Tuesday, June 7, 2011

U2 360 Tour Hits Oakland, Live Concert O.co Coliseum, Alameda County

The US leg of the massive U2 360 degree tour hits Oakland tonight, with the concert at the Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland California, now known as the Overstock.com coliseum, or O.co for short, Lenny Kravitz will be providing the support for tonight's show.

For full details, tickets and live feeds from the U2 Tour, visit:


Location Information:

O.co Coliseum (originally Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, formerly Network Associates Coliseum and McAfee Coliseum and Overstock.com Coliseum and commonly The Oakland Coliseum or The Coliseum) is a multi-purpose stadium, located in Oakland, California, in the Coliseum Industrial area. It contains 6,300 club seats (2,700 of these are available for Athletics games) and 143 luxury suites (125 of these are available for Athletics games).

It is part of the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum complex, which consists of the stadium and neighboring Oracle Arena. It is currently home to the Oakland Athletics, of MLB and the Oakland Raiders, of the NFL. It was also home to the San Jose Earthquakes, of the MLS, who used the stadium for several larger attendance games, during the 2008/2009 seasons. It also hosted some of the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

The U2 360° Tour is an ongoing worldwide concert tour by rock band U2. Launched in support of the group's 2009 album No Line on the Horizon, the tour will visit stadiums from 2009 through 2011. The U2 360° Tour is named after the 360-degree staging and audience configuration it uses for shows