The FINANCIAL — Georgia’s Capital Tbilisi will almost certainly be hosting the legendary Irish band U2 and its vocalist Bono on New Year’s Eve. U2 is currently in its 360 Degree tour that is expected to gross around 750 million USD by the time it ends later next year. Georgian President Michael Saakashvili said last week that there is a plan to bring Jose Carreras and U2 to Georgia for New Year.
Eastern Promotion, company responsible for organizational issues told The FINANCIAL that it’s too difficult to organize U2’s show in December. “Show was planned to be in September and it should be in Batumi”, company representatives told The FINANCIAL.
But good news is that Batumi, another city of Georgia will host Jose Carreras a Spanish Catalan tenor on New Year’s Eve.
Last year Shakira and the famous Italian pop group Ricchi e Poveri were brought to Tbilisi in late December.
The Tbilisi Show is not confirmed yet on U2’s official website. The Moscow 360° show took place on August 25. The Turin show took place at the Stadio Olimpico on August 6 and the Rome show was at the Olympic Stadium on October 8.
To date U2 band has played 44 sold out dates for 3.2 million people and grossed 320 million USD. The staging runs around 750,000 USD every day.
Echomen, DJ Anton Kubikov, DJ Max More, Parov Stelar Band, Stefane and 3 Gogo will be holding events over Christmas and the New Year in Tbilisi.
On New Year’s Eve, band Parov Stelar will perform at the Tbilisi Event Hall. The Parov Stelar band consists of: Parov Stelar (programming), Markus Eccklmayer (Sax), Stefan Hölzl (bass), Beate Baumgartner (Vocals) and Hans-Jürgen Bart (drums). They have Jazz / Breakbeat / Electro music singles.
The cost of a ticket is 200 GEL. All tickets are currently sold out.
“On 28 December Echomen will hold an event at Night Office,” says Mix Group Promotion. The price of a ticket for boys will be 25 GEL and for Girls 20 GEL. Prior to the day of the event the tickets will be sold for 15 GEL.
Echomen is an electronic music production duet which specializes in progressive house consisting of Chris Scott and Anton Fielding. Scott has recorded classic deep house as New Funk Theory and Lexicon Avenue for labels such as Paper, Forensic, Airtight and Guidance. Fielding has been responsible for some of the UK’s finest House, which is always deep, musical and brimming with funk.
DJ Max More will host guests on 31 December at Bambarooms.
“The price for a ticket is not yet decided, it may be around 100-200 USD. We will charge the minimum price possible,” says Levan Qoqiashvili, Manager of Bambarooms. Max More is a Russian DJ who plays at Sohorooms.
Cubic is holding 2 events in the New Year Week.
On 31 December, Stefane and 3 Gogo (Stefani and three Girls) will be performing.
On 2 January Cubic guests will hold an event with DJ Anton Kubikov. For Girls the entrance price will be 20 GEL and for boys – 30 GEL.
Anton Kubikov was Moscow’s leading techno figure from the late ‘90s to the early ‘00s, at present DJ Kubikov is focused on Tech-House, Minimal and Deep. He is one of the most popular DJs in Russia and Germany.
“For the winter season we are actually more oriented on holding private events, in January we are planning to have an event for Tbilisi’s private universities,” says Lasha Oqromchedlishvili, founder of BomBox Promotion.
Night office has not yet scheduled what events they will have over the New Year/Christmas period.
“We are thinking of holding some sort of themed event or carnival, but we might not invite a foreign DJ,” says Tato Charkhilava, PR and Art Manager of Night Office. The price of a ticket at Night Office will range from 30-40 GEL.
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