As I’m sure you all know, Saturday’s U2 concert in Berlin, the second of two consecutive shows in that city, was cancelled after just five songs due to the fact that Bono lost his voice. Unfortunately, I was at work at the time and was unable to tune in to the show on Mixlr, but […]
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U2 have apologised for cancelling a concert after Bono lost his voice. The Irish band were playing in Berlin on Saturday but had to stop after only a few songs as their lead singer struggled on stage. The band said in a statement: “We’re so sorry for tonight’s cancellation. Bono was in great form and […]
Read MoreSetlist: The Blackout Lights of Home I Will Follow Red Flag Day Beautiful Day Info: The show was cancelled due to Bono losing his voice. After a 15 minute break the band couldn’t continue. The band announced that the make up show would be November 13th.
Read MoreSetlist: The Blackout Lights of Home I Will Follow Red Flag Day Beautiful Day The Ocean Iris (Hold Me Close) Cedarwood Road Sunday Bloody Sunday Lord of the Flies – Until the End of the World Intermission (Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me) Elevation Vertigo – Rebel Rebel Even Better Than the Real […]
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I often place Rattle and Hum‘s unique B-sides (i.e. new songs, not remixes or live versions) into two categories in my head. There’s one category for covers, which we’ve been visiting these last couple of weeks, and another for wholly original creations. U2 doesn’t do a whole lot of covers, so they tend to be something […]
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Last week, I wrote about how the “All I Want is You” single was the first time I ever bought a U2 single, and how much I loved the first B-side, U2’s cover of “Unchained Melody.” Well, of course, as a kid, I played the single for my mom…she agreed with me that the cover […]
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David Barry’s film Dream Out Loud, a movie that sets out to examine the relationship U2 fans have “with the band, the music and each other,” was completed in April 2018. But prior to the wide release of the DVD this fall, fans have only had a few opportunities to see the movie in its entirety: premier […]
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It’s fortunate that there are fifty-two weeks in a year–there are three U2 albums celebrating significant anniversaries this year, and my plan is to cover all three of them until they are exhausted, including all B-sides, outtakes, and any other related cuts that U2 might have recorded. Today, that means that we are talking about […]
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There are several “legendary” pieces of music from U2 that we fans might never get to hear, no matter how long we wait, whether patiently or impatiently, or what we might do. I’m thinking of things like the very early song “Concentration Cramp,” the complete soundtrack that Bono and Edge wrote for that stage production […]
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U2 has recorded a handful of instrumentals over the years–mostly, but not exclusively, in the early years. Today’s topic is very nearly one of those instrumental tracks, but for a very few lines of singing. That’s enough by itself to make this song noteworthy in U2’s catalog. What makes it special, though, and almost entirely […]
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