The end of 2011 was a pretty exciting time for U2 fans. We were just coming down from the 360 tour and basking in the awesomeness that was (and is) the 20th anniversary Achtung Baby releases. part of that celebration was the cover album AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered, released by Q magazine. As this is a […]
Read MoreHelp Build a Well for Bono’s Birthday! The 12th Annual AWF Campaign
It’s that time again: Our guy is turning another year older. This Saturday, May 10, Bono will be The Big 5-4 – and for the 12th year in a row, the African Well Fund is inviting U2 fans (and everyone who is inspired by Bono’s tireless activism on behalf of Africa) to donate to the […]
Read MoreThe U2 Radio Flickr group is back online!
We have restarted our Flickr feed, and you can contribute your U2 concert photos to share with other U2 fans. Visit https://www.flickr.com/groups/u2radio/ to add your photos! We are looking more for fan taken concert photos, and not so much reposts of professional copyrighted images found everywhere online. We are very interested in seeing the photos […]
Read MoreU2 101 – Bullet the Blue Sky
“Bullet the Blue Sky” is one of those songs that I always like to think of as belonging to U2-fandom. There are some songs, like “Beautiful Day”, “One”, or “With or Without You”, that are universally acclaimed and beloved, even by those who don’t know much about the band. In fact, I suspect that there […]
Read MoreWhy U2? – Reason #11
I think that my wife’s favorite thing about U2 is the relationship between Bono and his wife, Ali, and I really can’t blame her. It’s romantic, how they’ve known each other all these years and managed to make the relationship last and work despite the false starts that they suffered through at the beginning. They’ve […]
Read MoreThe Best of Larry on Video
U2 are not known for their music videos and that goes double for their quiet, no-nonsense drummer. Over the years though, that ‘quiet’ drummer, Larry Mullen Jr., has made quite the splash in a few U2 videos. The five great Larry videos are “Electrical Storm,” “Numb,” “Unforgettable Fire,” “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking […]
Read MoreVIDEO: Adam Clayton on RTE 1 Late Late Show
The 54-year-old will be talking to Ryan Tubridy about life, U2 and the Walk in My Shoes campaign which aims to stamp out the stigma surrounding mental health issues. Adam swerves into U2 related details about the forthcoming U2 album: We’ve been working to get it finished this summer, and hopefully have something out by the end […]
Read MoreU2 ZooTv Hershey 8.7.92 – the rehearsal concert
My third concert on U2’s ZooTv Tour was the rehearsal concert in Hershey, Pennsylvania on August 7, 1992. This show started the ZooTv Outside Broadcast Tour. In the summer of 1992, U2 ditched arenas for stadiums to take their ZooTv Tour outside. I went to the first five shows and another one a month later. Living […]
Read More
Covering U2 – George Michael’s “Miss Sarajevo”
I’ve never been a fan of George Michael’s music. It’s always seemed to me to be the very embodiment of the shallow sort of disposable pop that U2 work to avoid, and that I personally eschew as a matter of taste. There’s nothing wrong with a harmless little pop ditty if you’re out with the […]
Read MoreU2 101 – Stay (Far Away, So Close)
Zooropa occupies a strange place in U2’s discography, somehow managing to simultaneously be the most and least accessible album they’re recorded. I say the least accessible because its got some of the most adventurous, sonically experimental music that U2 has put out, with songs like “Lemon”, “Numb”, and “Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car” […]
Read More