U2 to Stream Concert Live on YouTube
- Posted on Oct 20th 2009 8:07AM by Stephen Dowling
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U2 will stream one of their forthcoming US stadium shows live on YouTube.The concert takes place at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in California on Sunday, Oct. 25.
The band's manager Paul McGuinness said that as the gig is already being filmed, it was "the perfect opportunity to extend the party beyond the stadium."
It is only the second time a live gig has been streamed on YouTube. In August, segments of the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco were streamed via the site.
YouTube have said adverts would be placed around the video "in the normal manner," and that clips from the concert would be available on the site after the live broadcast.
The site will also offer viewers the ability to chat to one another using Twitter and donate to the AIDS charity (RED) while they watch the show.
McGuinness said that U2 had "wanted to do something like this for a long time." He added, "Fans often travel long distances to come to see U2 -- this time U2 can go to them, globally."
It may be the first time U2 has been live on YouTube, but U2 are no newcomers to the world of streamed concerts. In 1997, one of the US shows on their PopMart tour was streamed on MSN.
More details on Sunday's show can be found here.
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Jeff Pankhurstat 10-20-2009
I saw them in Wales, they were fantastic as usual, tune in
zero toleranceat 10-20-2009
I saw this bunch of cretins back when they were starting out, they were shit then and their shit now, give it up you talentless w**kers, corporate rock music for people with no soul.
tinaat 10-20-2009
if you dont like their music from the beginning then why comment now - grow up!!!!!!
bring it on!!!!
zero tolerance is a cockat 10-21-2009
Zero-Tolerance, if you don't like them, don't listen to them. We don't need to hear you opinions. If we all spoke/wrote about things we didn't like then you would see that most poeple thing you are a twat and that your wife is fat, ugly and stinks of piss. But we don't do that; we keep things to ourselves.
PS learn to spell.