U2 have announced they will play Dublin and Belfast as part of the European leg of their eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE 2018 tour. The announcement was made on U2’s website which lists the tour dates starting in Berlin on August 31st. The Dublin and Belfast dates will be revealed later as plans are still being finalized […]
Read MoreU2101 – Landlady
Last week, I wrote about “Red Flag Day,” a song that I only came to appreciate after a few listens. This week, I’m writing about a song that I have a similar relationship with — that is, one that didn’t bowl me over with my first listen, but one that I have come to love […]
Read MoreU2101 – Red Flag Day
I confess. On the first listen-through of Songs of Experience, I thought that “Red F lag Day” was the weakest song on the album. I didn’t really enjoy the song, and I was a little disappointed. I didn’t feel that the song was bad, exactly, it just didn’t measure up to the high standards that […]
Read MoreU2101 – Love is All We Have Left
As I sit down at my computer desk to write this article, it has been 2018 on the east coast, where I live, for less than fifteen minutes. Of course, new beginnings are on my mind, so I thought it would be appropriate to write about the latest new beginning in U2’s world, the opening […]
Read MoreA Very U2 Christmas, 2017 Edition
This is my third year writing A Very U2 Christmas – and although this year’s installment contains some of the same information as the 2015 and 2016 editions, there are some new additions that are oh-so-special. Like Bono not showing up to busk on Grafton street for the second year in a row due to […]
Read MoreU2101 – Driving To Midnight Mass: Dublin, Christmas Eve
Since today is Christmas Eve, (it’ll be Christmas day when you read these words) I decided that I should probably take a break from my ongoing series of reviews of the songs from U2’s latest album, Songs of Experience, and focus instead on something that was appropriate to the holiday.
Read MoreU2101 – The Showman (Little More Better)
This week, I’m continuing my series on U2’s Songs of Experience. I’m going to write articles on each of the songs from that album, but for the first few articles following the release of the album, I’m focusing on the songs that most impressed me on my first listen of U2’s newest release.
Read MoreU2101 – Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way
I really had a hard time deciding what to write about this week. I knew that I wanted to cover a song from U2’s new album Songs of Experience, but there are so many tracks on that album that I genuinely love that I had trouble narrowing it down to just one song to talk […]
Read MoreU2101 – Lights of Home
What a week, huh? U2’s fourteenth album, Songs of Experience was finally released — after a delay that seemed interminable, but actually left a smaller gap between album releases than we’ve experienced with the past few albums.
Read MoreU2 Songs of Experience Leaked: Interview with Rob Giannotti
U2’s Songs of Experience was leaked over Thanksgiving weekend one full week before its scheduled release, sending fans across the globe into a collectively frantic state as news spread like wildfire on social media. By Sunday morning, downloadable files were being quietly (or not so quietly) shared among fans in the know – but to […]
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