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
great insight
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