Happy Birthday, Larry Mullen Jr!! Best drummer of the best band!! Wish you the best! Not bad for a 48 year old"hitman"...congrats!!!

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!!!

Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame U2 played last night in the Madison Square Garden in New York.
From Lou Reed joining Metallica for 'Sweet Jane' to 'Stuck in a Moment' when Mick Jagger joined U2, it was a night when some of the greatest musicians jammed with each other in homage to the traditions of rock'n'roll. Annie Lennox with Lenny Kravitz, Jeff Beck with Sting and Buddy Guy, Ozzy Ozbourne rocking out with Metallica and Ray Davies leading on Kinks standard 'You Really Got Me'.

Edge, Larry, Adam and Bono, arriving on stage for a blistering rendition of Vertigo and a soaring Magnificent, were complemented by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith for the song he wrote with her 'Because The Night'. Legendary E Street keyboardist Roy Bittan was up with Bruce for 'Still Haven't Found' before Black Eyed Peas, fresh from the final 2009 dates of the 360 Tour, got in the groove for a seriously funky Mysterious Ways.


Fergie and U2 were joined by Mick Jagger for 'Gimme Shelter' while Sir Mick took the vocals with Bono for 'Stuck In A Moment'. A beautiful night had to end with a Beautiful Day, when U2 wrapped the proceedings up.

Setlist

1. Vertigo
2. Magnificent
3. Because The Night (with Bruce Springsteen & Patti Smith)
4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (with Bruce Springsteen)
5. Mysterious Ways
6. Where Is The Love? / One (with Black Eyed Peas)
7. Gimme Shelter (with Mick Jagger y Fergie)
8. Stuck In A Moment (with Mick Jagger)
9. Beautiful Day

source:www.u2.com//www.u2fanlife.com

It´s Party Time!!

On Monday night Irish rock band U2 treated their friends and crew to and end of tour party at Bar None in Yaletown.

Bono, Edge and Larry Mullen Jr. hosted the event for crew and friends to celebrate the final show of the North American lef of the tour, which will be its last headlining gig until next year.

Adam Clayton was unable to attend the party due to the flu (Hope he gets on well soon!!!) , but U2 manager Paul McGuiness attended, as did CEO of global touring and chairman of global music for Live Nation Arthur Fogel and Craig Evans, U2 360 tour director.

Bono danced the night away with his crew and friends and was one of the last to leave (Sight to be seen!!!) The event went from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Bono and the others were very gracious hosts and mixed and mingled with the group of guests.

DJ Mateo was flown in from New York city to play at the event, and guests enjoyed Bar None’s cocktails and refreshments from Zen Japanese Restaurant and Culinary Capers Catering.

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source:www.theprovince.com

U2 at The Hall of Fame

With the final 360° show of 2009 over, the band are headed back east from Vancouver to play at the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

U2 are headlining Friday's Madison Square Garden show, the second night of the two day celebration, which features a pretty stellar line-up... Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Stevie Wonder, Simon and Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton, Metallica. The list goes on. Read more here.

30th October, Madison Square Garden, New York.

The Los Angeles Times wrote about the event here.

source:www.u2.com//www.latimes.com//www.rockhall25.com/

Last concert of 2nd leg: Destiny Vancouver

The band have been in Vancouver for a couple of days, they arrived early for a crew party to say goodbye to the 2009 360° Tour. T said goodbye to the fans, who have come out in record-breaking numbers night after night over the last few months.

And a great show in Vancouver to finish with - the BC Place is right next to the venue where the band shot the video for City of Blinding Lights on the Vertigo Tour, all those years ago. (Well, four of them anyway.) Great to see lots of the tour staff arriving on stage for a moment in the spotlight tonight, wearing the masks for Aung San Suu Kyi. Without them, this wouldn't have happened.

Setlist

Breathe
Get on Your Boots
Magnificent
Mysterious Ways
Beautiful Day
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Stuck In A Moment
No Line on the Horizon
Elevation
In A Little While
Unknown Caller
Until The End of the World
Unforgettable Fire
City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
I'll Go Crazy - Remix
Sunday Bloody Sunday
MLK
Walk On
One
Where The Streets Have No Name

Ultraviolet
With or Without You
Moment of Surrender

source:www.u2.com//www.u2.fanlife

Free from Berlin's Brandenburg Gate

As a prelude to the Fall of The Wall celebrations in Berlin, the band return to the city for a free ticketed performance which will be beamed into the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards.

As U2's manager Paul McGuinness put it:"It'll be an exciting spot to be in, 20 years almost to the day since the wall came down. Should be fun."


'The exceptional musical heritage of this year's EMAs spans genres and generations and we are extremely proud to be bringing U2 to Berlin for this extraordinary performance,' said Antonio Campo Dall'Orto, EVP, Music Brands, MTV Networks International and Executive Producer for the MTV Europe Music Awards. 'This year's Awards will be remembered as the night when the world's major music players came together against the backdrop of the fall of the Berlin Wall to celebrate music, freedom and the birth of a new age in Europe.'

The MTV Europe Music Awards will take place at the 02 World, Berlin on Thursday 5 November 2009 and will be broadcast live on MTV at 9pm CET. The MTV Europe Music Awards are sponsored by Sony Ericsson, MTV Games/Harmonic's The Beatles' Rock Band and Dell. For more information - and to vote - please go to www.mtvema.com

source.www.u2.com

U2: Groundbreaking!!!

This partnership with YouTube for the concert in Pasadena really is groundbreaking, said Sky News about the Pasadena concert on 25th October and broadcasted live all over the world.

A historic concert, viewed by over 1,000,000 in all the world has positioned U2 again in the limelight, even though the sales of "No Line on the Horizon" were not as good as they had expected and the singles didn´t make it to n°1.

It seems that U2 is exploring new ways of communicating with their fans and adapting to new technology and ways of the music industry, what we can call pioneers...one more time!!

The concert at the Rose Bowl can now be watched again on YouTube.