Originally posted by SalvationTambourine:Ah i see. Yeh well my uncle was in the back row of the Canal End Stand Upper Tier so I'd say that was part of the problem too lol. Should be a great show anyway! Previous Croke Park shows havn't been up to much performance-wise so hopefully this one will blow us all away!
U2 today promised tens of thousands of cut-price tickets for a wave of summer concerts across Ireland and the UK.
The Irish rockers said they have developed a "unique and original" stage for their 360-degree tour and will release recession-busting, low-cost tickets so all fans can see it.
"U2 have always been at their best when surrounded by their audience. This staging takes a giant leap forward," said the band's manager Paul McGuinness.
"With 85% of the tickets priced at less than 95 euro (£87), general admission floor tickets priced at 55 euro (£50) and at least 10,000 tickets at every venue priced at around 30 euro (£27), we have worked very hard to ensure that U2 fans can purchase a great-priced ticket with a guaranteed great view."
Bono and his bandmates will play a homecoming in Dublin's Croke Park on July 24, before taking to London's Wembley Stadium on August 14, Glasgow's Hampden Park on August 18 and Sheffield's Don Valley stadium on August 20.
The European leg of the tour, promoting the band's number one album No Line on the Horizon, will finish at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on August 22.
Other dates include their opening gig at the Nou Camp Stadium in Barcelona on June 30, as well as shows in Milan, Gothenburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Nice, Chorzow, Berlin and Gelsenkirchen.
The band will then move its massive entourage to North America for a string of concerts beginning at Chicago's Soldier Field on September 12.
Glasvegas, Elbow, Kaiser Chiefs, Snow Patrol and Black Eyed Peas are among the support acts confirmed for the tour.
Long-time U2 show director Willie Williams has worked again with architect Mark Fisher, who was behind the visual spectaculars of ZooTV, PopMart, Elevation and Vertigo, to create the 360 degree, unobstructed view, stage design.
The tour is the band's first stadium outing since the Vertigo concerts in 2005 and 2006.
Originally posted by meweavy:
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i know its going to be a great tour ,but can someone please explain,if the ga tickets were supposed to be set at 55 euros.
why are live nation charging 85 euros for tickets for g,a/
surely u2 management should be tring to stop these tickets going for 85 euros if they were supposed to be 55 euros.
Originally posted by Remy:Maybe I'll go to Paris too, just got some information. We'll see
Originally posted by Remy:Maybe I'll go to Paris too, just got some information. We'll see
Originally posted by Remy:Just signed up with Dutch U2 fanclub for Paris, hopefully they'll get me some tickets.
Originally posted by Daily
U2 drummer Larry Mullen has criticised music downloading, saying it has become soul destroying for young bands who want to become famous.
In an interview with 2fm's Larry Gogan yesterday, he also said U2 have stayed together for three decades because they never argue about money or song credits.
Mullen revealed that the band's new two-year stadium tour will feature a spaceship-style set.
He said the band is unaffected by the craze of downloading music for free, but young bands find it very difficult to become successful because of the practice.
"People don't buy albums. It's about individual songs. It's very difficult for young bands and they end up having to do things and sell themselves in a way that would have been offensive when we were starting out.
"I think it's very difficult, this idea that people can take music and download it for free is so soul destroying for a young band.
"For people like us it makes absolutely no difference and has no real impact, but it does on young songwriters and young bands.
"Obviously success and selling loads of records is a great thing, but in the end it's not the driving force.
"It about the creative process and about writing great songs, it's about how you structure your song writing and how you involve the people in your band.
"Most bands break up over songwriting credits or over money. If you want to be successful at the top end you've got to find compromise in the way that you work.
"We're still friends but more than that when we get together to write and be creative there is an understanding which is unusual and there is no competition for space."
Despite being a global rock star, Dubliner Mullen was modest about his musical talent, saying: "I'm not even the best drummer in U2. I don't see myself in that role.
"Being a drummer is part of my job, but I think I'm a good member of band." The 47-year-old also told more about the band's two-year tour which centres around a massive spaceship on stage.
He said: "We plan to tour this summer. We start off in Europe for two months and then we go to America for two months and we come back in 2010 and start in America and finish off in Europe."
He added, of the band's new stage design: "From what I've seen it's like a spaceship. It has four legs and this allows us to be placed close to the centre of the stadium.
"It hasn't been done before."
Originally posted by Doc32:I guess that means two straight north american legs sandwiched in between European ones. Not sure how i feel about that