Breaking News: the 360 stage has successfully completed its transatlantic voyage, arriving safe and sound on the shores of North America. (Now all they have to do is build it.)

'Unos, dos, tres....catorce!' This is what it's like in the front row when you're getting Vertigo. Latest countdown clip now live.

A week today and we'll be in Chicago for the first show of the North American leg. Show Director Willie Williams is having kittens in our latest Countdown clip.

Just eight days until the opening night of the North American leg of the tour and Sam O'Sullivan is packing up Larry's kit, ready for the transatlantic journey.

'Nine days on the ocean, there' s nothing you can do about it so you can relax a bit...' Jake Berry, U2's Tour Production Director, has the shipping news.

We're counting down to the opening night of U2's 360° Tour in North America and Joe O'Herlihy is on sound in the first of our exclusive clips.

There are scores of talented people heading out on the road with U2 in 2009. But who are they and what do they all do ? Check out our new video series of Life on 360.

'Whenever it started to look like something, Mark and I would push it in another direction. But it does look as though it has escaped from a giant space aquarium.' Willie Williams and Mark Fisher, the design team behind the new set, talk to the New York Times about how it all came together.

Our latest shots from the stage build in Belgium capture the sheer scale of the 360° tour production. Impressive!

The opening night of the tour in Barcelona is only weeks away so no better time for a reminder of life on the road.

'It really works.' says Bono, 'It creates this real physical proximity to the crowd.' Rolling Stone on Willie Williams' design for U2 U2 360°.

She's been across U2's 'audio post-production' for two decades. Cheryl Engels comes up with her all time U2 Playlist.

In Dublin this week ? You've a few days left to catch 'Lumia Domestica', a series of 'kaleidoscopic light ...

From Your Blue Room to So Cruel, sound engineer Robbie Adams has our latest U2 Playlist.

Rocko Reedy on the night his band opened up for U2.

The U2 support act you've never heard of. (Until Hawaii that is.)

Willie Williams, known to U2.Commers for his road diaries and to everyone else for designing U2's live shows, is named ...

Great shot of thirteen illustrious U2 Crew members who set up the band when they performed live on Conan O'Brien's ...

U2's touring sound team have won a prestigious industry award.

The Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio held its 21st annual ...

... is how Willie Williams' work with U2 is described in a new book exploring U2's history of ...

Congratulations to U2's Joe O'Herlihy for winning big at last night's Tec Awards in Los Angeles.

'Just a big installation' is how visual artist Catherine Owens describes her work with U2, writes Deirdre Mulrooney.

'Just a big installation' is how visual artist Catherine Owens describes her work with U2, writes Deirdre Mulrooney.

Compared to a lot of bands I have worked with,' says Tommy Whitelaw. 'U2 put a lot of time into the quality of their merchandising. What we are selling on tour is what they have selected from many more items.

U2's Veteran Soundman Joe O'Herlihy on how a freak lightning strike nearly put paid to a recent show - and ...