16 survival kits

These are more or less our survival kits (I guess a desperate man would say the same looking at the images of the packages) for long and weary hours in line outside the arenas. Those air beds are pretty good actually and quite disposable as the price is approximately Eur 2.00. The man at the store really stared at me, a customer paying for 16 air beds and especially at the end of the summer. Well, he didn't say anything. God, they are quite heavy and I had to carry them on the bus and all the way from the bus stop to my apartment. Anyway, here they are, ready to be inflated and used on the seas, ehh sorry, streets of Europe. I'm sure you'll see them in use on many photos in this blog.

Amazing Grace

This is what the band rehearsed Wednesday evening. Of course there may be a lot of changes to the setlist during the tour but I'm very pleased to see that they seem to keep With or without you and Moment of surrender as the final songs. To be honest, the biggest surprise is that they play Amazing grace before Streets, and this is Europe. Amazing!

01. Space Oddity / New Intro
02. Beautiful Day
03. Magnificent
04. Get On Your Boots
05. Mysterious Ways
06. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
07. The Flowering Rose Of Glastonbury (new songl title unknown)
08. Elevation
09. In A Little While
10. Spaceship / Miss Sarajevo
11. Until The End Of The World
12. The Unforgettable Fire
13. City Of Blinding Light
14. Vertigo
15. Discotheque (snippet) / I'll Go Crazy If I Do not Go Crazy Tonight (Remix)
16. Sunday Bloody Sunday
17. MLK
18. Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone
19. Desmond Tutu Intro / One
20. Amazing Grace / Where the Streets Have No Name
21. Spaceship Intro / Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
22. With Or Without You
23. Moment Of Surrender

A bargain

It's a pleassure to see how the same kind of air beds that we brought on tour 2009 are up for sale again and it's a real bargain now, Eur 1.50 each. I cannot say that they are very comfortable but they are ok. There is also a bit of a hassle inflating them. I guess I will buy 7 of those for myself and 9 for Lia.

Sad news from Zagreb

Got an email today, one of my friends from Croatia cannot make it to the shows in Athens and Istanbul. She simply cannot get off work. This means I'm trying to help her out by selling her tickets for Istanbul and Athens. That won't be a problem I guess, what bothers me is that she will not be joining us. But, we'll meet in Horsens for sure.

Turkish delight

 
This is what they look like, really nice tickets and I like that Biletix has printed "Snow Patrol" on the tickets as well. Also, notice that they changed the "doors open" to 17:30.

Istanbul at McDonalds

At 6:45 pm yesterday, I was standing in a queue (rehearsing for the endless hours of queueing in Europe soon) at McDonalds in Helsingborg when I got a call from my friend. She got quite an interesting envelope today in her mailbox, from Biletix, containing 4 GA's for Istanbul. I suppose I'll have them in my hand next week. Feels so good to finally have the tickets here. One step closer to Istanbul.

Biletix dispatch?

Aparently, the Turkish tickets haven't been dispatched yet. The Biletix site says the tickets till be dispatched from 1 July. I sure hope the dispatch starts soon.

Event Tickets

	Transaction Time	Event	Delivery Type	Status
	29 October Thursday, 15:06	INTERNATIONAL COURIER CHARGE	Courier	Not Printed
	29 October Thursday, 15:04	U2 360 TOUR presented by BlackBerry	Courier	Delivery Info (UPS)