Irish U2 fans were gutted yesterday after tickets for the group’s home town gigs sold out in seconds amid calls for anti-touting laws to be fast-tracked. The world’s biggest rock band are set to play Dublin’s 3Arena on November 5, 6, 9 and 10 but tens of thousands of people were left bitterly disappointed. The […]
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U2’s Live Grammys Performance Won’t Actually Be Live
Early in their career, U2 made their reputation as an amazing live band, a reputation that they’ve maintained to this day, 40 years into their tenure. Their tours are a huge event and their performances are generally a big deal, but it looks like there’s going to be an asterisk appended to their appearance at […]
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U2 to play concerts in Dublin and Belfast
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 MoreU2’s Five Most Christian Songs Of All Time
U2 is still the biggest rock band in the world, and they’re a Christian rock band. It can be easy to overlook this fact because they’re not that kind of Christian recording group, but the evidence speaks for itself. Now, maybe this comes as a surprise. Maybe you understood U2 to be vaguely spiritual or […]
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Songs Of Experience, is an acquired taste but the melodic, punchy tunes soon get under your skin
Songs Of Experience, out Friday On stage, U2 are as big as ever. The Joshua Tree tour in the summer was short by their standards, whizzing through the sports grounds of the western world, yet it still ended up as the 12th most lucrative tour of all time – a chart topped by their own […]
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Review: Song-by-song guide to U2’s 14th album
Is U2’s new album Songs of Experience the most human Bono has been in a while? The creation of Songs of Experience, U2’s 14th album, began around the time of Bono’s “high-energy bicycle accident” in November, 2014. His injuries to his shoulder and upper arm were so serious he feared he would never play guitar […]
Read MoreAlbum review: Experience counts on U2’s return to form
A new U2 album is not the earth-shattering event it might once have been. The biggest talking point around 2014’s Songs of Innocence was that it was bunged, unsought, onto the hard drives of 300 million iTunes users — the music forgotten in the ensuing furore. With Songs of Experience, it is therefore understandable that […]
Read MoreNovember 11, 2017 – London, England – Trafalgar Square
Opening Act(s): None Setlist: Sunday Bloody Sunday Pride (In the Name of Love) Gift – Get Out of Your Own Way You’re the Best Thing About Me Beautiful Day – Starman Elevation Vertigo – Rebel Rebel One – Invisible Get Out of Your Own Way Remarks: U2 performed tonight in Trafalgar Square in front of […]
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U2 rocks out as it readies post-Trump album
NEW YORK (AFP) – U2 on Wednesday (Aug 30) rocked out on a guitar-charging first track of its upcoming album, which the Irish rock legends had largely finished last year but revisited following Donald Trump’s shock election victory. In the first taste of its upcoming album Songs Of Experience, the band released The Blackout, a […]
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U2 to release new album on December 1
U2 have revealed when they’ll release their new album – and it’s just in time for Christmas. ‘Songs of Experience’, the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2014’s smash hit ‘Songs of Innocence’, will be released on December 1. The record will launch on World Aids Day in conjunction with Project Red, the fundraising charity Bono set […]
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