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(Message started by: Shannon on Sep 15^th, 2006, 7:20am)

Title: Dome's Debut to Rock
Post by Shannon on Sep 15^th, 2006, 7:20am

DOME'S DEBUT TO ROCK

U2 and Green Day team up to welcome the Saints home
Friday, September 15, 2006
By Jeff Duncan

The pre-game show for the first post-Hurricane Katrina football game in the Superdome will feature two of the most popular and acclaimed rock bands in the world, U2 and Green Day, performing together publicly for the first time.

The bands will share top billing with Reggie Bush and Michael Vick when the Saints open their home season against the Atlanta Falcons on Sept. 25, a homecoming after Katrina caused tens of millions of dollars in damage to the Dome and displaced the Saints for the 2005 season.

"This is New Orleans doing things on a worldwide level," said New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival producer Quint Davis, an organizer of the pre-game festivities. "U2 and Green Day together -- I've never heard of such a thing. It's a steppingstone in reclaiming, in a positive way, a space and a place from the annals of horror."

The bands are part of a nightlong extravaganza built around the game, featuring live music, entertainment and children's activities, National Football League officials said Thursday.

Game-day festivities will begin at 3 p.m. with a free football festival on the ramparts outside the Dome that will include The NFL Experience, the league's interactive theme park featuring participatory games and displays. Pre-game entertainment will include the Rebirth and Storyville brass bands and the Goo Goo Dolls. The Goo Goo Dolls are expected to perform their anthem "Better Days," with a chorus that proclaims, "Tonight's the night the world begins again."

The official reopening of the Dome will begin at 5:30 p.m. The first people allowed to enter the Dome will be 150 first responders from Gulf Coast search and rescue teams.

Local favorites Allen Toussaint and Irma Thomas are slated to sing the national anthem. Former President Bush will preside over the coin toss.

The pre-game festivities also will feature a kabuki drop -- a large curtain drop from a hanging rod -- to honor 150 first responders who participated in relief efforts during Katrina.

Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, his successor, Roger Goodell, and Gov. Kathleen Blanco are among the dignitaries scheduled to attend the game. (cont'd)

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