Songs Of Experience, out Friday On stage, U2 are as big as ever. The Joshua Tree tour in the summer was short by their standards, whizzing through the sports grounds of the western world, yet it still ended up as the 12th most lucrative tour of all time – a chart topped by their own […]
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Is U2’s new album Songs of Experience the most human Bono has been in a while? The creation of Songs of Experience, U2’s 14th album, began around the time of Bono’s “high-energy bicycle accident” in November, 2014. His injuries to his shoulder and upper arm were so serious he feared he would never play guitar […]
Read MoreA new U2 album is not the earth-shattering event it might once have been. The biggest talking point around 2014’s Songs of Innocence was that it was bunged, unsought, onto the hard drives of 300 million iTunes users — the music forgotten in the ensuing furore. With Songs of Experience, it is therefore understandable that […]
Read MoreOpening Act(s): None Setlist: Sunday Bloody Sunday Pride (In the Name of Love) Gift – Get Out of Your Own Way You’re the Best Thing About Me Beautiful Day – Starman Elevation Vertigo – Rebel Rebel One – Invisible Get Out of Your Own Way Remarks: U2 performed tonight in Trafalgar Square in front of […]
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NEW YORK (AFP) – U2 on Wednesday (Aug 30) rocked out on a guitar-charging first track of its upcoming album, which the Irish rock legends had largely finished last year but revisited following Donald Trump’s shock election victory. In the first taste of its upcoming album Songs Of Experience, the band released The Blackout, a […]
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U2 have revealed when they’ll release their new album – and it’s just in time for Christmas. ‘Songs of Experience’, the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2014’s smash hit ‘Songs of Innocence’, will be released on December 1. The record will launch on World Aids Day in conjunction with Project Red, the fundraising charity Bono set […]
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Proposed four-storey facility would be located on the site of the band’s Dublin studio Plans for a U2 museum on the site of the band’s recording studio in Dublin’s docklands are at an advanced stage, with a planning application set to be lodged in the coming days. Despite the fact that – along with Guinness, […]
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Setlist: Sunday Bloody Sunday New Year’s Day Bad Pride (In The Name Of Love) Where The Streets Have No Name I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For With Or Without You Bullet The Blue Sky Running To Stand Still Red Hill Mining Town In God’s Country Trip Through Your Wires One Tree Hill Exit […]
Read More Setlist: Sunday Bloody Sunday New Year’s Day A Sort Of Homecoming Pride (In The Name Of Love) Where The Streets Have No Name I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For With Or Without You / Shine Like Stars (snippet) Bullet The Blue Sky Running To Stand Still Red Hill Mining Town In God’s Country […]
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