i guess i'll have to wait until i actually witness this odd looking thing in person and try my best to reserve any judgement ,
but does anyone agree that its magnitude may slightly take attention away from the boys themselves?
I mean, c'mon, even in that photo , they look like parameciums on the stage.
i hope im reasonably close with my fanclub seats in the lower 100s at Giants Stadium ! :shock:
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no longer excited to see unforgettable fire...that was boring
it will still feel good to see/hear/feel it live once again
( looking forward to angel of harlem, too )
i wont judge by a youtube video,
like what i said about th3 claw ( above )
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no longer excited to see unforgettable fire...that was boring
it will still feel good to see/hear/feel it live once again
( looking forward to angel of harlem, too )
i wont judge by a youtube video,
like what i said about th3 claw ( above )
totally agree....but the way it was performed in that vid, that should be a arena version....huge stadium needs adams and larry blasting that shit!
i guess i'll have to wait until i actually witness this odd looking thing in person and try my best to reserve any judgement ,
but does anyone agree that its magnitude may slightly take attention away from the boys themselves?
I mean, c'mon, even in that photo , they look like parameciums on the stage.
i hope im reasonably close with my fanclub seats in the lower 100s at Giants Stadium ! :shock:
anyone else ?
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I just might have to anti up some cash to go see this madness just hear The Unforgetable Fire once again.
I just hope the band doesn't appear to look like parameciums from wherever I might be sitting.
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How much more distracting can that be then having the Eastern European cars hanging all over the bloody place?
or a giant Lemon ?
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great to see them mix it up a bit
and throw out the really unpredictable every now and again!
I hope this lasts till Giants !
world premiere of electrical storm - first time played live-- ever !
Main Set: Breathe, No Line On The Horizon, Get On Your Boots, Magnificent, Beautiful Day, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Desire, Party Girl, Electrical Storm, Unknown Caller, The Unforgettable Fire, City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Pride, MLK, Walk On, Where the Streets Have No Name, One
Encore(s): Ultraviolet, With or Without You, I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight, Moment of Surrender
Comments: Desire includes a bit of Billie Jean and Don't Stop Til You Get Enough. U2 brings a girl and some champagne on stage during Party Girl - the girl lifts Bono up and carries him around a bit. Electrical Storm is played live for the first time ever. 'Was that OK?,' Bono asks at the end. Fans cheer wildly. U2 plays the dancy version of I'll Go Crazy during the main set, then begins a second encore with the album version.
wow they played the same song twice , alltho diiferently arranged, in the set.
bono sounds pretty good.
The Associated Press
July 2, 2009
(AP) — MADRID - Barcelona city authorities say they might fine band U2 for rocking too long and loudly during rehearsals for their latest world tour.
While the city says it is proud to host the beginning of U2's world tour, it also said in a statement Thursday that one of its districts received a formal complaint by residents about the band playing after permitted hours and making noise.
The Irish quartet kicked off their "360 degree" tour at Barcelona football club's Camp Nou stadium by playing 22 songs in front of 90,000 fans on Tuesday.
The show features a large, modernistic four-legged construction which houses what the band calls "giant spherical screen."
Singer Bono told the audience after four songs, "This has been our neighborhood for the last couple of weeks."
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Band's 100-date world tour will be responsible for emitting up to
65,000 tonnes of CO2
by: Alistair Grant
6 July 2009
U2 and Bono have been criticised for the carbon footprint created by
their mammoth world tour.
The 100-date, 18-month odyssey, which kicked off last week, will see
the multi-millionaires emit up to 65,000 tonnes of CO2, which would be
equivalent to Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr flying
from Earth to the planet Mars - and back.
The £90m U2360 tour also features three 390-tonne stages criss-
crossing the globe, along with 200 crew and backstage staff.
Their colossal emissions are the equivalent of leaving a standard 100-
watt light bulb on for 159,000 years, according to estimates from
researchers at the website Carbonfootprint.com.
The energy consumption comes despite Bono saying in Tokyo in May 2008:
"My prayer is that we become better in looking after our planet."
U2's public relations agency RMP did not return a request asking if
the band planned to offset its emissions.
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Band's 100-date world tour will be responsible for emitting up to
65,000 tonnes of CO2
by: Alistair Grant
6 July 2009
U2 and Bono have been criticised for the carbon footprint created by
their mammoth world tour.
The 100-date, 18-month odyssey, which kicked off last week, will see
the multi-millionaires emit up to 65,000 tonnes of CO2, which would be
equivalent to Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr flying
from Earth to the planet Mars - and back.
The £90m U2360 tour also features three 390-tonne stages criss-
crossing the globe, along with 200 crew and backstage staff.
Their colossal emissions are the equivalent of leaving a standard 100-
watt light bulb on for 159,000 years, according to estimates from
researchers at the website Carbonfootprint.com.
The energy consumption comes despite Bono saying in Tokyo in May 2008:
"My prayer is that we become better in looking after our planet."
U2's public relations agency RMP did not return a request asking if
the band planned to offset its emissions.
Does anybody really care about this kind of news. Don't know if anybody has heard of David Suzuki???? Anyway he gets ripped for taking planes for speaking engagements. It just won't stop!
On another note. Thanks to my boy in NYC for keeping the updates going. Still have the Rangers thread? :?:
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Band's 100-date world tour will be responsible for emitting up to
65,000 tonnes of CO2
by: Alistair Grant
6 July 2009
U2 and Bono have been criticised for the carbon footprint created by
their mammoth world tour.
The 100-date, 18-month odyssey, which kicked off last week, will see
the multi-millionaires emit up to 65,000 tonnes of CO2, which would be
equivalent to Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr flying
from Earth to the planet Mars - and back.
The £90m U2360 tour also features three 390-tonne stages criss-
crossing the globe, along with 200 crew and backstage staff.
Their colossal emissions are the equivalent of leaving a standard 100-
watt light bulb on for 159,000 years, according to estimates from
researchers at the website Carbonfootprint.com.
The energy consumption comes despite Bono saying in Tokyo in May 2008:
"My prayer is that we become better in looking after our planet."
U2's public relations agency RMP did not return a request asking if
the band planned to offset its emissions.
Does anybody really care about this kind of news. Don't know if anybody has heard of David Suzuki???? Anyway he gets ripped for taking planes for speaking engagements. It just won't stop!
On another note. Thanks to my boy in NYC for keeping the updates going. Still have the Rangers thread? :?:
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Does anybody really care about this kind of news. Don't know if anybody has heard of David Suzuki???? Anyway he gets ripped for taking planes for speaking engagements. It just won't stop!
On another note. Thanks to my boy in NYC for keeping the updates going. Still have the Rangers thread? :?:
apparently people do care about this sort of thing
Belfast Telegraph
July 07, 2009
Have U2 created a monster with massive carbon footprint of 360 tour?
U2 and Bono's long-held commitment to "save the planet" has come into question after it emerged they have a carbon footprint big enough to fly the band to Mars and back.
The Irish rockers campaign to fight poverty and AIDS in Africa and Bono called on the world's population to take better care of the earth.
Speaking in Tokyo last year he said: "My prayer is that we become better in looking after our planet."
However, according to an environmentalists' website, the band's 100-date 18-month world tour will see the multi-millionaires clock up an incredible 70,000 air miles in their fuel-guzzling private jet.
The £90m U2360 tour also features three 390-tonne stages criss-crossing the globe, along with 200 crew and backstage staff.
The opening night in Barcelona's Nou Camp last week featured the space station-style stage and satellite link-up with the International Space Station.
Perhaps appropriately, the tour's carbon footprint can also be measured in space terms, with their colossal emissions of up to 65,000 tonnes of CO2 enough to fly Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. from earth to the planet Mars -- and back.
The figure was calculated by experts from carbonfootprint.com, a company which specialises in assessing environmental damage.
U2's CO2 emissions are the equivalent of the waste created by 6,500 average British or Irish people in an entire year, or equal to leaving a standard 100 watt lightbulb on for 159,000 years.
The band's vast emissions are dozens of times bigger than Madonna's carbon footprint on her 2006 world tour, despite her extravagant demands and 250 staff. She produced 1,635 tonnes in air transport.
U2's PR agency RMP did not return a request asking if the band were buying carbon offsets to contribute towards the damage of their enormous emissions.
Carbonfootprint.com's environment consultant Helen Roberts said: "The carbon footprint generated by U2's 44 concerts this year is equal to carbon created by the four band members travelling the 34.125 million miles from Earth to Mars in a passenger plane.
"You also have to add the carbon emissions from the same number of concerts again next year.
"Just looking at the 44 concerts this year, the band will create enough carbon to fly all 90,000 people attending one of their Wembley concerts to Dublin. To offset this year's carbon emissions, U2 would need to plant 20,118 trees."
Pollution experts said U2's 44 concerts in Europe and North America this year will produce 20,117.50 tonnes of CO2 emissions, unless the band unexpectedly decide to ship to equipment to the U.S., in which case the footprint would be 5091.41 tonnes.
Bono and his bandmates will generate 64.42 tonnes of CO2 by flying 22,037 miles to this year's gigs in their private jet, currently stationed at Nice airport, near their Cote d'Azur holiday villas in the south of France.
Most of the carbon footprint comes from transporting the three 390-tonne stages, using 3,286.60 tonnes of CO2, with another 916.07 tonnes for extra equipment. Next year they are expected to play 20 concerts in North America in June and July and 20 dates in Europe in August and September.
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Oh I know they will get torched over things like this. But if they stripped down their stage to a PJ style, people would be asking what is wrong with U2. Where is the glitz we've come to expect. They could plant a million trees and somebody would still see a problem with it. I'm going to see them and I'm not too worried about their carbon footprint. Ahhhh, they'd rip em for just flying around the globe to tour for the reason you mentioned earlier to call them hypocrites. No win situation.
Where are the reports from Italy?
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U2 Start Posting Backstage Photos From the Road on 360 Tour [to] Twitter
Rolling Stone
July 16, 2009
By DANIEL KREPS
U2 have joined the masses on Twitter, establishing @U2_360Tour to give fans a look at life on the road and backstage on their 360 Tour, which is currently in Europe. So far, the Twitter feed has only hosted photos from the band but no text, so Bono hasn't had to confine his thoughts to 140 characters just yet. Judging by the Twitter timeline, the photos were taken as the band traveled from Paris, having played two nights at the Stade De France, to Nice, where U2 were set to play Parc des Sports Charles Ehrmann last night, July 15th. A press release indicates that the bandmembers are snapping the photos themselves.
@U2_360Tour's first Tweet was an out-of-focus self-portrait of guitarist the Edge. From there, the band posted a series of pictures showing the (literally) red carpet treatment they receive en route to the airport. There are out-of-focus shots of women dragging luggage, off-duty traffic cops, giant Ferris wheels, a dish full of pastries and a picture of what appears to be all of Edge's onstage jewelry. The band hasn't posted any live performance shots.
As Rock Daily previously reported, U2 launched their 360 Tour — complete with the innovative new stage some have dubbed "the Claw" — on June 30th in Barcelona with a concert that included both a Michael Jackson tribute and a phone call to astronauts in orbit. Fans in the States will have to wait less than two months until the Irish rockers bring their concert across the Atlantic, starting with a September 12th show at Chicago's Soldier Field.
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U2's stage show for this weekend's series of concerts at Croke Park is the biggest in rock music history, the band's tour director has said.
The colossal edifice, which resembles a giant claw, is nearly 60 metres high and the same distance wide.
It is currently being put in place for the concerts which take place on Friday, Saturday and Monday nights.
Craig Evans said the band had spared no expense in putting the 360 tour together and the travelling party numbered around 500 people with 2,000 people in each city being involved in ancillary activities such as ticket sales and promotion.
Mr. Evans said the band have been "thrilled for a long time" about the prospects of playing three concerts in their home town. However, he expressed regret that the full 360 experience of playing in the round will not be available to Irish fans because of the layout of Croke Park.
The audience will not be allowed on Hill 16 behind the main stage because of health and safety concerns.
"It's a shame. we're subject to the design and physical limitations of every stadium. With the power and access and safety requirement and sound requirement, this stadium just doesn't allow it," he said.
"We looked at every option we could to put people back there. We wanted to be able to utilise that. It is fantastic when you see it in the round."
However, fans will be able to go to the pitch area at the back of the stage giving a semblance of the band playing in the round.
Tickets are still available for Friday and Monday night's concerts. Promoter MCD's spokesman Justin Green said fans were coming from as far away as Brazil, Japan, Canada and the U.S. to watch U2 play their home town and the event was attracting 300 foreign media personnel.
He also said the Irish Hotels Federation was on the record as saying that this was one of the first weekends of the year where all hotels in the city are booked up.
Gardaí urged motorists to avoid the Croke Park area in the lead-up to the concerts especially on Monday when Ikea opens in Ballymun and Dublin city's new bus gate at Trinity College opens.
Unfortunately, heavy showers are forecast for Friday, though Saturday should be a better day. Monday is likely to see more of the same so fans are asked to dress for the weather.
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Gig may end later, as U2 reconsider curfew
July 26, 2009
Bono and the rest of U2 spent some hours yesterday considering whether
they should risk breaking the law -- in the interest of their fans'
enjoyment.
It cost millions to create and the effect is spectacular. But the Claw
-- the massive stage creation which U2 are currently using on their
worldwide 360 Degree tour -- is seen to its best effect in the dark.
So in every other one of the 44 cities in the world where the band
have or will be performing, it's a late date: In Barcelona the concert
finished at 1.30 am.
In Dublin it is different. In deference to the complaints of some
residents of the area around Croke Park, the planning permission
includes an 11pm curfew. The band go on stage at 8.45pm and it gets
dark around 10 pm. The result is that the majority of the show takes
place in daylight and the audience gets only a fraction of the €40m
effect that the inventive staging is intended to create.
On Friday night the band obeyed the curfew and finished on time. But
it rankled with them. So much so that throughout yesterday there was a
serious debate about how this obstacle to entertainment might be
gotten over for the remaining shows last night and tomorrow.
There were two possible solutions: try to have the curfew lifted, or
simply break the law and take the consequences -- a heavy fine.
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Band's 100-date world tour will be responsible for emitting up to
65,000 tonnes of CO2
by: Alistair Grant
6 July 2009
U2 and Bono have been criticised for the carbon footprint created by
their mammoth world tour.
The 100-date, 18-month odyssey, which kicked off last week, will see
the multi-millionaires emit up to 65,000 tonnes of CO2, which would be
equivalent to Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr flying
from Earth to the planet Mars - and back.
The £90m U2360 tour also features three 390-tonne stages criss-
crossing the globe, along with 200 crew and backstage staff.
Their colossal emissions are the equivalent of leaving a standard 100-
watt light bulb on for 159,000 years, according to estimates from
researchers at the website Carbonfootprint.com.
The energy consumption comes despite Bono saying in Tokyo in May 2008:
"My prayer is that we become better in looking after our planet."
U2's public relations agency RMP did not return a request asking if
the band planned to offset its emissions.
Does anybody really care about this kind of news.
let me take a wild guess...you don't believe in recycling anything
actually, after just checking with my sources, we have confirmed that your opinion doesn't mean shit
sorry
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U2 BURNED BY BYRNE
July 29, 2009
Posted by: Tassoula
In a recent blog entry by David Byrne of the Talking Heads, he sarcastically thanks U2 for 'subsidizing' one of their small shows in Europe, then takes a jab at the U2360 tour production costs.
Perhaps the real reason for his sour grapes comes to light in his final sentences: he confesses his band was bumped from being on Late Night With David Letterman back in March, when U2 performed for five consecutive days.
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LIVE NATION RESPONDS TO ENVIRONMENTAL CRITICS
July 29, 2009
posted by: m2
Live Nation has spoken up in response to the ongoing criticisms about
the environmental impact of the U2 360 tour. In an announcement that
seems to have been posted on U2.com within the past week, LN says it's
now working with a group called MusicMatters to reduce the tour's
environmental impact. They say steps have been taken to do that, and a
full offset plan is in the works. Use the link to read more...
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U2 go a stage further for the city spectacular
Published Date: 13 August 2009
By Peter Kay
ONCE the Eagles have flown from Don Valley next Thursday night, the
rock music team will move in.
Setting up the stage for U2's Sheffield concert is a mammoth
operation, taking seven days to ensure that everything is just right
for Bono and the boys.
If you thought the Stones pulled out all the stops with their
production that dominated one end of Don Valley Stadium in 1996, U2
are effectively taking it a stage further.
It's called the 360º tour and the stage design reflects that. The work
of show designer Willie Williams and architect Mark Fisher, it sees
the band on a circular stage in the middle of the audience, part of a
colossal spaceship-like structure. Speakers are incorporated in four
legs that rise 164 feet to support a cylindrical video screen.
And that takes some assembling.
The Stones' show involved more than 90 trucks rolling into the east
end of Sheffield. For U2 it is likely to be more than 120.
A specialist crew of up to 450 will get to work so that 50,000 fans
can enjoy the performance next Thursday. On the night Sheffield
International Venues, which runs the stadium, will have about 200
staff working, everybody from cleaners to bar workers and maintenance
workers. Then there are the 500 stewards.
Don Valley general manager Pat Smith takes its all in his stride.
After all, the stadium has been hosting concerts since 1993 when Def
Leppard played to their biggest home crowd.
"It's kind of normal business," says Pat. "We are working with
professionals. But it's exciting and it's going to be a tremendous
show."
At the same time there is no disguising his pride in Sheffield, his
home city, securing one of only two English dates (the other is
Wembley) for the latest tour by arguably the biggest rock group in the
world.
In U2's eyes at least Sheffield is on a par with the likes of
Barcelona, Paris, Berlin and Milan as they tour Europe with their
latest album, No Line On The Horizon.
And it's not by accident, says Pat. It's recognition that the city as
a whole has improved its profile and demonstrated its enthusiasm for
the big music names.
"The city has shown that it wants to help with events like this. It's
not just Don Valley. As a city we have shown that we are welcoming.
Sheffield is the right place to come."
Ultimately, he points out, it's the artists who decide where to go, so
the U2 date is a tremendous boost for Sheffield's reputation as well
as offering a sharp economic boost through the spending in hotels,
restaurants, bars and shops.
Securing such events is a hugely competitive business and Don Valley
has had to wait three years for the next one to come along.
After the Stones Pat didn't think things could get bigger. But they did.
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holy fuckballs!!! :shock: :shock:
i guess i'll have to wait until i actually witness this odd looking thing in person and try my best to reserve any judgement ,
but does anyone agree that its magnitude may slightly take attention away from the boys themselves?
I mean, c'mon, even in that photo , they look like parameciums on the stage.
i hope im reasonably close with my fanclub seats in the lower 100s at Giants Stadium ! :shock:
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no longer excited to see unforgettable fire...that was boring
it will still feel good to see/hear/feel it live once again
( looking forward to angel of harlem, too )
i wont judge by a youtube video,
like what i said about th3 claw ( above )
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totally agree....but the way it was performed in that vid, that should be a arena version....huge stadium needs adams and larry blasting that shit!
anyone else ?
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but like you said bath, i'll judge when i get to my seats at the rose bowl
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I just might have to anti up some cash to go see this madness just hear The Unforgetable Fire once again.
I just hope the band doesn't appear to look like parameciums from wherever I might be sitting.
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or a giant Lemon ?
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Damn straight my man.
The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08
and throw out the really unpredictable every now and again!
I hope this lasts till Giants !
world premiere of electrical storm - first time played live-- ever !
Main Set: Breathe, No Line On The Horizon, Get On Your Boots, Magnificent, Beautiful Day, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Desire, Party Girl, Electrical Storm, Unknown Caller, The Unforgettable Fire, City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Pride, MLK, Walk On, Where the Streets Have No Name, One
Encore(s): Ultraviolet, With or Without You, I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight, Moment of Surrender
Comments: Desire includes a bit of Billie Jean and Don't Stop Til You Get Enough. U2 brings a girl and some champagne on stage during Party Girl - the girl lifts Bono up and carries him around a bit. Electrical Storm is played live for the first time ever. 'Was that OK?,' Bono asks at the end. Fans cheer wildly. U2 plays the dancy version of I'll Go Crazy during the main set, then begins a second encore with the album version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq8vXUpn ... r_embedded
wow they played the same song twice , alltho diiferently arranged, in the set.
bono sounds pretty good.
The Associated Press
July 2, 2009
(AP) — MADRID - Barcelona city authorities say they might fine band U2 for rocking too long and loudly during rehearsals for their latest world tour.
While the city says it is proud to host the beginning of U2's world tour, it also said in a statement Thursday that one of its districts received a formal complaint by residents about the band playing after permitted hours and making noise.
The Irish quartet kicked off their "360 degree" tour at Barcelona football club's Camp Nou stadium by playing 22 songs in front of 90,000 fans on Tuesday.
The show features a large, modernistic four-legged construction which houses what the band calls "giant spherical screen."
Singer Bono told the audience after four songs, "This has been our neighborhood for the last couple of weeks."
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Band's 100-date world tour will be responsible for emitting up to
65,000 tonnes of CO2
by: Alistair Grant
6 July 2009
U2 and Bono have been criticised for the carbon footprint created by
their mammoth world tour.
The 100-date, 18-month odyssey, which kicked off last week, will see
the multi-millionaires emit up to 65,000 tonnes of CO2, which would be
equivalent to Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr flying
from Earth to the planet Mars - and back.
The £90m U2360 tour also features three 390-tonne stages criss-
crossing the globe, along with 200 crew and backstage staff.
Their colossal emissions are the equivalent of leaving a standard 100-
watt light bulb on for 159,000 years, according to estimates from
researchers at the website Carbonfootprint.com.
The energy consumption comes despite Bono saying in Tokyo in May 2008:
"My prayer is that we become better in looking after our planet."
U2's public relations agency RMP did not return a request asking if
the band planned to offset its emissions.
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Maybe Muse will play songs from The Resistance, which comes out later this year.
Does anybody really care about this kind of news. Don't know if anybody has heard of David Suzuki???? Anyway he gets ripped for taking planes for speaking engagements. It just won't stop!
On another note. Thanks to my boy in NYC for keeping the updates going. Still have the Rangers thread? :?:
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some people would call them hypocrites.
and yes, We still have the Rangers thread !
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Belfast Telegraph
July 07, 2009
Have U2 created a monster with massive carbon footprint of 360 tour?
U2 and Bono's long-held commitment to "save the planet" has come into question after it emerged they have a carbon footprint big enough to fly the band to Mars and back.
The Irish rockers campaign to fight poverty and AIDS in Africa and Bono called on the world's population to take better care of the earth.
Speaking in Tokyo last year he said: "My prayer is that we become better in looking after our planet."
However, according to an environmentalists' website, the band's 100-date 18-month world tour will see the multi-millionaires clock up an incredible 70,000 air miles in their fuel-guzzling private jet.
The £90m U2360 tour also features three 390-tonne stages criss-crossing the globe, along with 200 crew and backstage staff.
The opening night in Barcelona's Nou Camp last week featured the space station-style stage and satellite link-up with the International Space Station.
Perhaps appropriately, the tour's carbon footprint can also be measured in space terms, with their colossal emissions of up to 65,000 tonnes of CO2 enough to fly Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. from earth to the planet Mars -- and back.
The figure was calculated by experts from carbonfootprint.com, a company which specialises in assessing environmental damage.
U2's CO2 emissions are the equivalent of the waste created by 6,500 average British or Irish people in an entire year, or equal to leaving a standard 100 watt lightbulb on for 159,000 years.
The band's vast emissions are dozens of times bigger than Madonna's carbon footprint on her 2006 world tour, despite her extravagant demands and 250 staff. She produced 1,635 tonnes in air transport.
U2's PR agency RMP did not return a request asking if the band were buying carbon offsets to contribute towards the damage of their enormous emissions.
Carbonfootprint.com's environment consultant Helen Roberts said: "The carbon footprint generated by U2's 44 concerts this year is equal to carbon created by the four band members travelling the 34.125 million miles from Earth to Mars in a passenger plane.
"You also have to add the carbon emissions from the same number of concerts again next year.
"Just looking at the 44 concerts this year, the band will create enough carbon to fly all 90,000 people attending one of their Wembley concerts to Dublin. To offset this year's carbon emissions, U2 would need to plant 20,118 trees."
Pollution experts said U2's 44 concerts in Europe and North America this year will produce 20,117.50 tonnes of CO2 emissions, unless the band unexpectedly decide to ship to equipment to the U.S., in which case the footprint would be 5091.41 tonnes.
Bono and his bandmates will generate 64.42 tonnes of CO2 by flying 22,037 miles to this year's gigs in their private jet, currently stationed at Nice airport, near their Cote d'Azur holiday villas in the south of France.
Most of the carbon footprint comes from transporting the three 390-tonne stages, using 3,286.60 tonnes of CO2, with another 916.07 tonnes for extra equipment. Next year they are expected to play 20 concerts in North America in June and July and 20 dates in Europe in August and September.
© Belfast Telegraph, 2009.
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Rolling Stone
July 16, 2009
By DANIEL KREPS
U2 have joined the masses on Twitter, establishing @U2_360Tour to give fans a look at life on the road and backstage on their 360 Tour, which is currently in Europe. So far, the Twitter feed has only hosted photos from the band but no text, so Bono hasn't had to confine his thoughts to 140 characters just yet. Judging by the Twitter timeline, the photos were taken as the band traveled from Paris, having played two nights at the Stade De France, to Nice, where U2 were set to play Parc des Sports Charles Ehrmann last night, July 15th. A press release indicates that the bandmembers are snapping the photos themselves.
@U2_360Tour's first Tweet was an out-of-focus self-portrait of guitarist the Edge. From there, the band posted a series of pictures showing the (literally) red carpet treatment they receive en route to the airport. There are out-of-focus shots of women dragging luggage, off-duty traffic cops, giant Ferris wheels, a dish full of pastries and a picture of what appears to be all of Edge's onstage jewelry. The band hasn't posted any live performance shots.
As Rock Daily previously reported, U2 launched their 360 Tour — complete with the innovative new stage some have dubbed "the Claw" — on June 30th in Barcelona with a concert that included both a Michael Jackson tribute and a phone call to astronauts in orbit. Fans in the States will have to wait less than two months until the Irish rockers bring their concert across the Atlantic, starting with a September 12th show at Chicago's Soldier Field.
© Rolling Stone, 2009.
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Irish Times
July 22, 2009
By Ronan McGreevy
U2's stage show for this weekend's series of concerts at Croke Park is the biggest in rock music history, the band's tour director has said.
The colossal edifice, which resembles a giant claw, is nearly 60 metres high and the same distance wide.
It is currently being put in place for the concerts which take place on Friday, Saturday and Monday nights.
Craig Evans said the band had spared no expense in putting the 360 tour together and the travelling party numbered around 500 people with 2,000 people in each city being involved in ancillary activities such as ticket sales and promotion.
Mr. Evans said the band have been "thrilled for a long time" about the prospects of playing three concerts in their home town. However, he expressed regret that the full 360 experience of playing in the round will not be available to Irish fans because of the layout of Croke Park.
The audience will not be allowed on Hill 16 behind the main stage because of health and safety concerns.
"It's a shame. we're subject to the design and physical limitations of every stadium. With the power and access and safety requirement and sound requirement, this stadium just doesn't allow it," he said.
"We looked at every option we could to put people back there. We wanted to be able to utilise that. It is fantastic when you see it in the round."
However, fans will be able to go to the pitch area at the back of the stage giving a semblance of the band playing in the round.
Tickets are still available for Friday and Monday night's concerts. Promoter MCD's spokesman Justin Green said fans were coming from as far away as Brazil, Japan, Canada and the U.S. to watch U2 play their home town and the event was attracting 300 foreign media personnel.
He also said the Irish Hotels Federation was on the record as saying that this was one of the first weekends of the year where all hotels in the city are booked up.
Gardaí urged motorists to avoid the Croke Park area in the lead-up to the concerts especially on Monday when Ikea opens in Ballymun and Dublin city's new bus gate at Trinity College opens.
Unfortunately, heavy showers are forecast for Friday, though Saturday should be a better day. Monday is likely to see more of the same so fans are asked to dress for the weather.
© Irish Times, 2009.
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Bono and the rest of U2 spent some hours yesterday considering whether
they should risk breaking the law -- in the interest of their fans'
enjoyment.
It cost millions to create and the effect is spectacular. But the Claw
-- the massive stage creation which U2 are currently using on their
worldwide 360 Degree tour -- is seen to its best effect in the dark.
So in every other one of the 44 cities in the world where the band
have or will be performing, it's a late date: In Barcelona the concert
finished at 1.30 am.
In Dublin it is different. In deference to the complaints of some
residents of the area around Croke Park, the planning permission
includes an 11pm curfew. The band go on stage at 8.45pm and it gets
dark around 10 pm. The result is that the majority of the show takes
place in daylight and the audience gets only a fraction of the €40m
effect that the inventive staging is intended to create.
On Friday night the band obeyed the curfew and finished on time. But
it rankled with them. So much so that throughout yesterday there was a
serious debate about how this obstacle to entertainment might be
gotten over for the remaining shows last night and tomorrow.
There were two possible solutions: try to have the curfew lifted, or
simply break the law and take the consequences -- a heavy fine.
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actually, after just checking with my sources, we have confirmed that your opinion doesn't mean shit
sorry
let me take a wild guess...you don't believe in recycling anything
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In a recent blog entry by David Byrne of the Talking Heads, he sarcastically thanks U2 for 'subsidizing' one of their small shows in Europe, then takes a jab at the U2360 tour production costs.
Perhaps the real reason for his sour grapes comes to light in his final sentences: he confesses his band was bumped from being on Late Night With David Letterman back in March, when U2 performed for five consecutive days.
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Live Nation has spoken up in response to the ongoing criticisms about
the environmental impact of the U2 360 tour. In an announcement that
seems to have been posted on U2.com within the past week, LN says it's
now working with a group called MusicMatters to reduce the tour's
environmental impact. They say steps have been taken to do that, and a
full offset plan is in the works. Use the link to read more...
read about it on U2.com >>
http://www.u2.com/static/index/index/co ... _emissions
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Published Date: 13 August 2009
By Peter Kay
ONCE the Eagles have flown from Don Valley next Thursday night, the
rock music team will move in.
Setting up the stage for U2's Sheffield concert is a mammoth
operation, taking seven days to ensure that everything is just right
for Bono and the boys.
If you thought the Stones pulled out all the stops with their
production that dominated one end of Don Valley Stadium in 1996, U2
are effectively taking it a stage further.
It's called the 360º tour and the stage design reflects that. The work
of show designer Willie Williams and architect Mark Fisher, it sees
the band on a circular stage in the middle of the audience, part of a
colossal spaceship-like structure. Speakers are incorporated in four
legs that rise 164 feet to support a cylindrical video screen.
And that takes some assembling.
The Stones' show involved more than 90 trucks rolling into the east
end of Sheffield. For U2 it is likely to be more than 120.
A specialist crew of up to 450 will get to work so that 50,000 fans
can enjoy the performance next Thursday. On the night Sheffield
International Venues, which runs the stadium, will have about 200
staff working, everybody from cleaners to bar workers and maintenance
workers. Then there are the 500 stewards.
Don Valley general manager Pat Smith takes its all in his stride.
After all, the stadium has been hosting concerts since 1993 when Def
Leppard played to their biggest home crowd.
"It's kind of normal business," says Pat. "We are working with
professionals. But it's exciting and it's going to be a tremendous
show."
At the same time there is no disguising his pride in Sheffield, his
home city, securing one of only two English dates (the other is
Wembley) for the latest tour by arguably the biggest rock group in the
world.
In U2's eyes at least Sheffield is on a par with the likes of
Barcelona, Paris, Berlin and Milan as they tour Europe with their
latest album, No Line On The Horizon.
And it's not by accident, says Pat. It's recognition that the city as
a whole has improved its profile and demonstrated its enthusiasm for
the big music names.
"The city has shown that it wants to help with events like this. It's
not just Don Valley. As a city we have shown that we are welcoming.
Sheffield is the right place to come."
Ultimately, he points out, it's the artists who decide where to go, so
the U2 date is a tremendous boost for Sheffield's reputation as well
as offering a sharp economic boost through the spending in hotels,
restaurants, bars and shops.
Securing such events is a hugely competitive business and Don Valley
has had to wait three years for the next one to come along.
After the Stones Pat didn't think things could get bigger. But they did.
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