Irish rock band U2 has paid tribute to Japanese doctor and humanitarian worker, Tetsu Nakamura, who was shot dead in Afghanistan. The band honored Nakamura during their concert on Thursday at Saitama Arena, near Tokyo. U2 performed in Japan for the first time in 13 years. Nakamura died in an ambush by an unidentified armed […]
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December 1, 2019 – Singapore, Singapore – National Stadium
Listen to the entire show: Download lossless audio file: Download Setlist: Sunday Bloody Sunday I Will Follow New Year’s Day Bad Pride (In the Name of Love) Where the Streets Have No Name I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For With or Without You Bullet the Blue Sky Running To Stand Still Red Hill […]
Read MoreReview: ‘It only took us 42 years’: U2 wows at historic Singapore concert
Four decades and many milestones on, U2 wrote a stirring new chapter in the unforgettable fire of their story with a first Southeast Asian concert on Saturday (Nov 30). The seventh stop of the third Joshua Tree Tour finally read “Singapore”; and from start to finish the celebrated quartet went helter-skelter for a mesmerised, almost […]
Read MoreReview: 96FM’s Gavin Miller Reviews U2’s Aussie Joshua Tree Tour Concert
96FM’s Gavin Miller went to potentially the biggest gig of the year in Melbourne over the weekend and was left amazed by what was going on in front of him.Over 55,000 people crammed into Marvel Stadium on over two nights last week, here how it all went down… I was a bit emotionally exhausted for […]
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November 15, 2019 – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia – Marvel Stadium
Listen to the entire show: Download lossless audio file: Download Setlist: Sunday Bloody Sunday I Will Follow New Year’s Day Bad Pride (In the Name of Love) Where the Streets Have No Name I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For With or Without You Bullet the Blue Sky Running To Stand Still Red Hill […]
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November 12, 2019 – Brisbane, Queensland, Australia – Suncorp Stadium
Listen to the entire show: Download lossless audio file: Download Setlist: Sunday Bloody Sunday New Year’s Day Bad / Beds Are Burning Pride (In the Name of Love) Where the Streets Have No Name I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For With or Without You Bullet the Blue Sky Running To Stand Still Red […]
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Highest Paid Musicians List Topped By U2 and Metallica
Today, Billboard released its list of the highest paid musicians of 2017, which yielded results both surprising and unsurprising. You can decide which of those adjectives applies to the following fact: only 7 of the 50 are women. Lady Gaga was the sole female artist to make it into the Top 10 (#6). Taylor Swift–somewhat […]
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ICYMI: U2’s Facebook Live Q&A
I’m on an island at a busy intersection – which (fact alert!) happens to be the only U2 lyric to contain the word “busy.” Like you, I have places to be and jobs to do – and yet, we all strive to stay plugged in to all things U2. If today’s Facebook Live Q&A was […]
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U2101 – Silver and Gold
Today, I’m continuing my series of articles of songs from The Joshua Tree. The choice of song for this article is one that was initially written and recorded in 1985, a couple of years before The Joshua Tree was released in 1987, but a re-recorded version of “Silver and Gold” was released as a B-side […]
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U2101 – Trip Through You Wires
Since the announcement of the latest Joshua Tree Tour, I’ve been focusing on lesser known highlights from the album the upcoming tour takes it’s name from. One such underappreciated song comes from The Joshua Tree’s second side, the wild and unruly song that hasn’t been played live since 1987, “Trip Through Your Wires”
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