@U2's Dublin Guide

@U2's Dublin Guide

New U2 Album

New U2 Album Info

U2 360 Tour Dates

U2360 at U2tours.com

"There's part of me that likes a bit of a row. I loved turning a TV ad into a video and waiting to see if it started a kerfuffle."

-- Bono, on the iPod commercial, 2004

@U2 home page

U2's Vienna comeback gig snubbed by Jehovah's Witnesses

Austrian Times, February 17, 2009
By: Thomas Hochwarter

 

Rock superstars U2 will not have a Vienna live comeback appearance this year as a Jehovah's Witnesses' event is blocking the stadium on the band's preferred days.

The Irish four-piece reportedly planned to return to Austria on 7 or 8 August to perform at Vienna's 51,000-seat Ernst Happel Stadium. However, the religious group has already leased the venue to hold a mass christening on both those days.

It is now looking unlikely the band will perform in Austria this year since all the other 120 concert dates of the upcoming tour are already in the planning stage.

Tickets for U2's Vienna concert in summer 2005 were sold out within minutes.

U2 will release their 12th studio album "No line on the horizon" on 27 February. According to singer Bono Vox, the band stepped into unknownterritory with their new material. He said: "The new songs sound different than anything we have done in the past - they are simply better."

© Austrian Times, 2009.

More U2 News

@U2 Calendar

November 21 2009

Zoo Station Tribute Band Performance

Are you ready for what's next?

November 22 2009

07:00 PM - 2U - The World's Greatest U2 Tribute

Join the band for an all-ages show.

Full Calendar