U2 in Somerville Wednesday
Rockers to be Right Next Door; Tickets Only Available to Radio Station Winners
Photo courtesy U2.com.
Story Updated 2:24PM Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Major Irish rock band U2 is holding a free concert for fans on Wednesday at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square.
The show is at 9PM and thousands are expected to throng Davis Square for a glimpse of the band.
The Somerville Journal is following the action via Twitter.
The only way to get tickets was to win them from local radio stations Mix 98.5, WFNX, WZLX, WBCN, and WBOS. About 800 very lucky people have tickets and will also get to take part in a question and answer session with the band.
The show will be broadcast live on WBCN, 104.1 FM.
The band released summer tour dates on their website on Monday morning to promote their new album, No Line on the Horizon. The tour kicks off June 30 in Spain and comes to Gillette Stadium on September 20.
– InsideMedford.com
I heard that Billy Tauro of the Somerville News has a bunch of U2 concert tickets because he was one of the show’s organizers! Does anyone know how I can get in touch with him?
Wouldn’t it be interesting if they played at the Somerville Theater??
The Norton’s from Somerville News donated four of the tickets to the club’s cause yestoday afternoon for the U2 show!
It seems that one U 2 fan got a little overwhelmed and carried away with U 2 being in town! Apparently a Sovereign Bank officer from a Somerville branch began stocking Billy Tauro one of the Somerville New’s Publishers at his home and started making death threats to him after he went through Tauro’s personal banking information from his bank accounts files because he wouldn’t give him U 2 tickets for him and his wife! I heard that he even threatend put some of Tauro’s personal information (personal info addresses and phone numbers) online to intimidate him a bit further as well! A police report was filed and bodyguards were called in! Isn’t that illegal to use a customer’s personal banking information causing a breech of security for this bank official’s person gain! I guess the rumors true that Sovereign Bank is folding and that they must be desperate and are going down the tubes to hire a people like that to run a bank! I hope Tauro rips them a new arshole like he did when he exposed Barrack Obama with tickets and fines that he owed in Somerville and Cambridge when he was a law student in the 70’s! And also the same way he went after heavy weight champion of the world Johnny Ruiz’s manager Norman Stone in public! Just what we need more corruption and a banking terrorist exposing customer’s personal info in our banks! Boy did this clown set pray on the wrong guy! Go get um Tauro
A criminal complaint has been issued against an over excited U2 fan today by a Somerville Court clerk! Joseph A Carreiro, a financial relationship specialist that works out of the Sovereign Bank in Davis Square Somerville Massachusetts branch got a little over personal with one of the bank’s customers who just happened to be Billy Tauro one of the publishers of The Somerville News. According to sources, Mr. Carreiro began repeatedly placing phone calls to Tauro over a dozen times, stocking Tauro at his place of business and even impersonated himself three different times as a detective to intimidate the publisher to get him and his wife tickets to the U2 concert that took place at the Somerville theater last month. Carreiro allegedly even threatened the newspaper publisher with bodily harm as well as released private personal banking information to others. One of Carreiro’s superiors who is also a Sovereign Bank Security director as well as a retired former FBI director is also allegedly being accused of obstruction of justice by interfering and holding up a police report to squash the matter. A trial date is scheduled for next month.