U2 Tour Dates - Now Official! — Page 87

Can she name them now? If so, then I suppose it was worthwhile. Not that they need any more fans! Even more demand for tickets, damnit!

And is this the girl from the escort agency, because you couldn't find anyone else?

Thanks for the welcome, Type_A_Tiff! I was a bit surprised to find this thread on a Broadway message board, actually - but I'm glad I did. At first when I saw the tonnes of replies I thought there must be lots of U2 fans here, but it turns out it's just the same three or four posting again and again! Oh well - can I join the club?

Mabel, I've actually entered a couple of competitions to win U2 tickets myself - with no luck, of course. Anyway, keep trying!

And I love your avatar, Ellie3. Green Day is one band that I actually DID manage to get tickets for!

Welcome Jezebel I am a slacker and drop in about 1/5 as much as the other girls, but come join our little fandom corner of the world!

Mabel, how right you are....once you go, um, Irish, you never go, um....well never mind. I can't think of a suitable rhyme. But the bottom line is that once you see these geniuses live it's like a drug and you just want MORE!!!!!!!!! SQUEEEEE!!!!!


(And in spite of all the pomp and circumstance on some 90s tours--responding belatedly to a Jezebel question--I think they sound BETTER now than when I saw them on the ZooTV tour! Of course they were amazing then too, but they are just tight as a drum these days...musical gold I tell ya, GOLD! And I LOOOVE the lights on this tour--it's JUST enough, but still spare and stripped down.)

Damnit. Now I'm all riled up and I'm not seeing them again until November!!

Ellie, when are you and Billy Joe getting your MTV reality show? I would totallyy watch that

Aw, poor Mabel. Gloria and Bad. A double slap in the face. (And add another note to self: Don't check setlists!)

Updated On: 5/26/05 at 11:13 PM

A sincere tear almost trickled down my pretty, rosy cheek when I read the set list that you missed. Then I remembered you're (WE'RE!!) seeing MSG II and IV of leg 3. And then I didn't feel so bad for you anymore.

I have to admit though, that is damn close to my ideal set list as well. Now...the set list that includes I Will Follow...my head will hit desk. In the mean time, I had to be satisfied with wiping off my seat when I read "Vertigo/Walk This Way". Dude. Yet another show to add on my list of bootleg wants. BTW, where did you download 5/21? Is it a .zip file? It's taking FOREVER on my comp so I've given up. And I'm still waiting for a decent and easy-to-DL Chicago IV boot. And that apparently fantastic Seattle 2 show. Even though I have the one with the whistler, I want a better one.


Oh yeah, #1Elphie, you shared MSG with Julia Roberts, Ed Burns, Naomi Watts, Nic Kidman AND Liev Schreiber! Suddenly sharing Key Arena with Bill Gates and that Vedder punk doesn't seem so cool.



Watts and Schreiber an Item?


Australian actress Naomi Watts and American actor Liev Schreiber appear to be dating, after being spotted together several time in New York city. Only days after it was reported Watts was dating a mystery film producer named Gary, the I Heart Huckabees beauty, 36, has been photographed in a Manhattan park with the 37-year-old The Manchurian Candidate star. American newspaper New York Daily News reports Schreiber, Watts and her best pal Nicole Kidman attended Saturday's U2 concert at Madison Square Garden, where the blonde "spent much of the concert sitting on Liev Schreiber's lap". Two days later, the couple attended the annual benefit for theatre company Naked Angels together. It is believed the pair met at the Museum Of Modern Art's Costume Institute Gala on May 2, where both were guests. Schreiber has previously been romantically linked to Sex And The City star Kristin Davis, while Watts ended her two-year relationship with her Ned Kelly co-star Heath Ledger in May 2004.

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I got lucky w/ tix by manning 4 computers in the lab at school (w/ their super high speed connection). I really didn't have any inclination to go to 2 at MSG in the fall, but better tix popped up for the Monday show, so I couldn't resist!

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Jez, I was a total psycho, that's how. I got online 15 minutes before the Vancouver and Seattle shows went on sale, and hit Refresh 80,000 times. I wound up with several pairs of Vancouver tickets (surprisingly, Vancouver was one of the fastest sellers - both shows were totally sold out in under 6 minutes each!), and by sheer luck, I got floor tickets to the second Seattle show. Then Mabs and I both tried for MSG tickets at the same time, and I was able to get a couple of pairs for Monday's show, and Mabs got tickets for Saturday and Monday (better seats). So I threw back one pair for Monday (sorry!), and kept the other pair, which is going to broadway_star_tomorrow and shbrt_alley44. Somehow Mabel has a freakishly quick ability to score decent seats though - I think she practices more than she's willing to admit.

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And Scissor Sisters/Franz Ferdinand/Maroon 5 are doing a joint concert in August which I might go to.


Aaaaand I have just fallen over. Where the hell do you live??? Is this in NYC? I will seriously consider coming out to see them. I saw Maroon 5 last year, but I've been going on and on about Scissor Sisters and Franz like you can't imagine. Screw Bono - I'd go to THAT show!

(No, I'd still choose Bono. But I'd still think long and hard about this one.)

#1Elphie, oops yeah, I just read about Bowie as well. And apparently P. Doody was macking on Nicole Kidman back stage. Ew.

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I'm actually from the same place as U2, Dublin.

And yeah, you would THINK you'd be able to get a ticket to one of three shows at an 80,000 capacity venue, but....no. There's rumors of adding a fourth show, so here's hoping! The demand is insanely high.

I'm not mad on Maroon 5 myself, but I do love Scissor Sisters and Franz Ferdinand! Have you heard their albums? The concert is in a smaller stadium (30,000), but there doesn't seem to be any sign of it selling out yet. And while we're in concert mode, I got some tickets for a Blondie gig last week - any fans here? The show isn't until December but the tickets are on sale already - madness! Elton John is playing here in July as well, so I'll probably go to that as well.

If only money grew on trees!

Aww, bummer, the concert's in Dublin? Okay, I don't know if my funds will let me go THAT far. But lucky you! Croke Park...I'd give my left arm to see them there!

Anyway, just popping on really quickly - Mabs, if you still get an airing of Access Hollywood tonight, they have a segment with the boys on the road. It's commercial break now so I haven't seen it yet. Just thought you'd like to know!

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Reading that Boston Herald article about those fans getting screwed out of thousands of dollars on bogus tickets has totally turned me off buying scalper tickets anywhere! (As if I'm one to talk - but I'm a nice and honest sometime-scalper!)

You didn't miss much on the Access Hollywood snippet - an interview with the boys...the interviewer asked how they keep their feet on the ground and come off the high of performing, and Adam said chamomille tea. Asked if they ever feel like they need more space, like, a year apart from each other (god forbid!!) and Bono said, "Sure, yeah. Every week." Oh, he jests. And Edge said something, but all I was thinking was, "Blah blah blah, lord he's a sexy Zen god, blah blah blah." and I honestly don't remember a word that came out of his mouth. And then Larry stuttered something about them not being deserving of getting into the Hall of Fame because there are so many other inspirational artists and they wouldn't be anywhere without them, and he looked so uncomfortable just spitting that one sentence out that now I know why he isn't the front man. But there wasn't anything really interesting in it.

But yeah, a Bono-Larry or Bono-Edge smooch...would that be so bad??

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U2 in Dublin would be amazing!! Better than even MSG I would imagine, but with 80,000 (!) people they'd probably be microscopic specks.

And I want to go to Scissor Sisters/Franz/Maroon 5! J'adore the Scissys, and Franz are great too. I'd put up with Maroon 5 just for to see those two. And ignore Tiff - she claims to be a fan but, if memory serves me correctly, she had an opportunity to see SS in a very intimate venue last year...which she passed on. I think that speaks volumes, don't you?

I missed Access Hollywood too. Larry never seemed nervous or anything to me before. And Larry is way more divine than Th'Edge - sorry but it's true.