U2 to play free show to mark fall of Berlin Wall

[JanuaryStar]

I am going too!

 

[Vincent Vega]

Now I am happy!

 

[BrownEyedBoy]

I'm going too! Got some B categories. I wonder what that means...

And yeah, if anyone wants to get together and watch it together I'm up for it. Cheers! See you next thursday!

 

[dizzy]

Lucky Berliners. Have fun you guys!

 

[JanuaryStar]

Now I am happy!

You were happy before as well

 

[anjarw]

I'm going too! Got some B categories. I wonder what that means...

Apparantly Category A is in front of the stage and Category B is behind the stage. looks like the stage will be sort of 360 here as well, with everyone in Category B standing in the old East Berlin and Category A in West Berlin.

 

[Vincent Vega]

Yes, that makes sense. Category B tickets say entrance is east (Wilhelmstraße). So category A should be west (Straße des 17. Juni or the street going down to Potsdamer Platz).

 

[God Part III]

I'm not gonna go. Not enough moneiz

send me an email at jonathan @ puntervold.dk
if you want my tickets, category B

first come, first serve

cheers

 

[achtung_girl]

^oh I'm sorry!
yes, very expensive for me too indeed!



edit: if they're not gonna play the CT remix: LOL!

 

[God Part III]

Tickets given away now.
So you don't have to send emails anymore
Best of luck to those of you who still haven't got any...

 

[BrownEyedBoy]

Well, I guess you'll lose all the games you don't play so here goes nothing.

I have two Honduran friends who live in Hamburg and Furth and would die to come to see U2 in Berlin. Unfortunately, I have already given my 2nd ticket away so I couldn't help them. Anyway, if anyone has any tickets they won't be able to use, I can pass them on to these two. But only if in any remote case. Thanks.

cf_177@hotmail.com

Thanks, guys.w

 

[anjarw]

Tickets available again!

https://secure.eventim.de/cgi-bin/u...&key=374534$787443&jumpIn=yTix&from=erdetaila

 

[m0nkeyb0y]

Gone again

 

[Vincent Vega]

Check back repeatedly. Don't give up.

 

[Bo0m Cha ♥]

Yes, that makes sense. Category B tickets say entrance is east (Wilhelmstraße). So category A should be west (Straße des 17. Juni or the street going down to Potsdamer Platz).

I've got some Category A tickets, and the entrance is east (Wilhelmstraße) too

 

[achtung_girl]

I've got some Category A tickets, and the entrance is east (Wilhelmstraße) too

yes, everyone has wilhelmstraße on the ticket. looks like A means front of stage an B behind the A category. this was in the newspaper today:
Das U2-Konzert am 5. November vor dem Brandenburger Tor in Berlin - Berlin - Berliner Morgenpost
klick on the map to enlarge.

 

[Only U2]

yes, everyone has wilhelmstraße on the ticket. looks like A means front of stage an B behind the A category. this was in the newspaper today:
Das U2-Konzert am 5. November vor dem Brandenburger Tor in Berlin - Berlin - Berliner Morgenpost
klick on the map to enlarge.

where did you see info on the category? I can't find it?

 

[m0nkeyb0y]

Reading through the other articles on Berliner Morgenpost, it seems to suggest the red section will be open to anyone without a ticket whilst the blue is for the lucky 10,000 with a ticket? In this article from the 30th anyway: http://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article1198881/So-erleben-Sie-U2-in-Berlin-auch-ohne-Ticket.html

 

[achtung_girl]

where did you see info on the category? I can't find it?

mhh, I didn't mean that the info on the category is in the map, but since all tix have the same entrance, it should be like this.

 

[phommel]

Outrage over wall blocking free U2 Berlin concert
(AP) – 2 hours ago

BERLIN — Fans hoping to catch a glimpse of U2's free concert celebrating 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall will have to "scale these city walls" after organizers threw up a massive barrier to block the view for those without tickets.

The move has triggered outrage from Berliners, who see the irony in building walls around a concert dedicated to the wall that has come down.

Music network MTV, which organized Thursday's concert in front of the Brandenburg Gate, did not respond to requests for comment.

Some 10,000 tickets were made available online for the Irish rockers' free show — and they were snapped up in just three hours.

The Berlin Wall fell Nov. 9, 1989, ending almost 30 years of east-west Cold War division.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

 

[last unicorn]

What a totally ridiculous thing from MTV to do

I read they do this to prevent hordes of people from blocking access to the buildings surrounding the area. I think it's a very bad move on their part and I hope it doesn't backfire on U2.

 

[domo-kun]

Thats indeed a pretty stupid move.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Yes that's rather ironic

 

[JanuaryStar]

I agree, this is kind of a very strange thing to do, not to mention all the reactions this has caused so far

 

[last unicorn]

It's all over the media. Such a shame that this event causes so much controversy, it should be about unity.

 

[JanuaryStar]

^ Totally! I doubt however that the people who are there now are really troubled by it, but then after the concert in retrospect they will be too... It's really a shame.

 

[robbrecon72]

This is a shame. MTV has been worthless since the early 90's anyway, why play for such a crap television program? I could care less winning anything from MTV. If I was U2 I would demand they take down the 12 foot wall and maybe at least put up a 4 foot barrier to divide the people that got tickets, then anyone else could stand behind it so they can see the concert.

 

[genesis199125]

is there any way to watch the awards show here in North America on TV?

 

[Outsider]

Youvegotta be kidding me!! Shame on MTV, the city of berlin and U2 (if they knew about it)
How ironic and ridiculous

 

[lauramullen]

They took the wall down before the show started.