On Saturday night, Seattle cashed its raincheck with Bono, the Edge, and the rest of U2 for a long-delayed 360° tour. With Bono having recovered from last year’s backaches, the band landed their giant spiderlike spacecraft of a stage in the middle of Qwest Field to entertain just under seventy thousand fans. As part of the photographic delegation, I was only able to witness the three opening songs from a small platform situated between the inner circle of stageside fans and the rest of the general admission masses on the stadium floor. From that brief glimpse at the massive show I can only report that, like most performers, the biggest band in world saves “the hits” for later in the show. But unlike almost any other group, U2 can take a break from performing to dial up the International Space Station to have a quick Skype conversation with Commander Mark Kelly in the middle of a football field.
Given the potentially record-breaking crowd, it’s fairly likely that you were either in the audience or among the people huddled in the parking lot to get a free taste of U2’s appearance. Let us know about your highlights from the show, comment style.
And there are actually three of these claws. They needed all three to do the tour (setting up the next two venues while performing in the current one.) The only thing that U2 didn’t have three of was the screen. Too expensive. Even for them.