I am beginning to regret getting my son, wife and I U2 tickets for Boston #4. I have totally “kamakazied” my 8 year old son. Jim Jones and his Kool-Aid have nothing on me. Forget about Into the Heart, I have permanently embedded U2 into my son’s heart, soul and mind, to the point where […]
Read MoreU2 IE Tour Pros and Cons
As the band plays Montreal tonight, let’s examine some of the highs and lows/pros and cons of the U2 Innocence and Experience Tour thus far. If you disagree, that’s cool but for the love of Bono, please don’t tweet that I’m a “hater” or some silly thing. We all love this band, and we’re just […]
Read MoreU2’s Ultimate Intimacy
Have you ever tried to be “Intimate” with 20,000 people? Unless your name is Caligula, the word “Intimate” is usually reserved for those special moments when two hearts beat as one, but not for U2. For 35 + years, U2 has tried to get closer to their audience, whether it be physically, emotionally, spiritually or […]
Read MoreU2101: Ordinary Love
With the Innocence + Experience tour premiere of “Ordinary Love” coming just four nights ago as I write this, I decided to do something a little different for this week’s U2101, and give you all a little peek into my creative process.
Read MoreIn Denver & Still No Sign Of…
Can we now call U2’s NLOTH a complete disaster? I mean, how much more can SOI spit in NLOTH’s eye? It’s time to call the morgue and bury the corpse of NLOTH. Official time of death was back in 2009, but after umpteen shows on this tour and hardly even a snippet from NLOTH, shouldn’t […]
Read MoreU2 Inglewood Forum June 3 Review
Sadly for us Californians, U2 did not actually fall into the shining sea; it would have been great if they had, as it would ensure that we could keep them in our neck of the woods for another week (at least!). So this post concludes my trilogy of U2 LA show reviews for the Innocence + Experience […]
Read MoreU2 Inglewood Forum May 31 Review
I was there when U2 held the fourth night of its five night residency at the Los Angeles Forum (I’ve never heard it called the Inglewood Forum in my life, but that doesn’t mean anything), and I have to say, I went into this one with expectations wide open. After night one on the 26th, […]
Read MoreU2101 – 11 O’Clock Tick Tock
The big news from this past week seems to have been the great set that U2 played at West Hollywood’s Roxy Theatre. In case you missed it somehow, U2 played five songs (nearly half their set) from Boy-era releases, which means material that came out in 1980.
Read MoreU2 let the An Cat Dubh out of the bag
U2 owes me a new phone! No, I’m not one of those nut job haters that were crying about SOI automatically being downloaded onto their iPhones, I’m talking about the KROQ show the other night in La La land. This one show morphed into 43 text messages from my fellow U2 nuts updating me on […]
Read MoreMay 30, 2015 – Inglewood, California, USA – The Forum
Setlist The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) The Electric Co Vertigo I Will Follow Iris Cedarwood Road Song For Someone Sunday Bloody Sunday Raised By Wolves Until The End Of The World The Wanderer (Intermission) Invisible Even Better Than the Real Mysterious Ways Elevation Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of Every Breaking Wave […]
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