The band is in Dublin, and there are two shows left. What rare song should they play? Obviously, A Sort of Homecoming! As our friends at U2 Gigs recorded, U2 appropriately played this fan favorite at Slane Castle on August 25, 2001, and again on November 16, 2001 in Oakland, CA (that time, because the […]
Read MoreAn emotion-filled night as U2 return to home town
It was an emotion-filled night for both fans and band when U2 returned to their home town for the first of four concerts at the 3 Arena tonight. It was – by the standards of this stadium band – a small concert, with a capacity crowd of 14,000. The 56,000 tickets for the quartet of […]
Read MoreNovember 23, 2015 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Arena
Setlist The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) The Electric Co. Vertigo I Will Follow Iris (Hold Me Close) Cedarwood Road Song For Someone Sunday Bloody Sunday Raised By Wolves Until The End Of The World (Intermission) Invisible Even Better Than The Real Thing Mysterious Ways Elevation Sweetest Thing Every Breaking Wave October Bullet The Blue Sky […]
Read MoreU2101 – Mysterious Ways
In the fall of 2002, around the time that U2’s Best of 1990-2000 came out, I was working at a record store in Cincinnati, Ohio. I remember that during the first time I played the store’s promotional copy over the in-store stereo system, when “Mysterious Ways” came on, one of the girls I worked with said “I […]
Read MoreHerald.ie: U2 to close world tour with Paris gigs in symbolic gesture
U2 are expected to announce their new Paris dates shortly in a move that would see them close their world tour in France in a symbolic gesture. The band had to pull the plug on their November 14 and 15 Paris gigs in the wake of the terror attacks. Now Bono, Larry Mullen, Adam Clayton […]
Read MoreU2101 – Bad
Today I am writing about what I believe to be the greatest song ever recorded – U2’s “Bad”, from The Unforgettable Fire. When I was in college, I once wrote an essay about this song for a class, and I was never quite happy with what I turned in. It’s bugged me for years, so […]
Read MoreU2101 – All I Want is You
One characteristic of Apple’s iTunes program that I really like is the fact that it keeps track of how many times each song has been played by an Apple product (such as an iPhone or an iPad). It is because of this aspect of the program that I am able to report that today’s featured […]
Read MoreU2101 – Beautiful Day
It may not seem like it now, fifteen years and several albums later, but All That You Can’t Leave Behind was a very important album for U2. After the perceived failure of Pop, U2 needed a critical and commercial success in a serious way to not only get themselves back in the good graces of […]
Read MoreU2101 – City of Blinding Lights
Whenever I think of the song “City of Blinding Lights”, I can’t help but think of the “surprise” concert that U2 put on beneath the Brooklyn Bridge back in 2004. To celebrate the North American release of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, U2 paraded through the city of New York on the back of […]
Read MoreKnow Your Bonoisms, Part 18: Switching it Up for Europe
If you listen to as many shows as possible online – and let’s be honest, we all are – then you pretty much have the script memorized by now. On the U.S. leg, you knew when to pipe in and say, “Don’t shoot; I’m an American. I can’t breathe.” You knew (a little) about Bono’s […]
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