Setlist: Love Is All We Have Left The Blackout Lights of Home I Will Follow Gloria – Gloria (Van Morrison) Beautiful Day The Ocean Iris (Hold Me Close) Cedarwood Road Sunday Bloody Sunday – Johnny Was Until the End of the World Intermission (Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me) Elevation Vertigo – It’s […]
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U2101 – Angels Too Tied to the Ground
A few years ago, when U2 was in the middle of a program of remastering and re-releasing several of their early albums, I really got a kick out of the songs that were left-over from the from the sessions of the album in question. On several such tracks, the band took an existing musical track, […]
Read MoreJuly 1, 2018 – New York, New York – Madison Square Garden
Setlist: Love Is All We Have Left The Blackout Lights of Home I Will Follow All Because of You Beautiful Day The Ocean Iris (Hold Me Close) Cedarwood Road Sunday Bloody Sunday – Johnny Was – When Johnny Comes Marching Home Until the End of the World Intermission (Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill […]
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U2 are to build their own rock ‘n’ roll museum in Dublin
ROCK supergroup U2 are to build their own exhibition centre in Dublin, set to become one of Ireland’s top tourist attractions. It will house and display a range of U2 memorabilia never-before-seen and spanning the Irish quartet’s four decades in music on the international scene. The new three-storey complex at No 15-18 Hanover Quay, described […]
Read MoreJune 29, 2018 – Newark, New Jersey – Prudential Center
Setlist: Love Is All We Have Left The Blackout Lights of Home I Will Follow All Because of You Beautiful Day The Ocean Iris (Hold Me Close) Cedarwood Road Sunday Bloody Sunday – When Johnny Comes Marching Home Lord of the Flies – Until the End of the World Intermission (Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss […]
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Adam Clayton on plans going forward; “we really have no plans going into next year.”
The Real Health podcast with Karl Henry, has a world exclusive with U2’s Adam Clayton. They discuss all things health and fitness. Speaking about the physical challenges performing to thousands of fans every night, Adam told me what he faces. “It’s a bit of a surprise how something that you never even used to think […]
Read MoreJune 26, 2018 – New York, New York – Madison Square Garden
Setlist: Love Is All We Have Left The Blackout Lights of Home I Will Follow Gloria – Gloria (Van Morrison) Beautiful Day The Ocean Iris (Hold Me Close) Cedarwood Road Sunday Bloody Sunday Until the End of the World Intermission (Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me) Elevation Vertigo – Rebel Rebel Desire (Hollywood […]
Read MoreJune 25, 2018 – New York, New York – Madison Square Garden
Setlist: Love Is All We Have Left The Blackout Lights of Home I Will Follow All Because of You Beautiful Day The Ocean Iris (Hold Me Close) Cedarwood Road Sunday Bloody Sunday – When Johnny Comes Marching Home Until the End of the World Intermission (Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me) Elevation Vertigo […]
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U2101 – I’ve Got You Under My Skin
As you read the title to this article, you might be thinking “U2 never covered Frank Sinatra,” and you’d be right. The song that I am writing about this week is technically not a U2 recording. Rather, it is a track that Bono recorded with Ol’ Blue Eyes around the time that Zooropa was being […]
Read MoreJune 22, 2018 – Boston, Massachusetts – TD Garden
Setlist: Love Is All We Have Left The Blackout Lights of Home I Will Follow All Because of You Beautiful Day The Ocean Iris (Hold Me Close) Cedarwood Road Sunday Bloody Sunday – When Johnny Comes Marching Home Until the End of the World Intermission (Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me) Elevation Vertigo […]
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