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U2’s Bono meets with Prime Minister Erdoğan
State ministers Egemen Bağış and Hayati Yazıcı, along with Erdoğan’s daughter, Sümeyye Erdoğan, were also present during the meeting. The prime minister posed for a photo with band members toward the end of the meeting.
The band arrived in İstanbul yesterday for the concert, which comes as part of the band’s “360° Tour.” The Irish rockers were welcomed by enthusiastic fans at İstanbul’s Atatürk Airport. Posing for photos with their fans, the rockers expressed pleasure at being in İstanbul. The band members left the airport and headed to their hotel amidst much excitement from their fans.
The U2 İstanbul concert is organized by LiveNation in cooperation with the İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV).
Bono had said earlier that he wanted to walk on the Bosporus Bridge in İstanbul, which is closed to pedestrian traffic, prior to the concert. Turkish officials obtained the necessary permission and members of U2 were expected to walk on the Bosporus Bridge -- going from one continent to another -- last night.
The band’s “360° Tour” features a 360-degree stage, with the stage being placed closer to the center of the stadium than usual. The stage has no defined front or back and is surrounded on all sides by the audience.
The stage design also includes a cylindrical video screen and increases a venue’s capacity by around 15 to 20 percent. However, only tiered football stadiums can be used for this scheme; flat fields and baseball stadiums are impossible venues. Bono underwent emergency back surgery in May after injuring himself. His subsequent rehabilitation forced the band to delay the North American leg of their tour until 2011. U2 began the tour in Barcelona in June 2009.
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