Less than a month after the U2 Elevation show in Tacoma, I found myself in Lexington, Kentucky. I was going to make a weekend of U2 and the Kentucky Derby. At the time, I thought this U2 show was the best I had ever seen – as I would write after every Elevation show because […]
Read MoreWhy U2 – Reason #20
It’s funny how much my opinion of an artist’s character influences my perception of their art. If I discover that some artist that I’m getting into is a woman-beater, for instance, or a meth addict, it really detracts from my enjoyment of their artistic output. I wrote recently about how I feel a kinship with […]
Read MoreU2 Elevation Tacoma 4.12.01
The U2 show in Tacoma on April 12, 2001 marked a lot of firsts for me. It was my first time visiting Seattle, my first real GA experience and my first time seeing P.J. Harvey open (I would see her 13 more times). I had a friend in Seattle, so I flew out Easter weekend […]
Read MoreU2 Elevation Charlotte 3.29.01 – my 1st GA show
A few days after the opening shows in Florida, I flew to Charlotte on March 29, 2001 for the third show on U2’s Elevation Tour. It was on my way home to Baltimore. This show was my first U2 GA (General Admission) show. It was assigned seats for the previous two tours, ZooTv and Popmart. […]
Read MoreKnow Your Bonoisms – Part 1
Any serious U2 fan speaks fluent Bongolese, that mystical language in which Bono sings in indecipherable babble in between a song’s actual lyrics. But, dear reader, do you know your Bonoisms?
Read MoreWhy U2 – Reason #16
One of the things that I really love about U2 is that they hang out with some really cool people. Some artists that I’d have very likely missed out on entirely if it weren’t for their U2 connections. A great example is Emmylou Harris, whose absolutely stunningly beautiful 1995 album Wrecking Ball features performances from […]
Read MoreU2 Popmart Tampa and Miami, when I almost became a Bono girl
This is the third and final installment of my retrospective on U2’s Popmart tour, a tour we seem to forget about. The last two shows I went to on Popmart, on the third leg, were quite fabulous. They were in Tampa and Miami on November 10th and 14th in 1997, and that is the week […]
Read MoreBono to be awarded the Lionheart Award June 21
On June 21st The organizers of the 61st Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity will be awarding U2’s Bono with the first ever Cannes LionHeart Award for his charitable work via (RED). The award is being given due to Bono’s “creative fusion of branding, activism and philanthropy that has generated more than $250 million for the […]
Read MoreApple snaps up Beats for $3Bn and gets Iovine as head of it’s music strategy
The news broke today that Apple is buying Beats Entertainment for a reported $3 billion. This means that Beats founders Dr Dre and former Interscope records founder Jimmy Iovine will now be part of Apple and as sources report will “revamp and run its whole music strategy.” Jimmy Iovine has previously worked with U2 in the […]
Read MoreU2 opens ZooTV Outside Broadcast Tour at Giants Stadium – August 12, 1992
One of my favorite U2 concerts was Opening Night of the ZooTv Outside Broadcast Tour, at Giants Stadium in New Jersey on August 12, 1992. It was my first tour opener. It was the first time I met Bono. It was my first and only time on stage. It was the first time I heard […]
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