It was March 1989 when The Edge joined Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, Brynsley Forde (of Aswad), Annie Lennox, the Thompson Twins, Chrissie Hynde, Jerry Harrison, and Karl Wallinger (of World Party) in Moscow to support Greenpeace’s efforts to educate and impact environmental change in the Soviet Union. As Greenpeace put it, “The gathering in [...]
Never found this video until just now. It’s one of the craziest and most trusting things I’ve ever seen Bono do in concert. Maybe the craziest. And most trusting.
It’s from last year’s 360 concert in Raleigh. Right in the middle of “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” Bono tossed his microphone to a fan in the crowd so [...]
Here’s Willie Williams writing in one of his recent diary entries on U2.com about how U2 puts together its show. This is from production rehearsals in Turin, when the band was considering three different openings to the show:
The band rolled in during the late afternoon and we tried each of these several times over. [...]
Do this:
1.) Put on the best pair of headphones you own. Not little earbuds. Real, honest-to-goodness headphones.
2.) Cue up the live version of “Ultraviolet” from the Pasadena DVD/concert.
3.) Turn up the volume as high as your ears will let you.
4.) Turn off the lights. Put yourself in complete darkness.
5.) Hit PLAY.
6.) Close your eyes and [...]
There’s a new video playing in the short break before the first and second encores on the current 2010 U2 360 tour in Europe. It features the same “space baby” that we’re all familiar with from the Zoo TV tour, as well as from last year’s U2 360 tour (including the Pasadena DVD). But it [...]
I’m now about a day or so removed from opening night of the U2 360 Tour in Turin, and after the shock and awe of the new songs, I have to say that it’s been a long time since we saw an opening like we did yesterday.
To the best of my knowledge (and please correct [...]
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