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My U2 concert stats for the 360° Tour! (so far......)

You've selected the following 6 shows:

· 2009-08-14 - London, England - Wembley Stadium (23 songs)
· 2009-08-15 - London, England - Wembley Stadium (24 songs)
· 2009-09-12 - Chicago, Illinois, USA - Soldier Field (23 songs)
· 2009-09-13 - Chicago, Illinois, USA - Soldier Field (23 songs)
· 2009-09-20 - Foxboro, Massachusetts, USA - Gillette Stadium (23 songs)
· 2009-09-21 - Foxboro, Massachusetts, USA - Gillette Stadium (23 songs)

We found 28 different songs played during these shows.

· Beautiful Day (6 times)
· City Of Blinding Lights (6 times)
· Get On Your Boots (6 times)
· I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (6 times)
· I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (6 times)
· Magnificent (6 times)
· MLK (6 times)
· Moment of Surrender (6 times)
· No Line On The Horizon (6 times)
· One (6 times)
· Sunday Bloody Sunday (6 times)
· The Unforgettable Fire (6 times)
· Ultra Violet (Light My Way) (6 times)
· Unknown Caller (6 times)
· Vertigo (6 times)
· Walk On (6 times)
· Where The Streets Have No Name (6 times)
· With Or Without You (6 times)
· Breathe (5 times)
· Elevation (5 times)
· Mysterious Ways (3 times)
· Pride (In The Name Of Love) (3 times)
· Stay (Faraway, So Close!) (3 times)
· Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of (3 times)
· Until The End Of The World (3 times)
· Bad (2 times)
· New Year's Day (2 times)
· Your Blue Room (2 times)

We found 31 different snippets played during these shows.

· All You Need Is Love (3 times)
· Amazing Grace (3 times)
· Blackbird (3 times)
· Far Far Away (3 times)
· Rock The Casbah (3 times)
· Stand By Me (3 times)
· You'll Never Walk Alone (3 times)
· 40 (2 times)
· Acquiesce (2 times)
· Fool To Cry (2 times)
· King Of Pain (2 times)
· London Bridge Is Falling Down (2 times)
· London Calling (2 times)
· Reverend Black Grape (2 times)
· Two Tribes (2 times)
· A Day Without Me (1 time)
· Blue Suede Shoes (1 time)
· Break On Through (1 time)
· Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (1 time)
· Get Up Stand Up (1 time)
· Here Comes The Sun (1 time)
· I Want To Take You Higher (1 time)
· Mofo (1 time)
· Movin' On Up (1 time)
· Norwegian Wood (1 time)
· Oliver's Army (1 time)
· Rock And Roll (1 time)
· Run (1 time)
· She Loves You (1 time)
· Stories For Boys (1 time)
· Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (1 time)

Songs from 9 U2 albums have been played during these shows.

· No Line On The Horizon (7 songs)
· Achtung Baby (4 songs)
· All That You Can't Leave Behind (4 songs)
· The Unforgettable Fire (4 songs)
· The Joshua Tree (3 songs)
· How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (2 songs)
· War (2 songs)
· Passengers: Original Soundtracks 1 (1 song)
· Zooropa (1 song)

Opening songs

· Breathe (5)
· Magnificent (1)

Closing songs

· Moment of Surrender (6)

Shows by tour

· 360° Tour (6)

I think U2.com must know every time my brain wanders away from thinking about U2.  How do I know this?  I open up my email just now and there is yet ANOTHER presale going on for 2010.

We all know how much I love U2, but my brain is going to explode!!!  How much can I take!?!?  Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Originally I had thought about flying from the Toronto show on 7/3 to Chicago show on 7/6.  BUT today I was invited to Oakland on 6/16 and I am going.  So maybe I should spend more time out there and just fly home from Toronto and skip Chicago??!

Well, the presale for my group for Chicago isn't until Wednesday, so there is time for me to make up my mind!

What to do???!

Dear Crush Monkey,

As a U2.com subscriber we're pleased to invite you to take part in ticket presales for five more 2010 North American dates to go on sale on U2's 360° Tour - Anaheim, Denver, Chicago, Miami and New York.

In order to take part in the presales you will need your PERSONAL PRESALE ACCESS CODE(s) which you will see below.

If you did not use your presale access code for 2009 360° Tour European shows or for 2010 shows which have already gone on sale, and you have now resubscribed to U2.com for a further 12 months, a SECOND presale access code is also displayed below. 

Oh good morning!  Didn't even go to the show last night and I feel like I sang with the Rose Bowl crowd last night!!!

I stayed awake as long as I could to take in the live feed on Youtube!!!  My eyes were closing and ended up goint to bed when Ultra Violet came on. It was almost 2am.  Pretty much knew by then that there were not going to be any surprises. 

Have to say that Bono was wild for the crowd and the cameras last night.  He was dancing, he was running, he was staring into the cameras AND he was making Bono-like s*x noises.  Oh yes!  I did NOT imagine this either, because I was watching the live feed on a U2 website and there were many MANY comments on these noises too!

Ok here is the final setlist from last night at the Rose Bowl.  If they DVD was to come out today, just as it was recorded last night...it would be PERFECT! (from u2 gigs)

1. Breathe
2. Get On Your Boots
3. Magnificent
4. Mysterious Ways
5. Beautiful Day / In God's Country (snippet) / God Only Knows (snippet) / The Maker (snippet)
6. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Stand By Me (snippet)
7. Stuck In A Moment
8. No Line On The Horizon
9. Elevation (Bono moaning s*x snippet)  **(yes i added this!)
10. In A Little While
11. Unknown Caller
12. Until The End Of The World
13. The Unforgettable Fire
14. City Of Blinding Lights
15. Vertigo / It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) (snippet)
16. Crazy Tonight / Two Tribes (snippet)
17. Sunday Bloody Sunday
18. MLK
19. Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone (snippet)
    Encore(s):
    
20. One / Amazing Grace (snippet)
21. Where The Streets Have No Name
22. Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
23. With Or Without You
24. Moment of Surrender

But WAIT !!!  There is more U2 news.  After I went to sleep around 2am they announced the 2010 US tour dates!!  Wooooo hooooooooo!!!  I don't see Boston dates on there, but hopefully they are working on it !!!  : )

Here is what is official so far:

2010-06-06: Angel Stadium, Anaheim, California
2010-06-12: Invesco Field, Denver, Colorado
2010-06-16: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California
2010-06-20: Qwest Field, Seattle, Washington
2010-06-23: Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta
2010-06-30: Spartan Stadium, East Lansing, Michigan
2010-07-03: Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario
2010-07-06: Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois
2010-07-09: Land Shark Stadium, Miami, Florida
2010-07-12: Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2010-07-16: Venue to be announced, Montreal, Quebec
2010-07-19: New Meadowlands Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey

The shows in Oakland, Edmonton, and Toronto will go on sale on Monday 2 November and Denver will go on sale on Friday 6 November. The other shows will follow later in November. There will be presales for U2.com members; those for Oakland, Edmonton, and Toronto begin on Tuesday 27 October.

The tour announcement mentions "additional dates and cities to be confirmed". However, it also emphasises that the visits to Toronto and Chicago are for "one night only".

So excited!!!  : )

Who are you dying to see in concert?

Vox?  Seriously??!!!

Hmmmmm.  U2 in 2010 please!!!!  (Unless you have a way to get me to the last shows of this leg?!)

Hmmm and Snow Patrol.  Got to see them as the opening act for U2 at both shows in Chicago and Foxboro, but would love to see them by themselves!

Ahhhhhh!  There has been speculation since U2's tour has started on where they will film the DVD for this tour.

I thought it would be someplace in Europe, because (sorry US fans!) the fans there are just TOTALLY into it.  New Wembley Stadium would've provided a nice backdrop.  LOL!!  : )

Then I thought for sure it would be in Chicago on the opening night in the USA.  Nope.

With the US tour winding down, I thought maybe they would put it off until 2010.  I was wrong.

Got an email from U2.com with this information:

As a U2.com subscriber, we wanted you to be first with some breaking news - this Sunday the band's 360° Show at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena will be filmed for a dvd.

best wishes,
The U2.Com Team

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WOW!!  Was reading AtU2.com this morning and came across some VERY cool stats for this tour so far!  I guess I didn't realize the Gillette Stadium shows were RECORDS?!  Hmmm!

U2 360 TOUR

1ST LEG EUROPE

June 30, July 2, 2009
Barcelona, Spain
Camp Nou
GROSS: $19,825,497 (RECORD)
ATTENDANCE: 182,055 (RECORD)
SHOWS: 2
SELLOUTS: 2
Average Ticket Price: $108.90

July 7-8, 2009
Milan, Italy
Stadio San Siro
GROSS: $15,168,799 (RECORD)
ATTENDANCE: 153,806 (RECORD)
SHOWS: 2
SELLOUTS: 2
Average Ticket Price: $98.62

July 11-12, 2009
Paris, France
Stade De France
GROSS: $20,902,760 (RECORD)
ATTENDANCE: 186,544 (RECORD)
SHOWS: 2
SELLOUTS: 2
Average Ticket Price: $112.05

July 15, 2009
Nice, France
Stade Charles Erhmann, Nice
GROSS: $6,261,208
ATTENDANCE: 55,641
SHOWS: 1
SELLOUTS :1
Average Ticket Price: $112.53

July 18, 2009
Berlin, Germany
Olympic Stadium
GROSS: $9,169,830 (RECORD)
ATTENDANCE: 88,265 (RECORD)
SHOWS :1
SELLOUTS: 1
Average Ticket Price: $103.89

July 20-21, 2009
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam Arena
GROSS: $12,583,998
ATTENDANCE: 125,866
SHOWS: 2
SELLOUTS: 2
Average Ticket Price: $99.98

July 24-25, 27, 2009
Dublin, Ireland
Croke Park
GROSS: $28,815,352 (RECORD)
ATTENDANCE: 243,198
SHOWS: 3
SELLOUTS: 3
Average Ticket Price: $118.49

July 31 - August 1, 2009
Goteborg, Sweden
Ullevi Stadion
GROSS: $11,047,995
ATTENDANCE: 119,297
SHOWS: 2
SELLOUTS: 2
Average Ticket Price: $92.61

August 3, 2009
Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Veltins-Arena
GROSS: $7,292,826 (RECORD)
ATTENDANCE: 73,704 (RECORD)
SHOWS: 1
SELLOUTS: 1
Average Ticket Price: $98.95

August 6, 2009
Chorzow, Poland
Slaski Stadium
GROSS: $6,414,960 (RECORD)
ATTENDANCE: 75,180 (RECORD)
SHOWS: 1
SELLOUTS: 1
Average Ticket Price: $85.33

August 9-10, 2009
Zagreb, Croatia
Maksimir Stadium
GROSS: $12,700,784 (RECORD)
ATTENDANCE: 124,012 (RECORD)
SHOWS: 2
SELLOUTS: 2
Average Ticket Price: $102.42

August 14-15, 2009
London, United Kingdom
Wembley Stadium
GROSS: $20,680,860
ATTENDANCE: 164,244
SHOWS: 2
SELLOUTS: 2
Average Ticket Price: $125.92

August 18, 2009
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Hampden Park
GROSS: $5,290,103
ATTENDANCE: 50,917
SHOWS: 1
SELLOUTS: 1
Average Ticket Price: $103.90

August 20, 2009
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Don Valley Stadium
GROSS: $5,147,896
ATTENDANCE: 49,955
SHOWS: 1
SELLOUTS: 1
Average Ticket Price: $103.05

August 22, 2009
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Millennium Stadium
GROSS: $7,041,576 (RECORD)
ATTENDANCE: 66,538 (RECORD)
SHOWS: 1
SELLOUTS: 1
Average Ticket Price: $105.83

U2 360 TOUR: 1ST LEG EUROPE STATS

GROSS: $188,344,444
ATTENDANCE: 1,759,222
Average Gross: $7,847,685
Average Attendance: 73,301
Average Ticket Price: $107.06
Shows: 24
Sellouts: 24

2ND LEG NORTH AMERICA

September 12-13, 2009
Chicago, Illinois
Soldier Field
GROSS: $13,860,480 (RECORD)
ATTENDANCE: 135,872 (RECORD)
SHOWS: 2
SELLOUTS: 2
Average Ticket Price: $102.01

September 16-17, 2009
Toronto, Ontario
Rogers Centre
GROSS: $9,571,672
ATTENDANCE: 115,411
SHOWS: 2
SELLOUTS: 2
Average Ticket Price: $82.94

September 20-21, 2009
Foxboro, Massachusetts
Gillette Stadium
GROSS: $12,859,778 (RECORD)
ATTENDANCE: 138,805 (RECORD)
SHOWS: 2
SELLOUTS: 2
Average Ticket Price: $92.65

September 23-24, 2009
East Rutherford, New Jersey
Giants Stadium
GROSS: $16,128,950
ATTENDANCE: 161,810
SHOWS: 2
SELLOUTS: 2
Average Ticket Price: $99.68

U2 360 TOUR: 2ND LEG NORTH AMERICAN STATS

GROSS: $52,420,880
ATTENDANCE: 551,898
Average Gross: $6,552,610
Average Attendance: 68,987
Average Ticket Price: $94.98
Shows: 8
Sellouts: 8

U2 360 TOUR: TOTAL STATS TO DATE

GROSS: $240,765,324
ATTENDANCE: 2,311,120
Average Gross: $7,523,916
Average Attendance: 72,223
Average Ticket Price: $104.18
Shows: 32
Sellouts: 32

Huge numbers for the first 32 shows of the tour!

USA Tour dates remaining to be boxscored this year

29 September, 2009 Washington DC US FedEx Field [no boxscore yet] SOLD OUT

01 October, 2009 Charlottesville VA US Scott Stadium

03 October, 2009 Raleigh NC US Carter-Finley Stadium [very close to a sell out according to u2 fansites]

06 October, 2009 Atlanta GA US Georgia Dome [very close to a sell out according to u2 fansites]

09 October, 2009 Tampa FL US Raymond James Stadium
SOLD OUT [according to u2 fansites]

12 October, 2009 Dallas TX US New Cowboys Stadium [very close to a sell out according to u2 fansites]

14 October, 2009 Houston TX US Reliant Stadium

18 October, 2009 Norman OK US Oklahoma Memorial Stadium

20 October, 2009 Phoenix AZ US Univ. of Phoenix Stadium

23 October, 2009 Las Vegas NV US Sam Boyd Stadium SOLD OUT

25 October, 2009 Los Angeles CA US Rose Bowl SOLD OUT

28 October, 2009 Vancouver BC CA BC Place Stadium SOLD OU

So, with all the U2 news lately I almost overlooked the latest Snow Patrol news!!  LOVE these guys and saw them open for U2 twice in Boston and Chicago!!  : )

They have a new CD coming out here in the USA on November 10th!!!!!   Wooooo hoooo!

Up To Now

These are the awesome details!!!

Snow Patrol have just announced details of ‘Up To Now’, a collection of the band’s best loved songs, as well as 3 new tracks including forthcoming single ‘Just Say Yes.’

Over fifteen years and five studio albums, the part Scottish, part Irish five piece have sketched heart-bruised ballads (Set Down Your Glass) and arm-around-your-best-mate festival anthems (Run); radio hits (Chasing Cars) and moments of painful introspection (You Could Be Happy). All of these have been gathered together for ‘Up To Now’ - a thirty track, double album of singles, cover versions, rarities, album tracks and a handful of new songs as well as compositions by the Reindeer Section – an indie supergroup featuring members of Scotland’s guitar elite - Belle and Sebastian, Idlewild and Teenage Fanclub among many others – and co-ordinated by Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody.

Released on the 9th November ‘Up To Now’ will be available on a two disc CD featuring thirty tracks, and a three disc digipack with an additional DVD which offers two exclusive documentaries, ‘The Lightning Strike’ animated film and previously unseen live footage. A limited edition heavyweight box will also be made available on a strictly limited run. Each box will be numbered and wrapped in cloth and is a veritable treasure trove for fans, containing the two disc CD, three heavyweight LPs, two DVDs, a lithograph print by Bradley Quinn and an LP-sized booklet.

You can pre-order the Box Set now by clicking here.

‘Just Say Yes’, one of three new tracks on the album, will be released as a single on November 2nd on Fiction.

The ‘Up To Now’ tracklisting is:

CD1

1. Chocolate
2. Chasing Cars
3. Crack The Shutters
4. Set The Fire To The Third Bar
5. Crazy In Love
6. Just Say Yes
7. Batten Down The Hatch
8. You’re All I Have
9. Hands Open
10. Cartwheels
11. The Planets Bend Between Us (2009 Version)
12. Ask Me How I Am
13. On-Off
14. Making Enemies
15. Run (Live at the Union Chapel)

CD2

1. Take Back the City
2. Shut Your Eyes
3. An Olive Grove Facing The Sea (2009 Version)
4. Run
5. Give Me Strength
6. Signal Fire
7. Spitting Games
8. Open Your Eyes
9. Dark Roman Wine
10. Fifteen Minutes Old
11. You Are My Joy
12. Golden Floor
13. Starfighter Pilot
14. PPP
15. Chasing Cars (Live at the Union Chapel)

If I don't get this when it comes out right away maybe Santa will bring it to me in December, if I'm good!!

Monday 9/21/09 U2's second night at Gillette Stadium!  I took the day off from work.  Didn't want to be late coming in and have to leave early to go to the show, so I scheduled it off!  Good thing too!!!

My brother and I left again at the same time around 3:30.  There would be rush hour traffic to deal with and we wanted to be in Foxboro before that happened!

Our seats the second night were in section 130.  Almost right below our Club seats the night before! My brother checking out our view

Joe 9/21/09

Have I mentioned that I love Snow Patrol ??!!  I do!  This is now the fourth time that I saw them open for U2 and they were great!  Also, because it was their last night on tour with U2 the crew came on stage with them at one point.  It was very cool to see!!!!!!!

Snow patrol 9/21/09

SP 9/21/09

So, every night U2 have been opening up with Breathe.  Larry comes out first and then Adam and The Edge join him on stage and Bono is last.  Well, tonight they all walked out together!!  Then I knew it wasn't going to be Breathe.  It wasn't....it was Magnificent!!!  I LOVE Magnificent and thought it worked well as an opener.  But, they dropped Breathe tonight....and I love that song too!  LOL

Opened with magnificent

Bono screen

They played 'Your Blue Room' again tonight.  LOVE this song, but some people at the show took this moment to go get a drink.  Their loss!

Have to say that the energy in the crowd and with the band seemed higher tonight!!!!  I was soaking it all in because this is the last show this year that I will be seeing!!

This was the set list Monday night (from U2Tours)

Venue: Gillette Stadium

Opening Act(s): Snow Patrol

Main Set: Magnificent, No Line On The Horizon, Get On Your Boots, Mysterious Ways, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Elevation, Your Blue Room, Beautiful Day, Unknown Caller, Until the End of the World, Stay (Faraway, So Close), The Unforgettable Fire, City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo - Stories for Boys, I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (remix), Sunday Bloody Sunday, MLK, Walk On, One - Amazing Grace, Where the Streets Have No Name

Encore(s): Ultraviolet, With or Without You, Moment of Surrender

Comments: For the first time, U2 opens its set with a song other than Breathe. That song is dropped altogether, also a first. Bono sings a bit of 'Mofo' at the start of City of Blinding Lights. Vertigo includes a bit of 'Stories for Boys,' just like on the Vertigo Tour, and sees Bono wearing a pair of devils' horns. On Snow Patrol's final night of support, some of the U2 crew join them on stage to sing 'Shut Your Eyes' and give lead singer Gary Lightbody a white, feathered boa. Ashley Judd is at the show, as is NFL star Tom Brady.

Usually after each tour I rate the shows and put them in order of my personal preference.  I know that sounds crazed but I do it!  LOL

Right now though it would have to be Wembley 1 & 2, Chicago 1& 2 and then Boston 2 & 1.  

After I let it sink in I rate the tour with previous ones.  Hmmmmm!  Where will 360 end up??!

More photos from 9/21

U2 Sept 21

Adam was looking for me

Bono bridge

Soldier Field is huge!!!!!  I met so many nice people at the show!!  The crowd was so EXCITED for U2 opening their US tour in Chicago!!!  

I LOVE hearing the new songs live!  Especially Magnificent when Bono gives a little introduction then an 'Uhhhhhhhh' and goes into the 'Oohhhh ohh ohh oh'  Swoooooooooooooooon!  : )

The Streets, One, Bad combo gets me every time.  Yes, I get teary eyed.  Still.  : )

According to U2Tours this was my setlist for 9/12/09:

Main Set: Breathe, No Line On The Horizon, Get On Your Boots, Magnificent, Beautiful Day, Elevation, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - Stand By Me, Stuck In A Moment, Unknown Caller, The Unforgettable Fire, City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (remix), Sunday Bloody Sunday, Pride, MLK, Walk On - You'll Never Walk Alone, Where the Streets Have No Name, One, Bad

Encore(s): Ultraviolet, With or Without You, Moment of Surrender

Comments: The 2nd leg of U2 360 begins with a safe show that's very similar to earlier European concerts. Bono introduces the whole band before I Still Haven't Found, just like he used to do on the Elevation Tour. He sings a bit of 'Far Far Away' at the start of Beautiful Day, a bit of 'Oliver's Army' during Sunday Bloody Sunday, and adds a couple lines from 'Fool To Cry' and '40' at the end of Bad. Although the band rehearsed Your Blue Room and changes to One & Streets over the past couple nights, they're apparently not ready to play them yet.

These are some of my favorite photos from that night:

The Claw right before U2 come out.  Huge crowd.

Claw chicago1

The Edge and Adam on the big screen

Edge and adam

Bono on the steps

Bono chi1

Bono grooving!

Groove bono

Where the Streets Have No Name

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Purple Claw with huge crowd

Crowd claw chi1

Get out your cell phones

Chicago1 cells

I didn't get a cab back to my hotel until after 1:30 in the morning, but it was ok. I was a very, very, very happy girl !!

I got to go back to Soldier Field the next night!!  : )

I am home now four days from Chicago.  I still miss my hotel.  Even though it wasn't a tropical location it was AWESOME!!!  It had amazing customer service and great views!!!

This was Wonderful Room

W Hotel loo

The W Room

View:

Navy pier

Snacks and funny TP

The W Hotel motto....and they really do mean it

Wish