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From: "Architexturez." <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 23:42:44 +0530
U2's City of Blinding Lights
12,000 daisy-chained LEDs. Spycams controlled by a PlayStation. The
Vertigo tour is a monster concert machine - and the ultimate
rock-and-roll R&D lab.
By William Gibson
Pan across derelict concrete runway at dawn, somewhere in the American
Southwest: Someone's unpacked the whole convoy of semis that haul the
equipment for U2's Vertigo//2005 tour. Unpacked the lights and the
behemoth speakers and the Wi-Fi cart for the backstage offices and
spread it here, on the outskirts of some city from a '50s horror film
where distance plays tricks on the eye. Every last piece of cargo has
been set out, part of an angular, bilaterally symmetrical Rorschach blot
- a hard-edged Mothra, inducing a faint déjà vu.
cont'd...
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