corianderstem
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Cathal, great review! I would have been pissed about the umbrellas, too. Suck it up and get wet - you're blocking people's views!
Cathal, great review! I would have been pissed about the umbrellas, too. Suck it up and get wet - you're blocking people's views!
This was the show I've most been looking forward to since the dates were announced last year. It didn't disappoint, on many levels....
Cathalmc, thank you for your review. You described the situation in the stadium right, but I should tell you that U2 is not so popular band in Russia, than, for example, Depeche Mode or Scorpions. But, in my opinion, people loved U2 very much in Moscow, warmly received them!
Video of Cathal handing his book to Adam and Edge at their hotel in Moscow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MUtZb00_7Y&hd=1
Hey, can we organise a review mutual-appreciation society? Yours was fabulous!
I found the following review on another site but, this has to be THE GREATEST review of any U2 show ever written:
Date: August 25, 2010
Venue: Luzhniki Stadium Review by: Vladamir Obarakanov...
Bono looks very fit; Edge looks like a pretty man. Larry Mullen Jr has a very nice body.
Wife enjoyed With or Without You and Pride. I liked all the songs, even Pride. I normally don't like that song live.
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More alarming is that we saw Paul Mcguiness. I am not one to make comments about appearance, but he is a very smart man but a very fat man.
Video of Cathal handing his book to Adam and Edge at their hotel in Moscow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MUtZb00_7Y&hd=1
More alarming is that we saw Paul Mcguiness. I am not one to make comments about appearance, but he is a very smart man but a very fat man.
Maybe all those police and army were actually necessary ...
f'ing neo-Nazi's!
Isn't it unusual to have umbrella's in the stadium?? I would think afer so many checks they would all be removed.
Here in Belgium, I know they are not allowed in.. thank goodness
It is unusual, yes. Umbrellas were allowed, but water bottles were not (and inside they were sold again, with a cap).
Are you sure about that? I saw plenty of umbrellas at the Prince concert in July. I was thinking "In the Netherlands, I know they are not allowed in.. thank goodness". Of course, now I'm even doubting that.
Later Bono and Ali came, we ordered a bottle of wine for them and eventually had a short talk with Bono and took a photo with him.
Awesome!
Maybe all those police and army were actually necessary ...
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Teenage girl killed in skinhead rampage at Russian festival
Over 100 men attack at Tornado festival in Miass, injuring up to 100 people in latest ultra-nationalist attack to hit country
* Damien Pearse
* The Guardian, Monday 30 August 2010
A 14-year-old girl was killed and dozens of revellers injured yesterday when more than 100 bare-chested skinheads rampaged through a rock concert in central Russia attacking people with iron clubs.
The teenager was among a crowd of around 3,000 people at the Tornado festival in Miass, 900 miles east of Moscow, when the attack happened.
Many visitors were left bloodied and dazed after being hit with iron clubs and sticks, television and news agencies reported. One report, quoting a police source, suggested the teenage girl had suffered multiple stab wounds.
State-owned Rossiya-24 TV saidup to 100 people were injured and 14 ambulances were called to the scene.
Images on the local news website Chelnovosti.ru showed battered revellers and scores of skinheads congregating at the event, which featured Russia's top rock acts.
The motive for the assault was not known, and the ITAR-Tass news agency said local police had refused to comment.
Witnesses told Russian journalists that the skinheads burst through security cordons, pushing police aside and in some cases grabbing their truncheons to attack visitors.
The Ekho Moskvy radio station reported that around 15 attackers were detained, but the majority fled.
Russia has an ingrained neo-Nazi skinhead movement and attacks on foreigners in Moscow and St Petersburg have been relatively common in recent years. The January 2009 murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasiya Baburova prompted a Kremlin crackdown on ultra-nationalists, who were blamed for the killings.
In April, a Moscow court banned the far-right Slavic Union, whose Russian acronym SS intentionally mimicked that used by the Nazis' infamous paramilitaries. The group was declared extremist and shut down, but the group's leader, Dmitry Demushkin, complained that it had tried to promote its far-right agenda legally and warned that the ban would enrage and embolden Russia's most radical ultra-nationalists.
Neo-Nazi and other ultra-nationalist groups thrived in Russia after the Soviet collapse in 1991. The influx of immigrant workers and two wars with Chechen separatists triggered xenophobia and a surge in hate crimes.
Racially motivated attacks, often targeting people from Caucasus and Central Asia, peaked in 2008, when 110 people were killed and 487 wounded, an independent watchdog, Sova, said. The Moscow Bureau for Human Rights estimated that some 70,000 neo-Nazis were active in Russia compared with a just few thousand in the early 1990s.
Later I drank the wine out of Bono's glass and my friends swore I sounded like him.