Congratulations go out to Sally K., for winning the grand prize at the Boston U23D afterparty: a Gibson Epiphone acoustic guitar, generously donated by the Hard Rock Cafe.

Kudos to all of the other winners of U2 DVDs prior to the film’s screening and later on at the Hard Rock Cafe!

Miracle Drug rocked the house for over 2 hours, with many swingin’ to the music (oh oh oh oh oh). During their 2nd set, they donned Bono’s Signature Series Edun LIVE shirt.

Thanks to everyone who made tonight’s event a success! Check out photos from the festivities here.

It feels like a post-show hangover….so, from a very sleepy @U2 staff…g’nite y’all!

Hey U2 fans - you’ve found our new blog! Actually, same blog with all the great material you’ve been reading since February, 2005, but now we have a new domain — www.atu2blog.com — and a new platform, WordPress.

The changes that affect you are all good — a much cleaner design than we had before, categorization of posts (look in the right column), featured comments from readers (upper right column), RSS feeds for both our posts and your comments, and some other features that will become apparent over time.

One important thing to note: You’ll need to register with atu2blog.com in order to comment. Your old Blogger account won’t work. You can register via the Login link near the end of the right column.

That’s all — welcome, and enjoy!

- Matt

Thanks to EVERYONE (everyone…every…one) who came out to celebrate @U2’s birthday, U2’s coming to Boston, and the conclusion of the African Well Fund’s annual “Build a Well for Bono’s Birthday” Campaign. Thanks to the generosity of so many U2 fans, the African Well Fund folks were able to raise a record-breaking $26,000+ to help people in Africa with the gift of clean water.

The @U2 readership came out strong at both the San Diego and Boston events, and I am so proud of all of you for your support of this U2-fan created organization.

Special thanks go out to all of the folks who travelled from England, Ireland, Brazil, Canada and all over the United States for our event! It was a pleasure meeting you, and I am *definitely* looking forward to seeing you at some of our 3rd leg events!

I also hope to see you all at the Barnes & Noble at the Prudential Center (800 Boyleston Street) today at 1:30 for the book signing by Michka Assayas, author of “Bono: In Conversation.” He’ll be there until 2:30 today.

Since it’s de rigeur for blogs to take part in the blogosphere (I hate that word), we should mention here that the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper has started a Vertigo 2005 Tour blog. Still new, but I’ll be curious to see what kind of stuff gets posted there next week when U2 finally gets to their wonderful city.

And by the way, those of you who do live in San Diego have no business also getting the world tour to start there — just living in SD is blessing enough. You lucky, lucky people….

About this blog: It really needs a redesign, doesn’t it? The biggest problem from a functional standpoint is that the left-side column is too thin - look down under “Prior Posts” at how the titles of each post are all jumbled together because they wrap across several lines. I’m thinking we can fix that, change the blog design a bit and still matching the @U2 “brand”.

Opinions, please: Should we change the design here a bit?

Hi to everyone who was smart enough to bookmark this page, and smart enough to come here when @U2 isn’t working.

@U2 and U2tours.com are both down at the moment. Don’t know why, don’t know when they’ll be back. Both sites sit on the same server (at least until we move @U2 to a separate machine), so that machine must have crashed. All I can do is notify the people who can fix the problem, which I’ve done.

In the meantime, if anything urgent comes up, we still have our little blog.

And that’s the other reason to start our move toward Blogger — audio posts via a telephone call, posted immediately to the blog.

So there ya go! We’re ready, ready for what’s next — hope you are, too!