Showing posts with label u2 concert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label u2 concert. Show all posts

Sunday, July 26, 2009

The Day Came: U2 360 Concert in Amsterdam, 21 July 2009

They still have it!!! It was an unbelievable, absolutely amazing concert I've ever attended. The show started on time, no primadona hanky-panky like Madonna's concert (we waited for 2 hours before she finally appeared) from these bands. Snow Patrol did a fantastic 45 mins opening and the stage crew took another 45 mins to reset the stage for the main act: U2.

At 9:30pm sharp, the crowd went crazy when Larry Mullen, the first member of U2 appeared on stage and quickly followed by the rest of the members...by then the crown went ballistic including me. Bono sang a good mix of songs from their latest album 'No Line On Horizon' and some other older hits such as Bloody Sunday, With or Without You, Desire. Eventhough we'd numbered seats, most of the time, we were up on our feet, dancing and singing along to the songs.The stage was a sight to behold, a massive round stage (360 degrees, that's U2's theme for this tour) with revolving 2 bridges where the band members were freely walking on it. When Bono sang 'I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight', the whole concert ambience escalated to a frenzy - the whole stadum was then vibrating with all the screaming fans, the screen came down that looked like a thimble-shaped and the band was on their top of their performance. Absolutely smoking ;)

Everyone had a great time and it was sad that'll all good things have to come to an end...the concert ended at about 11:35pm. By then U2 had sang 3 songs after the encore. We'd arrived home at 1:30am...absolutely tired out but definitely it was an unforgetable concert...

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Countdown to U2 360° Concert - 21 July 2009

21 July 2009 - Another 9 days to go...counting down....before I'll be watching U2 live for their 360° tour concert in Amsterdam!!! Their 2 days concert was sold-out within an hour when the tickets went on sale. So I was very happy when I got it finally after 1.5 hours of sitting in front of my laptop! I get sooooo excited just thinking about it.

Finally, I'll be there with hundreds of thousand of fans in Holland watching U2!!! They are one band that I always wanted to go since I've discovered their music and it's really suck to know back then that U2 will never go to KL to perform. But now, this is one of the perks living in Europe I guess, most of the big bands tour Europe. Hence, my opportunity came and I'm going to catch U2 live in Amsterdam :) Happy...happpy..jump..jump :) On top of that, Snow Patrol will be the special guest band for an hour performance before the concert starts. We definitely got a good deal eh ;)

Already the organisers have sent notices on the logistics for this concert- it's going to be a nightmare with thousands and thousands of people going to be there in one place. Let's say, it's going to be a late night for me and since the concert falls on a Tuesday, imagine how 'alive' I'm going to be at work the next day :P