360º Crew Dollar Bils

At the end of the final 360º leg in Moncton a big party was held for the band, management and crew members. It was for that party that the management printed out dollar bills (Live Nation notes) with the band, management and crew member faces on them.

On one side of the bills we can find the mentioned picture, together with Paul mcGuinness and Arthur Foguel signatures. Band bills were worth 20 dollars while Paul mcGuinness and Arthur Fogel bills were worth 10 dollars. Crew bills were only worth 1 dollar.

On the other side, The Claw under the "In U2 we trust" sentence.

As I said Crew members bills were also printed. Probably the most hard working guys and their bills are only worth 1 dollar !!

This is the front of some "famous" crew members Dollar bills. I'm showing the bills printed with the face of Dennis Sheenan (Tour Manager), Rocco Reedy (Stage Manager), Dallas Schoo (Edge's Guitar Tech) and Phil Docherty (Bono's Guitar Tech) :

And this is the back, with the tour logo and the "No line on the horizon" cover printed on it.

I'm also showing a couple of pictures from Edge's twitter account where some of those bills can be seen not only on the floor but also on Edge's pocket.

A nice touring item to collect also !

THE COLLECTOR

U2 360º Tour Leg 3 Europe 2010 CREW Itinerary

As I mentioned on the entries about the 360º US Leg 2, we should expect two different itineraries were  printed when the tour reached Europe on summer 2010.

But...the truth is that I never saw the band/management itinerary and the only one that I'm sure  was issued is the one that was prepared and printed for the crew only.

No big differences if we compare this one to the one used by the crew during the Leg 2 of the 360º tour.
Again a colorful cover with the tour logo and the "Europe 2010 Crew Itinerary" text and a very similar structure in terms of information and content.

Again Blue, Red and Green Steel groups will travel around Europe in order to built the stage and have everything ready for the band.

What I'm showing below are the pages related to the 2 shows U2 played in Spain on this new european leg. This time the chosen cities where San Sebastian and Seville.

It seems this is the last U2 itinerary book printed by tour management. For the rest of the tour, U2 staff will get all the information on a PDF. 


 This book is missing in my collection so if you own it and want to sell, trade or just share some information with us please contact me.

The Collector

U2 360º Tour Leg 2 US 2009 CREW Itinerary

As I mentioned on the 360º US 2nd Leg Itineray book entry, there was a second itinerary book for this leg. Apart from the one printed for the band and their management, a different book was specifically printed for the crew. So the band and the management people were using one and the rest of the crew working on the tour were handed copies of this white one I'm talking about and I'm showing on the pictures. 

This book has no information related to the band itself but plenty of information related to the crew, their travel plans, hotels and so. I think this is a way to protect the band information and keep it for a very few people only.

So the info contained on this book is probably not as interesting as the one on the band itinerary but it is still nice to have a look in order to understand how a massive tour like the 360º works.

Apart from general info related to the tour as a calendar, personnel list, companies involved on the leg the most interesting thing we notice is that the crew is divided in 3 big groups called Blue, Red and Green Steel. Every "day page" of the itinerary details all the info related to hotels, travels and everything for every one of those three groups.

So while Green Steel group was already working on September 2nd (Traveling to Chicago), Red Steel group didn't travel to Toronto until September 9th and the final group called Blue Steel stayed at home until the 12th when they flew to Boston.


All in all a lot of info that as I said is helpful to understand how life on the road is for the nearly 300 people involved on this tour.

The Collector

U2 360º Tour Leg 6 South America 2011

Right after 360º tour visits South Africa, next leg of the tour will travel across South America, visiting Chile, Argentina and Brazil. This means 3 countries, 3 cities only but a total of 7 shows.

This will be 3rd appearance ever in Chile with just one show at the same venue U2 visited with Popmart and Vertigo tours.

About Argentina, U2 will be visiting La Plata for the first time and will be offering 3 shows  on March 30th and April 2nd and 3rd.

And last but not least, Brazil. Sao Paulo will see three 360º shows at Morumbi Stadium, same venue used when Popmart and Vertigo tours "came to town".

So, 7 shows from March 25th to April 3rd will complete this South American leg.

A new itinerary should be pressed in order to cover these shows but as far as I know PDFs are sent out to the crew with all the info they need to know for the tour....so I'm not sure wether the itinerary was ever printed or not.


Anyway, if this itinerary exists and I'm able to get a copy, I'll update this entry with some information.

This book is missing in my collection so if you own it and want to sell, trade or just share some information with us please contact me.


The Collector

Zooropa '93 Stage Construction Book

This stage drawings book was key for the design and construction of the stage for U2's Zooropa performances around the world. The book is in fact part of the work to manufacture all the components of this stage that was used around Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

The previous photo is of the front and the one below is just a close-up photo of the text on the front page.

This rare ring bound book is 230 x 280 mm so it's quite big compared with the itinerary books. UPFRONT, Inc. was the company in charge of this project and all the information included on this book was part of their work.

The book has got 40 pages that basically include detailed drawings of every single section of the stage. These are technical drawings at different scales (1:400, 1:200, 1:300,...). We can find different drawings for the full stage Plan View, the right side, the left side, the B Stage, ....

Interesting details are shown on these pages such as the height of the stage components (24 meters for the towers, 17.5 meters for the rest of the stage), the screens size and other stuff.

Sometimes very technical and even difficult to understand but still very interesting for a non expert like me.

Most of these stage plans were finally used on the final tour rider as you can see on the "Zooropa'93 tour rider" entry. Wanna take a look? Just follow this link:

http://u2itinerarybooks.blogspot.com/2010/10/u2-zooropa93-tour-rider.html

And last but not least, I also found these 3 pictures on the internet that I thought would perfectly fit for this entry. They were taken while the stage was being built in one the stadiums that the tour did visit.

The Collector

LIVE 8 Rider & Itinerary

I didn't really know how to define this documents so I decided to use the "Rider & Itinerary" terms. This is a pack of Memorabilia related to the LIVE 8 show held at London Hyde Park on July 2nd 2005.

As you all might know U2 opened the show playing "Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with Sir Paul McCartney. After that they played a set of three U2 songs.

What I'm showing next is some material I got and where you will find the rehearsing/soundcheck schedule, the running order for the concert, the stage plan for U2 and other interesting stuff related to how this masive concert was organised.

About the stage, every band designed a little plan in order to inform the band member's distribution and where all the instruments, monitors, mixers and any other gear should be placed. As you know Edge is always on the right hand side of the stage while Adam prefers the left hand side. In this case, Terry Lawless and his keyboards where also on the stage and not under the stage and we could even see him very close to Larry Mullen Jr during the show broadcast on TV.

According to the event schedule, U2 had planned a soundcheck from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on the morning of the showday right after Dido had finished her rehearsal.

As I said before, the show opener was a U2 and Paul McCartney duet and they had to be on stage at 2 p.m. as we can see on the running order sheet. Full set was expected to last a total of 25 minutes.

There was also a document containing all the information per artist in terms of songs they will play, performance duration and any other thing that everybody working on the show should be aware. In the U2 case, it's curious to read the sentence "Release doves on last track". If you saw the show, you will remember the doves flying out during "Beautiful Day".

   

The Collector

Zooropa'93 Phone Contact Book

This is a new kind of book I recently discovered. In fact, the only two copies I've ever seen are exactly the same and belong to the Zooropa'93 tour so I don't know if this is a kind of book that U2 management has been printing tour after tour or it was only issued when the Zooropa tour did hit the road back in 1993.

It was issued to tour principals (band,  family members, managers, producers, etc.) so a very limited number of copies might be around.

This 11-page book measures 8 3/8" x 5 7/8" and is spiral-bound, with clear cover.

Under a transparent plastic cover, the first page of the book features a cartoon of the band playing on a stage with the Egypt pyramids and a text that reads: "IF THESE GUYS HAD BEEN AROUND WHEN THE PYRAMIDS WERE BEING BUILT - THEY WOULD HAVE TAKEN THEM ON TOUR."

 Inside, it lists the name of all of the tour members (including the band members), their contact address, and their contact phone numbers. In my photos, I have covered all contact details in order to respect band members and rest of the staff privacy.

Information regarding a total of 241 contacts can be found on this book. Well known names such as Paul Oakenfold, Stuart Morgan, Joe O'Herlihy, Sam O'Sullivan, Dallas Schoo, Dennis Sheehan, Morleig Steinberg are in the list.

The Collector

Local Itineraries/Concert Guides

If you have been following this blog over the last months you might have seen that U2 management is usually printing an itinerary book to cover every single leg of the tour.

In addition, tour riders are issued in order to compile all the requirements to cover when a U2 show is planned.

This time I'll write about Local Itineraries. This kind of itinerary book is issued to cover a part of the leg (i.e. UK Leg) or even just a show.

These books are issued by local promoters in order to help out all those people involved in stage construction and any other kind of operation related to the show/shows.

This means that the local books are basically not including information directly related to the band members. Sometimes the hotel where they stay is named on the book but the info is mainly about useful phone numbers and contact persons, sometimes a list of recommended restaurants, bars, pubs, night life, doctor, hair dressers, laundry, air lines, international dialing codes, etc.

Detailed maps are also included with information about where the stage and management areas, catering and others should be located in each stadium.

As I was saying, they might also contain information related to promoter, local crew, band and crew hotels, time schedule for the stage construction and show, etc.

Another curious detail on these kind of books is the size of them. Some of them have the same size of a tour itinerary but some of them are really tiny, just 15x10 cms like the ones from Zooropa'93 in Oslo or ZOO TV in Stockholm (see pictures below). The one that I'm showing from The Joshua Tree Tour was 21x15 cms.

Here is a list of all the local itineraries/concert guides I ever saw:

The Joshua Tree Tour Göteborg Concert Guide (1987)
ZOO TV Canadian Manifest (1992)
ZOO TV Tour Stockholm Service Guide (1992)
ZOOROPA '93 UK Itinerary (1993)
ZOOROPA '93 Oslo Concert Guide (1993)
ZOOROPA '93 Sweden Itinerary (1993)
ZOOROPA '93 Germany and Austria Handbook (1993)
ZOOROPA'93 German Itinerary (1993)
ZOOROPA'93 Stockholm Concert Guide (1993)
ZOOROPA'93 Oslo Concert Guide (1993)
POPMART'97 UK Itinerary (1997)
POPMART'97 Wembley Itinerary (1997)

I'm showing you some pictures I have been collecting over the years. Hope you like them !

The Collector

U2 360º Tour Leg 5 South Africa 2011

Just a few days after the end of the european leg in Rome, U2.com confirms that U2 will be playing in South Africa in February 2011. That means back down there 13 years later !

U2 will play two shows only in the beautiful country. On Sunday, February 13th, 2011 in Johannesburg at the FNB Stadium and on Friday, February 18th, in Cape Town at Cape Town Stadium.

Tickets went on Sale on October 23rd and basically sold out in hours.

This is a very, very short leg of just two shows. Maybe the itinerary will also contain info for the South American leg. We'll see.

A new itinerary should be pressed in order to cover these shows but as far as I know PDFs are sent out to the crew with all the info they need to know for the tour....so I'm not sure wether the itinerary was ever printed or not.

Anyway, if this itinerary exists and I'm able to get a copy, I'll update this entry with some information.

This book is missing in my collection so if you own it and want to sell, trade or just share some information with us please contact me.


The Collector