- Title: GERMANY: BAND U2 PERFORM IN CONCERT
- Date: 12th June 2005
- Summary: GELSENKIRCHEN, GERMANY (JUNE 12, 2005) (REUTERS) (PERFORMANCE CLEARANCES) WIDE OF U2 CONCERT CLOSE UP OF VIDEO SCREEN SHOWING THE LEAD SINGER, BONO, ON STAGE PULL OUT TO SHOW CROWDS WIDE OF BONO ON THE STAGE IN FRONT OF FANS PULLOUT OF WIDE OF FANS CLOSE UP OF BAND ON STAGE VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS (FILE) (UNIVERSAL MUSIC VNR - MUST COURTESY AND NO ARCHIVE OR WIRELESS USE) SOUNDBITE (English) U2 LEAD SINGER, BONO, SAYING: "This is actually our first album. It's taken us twenty years or whatever it is, er, this is our first album. And "Vertigo" is our first single from our first album, and oddly enough, in that spirit, there's a quote from our very first single, we have three songs on our first single when we were like seventeen or eighteen years old, "Out of Control", "Boy Girl" and a song called "Stories for Boys", and in "Stories for Boys" there's this "Vertigo"-like line... for the trainspotters." CLIP FROM THE VIDEO FOR THE ALBUM "HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB" GELSENKIRCHEN, GERMANY (JUNE 12, 2005) (REUTERS) (PERFORMANCE CLEARANCES) WIDE OF CONCERT AND BONO SINGING "VERTIGO" PAN ACROSS STAGE TO GUITARIST THE EDGE WIDE OF CONCERT AND FANS PAN ACROSS CONCERT WIDE OF STAGE, PULLOUT TO SHOW FANS WIDE OF U2 ON THE STAGE CLOSE UP OF FANS CLAPPING WIDE OF THE STAGE SHOWING GUITARIST THE EDGE VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS (FILE) (UNIVERSAL MUSIC VNR - MUST COURTESY AND NO ARCHIVE OR WIRELESS USE) SOUNDBITE (English) U2 GUITARIST, THE EDGE, SAYING: "If I am writing a rock and roll song, it has to be a guitar, because rock and roll is about the guitar, it's about guitar riffs, it's about that kind of energy that you get from hitting the big E-chord, you know, when you got the amp turned up full and there's no way you can get to that with another instrument." GELSENKIRCHEN, GERMANY (JUNE 12, 2005) (REUTERS) (PERFORMANCE CLEARANCES) WIDE OF GUITARIST THE EDGE PLAYING THE GUITAR ON STAGE 1 WIDE OF CONCERT WIDE OF BONO ON THE STAGE VARIOUS OF BAND VARIOUS OF FANS CLOSE UP OF VIDEO SCREEN SHOWING U2 WIDE OF CONCERT AND FANS WIDE OF BAND PERFORMING WIDE OF CONCERT AND FANS ZOOM IN TO STAGE (REUTERS) SCU SOUNDBITE (German) U2 FAN ANDRE SAYING: "U2 has something special, which is really fun, it has to come from the heart. When you have listened to their music for so long and then come to a live concert of theirs for the first time, it's great. I had a great time, I would go again everytime." SCU SOUNDBITE (English) U2 FAN INGO LEINDECKER SAYING. "U2 is somehow... because they get involved in everything, politics, the environment, children, everything somehow, so that the price... lots of people had grumbled, but Bono said that there... SCU SOUNDBITE (English) U2 FAN UWE HERFORD SAYING: "That I know all the songs by now, and that I like nearly all the songs, and that I grew old with them so to speak, I mean with the group and the music." WIDE OF FANS LEAVING CONCERT
- Embargoed: 27th June 2005 13:00
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- Location: GELSENKIRCHEN, GERMANY AND VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- Country: Germany
- Reuters ID: LVA8L0QT26FWN5TK91G1FRHB7D0S
- Story Text: U2 continued the European leg of their "Vertigo"
Tour with a packed out concert in Gerlsenkirchen.
"Fantastic" was the overwhelming response from the fans
at the U2 concert in Gelsenkirchen on Sunday (June 12). The
Schalke football stadium, which seats 52,000, was packed
with fans of all ages who wanted to see the Irish rock
group live.
"U2 has something special, it comes from the heart," U2
fan Andre told Reuters after the packed-out concert. "When
you have listened to their music for so long and then come
to a live concert of theirs for the first time, it's great.
I had a great time, I would go again everytime."
The "Vertigo" tour bears the name of their latest song,
which got to number one in the charts in the USA and the
UK, and takes many songs from their new album, "How to
Dismantle an Atomic Bomb".
This is U2's 11th studio album which arrived amidst
more anticipation. Bono says it's like getting back to
their rock and roll roots. "This is actually our first
album. It's taken us twenty years or whatever it is, er,
this is our first album. And "Vertigo" is our first single
from our first album, and oddly enough, in that spirit,
there's a quote from our very first single, we have three
songs on our first single when we were like seventeen or
eighteen years old, "Out of Control", "Boy Girl" and a
song called "Stories for Boys", and in "Stories for Boys"
there's this "Vertigo"-like line... for the trainspotters,"
he said.
And it is this breadth of music which interests most
fans. "I know all the songs by now, and I like nearly all
the songs, and I grew old with them so to speak," said Uwe
Herford.
"U2 get involved in everything," said Ingo Leindecker,
"politics, the environment, children, everything somehow",
which is why he could agree to the price of the tickets,
which were around the 100 Euro mark. "Bono said that there
wouldn't be much pyrotechnics and stuff because the money
is going to other things, and then that is ok, and it was
ok."
U2 are also among a cast of acts set to take part in
Live 8 aiming to raise awareness of global poverty. Five
Live 8 concerts will take place on 2 July in London, Paris,
Berlin, Rome and Philadelphia. U2 will play at the show in
Hyde Park, London - and they will appear early on the bill
for the simple reason that they are also taking their
'Vertigo' 05' Tour to Vienna that evening.
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