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The UK better be ready to rock because U2 is about to come at them in a big way! For the 40th anniversary of the Glastonbury festival this coming summer, the Irish band has decided to make their inaugural performance. It’s being said that both the rockers and the people at Glastonbury were tickled pink about the news, calling it an iconic moment. With Bono confirmed, the festival may also rope in some other huge names for the event, including Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and Coldplay. If all of those bands are confirmed to perform, the show will absolutely be a rocker’s paradise!

Category : Led Zeppelin, Music Festival, Rolling Stones, U2

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Bono penned a short essay on being in Berlin that recalled being in the historic city when the Wall came down.

His band, U2, have just given a concert to mark the 20th anniversary of the tearing down of the Wall that divided the West from a communist East.

“Berlin has always been cool. Berlin has always been evocative – in film, in books, in art. Berlin has always meant something to anyone who listens to music. Iggy Pop did it for me, David Bowie and Lou Reed carried it on – we could all be heroes, or anti-heroes like Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds,” he writes.

In lyrical prose, Bono continues: “Through the 80s, Berlin was a city of dark horses, like a 24-hour radical and select club, full of anarchists, the military and war widows with tiny dogs. When we wanted to make our best record [which is what we try every time], we booked into Hansa studios, known then as Hansa by The Wall. The day after we arrived, East and West came together. We felt privileged to be there – if a little awkward at this most dysfunctional reunion. The surge and speed of reunification was breathtaking.”

He recalls:”One of the great things about the wall coming down was that nobody could see it coming. In recent times, we may have become used to seeing the right thing happen. But in 1989, the right thing didn’t always happen and the popular momentum that brought it all down – not only the wall, but also so many other boundaries – was the first of its kind in current memory. To have been there at the time was wild. We fractured with the excitement of it all, and One was essentially the four of us getting back together. This is where we conceived our Achtung Baby – our reunification. Berlin is still radical, still cool – and now it’s got no boundaries.”

Category : David Bowie, Iggy Pop, U2

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The MTV Europe Music Awards 2009 took place in Berlin, Germany at the O2 World arena.
The show was hosted by Katy Perry,

2009 MTV Europe Music Awards Winners List:

Best Video
Beyonce – Single Ladies

Best Female
Beyonce

Best Group
Tokio Hotel

Best Push Artist
Pixie Lott

Best Male
Eminem

Best New Act
Lady Gaga

Best Alternative
Placebo

Best World Stage Performance
Linkin Park

Best Song
Beyonce – Halo

Best Rock
Green Day

Best Urban
Jay-Z

Best Live Act
U2

Best European Act
maNga

Category : Beyonce, Eminem, Lady Gaga, MTV, Tokio Hotel, U2

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U2 have confirmed via video blog that their sold-out concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in California, Sunday 25th October 2009 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 96, 000 fans. The 360˚ Tour, which has been critically acclaimed and “re-invents rock’n’roll”*, 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. Visit U2.com or youtube.com/u2official for details of how to join in this ground-breaking on-line event.

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” – 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.”

Category : Concert, Live, Music, U2, Video, Youtube

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U2 Announces European Tour Dates for 2010
In the midst of the North American leg of their 360° Tour, U2 has announced their fall 2010 European Tour dates. The 12-stop tour will hit Germany, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Austria, Greece, Turkey, France, Spain, and Portugal. Tickets for many of the shows went on sale as early as this week, with more presales scheduled for October 5th-7th. Visit U2.com for all the information.

Also new on the U2 website are some pictures from the band’s most recent tour stops. Check out the photo gallery here.

U2’s twelfth studio album No Line on the Horizon, as well as their I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight Remix EP are available now on iTunes.

Photo Gallery Link:

EUROPEAN TOUR DATES

8/10/2010 Frankfurt, DE – Commerzbank Arena

8/12/2010 Hannover, DE – AWD Stadium

8/15/2010 Horsens, DK – Casa Arena

8/20/2010 Helsinki, FI – Olympic Stadium

8/25/2010 Moscow, RU – Luzhniki

8/30/2010 Vienna, AT – Ernst Happel Stadium

9/03/2010 Athens, GR – Olympic Stadium

9/06/2010 Istanbul, TR – Ataturk Olympic Stadium

9/15/2010 Munich, DE – Olympic Stadium

9/18/2010 Paris, FR – Stade De France

9/29/2010 Seville, ES – Olympic Stadium

10/02/2010 Coimbra, PT – Stadium

Category : Concert, Music Legends, Photos, Remix, Song, U2

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