Legendary rock group U2 will perform in Istanbul for the very first time, on 6th of September 2010, as part of its 360º Tour.
The rock band will be on stage at the Istanbul Atatürk Stadium.
As part of the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture events, the U2 Istanbul concert will be organized by LiveNation in collaboration with the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, or IKSV, and Pozitif.
Willie Willaims, who has been working as production director for U2, has worked with architect Mark Fisher on this show.
The tour features a 360-degree configuration, with the stage being placed closer to the center of the stadium’s field than usual. The stage has no defined front or back and is surrounded on all sides by the audience.
The stage design also includes a cylindrical video screen and will increase the venues; capacities by about 15 to 20 percent. Only tiered football stadiums can be used for this scheme; flat fields and baseball stadiums are impossible venues.
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U2 are a rock band from Dublin, Ireland. The group consists of Bono (vocals and guitar), The Edge (guitar, keyboards, and vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums and percussion). The band formed at Mount Temple secondary school in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency. Within four years, they signed to Island Records and released their debut album Boy. By the mid-1980s, they had become a top international act. They were more successful as a live act than they were at selling records, until their 1987 album The Joshua Tree, which, according to Rolling Stone, elevated the band’s stature “from heroes to superstars”.
Their 1991 album Achtung Baby and the accompanying Zoo TV Tour were a musical and thematic reinvention for the band. Reacting to their own sense of musical stagnation and a late-1980s critical backlash, U2 incorporated dance music and alternative rock influences into their sound and performances, abandoning their earnest image for a more ironic, self-deprecating tone. Similar experimentation continued for the remainder of the 1990s. Since 2000, U2 have pursued a more conventional sound, while maintaining influences from their previous musical explorations.
U2 have released 12 studio albums and are among the most critically and commercially successful groups in popular music. They have won 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other band, and they have sold more than 150 million records. In 2005, the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility. Rolling Stone magazine ranked U2 at number 22 in its list of the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time”. Throughout their career, as a band and as individuals, they have campaigned for human rights and philanthropic causes, including Amnesty International, the ONE/DATA campaigns, Product Red, and The Edge’s Music Rising.
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