U2 Wows Winnipeg
By: Melissa Martin
Posted: 05/29/2011 8:05 PM
WINNIPEG - That garish four-legged thing: they call it the claw, or the spaceship, or – less fantastically – the structure.
No matter what the name, the claw is, at 50 metres tall, the largest piece of rock’n’roll furniture ever built. It is a looming aberration of olive-green skin pulled taut over scaffold bones and pierced by a spear of light.
It serves a purpose: its four talons shelter the stage and up to 2,000 fans, die-hards who camped out for up to four days for the honour of being wrapped by its lurid embrace.
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"Thank you Winnipeg," Bono said, as he gently moved into the last chorus of the luscious ballad of With Or Without You. "Take out your phones. Take them out and turn this place into the Milky Way."
And as the spotlights on the claw dimmed to nothing and a liquid blackness enveloped Canad Inns Stadium, 50,000 flickers sparked and danced, buoyed by the lingering romance of a dream that never quite fades away.
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