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ahn1991

Tickets are more expensive, but that's to be expected given the fact that they are playing indoor arenas and not outdoor stadiums. Smaller venues mean less tickets and that means they have to increase the price.

zooropa93

10 years

I paid the same as in 2009 and 2010... Ticket prices are in line with most other artists touring this year like Madonna

ahn1991

10 years

Originally posted by zooropa93:I paid the same as in 2009 and 2010... Ticket prices are in line with most other artists touring this year like Madonna

On average, tickets are more expensive now than there were in 2009/10, but that's because during 360 there were way more tickets in the lower price ranges to bring that average value down.

But compared to other artists touring, the prices are in line with the others.

Buttons

10 years

Originally posted by flowerchild:[..]
here is also a short video of bono talking about the book. no idea how recent it is.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1724924191067633&set=vb.1718566111703441&type=2&theater

he looks lost and disorientated in this video, but love the jacket..

Janus02

10 years

Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
I'd say releasing your album for free to 500.000.000 people during the most-watched tech event in the world is quite a promotional move.

Ok But this was 7 months ago.

sholbech22

10 years

so... it looks like rehearsals of some type maybe taking place in Vancouver after all!!

cesar_garza01

10 years

Indeed:
https://twitter.com/ThePEAK/status/586752966507364353

cesar_garza01

10 years

More info here.

U2 may not be yet. But is their gear already here?

A tip to The Province’s Facebook page that the Irish quartet was rehearsing in Vancouver before launching its 70-date Innocence + eExperience Tour 2015 at Rogers Arena on May 14 and 15 appeared to check out after a visit to the Pacific Coliseum on Monday.

Fourteen unmarked semi-trailers are in the arena parking lot. The bright red rigs hauling them all come from Upstaging Lighting and Transport of Chicago, which counts U2 as one of its clients.

The service lots around the venue are full and there is no shortage of security circulating. Every window into the venue, up to and including the cracks in the side doors, have been blacked out with dark fabric.

From the PNE press office to the ticketseller at the arena, nobody is saying anything other than that there is a rental that is completely confidential. Pne.ca lists no scheduled events at the arena until Cirque du Soleil Varekai comes in on May 20 - 24.

There is precedent for U2 to use a Vancouver venue for pre-tour tech and rehearsal. The band previously used Rogers Arena to prepare for its Vertigo Tour. After a few months working out the show here, the tour launched in San Diego on March 28, 2005.

Fans will recall that the group also did a music video for the track City of Blinding Lights from the album How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb at the Canucks’ home arena.

As a regular starting point for North American tours, Vancouver has played rehearsal hall for many major artists, such as Aerosmith. Perhaps the biggest act to do so after U2 was The Police, who practised here before the trio’s 2007 reunion. There is a lot of available video of those rehearsals.

Getting into U2’s closed shop looks to be impossible. One of the press contacts — who also didn’t confirm or deny that the band is in Vancouver — responded to The Province’s access-to-rehearsal request as follows: “Unfortunately we can’t allow access before opening night… we really want to unveil all the production when the show starts. When you see it, you’ll know why!”

In the meantime, confirmation should be coming in the form of some of the most popular songs in the world echoing out of the PNE grounds in a matter of days.