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U2 Concert – Croke Park – July 25 2009
Posted on | July 27, 2009 | Comments Off
I went to the U2 concert in croke park, dublin on saturday – it was an incredible show. The claw like structure was just stunning – and the lighting and videos and colours. Great show – great concert.
Ground Control to Major Tom play before concert starts
The 360 degree video structure above U2 mainly showed live video footage of U2, but at times it was a blazing light show of incredible colours. It was wonderful. The video part of the show was the part I was most interested in. The video projections ranged from pictures of the band, to intensely coloured light shows. At one point in the show, the intensity of colour in the video projections, multiple lighting spanning the whole space, with lasers pointing up to the sky, made this show an amazing spectacle, that at times you forgot that in the midst of this imagery, colour and light, there were four mere mortals – a rock band playing on such a stage.
U2 Croke Park Dublin 25th July 2009 evening twilight
Wonderful Lighting Effects and Video Projection
Wondrous Green
Small Video Clip of Lighting Extravaganza at U2 Concert, Croke Park
This video clip (albeit VERY VERY SMALL – taken from my crap phone) – shows what I mean by the combination of the lighting extravaganza, with intense coloured lighting and intense coloured video projection and laser lights pointing to the sky – all combined with an incredible synergy of light, colour and music to create a spectacle for eyes and ears!!! Talking about such synergy of light and music brings me onto my favourite topic – Visual Music – not music video, but rather a distinct activity of combining visuals and music via video projection and sound.
U2 video clip – Croke Park, July 25, 2009
Visual Music
As my research area and practice is in visual music, I could see a place for visual music artists in rock band shows – U2 is doing a great service to video artists to have them as part of their show. However, having seen a lot of experimental visual music work in the last few year, I think u2 (and any music band) could really do with employing lots more visual music artists to work on their show.
My own blog documents a lot of the contemporary work in visual music.
http://visualmusic.blogspot.com