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U2 to make history with live YouTube gig
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
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Irish rockers U2 are to become the first stadium-packing stars to allow a full live show to be streamed for free on YouTube, they have announced.
The band revealed that the show from the Pasadena Rose Bowl in California will be seen as it happens on the video-sharing site this Sunday, October 25 at 8.30pm LA time.
U2 manager Paul McGuinness said: "The band has wanted to do something like this for a long time.
"As we're filming the Los Angeles show, it's the perfect opportunity to extend the party beyond the stadium.
"Fans often travel long distances to come to see U2 - this time U2 can go to them, globally."
The Rose Bowl show is U2's penultimate show this year on the 360° Tour and sold out to the biggest crowd of more than 96,000 fans.
The gig will begin at 3.30am GMT Monday in the UK and is the first time a show of this size will be streamed live.
YouTube is confident the site can handle the millions of fans expected to log on, while those who miss it can watch two replays of the full concert immediately afterwards.
Fans will also have access to instant messaging network Twitter while watching the show.
Michele Flannery, the website's music manager, said: "YouTube is thrilled to be able to provide our global audience with a live streaming performance from one of the world's greatest bands.
"We are always looking for new ways to connect fans around the world with their favourite artists, and this is the perfect opportunity to do just that."
It's not the first time U2 has allowed a live streaming of one of their concerts. In 1997 the Boston leg of their 'Popmart' tour was aired on Microsoft's MSN website.
Meanwhile, Bono dedicated the song 'The Unforgettable Fire' to Stephen Gately at concerts in Houston and Dallas last week, describing the Boyzone star as "a beautiful spirit and a bright flame".
The gig will be available in 16 countries at youtube.com/u2 Trailer below.
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Great concert. Very much enjoyed watching it live. However I found the moaning and groaning noises that Bonob made before a couple of the songs to be really disturbing. No need. Only he would imply that his music is orgasmic. Eww.
Posted by I''ll not have what he had | 27.10.09, 02:02 GMT
@Andy & his carbon footprint ... Andy, think in these terms.. if the concert reached only 96k people and produced 1 ton of emissions ... that's a large amount of garbage ... BUT if you reach 400 to 500 thousand people, while still only making 1 ton of carbon wasting emissions ... you've reached 4 to 5 times the number of people with hardly more emissions than the concert alone, without the web rebroadcast. The only way for there to have been even less carbon waste, would have been to ONLY broadcast a web streaming concert....and that wasn't what this was about.
Posted by RCG | 26.10.09, 13:23 GMT
no the kiddies charts dont come on till the afternonn
Posted by u2 fan | 26.10.09, 08:54 GMT
Absolute hipocracy on the part of bono/u2... he likes nothing better than to be a global warrior and yet look at his concerts and what it takes to make them happen, care to measure your carbon footprint at all ?
Posted by Andy | 26.10.09, 06:11 GMT
I'll make sure to set my alarm clock for 3.30am then - not!
Posted by Wen Bam | 21.10.09, 09:02 GMT