U2 will play at the Rice Eccles Stadium on June 3rd. Tickets go on sale Monday February 22, 2010 for the U2 Concert in Salt Lake Citybut presale access for U2.com subscribers begins tomorrow.
This will be the final date announcement for the North American leg of the tour, but it will be the day that U2 actually starts “360” up again this summer!
If you want to see U2 I’d suggest getting tickets early as many dates have already sold out.
This morning the presale for the U2 Concert in Zurich, Switzerland started at 8 a.m. with hundreds gathered in the cold hours before 8 a.m. (Some say they were there already at 5 am) at the Ticketcorner office at Berne train station.
15 minutes later (at 8 a.m.), it was all over and all the 45.000 tickets were sold out.
According to a journalist on location only 4 to 6 people were able to get tickets at the ticketcorner in Berne and more than 50 people went home with empty hands.
While these fans were waiting in the cold, others were trying to purchae U2 tickets through the internet, however the Ticketcorner website was down due to a crash overload. Fans trying to visit the Ticketcorner website, ended up in the so called waiting room saying: “Our webshop is busy helping customers”.
At EU Ticket News we wrote about the AC/DC concert and Muse concert for which fans were able to subscribe to the website of the band in order to get the tickets earlier and this was also possible for the U2 Concert in Zurich. Many tickets were sold out before per sales started. At 8:45 a.m. the Ticketcorner website said:
Nearly 35 years ago 4 lads from Dublin began playing together as teenagers. Just a few years later they were signed to a record deal with Island Records and the rest, as they say, has been rock history.
Although their sound was influenced by the punk fare of the day, U2 had and continues to have a sound all its own. The Jam, The Clash, and The Sex Pistols (man I loved Sid Vicious) all were great bands and all left their mark on the formative years of U2, but the haunting guitar of the edge, the pounding drums of Larry Mullen, the deep resounding bass lines of Adam Clayton and the voice…THE voice of a man named Paul Hewson are like no other we have ever heard.
You may now know Paul Hewson as the rest of the world does… simply as Bono.
Bono had me hooked as a young college student. I had heard all of the bands that were supposedly “hot” and being a bit rebellious I was looking for something with a bit more edge and a bit more depth. In 1980 upon hearing “I Will Follow”, I knew what I had been looking for.
That one song has been played in over 757 U2 concerts so I am pretty sure that I am not alone in saying and feeling that the first hit from U2 resonates with millions of people around the world.
When Bono was 14 his mother died. He has said that this song is about the unconditional love a mother has for her child. He could not have done it any better than this.
U2 is hitting the road in 2010 and if you have not had a chance to see the best band in the world, you may want to get you U2 concert tickets as soon as you can. Bands like this only come around once in a lifetime.
The filming of a new movie linked to the Irish supergroup U2 has taken part of Belfast city centre back by three decades.
The feature film, entitled "Killing Bono", is being made in and around the city over the next six weeks. Waring Street and Lower Donegall Street have been dressed to portray a vision of London in the late 1970s.
Traffic diversions will be in place on Sunday and Monday but rush hour traffic will not be affected by the filming. The film, which has been described as a "music-based comedy", is set during U2's formative years in north Dublin and London.
It is based on the memoirs of Bono's schoolfriend, Neil McCormick, who is now a music critic for the Daily Telegraph newspaper. "Killing Bono" tells the story from the point of view of the rather less successful rival band which he set up with his brother in the late 1970s.
The film is directed by the Belfast-born director Nick Hamm and has received funding from Northern Ireland Screen, with help from Invest NI.
It is hoped the film will be released in the summer of 2010.
Heroin and NASCAR, who knew? U2 fans watching the NFL playoffs on Fox this weekend surely heard what would seem to be an oddly placed song scoring the network's preview of the upcoming Daytona 500: U2's mid-'80s hit "Bad." The commercial features little more than a snippet of one of the Edge's most recognizable guitar riffs -- the few slow, glistening notes that set the table for the song's explosive rock 'n' roll release.
U2 hasn't exactly shied away from commercial endorsements of late, or massive sporting events. Also, anyone who has attended any NFL, NBA or MLB game in recent years has likely heard "Beautiful Day" piped throughout the arena or stadium, further linking U2 with the sporting world. Yet judging by some previous NASCAR-branded music releases, U2 seems to be a bit out of place with the barroom hits and country rock more closely tied to the sport.
Granted, it's more a story these days when rock 'n' roll doesn't appear in a commercial, but are U2 fans ready to have one of the band's most iconic songs forever associated with auto racing? If the quick responses on Twitter are any gauge, then no.
Though Bono's lyrics in "Bad" are vague and open to interpretation, it's a song long believed to be about heroin addiction, making it feel a bit out of place in hyping the Feb. 14 race. Watch the commercial below.
