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Posted By y_soitenly 2 months, 1 week ago in Arts & EntertainmentBono was lit up Saturday for the opening of U2’s North American tour at Soldier Field.
In a high-tech show beneath a four-pronged, 90-foot-tall canopy that he referred to as “our spaceship,” Bono dressed for the occasion in a jacket outlined in neon and dangled from a glowing, steering-wheel-shaped microphone as the band kicked into its encore. As he twirled madly during “Ultra Violet (Light My Way)” and then more lazily during “With or Without You,” the two-hour, 10-minute concert took on a surreal air, with a disco ball reflecting shards of light against the balconies of Soldier Field, a tiny constellation in a galaxy of sound and glitter. Stadium concerts usually tend to feel puffed up and bombastic, but this was downright strange — and wonderfully so.
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U2’s 360 tour, which makes its North American debut Saturday at Soldier Field, is a good old-fashioned stadium-rock extravaganza, only bigger.
The numbers are staggering: Three 90-foot-tall custom-built stages containing a 54-ton cylindrical video screen and 500 personnel are being hauled around the country by a fleet of 189 trucks and buses. In addition, the band is expected to pile up 70,000 miles jetting around the world by the time the two-year tour concludes in 2010. -
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The centerpiece of this year’s stadium model, dubbed the 360 Tour in honor of the circular stage, was the Irish quartet’s latest hit-and-miss studio album, “No Line on the Horizon”; seven of its songs were performed, out of 23 on the set list. -
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On the afternoon of Saturday Sept.12th, we were waiting outside of their hotel in downtown Chicago, before the concert. Hundreds of fans were also gathered outside of the Park Hyatt hotel, waiting for hours to see the band, come outside to greet us all, before they left for Soldier Field.
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U2 also made a video of this street view signing of autographs and put it up on their website.
This was so cool!
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You can see it here:
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I'm not rubbing it in. =)
Did you go?
Dude, I gave you ALL the links, to buy tickets at a reasonable price, that only YOU, can afford to pay.
I also gave you enough time to buy them too.
The tour isn't over yet. There's still a lot of locations around the US that you can look into; going to.
I don't know how far you're willing to travel, but there's 13 cities left in the US.
With all the time you spend on this forum each day, lolol ... I think YOU can click on a ticket broker website and buy a pair of tickets!
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