll Go Crazy (remix) - Discotheque - Life During Wartime - Psycho Killer - Please, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Scarlet, Walk On - You'll Never Walk Alone, Happy Birthday
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
Comments: The Royal Canadian Air Force does a flyover shortly before the show starts. The fan-read poem before Beautiful Day this time is actually the lyrics to You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet by Winnipeg's Bachman Turner Overdrive. At the end of the main set, Bono leads the crowd in singing Happy Birthday for Amnesty International, which is 50 years old this year. Although Moment of Surrender is on the printed setlist, the show ends after With or Without You.
source : http://www.u2tours.com/
Sunday, May 29, 2011
U2 breached Suncorp Stadium noise limit with 100-decibel-plus 360 Degree World Tour concert
Reports obtained by The Sunday Mail show Irish supergroup U2 exceeded the regulated 100-decibel limit inside the venue at one of their two 360 Degree World Tour concerts in Brisbane last year.
The group notched 105 decibels, but will not be fined for the breach, unlike the $50,000 penalty the band received from their hometown of Dublin earlier in the tour.
The reports also reveal one of the five external sites Stadiums Queensland is required to audit is still failing to accurately record noise levels and recorded excess levels for U2 as well as Bon Jovi a few nights later.
Tens of thousands of people live around the stadium in some of Queensland's most expensive suburbs such as Paddington, Auchenflower, Red Hill and Milton.
The flaws come five years after a problem with the "skewed" site at 105 Hale St was discovered and recommended to be fixed, and two years after Sports Minister Phil Reeves failed to explain why they had not been fixed.
The reports show acoustics contractor Cardno Consulting had measuring difficulties at the noisy Hale St site, where the same problems occurred during concerts by Robbie Williams in 2006.
The stadium had 21 complaints and three compliments over the two U2 nights last December but only one complaint for Bon Jovi.
"There were some slight exceedences on night one and none on the second night," the report said of U2's performances.
Mr Reeves yesterday said the problem site would be reviewed next year.
But Opposition sports spokesman David Gibson said the five-year delay was another example of poor management.
"It is disgraceful that not only has the Government failed to fix the 'skewed' monitoring station but that they also fail to adhere to or enforce their own regulations," he said.
source : http://www.couriermail.com.au/
The group notched 105 decibels, but will not be fined for the breach, unlike the $50,000 penalty the band received from their hometown of Dublin earlier in the tour.
The reports also reveal one of the five external sites Stadiums Queensland is required to audit is still failing to accurately record noise levels and recorded excess levels for U2 as well as Bon Jovi a few nights later.
Tens of thousands of people live around the stadium in some of Queensland's most expensive suburbs such as Paddington, Auchenflower, Red Hill and Milton.
The flaws come five years after a problem with the "skewed" site at 105 Hale St was discovered and recommended to be fixed, and two years after Sports Minister Phil Reeves failed to explain why they had not been fixed.
The reports show acoustics contractor Cardno Consulting had measuring difficulties at the noisy Hale St site, where the same problems occurred during concerts by Robbie Williams in 2006.
The stadium had 21 complaints and three compliments over the two U2 nights last December but only one complaint for Bon Jovi.
"There were some slight exceedences on night one and none on the second night," the report said of U2's performances.
Mr Reeves yesterday said the problem site would be reviewed next year.
But Opposition sports spokesman David Gibson said the five-year delay was another example of poor management.
"It is disgraceful that not only has the Government failed to fix the 'skewed' monitoring station but that they also fail to adhere to or enforce their own regulations," he said.
source : http://www.couriermail.com.au/
Saturday, May 28, 2011
U2.COM : Rehearsals in Winnipeg
The band arrived in Winnipeg today and went straight into rehearsals at the Burton Cummings Theatre.
Outside the theatre Bono told fans that they were here filming a documentary about Achtung Baby with Davis Guggenheim and he was pleased to see they'd brought the Irish weather to Winnipeg.
Outside the theatre Bono told fans that they were here filming a documentary about Achtung Baby with Davis Guggenheim and he was pleased to see they'd brought the Irish weather to Winnipeg.
Adam and Bono signed autographs and met with fans who'd been waiting outside since early this morning.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Q&A: U2's Larry Mullen, Jr. on Why Acting Does Not Come Naturally (Cannes)
U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. will make his acting-producing debut with the crime drama Man on the Train, which Sierra / Affinity and Preferred Content are selling in the Marche de Cannes this week. The musician, who will have to skip the Festival de Cannes because of "touring commitments," spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about the excitement and anxiety attached to this new artistic venture.
The Hollywood Reporter: Had you been interested in getting involved with filmmaking for a while? How did that originate?
Larry Mullen, Jr.: Filmmaking never really crossed my mind. My involvement in the process came about by accident over a social drink with writer/director Mary McGuckian, whom I've known for years. After deciding to try and acquire the rights to re-make the movie, it turned out to be way more complicated than anticipated. Eventually everything fell into place. I enjoyed that process. It’s an independently financed project. It was shot in only 17 days – in Orangetown, a small suburb outside Toronto. Stefan Von Bjorn, our director of photography, makes it look expensive. Becoming a producer felt natural - unlike the acting funnily enough.
The Hollywood Reporter: Had you been interested in getting involved with filmmaking for a while? How did that originate?
Larry Mullen, Jr.: Filmmaking never really crossed my mind. My involvement in the process came about by accident over a social drink with writer/director Mary McGuckian, whom I've known for years. After deciding to try and acquire the rights to re-make the movie, it turned out to be way more complicated than anticipated. Eventually everything fell into place. I enjoyed that process. It’s an independently financed project. It was shot in only 17 days – in Orangetown, a small suburb outside Toronto. Stefan Von Bjorn, our director of photography, makes it look expensive. Becoming a producer felt natural - unlike the acting funnily enough.
U2.COM : Follow The Show in Winnipeg
Coming to the show in Winnipeg on Sunday ? Planning to follow online? Here's how.
If you want to follow the build up to the show in Winnipeg, 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 #U2360WPG 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 #U2360WPG or #U2360CAN, that way we can feature your updates in our rolling feed.
If you want to follow the build up to the show in Winnipeg, 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 #U2360WPG 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 #U2360WPG or #U2360CAN, that way we can feature your updates in our rolling feed.
How does it feel to volunteer at a U2 show? Invigorating.
Invigorating. That’s the first word that comes to mind as I think about my ONE campaign volunteer experience yesterday. How can six hours of hitting the pavement talking to hundreds of people be invigorating?
Simple. Imagine teaming up with 30 equally enthusiastic ONE volunteers. There you are, you’ve got your ONE shirt on, your bag of bracelets and information packets packed into your shoulder bag, and you are ready to spread the word about ONE’s vision to as many people as you can. You are ready to speak on behalf of those who are unable to speak for themselves. You are ready to be an advocate.
And that’s exactly what we did.
Along with invigoration, inspiration is top of my list of emotions to describe how it felt as I informed fellow concert attendees throughout the Rice Eccles Stadium grounds in Salt Lake City.
As I spoke of ONE’s current efforts to save 4 million children by 2015, people’s ears began to perk up. The number was shocking to… but that number is a reality. A harsh reality, which caused several people to ask questions about what they could do.
And ONE volunteers love questions — that means people are already beginning to use their voice to promote justice and equality! And don’t you worry, before too long, as word was getting around throughout the queues at the stadium, people were coming up to me and tapping my shoulder, asking what they could do to help.
What I learned last night was comforting to my activist heart: People want to help! People want to give a voice to those who are unable to speak for themselves. They just are looking for the an outlet to do so, and ONE is able to offer that outlet, whether it be by information, petition-signing, writing to the White House, or better yet, becoming a ONE member and volunteering themselves.
With that said, it is my pleasure to report on behalf of my fellow Utah ONE volunteers and the 3,572 new ONE members: We are ONE! Are you?
-Sara Vranes, ONE community volunteer, Provo/Salt Lake City, Utah
source : http://www.one.org/
Simple. Imagine teaming up with 30 equally enthusiastic ONE volunteers. There you are, you’ve got your ONE shirt on, your bag of bracelets and information packets packed into your shoulder bag, and you are ready to spread the word about ONE’s vision to as many people as you can. You are ready to speak on behalf of those who are unable to speak for themselves. You are ready to be an advocate.
And that’s exactly what we did.
Along with invigoration, inspiration is top of my list of emotions to describe how it felt as I informed fellow concert attendees throughout the Rice Eccles Stadium grounds in Salt Lake City.
As I spoke of ONE’s current efforts to save 4 million children by 2015, people’s ears began to perk up. The number was shocking to… but that number is a reality. A harsh reality, which caused several people to ask questions about what they could do.
And ONE volunteers love questions — that means people are already beginning to use their voice to promote justice and equality! And don’t you worry, before too long, as word was getting around throughout the queues at the stadium, people were coming up to me and tapping my shoulder, asking what they could do to help.
What I learned last night was comforting to my activist heart: People want to help! People want to give a voice to those who are unable to speak for themselves. They just are looking for the an outlet to do so, and ONE is able to offer that outlet, whether it be by information, petition-signing, writing to the White House, or better yet, becoming a ONE member and volunteering themselves.
With that said, it is my pleasure to report on behalf of my fellow Utah ONE volunteers and the 3,572 new ONE members: We are ONE! Are you?
-Sara Vranes, ONE community volunteer, Provo/Salt Lake City, Utah
source : http://www.one.org/
Thursday, May 26, 2011
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