The Irish rock band U2 are in Switzerland at the moment and played their 360° concert in Zurich last night. Tickets for this show were sold out within less than 1 hour, so that a second gig was organized for tonight.
Here are a couple of pictures I took during the shows in Croke Park (Dublin) and Letzigrund Stadion (Zurich):
DUBLIN, 27.07.2009
"Performing live for me is significantly better than anything else you will experience in your life. Something you forget about when you're in between tours because you're trying hard to be normal and get back into family life. And then it comes round and you kind of eye it up from across the room and you think, 'I wonder what it's going to be like this time'. And then you jump on it and it's just so much better than you can possibly imagine. It's an amazing gift. But that's too small a word to describe it. It's an extraordinary experience to be allowed to run away for six to eight months with your mates and travel the world and meet people. It's fantastic. During the show you're interacting not just with a crowd of 80'000 people, but with the individuals in that crowd. I recognise people, I see what's going on. You get little things back from people. People can see the whites of your eyes, see how you're doing your stuff. In the digital world anything can be copied and reproduced, but the beatuy of playing live for your audience is that it cannot be digitised or repeated. You have to be there. Human beings like a sense of community, they like mass gatherings and experiencing shared emotional journeys. That's been part of our culture and species for a long time and it's part of what we tap into when we interact with our audience."
-Adam Clayton-
