" LIVE ON YOUTUBE. THIS SUNDAY.
19 October 2009

California, US  U2 have confirmed via video blog that their sold-out concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in California, this Sunday, 25th October, will be streamed free, in full and live on YouTube. It's the first time a show of this size will be streamed live.

The Rose Bowl show is the penultimate U2 show this year - with more to come in 2010 - and already is set to host the venue's biggest ever audience of over 127,000 fans ( Necessary to win Gross ) . The 360° Tour, which has been critically acclaimed and 're-invents rock'n'roll' (Rolling Stone Magazine), will now boast unique access for fans worldwide - as fans in territories yet to be visited by the tour, or not at all, will be able to enjoy the whole show online.

Managed in partnership with Live Nation, this sell-out tour has broken attendance records in most venues it has visited - its success due in part to increased capacity coupled with a lower ticket price and great sight lines afforded by the stunning in-the-round stage set.

U2 manager Paul McGuinness said, 'The band has wanted to do something like this for a long time. As we're filming the LA show, it's the perfect opportunity to extend the party beyond the stadium. Fans often travel long distances to come to see U2 - this time U2 can go to them, globally.'

YouTube will be streaming live across five continents. The show will be available in the usual You Tube way, as video-on-demand, following two full replays - after the live stream - on both U2.com and You Tube.

'YouTube is thrilled to be able to provide our global audience with a live streaming performance from one of the world's greatest bands,' said Chris Maxcy, Director of YouTube Partner Development. 'We are always looking for new ways to connect fans around the world with their favourite artists, and this is the perfect opportunity to do just that.'

For more information stay tuned or visit YouTube.  

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Joey will you see U2 in Pheonix??

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Over 80K last Evening !!!!


" Supergroup U2 delivers in Glendale "


" Irish supergroup U2 used the biggest stage in rock to try to connect with tens of thousands of fans at University of Phoenix Stadium during the band's stop in Glendale, no matter which zip code they were sitting in.


"We built this spaceship to get closer to you," singer-activist Bono told the enthusiastic crowd Tuesday, Oct. 20. "We were looking for intimacy on a grand scale."

The impressive scale of U2's 360 Degree tour was accomplished with a four-legged stage dominating most of the south end of the stadium. The structure's 150-foot pinnacle nearly touched the edge of the stadium's open roof.

A cylindrical video screen that opened to 14,000 square feet made images of Bono, guitarist the Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. was visible in all corners of the stadium. A massive sound system blasted the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band's music into stadium hallways and restrooms.

As for intimacy, that probably depended on where fans, who spanned ages 10 to 70 and most ethnic backgrounds, sat for the concert, which ran nearly 2 1/2 hours.

Although the global trek is billed as a 360-degree experience, it really should be called the "270 Tour," because one quarter of the stage was backed into the end of the stadium, with no seats and minimal standing room behind it. That left fans on the far side of the stadium nearly 100 yards away from the stage.

Production director Jake Berry of Scottsdale said that set-up was needed to accommodate equipment and entry points for the stage, but as the well-paced show unfolded, one couldn't help but wonder how different things might have been had the stage actually been placed in the middle of the stadium.

Bono & Co. are no strangers to big stages. They routinely play stadiums in Europe, and that made their approach in Glendale seem somewhat low-key.

The circular main stage was surrounded by a runway accessed by steel bridges that moved. The space in between held about 2,400 standing fans. All the band members occasionally made their way onto the runway during the show. However, except for Bono, it seemed that they underutilized the tool for getting closer to their fans in such a cavernous setting.

At 49, Bono remains one of rock's most magnetic performers. It was still impressive to watch him stand at the edge of the stage and sing to a sea of outstretched hands during such songs as an epic take on "Magnificent," from the band's latest CD, "No Line on the Horizon."

During an extra-funky version of "Mysterious Ways," courtesy of the Edge's wah-wah-like guitar work, Bono circled the outer ring, imploring the crowd to "C'mon!" The guitarist, wearing his trademark wool cap and a plaid shirt, made his own way around the runway to show off some strong, syncopated work on the upbeat "Beautiful Day."

The band showed full confidence in its latest album, which received mixed reviews, by opening with three songs from the CD.

"Breathe" featured semirapping by Bono and a shimmering guitar lead by the Edge. "Get on Your Boots" let the rhythm section of Clayton and Mullen strut its stuff, and "Magnificent" allowed Bono to proclaim (as if he needed to), "I was born to sing to you."

But the group also packed plenty of older, stadium-worthy anthems into its set, including "Where the Streets Have No Name," "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "With or Without You" and "Elevation."

The wide-ranging appeal of U2 was clear during "Where the Streets Have No Name," as nearly everyone, from the hippest hipsters to baby-boomer couples swayed and danced.

Perhaps answering those who question whether the group should dial back its world-conquering ways after three decades, Bono remarked, "We're not done yet," before U2 let the audience sing the entire first verse to another anthem, "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."

The band pushed into new territory with a remixed version of recent single "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" that found Mullen circling the outer stage, playing an African-style drum with his hands.

As he has done in recent tours, Bono invited some young fans onstage to share the spotlight, but the elevated stages didn't allow for much other close interaction with the bulk of concertgoers.

The show delivered its expected moments of social commentary, the strongest of which was an impassioned video introduction to "One" by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu.

Late in the show, Bono emphasized that the global causes he and U2 champion, including initiatives to fight poverty, AIDS and malaria and education, know no political bounds. He then acknowledged members of the family of U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona who were attending the concert (as was boxing legend and Valley resident Muhammad Ali).

The band's latest Big Cause is demanding freedom for jailed Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi. As the group played the inspirational "Walk On," scores of what Bono called "volunteers" came out to occupy the entire outer stage as they held up masks of the prisoner's face.

Even in the world of U2, that sequence seemed a bit over the top.

The show delivered pretty much what most fans expect of this iconic band. But despite the spectacle of the massive stage and video set-up, the stadium setting couldn't help but dilute some of U2's impact.

Perhaps fearing a traffic jam on a work night, hundreds of fans steadily streamed out of the stadium during U2's three-song encore. (Local promoter Live Nation Southwest did not provide a crowd count, but there appeared to be at least 80,000 fans in attendance - an impressive number, but not a sellout.......... nor enough to win gross [ see : ABB ] ) .

The platinum-selling hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas, spotlighting Fergie and will.i.am, opened the show and rose to the challenge of engaging U2's fans.

Highlights included the 11-year-old group's upcoming single, "Meet Me Halfway," with soaring vocals by Fergie, and another new tune, the old-school-rock-flavored "Now Generation."

The group, which includes MCs apl.de.ap and Taboo, got most of the crowd on its feet with a recent hit, the pulsating "Boom Boom Pow," and a classic, "Where Is the Love?"

U2 set list:

"Breathe"

"Get on Your Boots"

"Magnificent"

"Mysterious Ways"

"Beautiful Day"

"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"

"Stuck In A Moment"

"No Line on the Horizon"

"Elevation"

"In A Little While"

"Unknown Caller"

"Until The End of the World"

"TheUnforgettable Fire"

"City of Blinding Lights"

"Vertigo"

"I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" - Remix

"Sunday Bloody Sunday"

"MLK"

"Walk On"

"One"

"Where The Streets Have No Name"

Encore:

"Ultraviolet"

"With or Without You"

"Moment of Surrender"


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U2 set list:

"Breathe"

"Get on Your Boots"

"Magnificent"

"Mysterious Ways"

"Beautiful Day"

"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"

"Stuck In A Moment"

"No Line on the Horizon"

"Elevation"

"In A Little While"

"Unknown Caller"

"Until The End of the World"

"TheUnforgettable Fire"

"City of Blinding Lights"

"Vertigo"

"I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" - Remix

"Sunday Bloody Sunday"

"MLK"

"Walk On"

"One"

"Where The Streets Have No Name"

Encore:

"Ultraviolet"

"With or Without You"

"Moment of Surrender

What,no Hawkmoon 269

Joey, does Al Roker control the weather?

" Paul McCartney announces London O2 Arena Christmas show
Former Beatle to play rare UK big gig [/b]

http://www.nme.com/news/paul-mccartney/47962


Paul McCartney will play a one-off Christmas show in London this December. The former Beatle will perform at the O2 Arena on December 22.

The gig will be McCartney's first arena gig in the capital for over six years. It will be 46 years to the day since The Beatles played their first Christmas show at Liverpool's Empire Theatre.

Since his last UK tour in 2003 McCartney has only played three major shows: his Glastonbury festival headline slot in 2004, the BBC Electric Proms in 2007, and the European Capital Of Culture show in Liverpool last year.

Tickets go on sale at 9am (BST) on Monday (October 26 )


This is so friggin COOL !!!!


Ade ..... are you going to this concert ?!


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The man who designed the stage set for U2's current 360° Tour, which stops [Oct. 25] at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, knows that the size of his creation is cause for attention.

"How many miles of cable, how many trucks -- it's all very easy to pick up on," said Willie Williams, who has been working with the Irish rock band since 1982.

Still, Williams insists that the scale of it is "absolutely the least interesting thing about it," he said. "Even though it's very tall and very wide, the magic trick is that when you stand onstage the whole thing disappears. The reason it's so big is to make it invisible."

How, exactly, does that work? By removing the hulking backdrop that usually defines a stadium show and relocating all those tons of gear above the band's playing area, the designer said he's been able to create the illusion that the gear isn't there at all.

An early inspiration was the Theme Building at LAX, a favorite of U2 frontman Bono's. "My pitch to him was, 'Imagine the Theme Building straddling a football field with a little stage underneath,' " Williams said. "From that moment on we knew what we were doing, and over two years of work the intent never changed."

According to U2 manager Paul McGuinness, the structure has practical advantages: It allowed the band to expand the seating capacity at most venues by about 20 percent.

"We've broken a lot of attendance records," McGuinness said, "usually ones we've set ourselves."

Roughly 95,000 people are expected at the Rose Bowl tonight, so organizers are strongly urging fans to allow plenty of time -- and to use public transportation -- to make it to the show on time.

"Where U2 came from conceptually was this culture that was about everyone having access to the stage," said the group's bassist, Adam Clayton. "Scoot forward to 2009 and that's what we've created here, just bigger."

The tour incorporates three separate rigs to allow for construction and disassembly time along the way.

"We'd love the thought of finding appropriate homes for these things as festival stages in different locations around the world," McGuinness said, looking to the tour's conclusion late next year. "That's real recycling."



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" Joey, pass the butter; you are on a roll .... "


That's Right Some Guy .


THAT IS RIGHT !!!!

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" The Rose Bowl show is the penultimate U2 show this year - with more to come in 2010 - and already is set to host the venue's biggest ever audience of over 2.7 million fans ( WOW -- There Goes ABB GROSS ) . The 360° Tour, which has been critically acclaimed and 're-invents rock'n'roll' (Rolling Stone Magazine), will now boast unique access for fans worldwide  "

Lady Gaga talks to Rolling Stone about her upcoming Monster Ball tour
October 22, 2009 06:14 PM EDT (Updated: October 22, 2009 06:15 PM EDT)
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After the disappointing news that the Lady Gaga/Kanye West tour was canceled after Kanye's public outburst at the VMAs, many passionate Lady Gaga fans were mourning the loss of what would have been an amazing concert. But then a ray of hope- Lady Gaga mounted a solo tour "The Monster Ball," beginning November 27th and lasting through January.



Excited once again for the chance to see Lady Gaga's musical insanity? Here's what she told Rolling Stone regarding what her fans can expect from the tour:



Can you talk about the songs on The Fame Monster?
This is a new album. It's eight songs, I could have put more songs on it, but I just decided not to because I thought they fit beautifully together. I'm really excited about all my new work, and I've been going through some really wonderful times and some really rough times all at once, so it's been really good for my artistry. On the re-release, I wrote this song called "Speechless,"which I think is the best song I've ever written. It's about my dad, it's a really beautiful ballad. It's piano-driven, and there's no beat on it, it's all live instruments. I produced it with Ron Fair, so we did a full live orchestra, recorded everything with live drums, live guitar and bass with me playing piano. We got that really organic, delicious feeling.

What was the thinking behind The Monster Ball?
I wanted to really put together a show that would be the most beautiful, expensive-looking, delicious show, but that my fans wouldn't have to pay a ton of money to come see. So we're playing a few nights in a row. I've got super loyal fans, so I feel this tremendous obligation to take care of them.

You said it was a pop-electro opera.
Yeah. It's the first ever, so it's really whatever I want it to be. The theatrics and story elements are in the style of an opera. Imagine if you could take the sets of an opera, which are very grand and very beautiful, and put them through a pop-electro lens. The design of the show is very, very forward, very, very innovative. I've been thinking about ways to play with the shape of this stage and change the way that we watch things. So what I've done is I've designed a stage with Haus of Gaga that is essentially a frame with forced perspective, and the frame is put inside the stage. It's got kind of a triangular inset, like a diamond, and everywhere we're playing, the dimensions fit this box that I'm bringing, so it's this giant box that fits into every show. So no matter where I go, my fans get the same experience. So often you go into theaters and there's ambient light flying in from all sorts of places, and the audience is in different spots, and the stage is in different shapes and lengths and widths and depths, so this is a way for me to control all the light and all of the different elements of the show. The theme of the show is evolution.

How will that theme express itself?
Each one of these songs on my album represents a different demon that I've faced in myself, so the music is much more personal. I don't write about fame or money at all on this new record. So we talked about monsters and how, I believe, that innately we're all born with the monsters already inside of us — I guess in Christianity they call it original sin — the prospect that we will, at some point, sin in our lives, and we will, at some point, have to face our own demons, and they're already inside of us. So we talked about growth, and that led us into this kind of scientific space, and we started talking about evolution and the evolution of humanity and how we begin as one thing, and we become another.

This is the first time you've had the resources to do a tour the way you wanted. You've visualized ambitious things before, but you probably weren't able to do it to this extent.
No, I couldn't, but there was one major ingredient that was missing, and that's my fans. Now, I have the inspiration of my fans, and I know what they want. I think there's a lot of artists that are very self-serving, but I'm not one of them. When I create and make music, I make music that my fans want to hear. My record label didn't want to put out that photo that's my album cover, with the brown hair.

They found it too confusing?
It was World War III. They were like, "It's confusing, it's too dark, you look gothic, it's not pop," and I said, "You don't know what pop is, because everyone was telling me I wasn't pop last year, and now look — so don't tell me what pop is, I know what pop is." It's funny, because I fought and fought and fought, and I actually ended up having two covers, because I wanted to do this yin and yang presentation with the covers. When I go to see what my fans are saying, I go onto GagaDaily — they see the cover and say, "I don't really like the blonde one, but the brown one is fucking sick. They love it, and I know what they love, so I make it for them, I don't care what anybody else wants.

Were there elements of the Fame Kills Tour with Kanye West that were going to be in The Monster Ball?
I'm certainly inspired by what we were doing, but I made a decision based on integrity not to use any of the things that we had designed together.

So it's the great lost tour, then.
Yeah, probably. I guess that's kind of perfectly epic, isn't it, though? Isn't that exactly what's supposed to happen? It just wasn't the right timing. I don't want to embellish on it too much, because I want to respect Kanye's privacy. But we just had our own reasons. We're real friends, real friends can make decisions like that, and we wanted to keep the momentum going in terms of pop music staying innovative with hip-hop and R&B, and we really wanted to do it, and it just wasn't the right time. But who's to say what will happen in the future?

Is this tour going to include the band and dancers we saw on SNL?
It's going to be much bigger, but I love my guys. My dancers that are with me now have been with me for two years. I just shot a music video for "Bad Romance" and the Haus of Gaga did the whole art direction for it. We worked with Francis Lawrence, he's a movie director, and he almost never does music videos anymore, and I'm really impressed, even with myself — it's so amazing. That's another thing that keeps me going, when you have moments of adversity and challenge in your life, you have to dig deep. It's my music and my sadness that runs into one another and mutates and gives me the ability to make new things.

Have you already begun to plan the show's fashion?
The fashion, certainly, is going to be another exploration and another level from where we were with the Fame Ball. The theme of monsters is certainly going to be an influence, as well as the theme of evolution and change. It's going to be a truly artistic experience that is going to take the form of the greatest post-apocalyptic house party that you've ever been to

' joey .... they can not GET any bigger  '


" The Rose Bowl show is the penultimate U2 show this year - with more to come in 2010 - and already is set to host the venue's biggest ever audience of over 5.4 million fans ( RIP ABB GROSS ) . The 360° Tour, which has been critically acclaimed and 're-invents rock'n'roll' (Rolling Stone Magazine), will now boast unique access for fans worldwide  "


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Joey, they say this could be so big it will break the internet