~~~***U2 line up New Album***~~~

Construction of the Vertigo Tour outdoor stage is underway at the
Queensland Sports & Athletics Centre in Brisbane, and the Vertigo Tour
restart is just days away. Thanks to Australian fan Damien Taylor for
the photo -- you can see larger versions of this and another on the
Australian U2 News log.

http://www.lyptonvillage.org/u2/?p=166

Mysterious ways: U2 in 3-D concert film
October 31, 2006
By Gregg Goldstein

ORLANDO -- U2's Vertigo Tour may soon create a real sense of vertigo
among moviegoers as the band is planning to release its first 3-D
concert film next year.

The untitled feature is being directed by Catherine Owens and Mark
Pellington. In conjunction with the film's anticipated mid- to
late-2007 debut, U2 also might take part in the first live 3-D
performance projected in theaters nationwide.

For the film, Owens and Pellington shot more than 700 hours of
footage with the band in seven South American cities during February
and March. Trekking across Argentina, Mexico, Chile and Brazil, the
film's 3-D director of photography Peter Anderson ("T2 3-D: Battle
Across Time") used nine pairs of Sony Cinealta 950 cameras to capture
the band with swooping camera angles and kaleidoscopic imagery. The
director of cinematography for the film's 2-D footage is Tom Krueger.

3ality Digital Entertainment, the project's producer, put together of
the largest assemblages of 3-D camera technology ever used for a
single project. A representative for the band called it "the first-
ever 3-D multicamera live shoot."

The feature is being edited in New York by Olivier Wiki and readied
for a summer or fall release. Discussions are under way with several
major studio distributors. It is expected that the film screen
nationwide using the Real D technology in place by theaters screening
the digital 3-D release of "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before
Christmas."

Real D unveiled the first theatrically projected live 3-D event last
week at ShowEast in Orlando. It is planning a live 3-D concert
presentation next fall, and sources said it might be a U2 concert.

Owens has been the creative director of screen visuals for U2 on
several of the band's world tours. Feature director Pellington
("Arlington Road," "The Mothman Prophecies") began his career by
directing U2's "One" video.

The soundtrack is produced by Carl Glanville, who also produced the
concert DVD "Vertigo 2005/U2 Live From Chicago." Wiki edited the U2
video "Original of the Species," which was nominated for two MTV
Video Music Awards.

Executives at 3ality declined comment.

November 05, 2006


Lucky fans in Brisbane tonight got to hear U2 rehearse the main part of
its set in advance of Tuesday night's relaunch of the Vertigo Tour.
It's similar to previous shows, but with a couple cool new songs in the
mix. If you'd rather not know in advance, don't click the link below to
see the rehearsal list on U2tours.com.

see the spoilers at U2tours.com >>

http://www.u2tours.com/news/article.src?ID=1242

City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation - Locomotion (Kylie Minogue snippet)
Until the End of the World
New Year's Day
Kite (*new version with Bono singing alone at start, then Adam joins in, then full band comes in later)
Walk On (full band)
Beautiful Day
Stuck in a Moment
Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own
Love and Peace or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet the Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo

U2 getting vertigo at Dreamworld
6th November 2006, 14:31 WST

Irish supergroup U2 is preparing for its Australian tour opener by
taking on theme park thrill rides and getting up close to a Bengal
tiger.

The band, which will resume its Vertigo world tour on Tuesday night
after an eight-month postponement, risked a dose of vertigo by taking
on the scariest rides at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast.

Frontman Bono, guitarist The Edge, bass player Adam Clayton and drummer
Larry Mullen Jnr had the theme park to themselves late on Saturday
night.

The four 40-somethings took time off from rehearsals to try such thrill
rides as the Giant Drop, Wipeout, Tower of Terror, the Cyclone
Rollercoaster and The Claw.

They were also treated to an up close encounter with 12-year-old Bengal
tiger Mohan on the theme park's Tiger Island.

U2, which hasn't played a concert in Australia since early 1998, has
been based on the Gold Coast since last Wednesday, with the band
members regularly mixing with fans outside their luxury hotel.

Around 50,000 people are expected at the Queensland Sports and
Athletics Centre (formerly the ANZ Stadium) in Brisbane's south for
Tuesday's tour opener.

The band's last major concert was at River Plate Stadium in Buenos
Aires in early March.

The group flew from there to Sydney but headed home without playing a
show after a band member's relative became ill.

Since they last toured Australia, U2 has produced two of its most
critically acclaimed albums - All That You Can't Leave Behind and How
To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.

Material from a new album expected to be released next year - including
a cover of Scottish punk band The Skids' The Saints Are Coming and a
new track Window In The Skies - could be sampled on Australian
audiences.

U2 is being supported by Grammy Award winning hip hop artist Kanye West.

Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said in a UK radio
interview that U2's 1987 hit Where The Streets Have No Name is his
favourite song of all time.

Said to be about division and violence in Ireland, the song is still
regularly part of U2's concert set-list.

U2 will play at Sydney's Telstra Stadium on Friday and Saturday nights
before heading to Adelaide, Melbourne and then New Zealand.