Why all the hate on FEZ? It's not a worthless fill, you need a change of mood to transition from GPYB-Stand up comedy, to the more ambient closers of Being Born-white as snow etc. And I for one think it's brilliant how Eno mixes in the melodic voice synths with city noises and bono's 'let me in sound's while keeping in perfectly smooth rythm. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but I think it's just beautiful and really increases the impact of Being Born, which would've seemed pretty dry and monotonous on its own.

I think that FEZ works perfectly with the song.

Pleas tell me if there is any torrent or Rapidshare download that contains these two live performances.

 

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I guess what I mean to say is there a download out there that contains the entire Rattle and Hum concert?

you could always just invest in the DVD...

You can probably get the DVD pretty cheap. I haven't seen it for more than $10 the past couple years.

Buy it and stimulate the economy!:P (Plus, it's better quality on DVD I think anyways..)

 

Yeah but the songs are not on the album. I don't want video footage I want audio.

OHHH gotcha. I don't have the mp3s, but I'm sure theres an audiorip out there somewhere.

anyone see the article on atu2.com about how the album is doing pretty poorly in a lot of areas commercially. sales and radio play time.

 

GOYB was a pretty big disappointment in terms of commercial success...and honestly in terms of most things. ive grown to appreciate the songs merits, but i cant say its a song i would seek out to listen to. i think they would have been much better served by putting magnificent or breathe out first. i dont even think magnificent is that great, but i think itd do better than GOYB. look at iTunes in U.S. store...magnificent is in U2's top five or six or something like that. GOYB is not even there.

LOL

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Kinda dissappointed that they just played Beautiful day on Letterman tonight, even though it did rock. I hope we get one more album track (not GOYB's) tomorow.

Kinda dissappointed that they just played Beautiful day on Letterman tonight, even though it did rock. I hope we get one more album track (not GOYB's) tomorow.

 

I was kind of disappointed, too. Not because it was bad, in fact, it was outstanding, but more because I thought we would get another NLOTH track.

 

I think Get On Your Boots will be the night 5 song. In fact, I think they have already pre-taped it.

 

But there is always a chance we will hear some new songs on Good Morning America. The Letterman shows have just been fantastic, and I am not even sure why I like that programming venue so much.

Oh yeah, forgot they were on GMA this morning. Was gonna try to catch some of it before I went to school.

Kiss The Future, U2's world tour in support of its new album "No Line on the Horizon," will play stadiums around the world, beginning June 30 in Barcelona, Billboard can exclusively reveal. Details of the tour will be announced March 9.

 

It’s a groundbreaking tour with production that includes a 360-degree audience configuration, ambitious staging and a cylindrical video screen. “We’re very excited about the idea to go on the road with this album,” the Edge says. “It’s an album that I think is going to translate so well to the live context. The songs we’ve tried in rehearsal are sounding fantastic, so that’s got everyone really fired up.”

 

U2 will be playing in a setting unique among all previous tours, by any artist. The tour will be global and lengthy. U2 will stay in Europe through Aug. 22, then hit American shores on Sept. 12 with a show at Soldier Field in Chicago. The band will play in North America until Oct. 28 and plans on working the globe until the fall of 2010. In addition to its production firsts, the tour is destined to become one of the highest-grossing tours ever; at $389 million, the band’s 2005-2007 Vertigo tour is second only to the Rolling Stones’ A Bigger Bang trek.

 

After playing arenas in North America and stadiums elsewhere on their last few tours, U2 will play stadiums everywhere this time out. “This is going to be completely different, and that’s what makes it exciting -- finding something new to bring to the touring culture,” says the Edge. “It’s hard to come up with something that’s fundamentally different, but we have, I think, on this tour. Where we’re taking our production will never have been seen before by anybody, and that’s an amazing thing to be able to say. For a band like U2 that really thrive on breaking new ground, it’s a real thrill.”

 

As they have for well over a decade, Live Nation global music chairman Arthur Fogel and his team will produce and promote U2 worldwide. Committing to a global stadium tour is “obviously a major undertaking on a bunch of different levels,” says Fogel. “On the last tour it basically broke down indoors in America and stadiums outside of America. Both shows were pretty different and they were both incredible, but I think the general feeling, and certainly mine, was the experience of U2 in a stadium is special and unique, and it would be great for North America to experience that the way the rest of the world did the last time around.”

 

Playing in a 360 configuration will increase the capacity by about 15%-20%, depending on the stadium. The configuration opens up myriad opportunities for scaling ticket prices, an important consideration for Fogel and the band. The top ticket price will be slightly higher than last time and the bottom price will be lower, with the floor seats -- the closest to the stage -- the lowest priced. In fact, playing larger capacity venues allows for more conservative pricing overall. Field level is going to be $55, and there will be 10,000 tickets a show, every show, at $30, Fogel says. The price points are $250, $90-$95, depending on the market; $55 and $30.

 

On-sales will begin in Europe in mid-March, and North American on-sales will start in late March/early April. U2 will also resurrect its random upgrade program first seen on the Elevation tour in 2001, where select fans purchasing GA tickets will be moved closest to the stage.

 

The basic layout of the tour is Europe in July and August, America in September and October with a total of 40-45 shows this year; more stadiums in America in June and July next year, then August and September in Europe. The trek then tentatively will hit South America in the fall of 2010, for potentially as many as 90-100 shows over the next two years.

 

This will be the first tour under U2’s 12-year multi-rights deal with Live Nation, though the band’s relationship with Fogel dates back to a show at the El Mocambo in Toronto in 1979. “Arthur and I are great friends and I’ve been very interested in the Live Nation project for years now, and we’ve been very supportive of it,” says U2 manager Paul McGuinness. “We obviously intend to go on performing for a long time to come and that’s what the deal reflects. U2 always had parallel careers as recording artists and a touring act and it was always fundamental to our way of thinking that the two should be complimentary.”

 

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/exclusive-u2-to-kiss-the-future-on-global-1003948418.stor

March 9th squee.

 

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Where is a list of the tour dates? Do they come to Florida?

You'll find out Monday!

I am getting really excited about the tour!

 

My friend bought me a membership to U2.com as a gift!! Pretty neat, I get a limited edition CD and everything.

 

I have missed every single David Letterman because of work, but tonight I get to watch it!!! :woot:

very cool! any idea how much tickets might cost? (i might be interested in seeing them live)

Article has the price ranges.

 

Cheap tix are $30.....floor are $55.....others are $90-$250.

hmm... not too bad i guess

And no backstage. Which is cool.

Hopefully I can buy tickets to a U2 show in Toronto, I've already paid quite a bit for Coldplay's single concert here for July.

 

Anyways, just as I expected (:P), Breathe, Magnificent and I'll Go Crazy will probably be the next three singles, based on the performances they've made this week. Actually, I'm loving every single track on this album but still with the exception of Stand Up Comedy. They took out what apparently is a "surging anthem" (Every Breaking Wave) instead of that crappy song?

I love this song so much:

 

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I've been obsessed with this performance lately... it's great!

^That whole DVD is exceptional.