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Fans Cram Subiaco For U2 Concert
Dec 17 2010 02:00 PM | Wes in Tour News & Updates
West Australian
Irish rock band U2 will play to an audience of 60,000 fans in Subiaco tonight in a concert billed as the biggest production ever to hit Perth.
Production crew have been fine-tuning the $25 million high-tech claw festooned with speakers and giant video screens that will blast Subi from around 6.30 tonight.
Traffic congestion is expected as concertgoers cram into the inner-city suburb.
Transperth has put on extra trains and buses in a bid to relieve any bottlenecks and encourage concert goers to use public transport.
Gates open at 4.30pm and the concert runs until 10.30pm. The first extra buses began at 3.37pm.
Subiaco station will be closed from 10.30pm to midnight with passengers on the Fremantle line asked to board at West Leederville station.
Similar bus and train services will operate for tomorrow's second concert - the final for the Australian leg of the international tour.
Perth has outperformed any other Australian city on a per-capita basis in its bid to get tickets to the mammoth event that has even eclipsed the AC/DC tour in March.
When the gates close on Sunday night, more than four million people will have witnessed the band play its 360deg. gig
Irish rock band U2 will play to an audience of 60,000 fans in Subiaco tonight in a concert billed as the biggest production ever to hit Perth.
Production crew have been fine-tuning the $25 million high-tech claw festooned with speakers and giant video screens that will blast Subi from around 6.30 tonight.
Traffic congestion is expected as concertgoers cram into the inner-city suburb.
Transperth has put on extra trains and buses in a bid to relieve any bottlenecks and encourage concert goers to use public transport.
Gates open at 4.30pm and the concert runs until 10.30pm. The first extra buses began at 3.37pm.
Subiaco station will be closed from 10.30pm to midnight with passengers on the Fremantle line asked to board at West Leederville station.
Similar bus and train services will operate for tomorrow's second concert - the final for the Australian leg of the international tour.
Perth has outperformed any other Australian city on a per-capita basis in its bid to get tickets to the mammoth event that has even eclipsed the AC/DC tour in March.
When the gates close on Sunday night, more than four million people will have witnessed the band play its 360deg. gig
