U2 360° Tour The Claw / Stage Construction and Deconstruction (Stage build Time Lapse)
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Time-Lapse video made out of images from the Veltins Arena webcam, Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Shows construction and deconstruction of massive U2 360 stage and production over a 8 day period starting from wednesday July 29 till August 5 2009.
8 days of work for a 2 and a half hour concert: Insanity!?
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They have 3 of these, as they play on 1, 1 is going up and 1 is coming down...Watched them at Sheffield, AMAZING!
I built this stage in London and Cardiff 🤘
Thanks for posting this - I've been scratching around to see the Claw being constructed, for weeks now!
Oh yeah! This is what I'm talking about! Been looking for something like this since May, when the stage was built for the first time!
Set this stage up, with the rigging crew in Munich! Now days it's all much easier! In the 80's we had to build the bloody stages from the ground up with scaffolding! We worked with less people, and set a World record in Munich! We were THE BEST STAGE CREW till the mid 90's! Them most the crew left for the States, and then there were only 5 of the original "Stage Slaves" left over! Now they use 80-100 stage hands when we were using 40-60!
Past glories!! Last gig I set up was "Pink" in 2010.
Game over!!
Waiting for points..
Yes, I did also in the 90's in the USA. I did load out on 360 in Pittsburgh. I couldn't believe how how easy it was.
AMAZING BAND AND STAGE.....simple as
it was one of the best visual concerts ever!
U2 prices are so fair because they are really wealthy and U2 loves us and they want us to see it
8 hours of work for a 2 hour concert is not insanity, it's freakin' worth it!!!
Sorry, 8 DAYS!
thanks for video. i hope this will never be removed from youtube. i was in the crowd that night.
next i'm going to madrid to see rammstein in november.
once again: THANK YOU!!!
stage is constructed in Wechter, Belgium... 100m of my home :p
thanks for building a great stage...
dont know how many times i got to climb that monster,and im getting ready to do it again!
the claw in melbourne was psycho tonight.. it was like way above the roof line and was projecting light All over the city
to be honest,i don't remember what i wrote on this page. i left comments on 10 of these vids yesterday,so... i think it was on your comment with your joke about "shipping" the stage... the 3 stages are from a belgian staging company,so,yes,they DO ship those stages;)
It makes for a spectacular show.
Thank you, that was really cool!
@gogzy, I spoke today with the tour's lighting designer. The slowest load out for the full package of sound, lights, and stage (not including the claw and false floor) was 15 hours from the first date, with the speed record being a little over 3 hours. The claw took another two days to get out after that.
I agree with JonnyTRex99: At Wembley Bono or Edge did not face the seats at the end of the field to the rear of the stage.
DAMN! 6 DAYS! I THINK 50% OF CONCERT PROFITS GO TO THAT STAGE!
@GRIMMWOLFF1
yes, at the start of the tour though it took even longer, because it was the first proper time dismantling it as fast as they can where as the test build lasted 3 weeks.
the quickest they ever got the stage down and last truck away was 13 hours. my mate was one of the riggers on that tour and i was one of those drivers in the film in the black trucks.
Not having this huge claw would make a way bigger difference than altering their mode of transportation. That being said, flying on a commercial airliner would be better than a private jet.
I vote they leg it/sail around the world ;D (just kidding....obviously)
@pglee in this economy is a good thing.
thats nuts but so cool
QUESTION: 55 trucks for "ZOO TV", 120 trucks for "360deg". I have not been to 360 yet but from what I've seen, this doesn't seem to even come close to ZOO TV! What do you think?
takes 500 crew members to build and strike, and 185 trucks to move it from place to place.
I laughed hard at the "8 day's work for a 2 hour concert" haiuhaiuhaiuhai
che figata paurosa!!!
Nice video...
I think most of the people go to their concerts because of the stage, not the music...
Actually, ticket prices have been affordable with a range of prices from $30 to $500 and auctions running $250 to $500.
Right now! You can get a ticket into see the Dallas Show for $18.
When was the last time you saw band deliver those prices for a show like this? Roger Waters?
Great Video . Question Iam A steal worker for all the rock shows in Montreal . I was wondering How long did it take for the set up of the stage and the production (sound&lights) take . I was going to take the summer off . But by the looks of it I just might Book this set up . But I would alos like to go on Vacation aswell .. I have not seen a set up list yet ..Thanks for your help .
How do you go about getting to the center portion of the stage, inside the first circle and right at the stage?
I saw Roger Waters in Omaha and then in Dallas either show was more moving than the U2 show I saw in Norman. A couple who flew in from Chicago to see U2 for the second time in Norman said the Norman show was better. I would pay to see Waters or Gilmore again but not $100 to see U2 again.
Amazing!! So how many of these setups are there? Assuming they do a gig every other night and each rig takes 8 days to build?
Also, they had the black material hanging from the ceiling in Cardiff too - are they supposed to be baffles for sound??
Can someone tell me if the first people who entered the stage are able to get between the main stage and the round catwalk, or they need a special pit tickets?
U2s CO2 emissions on this tour are the equivalent of the waste created by 6,500 average British or Irish people in an entire year, or equal to leaving a standard 100 watt lightbulb on for 159,000 years.
Their also traveling 70,000 air miles for a 100-date tour on their private jet. If you're telling me that doesn't "make a difference", you're barking, man.
On a side note, I'm not a hippy, nor do I hug trees....
@alfombrodrb OMG, I used to work rigging in American Airlines Arena and now im a stay at home dad. I feel you.
Ya you take out the big stage in the back and stick a little one in the middle...more space made for people=more tickets made for people. They didn't want to be different and new...they wanted more money.
well,its all property of stageco belgium... 20 xxl trailers / stage, and there are 3 stages on the road...
theres just 1 question : what will u2 do on the next tour after they finished 360?? how can you build an even better stage??
@mentonerodominicano It took 6 days to construct? I will be working on this when it comes to our city. I'm a stage hand and do a lot of the major concerts. Now I see why my supervisor said to book my holidays for the event.
worked on that steel :)
To offset this years carbon emissions, U2 would need to plant 20,118 trees....
Also, carbon offsets are ridiculous. It's trying to make up for something that doesn't need to have happened in the first place.
U2 wrote "Miami"
Wow.
@gogzy 13 hours on load out? Which city was that?
Not one million each - about 15 million stg each for the metal structure. Still they are giving them away at the end. Apparently all the gear cost about 90m including the lights and speakers and stuff
8 days work is justified, if you can get 80,000 people to pay £60/£70 each to come see you for 2 hours. those were estimates, but that gig alone would gross £5,600,000 (£5.6 million). taking wages for labour, venue hire etc out of that, i think you will find they still make a fair amount. It isn't a question of time, or how green it is, it is a question of money, big gigs always are.
it took 7 weeks to prep the site in moncton
8 dayd too set up Bon jovi..and its only half the size????
only takes 4 days now to put up the stage..
@Transdoc123 well, i counted the sunsets. ugh! that's kinda bad!
weights 340,000lbs and cost $40,000,000
respect the stage RESPECT IT! lol
@stigmatic79 if you live in Phoenix Tucson Denver San Diego Northwest Louisiana Las Vegas Los Angeles Tennessee Texas New Mexico Reno then rhino staging will be your bet, rhinostaging com i have the out for the denver gig, i'm also doing the in and the out for SOAD
The stage is to put Mick Jagger in his place........ LOL better than the big lemons or suspended car.
@pglee the only venue that i know of in Colorado that the union does is redrocks, which i hear sucks, also they are offering medical and while i do think that unions are a good thing, they are not right for everyone and every purpose. it is just as ignorant to blatantly say don't go with this one company as it would to say don't go with a union. also sometimes unions can become bloated and overly bureaucratic entities that they once stood against. also i think any company that is creating jobs
@demonicempire666 I don't want to get mean on you before I fully understand what you're trying to imply, so...what's your point? :P
@TheWitchOvAgnesi, but they've been spreading the money around plentifully by creating paid work for plenty of other people.
not insanity
industry
Bono, more like No no
Ok guys get over it everyone knows that Bono is a poser and does all this stuff for world peace and other causes because him and Edge know it is going to equal more ticket sales and record sales for the band its the best form of advertising and what Bono said the other day about rock being dead? what does he think they atre actually doing anything worth while in the studio? and that stage set is a copy of the wrestle mania stage set of 2008 in tampa
oh que tedioso todo esto
LEGO )))
Better than Pink Floyd? haha that was funny.
I'm surprised to see how stupid can someone be.
U2's alright , I saw them live in Toronto a couple of nights ago. They dont even come close to Pink Floyd. You are entitled to your opinion, but that doesn't mean you are not incredibly stupid.
who is john cena? and what is a wanker? or is that a U2 song?
...Seems like you like to see shows from people who hasn't recorded a single succesful album since 1980...I'll stick with the ones that are still at their peak, and not just living out of royalties from songs written back in the seventies...Not even PF closes U2 performing live, PF shows sound exactly the same on CD...U2 improves their catalogue platin live...now go get some sleep grand pa...let the young see their idols...yours are dying...
Better than the Beatles and Pink Floyd?... are you deaf or what?
Why are you asking me rhetorical questions? At least it better be rhetorical. From what I just said, do you think I would pay to go see this shit?
This whole claw thing completely invalidates any stance of environmental activism that U2 has taken or will take in future.
Gigantic waste of money and resources.
Also, IMO, it looks daft and fugly.
Considering the quality of the last two albums, U2 is becoming a rubbish band. Only their fame save them, not their music. There are young bands quite more interesting than U2 today.
This band's becoming musically more and more irrelevant so they compensate that by constructing an environmentally disastrous stage setup and then preach love and peace. And people are buying that! The only thing Bono and his brothers in crime are trustworthy in would be in teaching how to save taxes.