Originally posted by GardenofStone:[..]
Batman opened, and UV looked(and sounded) like this:
[YouTube Video]
Funny, the audience in the back of this clip seem stunned, like they don't know UV
No swinging by B-man either...back problems,,,
Originally posted by GardenofStone:[..]
Batman opened, and UV looked(and sounded) like this:
[YouTube Video]
Originally posted by dieder:[..]
me too, but now certainly going to 2 as well
Originally posted by snortier:[..]
Sold out isn't it?
Originally posted by snortier:[..]
Funny, the audience in the back of this clip seem stunned, like they don't know UV
No swinging by B-man either...back problems,,,
Originally posted by yeah:Both shows were taped.
Blooming Amazing: How To See A U2 Show Without Tickets
By Cathal McCarron
Contributing Writer
interference.com
August 18, 2010
I didn’t have tickets to Sunday night’s show, so I hovered around outside the stadium from 6:30pm with my host here in Horsens. Access to the roads directly around the stadium were all closed off except for people with tickets, so ticket touts and ticket searchers were forced to mingle at a mini roundabout a few hundred metres away.
The ticket touts wanted the usual exorbitant prices for tickets, which isn’t surprising. What was surprising was that the regular Danish punters, including guys wearing U2 T-shirts, wanted twice face value for their extra tix. It seems the accepted custom here is that it’s fine for everyone to profiteer from scalping tickets, even U2 fans. Some of them couldn’t understand my surprise at their prices.
We were still outside when the concert started at 9:30pm.
Because the stadium is so small, it was possible to hear the concert clearly from the streets outside. Some places allowed views onto the Claw, and some places outside the stadium allowed clear views onto the stage, but these points were behind the security fences on the roads and inaccessible.
We listened to “Beautiful Day” from the mini-roundabout. I suggested taking the bikes we’d used to get to the stadium to cycle around to explore different spots. We heard “New Year’s Day” walking back to the where we’d parked the bikes. My host’s back tire had a puncture, so we walked back to a spot with clear sound but no line of sight of the screen near the mini-roundabout. A few hundred people were sitting on the large lawn around this spot.
We heard “Boots” and “Magnificent” from here. We walked further up the road which was on an upwards slope. There were good views of the Claw from a vantage point there, so we watched “Mysterious Ways” from there. Behind us was another grassy knoll with many people standing or sitting on camping chairs. We climbed up this small hill during “Elevation,” and stayed there for “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” (No themed band intros last night; Bono talked about supermodels and fashion week in Copenhagen.)
The barriers at the top of the road leading to the stadium, just below the little hill, were opened at 10pm, so we left the hill and walked down this road. There were still barriers at the other end of the road, so we joined some people who were standing in the driveway and garden of someone’s house. Trespassing during “In A Little While,” “Miss Sarajevo,” “Until The End Of The World,” tsk tsk.
The people controlling access through the barriers were all wearing red t-shirts. When the guy on the other side of the fence by us went for a piss in the bushes across the road, a Danish guy near me said something in Danish, but clearly indicating “Let’s do it now.” I nodded and went with him back to the fence. He lifted it, pushed it open, I grabbed my host and we all walked through.
I headed straight for a small crowd of people standing in the dark by this electricity box, from where there was a great view onto about three quarters of the stage about 500 metres away. Other people came through the new gap in the fence too, until the next red T-shirt ran up the road and closed the fence.
We watched the show up until Streets from there. People applauded “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” “One,” and “Streets.” The stage and light show looked rather incredible from this distance.
After “Streets” I suggested we walk down to the stadium, I wasnt really sure why, because we wouldn’t get a better view than where we currently were. We walked down during the space cartoon encore break and “Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me.”
Loads of people were leaving the stadium. And this is the point of this long, rambling story: we managed to blag into the stadium and into amazing seats right next to Edge’s side of the stage for “With Or Without You” and “Moment Of Surrender”!
Using an old Jedi mind-reading trick, we blagged our way past two security checks. The stadium is really small compared to other mega-venues, so this was actually the closest I’ve been to the stage for a very long while!
The Horsens crowd were probably as loud, if not louder, than the crowds in Germany last week. The whole stadium kept on singing “Ooooooh oh oh oh” so loudly after “With Or Without You”; Bono lapped it up. And when he did his wee “One last time” hand-clappy thing during “Moment Of Surrender,” the entire field and the stands did it. It looked incredible, although a little bit Radio Ga-Ga-ish.
One slightly comical part of “Moment Of Surrender” was that Sam had to sit immediately behind Larry and hold his radio mic to his mouth. When the last verse had finished, Sam let go of the mic and moved away, only for Larry to start singing “Oh oh oh,” so Sam had to relift the mic to Larry’s mouth. But Larry didn’t miss a beat, despite having an older gentleman’s hand around his neck.
It had been an utterly amazing adventure. We must have walked a couple of miles during the show, from starting a long way away during Stingray, sneaking past some security checks, and ending up next to the stage for “With Or Without You” and “Moment Of Surrender.”
My new favourite U2 concert experience!
Originally posted by Thijs78:Yes i saw that written on a note.
But video or audio?
And when he did his wee “One last time” hand-clappy thing during “Moment Of Surrender,” the entire field and the stands did it. It looked incredible, although a little bit Radio Ga-Ga-ish.