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Gigs & Festivals
U2 tour nearly delayed by pissed off Dubliners
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 29 July 2009
Locals near Dublin’s Croke Park nearly stopped U2 from going to Sweden, though not at the insistence of the Swedes, as you might assume.
Residents near the Dublin stadium were rather pissed off about the U2 shows that took place there last weekend. Though it wasn’t so much the band’s loud musical playing that bothered the locals, nor Bono’s tedious and often flawed ‘save the poor’ ramblings, but the fact the band’s crew dismantled the shows’ rather ambitious stage set up overnight. Rather loudly.
So pissed off were the Dubliners, in fact, they formed a picket line outside the gates through which the band’s trucks needed to get in order to pick up all the ‘360 Degree Tour’ set to take it to Sweden ready for shows planned for there next weekend.
For a time it looked like the picket line might seriously delay U2’s tour crew and jeopardise the Swedish dates, though someone seemingly managed to placate the locals enough to get them out of the trucks’ way. Perhaps they told them Bono had said the overnight staff clanking would save some African children from poverty and disease.
