Free U2 MTV Europe Music Awards performance at Berlin Brandenburg Gate celebrating fall of Berlin Wall
Free U2 MTV Europe Music Awards performance at Berlin Brandenburg Gate celebrating fall of Berlin Wall
U2 will perform in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate next Thursday, November 5, as part of the 16th MTV Europe Music Awards. The performance is also intended to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, which fell in 1989. U2 were based in Berlin for the recording of Achtung Baby in 1990. "It'll be an exciting spot to be in, 20 years almost to the day since the wall came down," said U2's manager, Paul McGuinness. The actual anniversary of the fall of the Wall is November 9, a date which will be marked by many celebrations in Germany.
The actual MTV Europe Music Awards will be held at the 02 World in Berlin on November 5, 2009, and will be broadcast live on MTV at 21.00 CET in the following countries: Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. For additional details on the MTV Europe Music Awards click on this link.
Labels: Berlin, EU, MTV Europe, U2
