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ROLLING STONES – JAGGER JOINS U2 ON STAGE AT HALL OF FAME SHOW

kronaz — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:53:54 +0000

ROLLING STONES frontman MICK JAGGER made a surprise appearance on stage with U2 on Friday (30Oct09) during the second night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts in New York City.

The first show on Thursday night (29Oct09) saw acts including Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Beck, Sting and James Taylor take to the stage at Madison Square Garden.

Friday’s (30Oct09) show opened with Jerry Lee Lewis singing Great Balls of Fire, and went on to host a number of big name collaborations including Jeff Beck with Sting and U2 with the Black Eyed Peas.
The night built up to a climatic finale with Jagger, Fergie and Will.i.am all joining U2 to sing Rolling Stones hit Gimme Shelter, as Jagger entertained the crowd with his trademark dance moves.

Jagger stayed on stage to help U2 perform Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of, before the Irish rockers closed the show with their hit Beautiful Day.

Earlier in the night, heavy metal rockers Metallica took the stage with Lou Reed for two songs, before Ozzy Osbourne joined them to belt out Iron Man and Paranoid.

Aretha Franklin also performed a number of her hits, teaming up with Annie Lennox to sing Chain of Fools.

NEW YORK — YouTube’s webcast of a U2 concert was watched by nearly 10 million people, the video site’s largest streaming event ever.

The Google-owned site said that the concert was watched around the world. It was shown live from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Sunday.

Chris Maxcy, head of music partnerships at YouTube, called the event “a big win” for the site.

The full 2 1/2-hour concert is available on YouTube. The rebroadcast video has been watched by more than 1.1 million viewers.

Hope you caught U2 360° live from the Rosebowl, Pasadena on YouTube tonight.

And now we can reveal that U2 360° is coming back to North America in 2010.

The tour will touch down next summer in Anaheim; Denver; Oakland; Seattle; Edmonton; East Lansing; Miami; Philadelphia and Montreal. U2 360° will also return for one night only in Toronto and Chicago before finishing the North American leg in New York at the New Meadowlands Stadium. On U2 360° the band currently play 22 live tracks, the first time fans have heard tracks from No Line On the Horizon, one of the best selling albums globally this year..

You can find the complete list of North American cities, venues and dates on our Tour Page.. Tickets for the performances in Oakland, Edmonton, and Toronto will go on sale Monday November 2 with additional North American on sales taking place over the following few weeks in November. (Tickets are also about to go on sale for 2010 European dates in Athens, Greece and Istanbul, Turkey.

As always SUBSCRIBERS TO U2.COM are able to buy tickets ahead of the general public in special presales – the first of these open this week. As well as the chance to buy up to four tickets in the presale, U2.com subscribers will be sent a limited edition U2 remix album and gain unique online benefits with access to the dedicated U2.com subscription site. All the details on the U2.com subscription here.

Hope you caught U2 360° live from the Rosebowl, Pasadena on YouTube tonight.

And now we can reveal that U2 360° is coming back to North America in 2010.

U2 360 Tour Continues into 2010, North American Dates Announced

kronaz — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:47:04 +0000

As predicted by various speculators, U2 announced its 2010 United States tour dates today, hot on the heels of its live global webcast on YouTube. Having seen this show live on four different dates in three different venues, I can testify that, despite whatever detractors might say, the webcast worked on multiple levels to extend the communal stadium experience worldwide to create an instantaneous global connection and cohesion.

For many fans who have already seen the tour, yesterday’s webcast and today’s announcement only further excited and enticed, prompting us to begin making summer travel arrangements to coincide with the next legs of the tour. –Andrew William Smith, Editor

U2 360 TOUR 2010

Presented by BlackBerry

NORTH AMERICAN ITINERARY

6-June Anaheim, CA Angel Stadium On sale soon

12-June Denver, CO Invesco Field On sale Nov. 6

16-June Oakland, CA Oakland-Alameda On sale Nov. 2

County Coliseum

20-June Seattle, WA Qwest Field On sale soon

23-June Edmonton, AB Commonwealth Stadium On sale Nov. 2

30-June East Lansing, MI Spartan Stadium On sale soon

03-July Toronto, ON Rogers Centre On sale Nov. 2

06-July Chicago, IL Solider Field On sale soon

09-July Miami, FL Land Shark Stadium On sale soon

12-July Philadelphia Lincoln Financial Field On sale soon

16-July Montreal, QC Venue to be announced On sale soon

19-July New York New Meadowlands Stadium On sale soon

EUROPEAN TOUR ITINERARY

10-August Frankfurt, Germany Commerzbank-Arena On sale now

12-August Hannover, Germany AWD Arena On sale now

15-August Horsens, Denmark Casa Arena SOLD OUT

16-August Horsens, Denmark Casa Arena SOLD OUT

20-August Helsinki, Finland Olympiastadion SOLD OUT

21-August Helsinki, Finland Olympiastadion SOLD OUT

25-August Moscow, Russia Luzhniki On sale soon

30-August Vienna, Austria Ernst Happel Stadium SOLD OUT

03-September Athens, Greece Olympic Stadium On sale Nov. 2

06-September Istanbul, Turkey Ataturk Olympic Stadium On sale Nov. 2

15-September Munich, Germany Olympiastadion On sale now

18-September Paris, France Stade de France SOLD OUT

22-September Brussels, Belgium Stade Roi Baudouin SOLD OUT

23-September Brussels, Belgium Stade Roi Baudouin SOLD OUT

29-September Seville, Spain Estadio Olimpico On sale now

De La Cartuja

02-October Coimbra, Portugal Estadio Cidade Coimbra SOLD OUT

03-October Coimbra Portugal Estadio Cidade Coimbra SOLD OUT

Additional dates and cities to be confirmed. Itinerary subject to change.

For complete tour and ticket information, fan club memberships, merchandise

and more, visit: www.mp3vita.net

Your 360` moment

kronaz — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:00:42 +0000

They performed for more than two hours playing up to 25 songs … and every night they changed the set list. Your Blue Room might be in, Until The End of the World might be out. Pride might be in and Desire out. They kept us guessing.

But if you had to choose JUST ONE MOMENT from seeing U2 live in 2009 what would it be ?

Take a look back through the our Tour pages and check out the reviews, photos and videos. Bring it all back… then post your 360 Moment below.

Was it the super-funky rhythms of ‘Crazy’ with Larry wandering around the stage playing the djemba ?

Or the breathtaking stage choreography stage during Unforgettable Fire ?

The return of Ultraviolet or the latest reinvention of ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ ?

How about Walk On and the appearance of Aung San Suu Kyi on a thousand faces ?

Or the mysterious benediction of ‘Moment of Surrender’ at the end of the show ?

(We know you probably have loads of highlights, but we’re just looking for ONE MOMENT…. and a sentence or two explaining why it was so memorable.)

@U2 Remembers The Joshua Tree

kronaz — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:44:22 +0000

While U2 are remembering The Unforgettable Fire on its 25th anniversary, a bunch of our @U2 staff spent some time last month remembering a different album: The Joshua Tree. It was part of a staff meetup that coincided with U2′s concert in Las Vegas. We met in Las Vegas the night before the concert and paid a visit to Fremont St., site of the video for “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” We saw the concert itself on October 23rd. The day after the concert, we made a pilgrimage out into the California desert to see the real Joshua Tree itself (which fell over back in 2000) and Zabriskie Point, site of the cover photo from The Joshua Tree.

It took a couple weeks, but our best photos and videos are now online, and you’re welcome to share in what we saw during a terrific weekend in the great southwest.

@U2 at Fremont Street, Las Vegas

Flickr: 10 photos
YouTube video: 23 seconds

U2 concert, Sam Boyd Stadium, Las Vegas

Flickr: 12 photos
YouTube: “Until the End of the World” (HD video)

@U2 at Zabriskie Point, California

Flickr: 36 photos
YouTube: Video collage set to “In God’s Country”

@U2 at the Joshua Tree site, California

Flickr: 41 photos
YouTube: Video collage set to “Where the Streets Have No Name”

We’ll also embed this last video below. The text moves a bit quickly at the beginning. Enjoy!

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kronaz — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:08:37 +0000

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