Setlist: Sunday Bloody Sunday New Year’s Day A Sort Of Homecoming Bad Pride (In The Name Of Love) Where The Streets Have No Name With Or Without You Bullet The Blue Sky Running To Stand Still Red Hill Mining Town In God’s Country Trip Through Your Wires One Tree Hill Exit / Eeny Meeny Miny […]
Read MoreMay 12, 2017 – Vancouver, BC – BC Place Stadium
Setlist: Sunday Bloody Sunday New Year’s Day A Sort Of Homecoming MLK 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 Mining Town In God’s Country Trip Through Your Wires […]
Read MoreHappy birthday, Bono
On this day in 1960, our favorite lead singer was born. Happy birthday, Paul David Hewson
Read MoreU2101 – Race Against Time & Drunk Chicken
Since nearly the start of 2017, U2 fandom, collectively, has been counting down to the start of the Joshua Tree 2017 Tour. As my part of that countdown, I’ve been focusing each week on tracks that have some connection, however loose, to the album whose thirtieth anniversary is being celebrated this year. Well, the countdown […]
Read MoreU2 Joshua Tree Tour Questions
A wise man once sang, “We thought we had the answers; it was the questions we had wrong.” This prompts me to ask, What are your questions as we enter the final waiting phase before tour liftoff? Mine include: Will Bono’s hair be closer to the color of an eggplant or a pumpkin? (Because the ladies are rooting […]
Read MoreBetter Business Bureau warns U2 fans of potential ticket scams
Vancouver, BC, Canada / News Talk 980 CKNW | Vancouver’s News. Vancouver’s Talk Kyle Benning Posted: May 04, 2017 The Better Business Bureau is warning U2 fans buying last-minute tickets who still might not have found what they’re looking for. Spokesperson Evan Kelly says whenever a big-name act holds a concert, scammers will look to […]
Read MoreU2 fans in Vancouver have found what their looking for
CTV Vancouver Published Wednesday, May 3, 2017 1:52PM PDT Last Updated Wednesday, May 3, 2017 6:41PM PDT One week before U2 kicks off The Joshua Tree Tour in downtown Vancouver, some keen fans are already getting a little taste of what’s to come. The legendary Irish rockers’ rehearsals have been blaring through the walls at […]
Read MoreU2101 – Rise Up
This week, we’re back on track after last week’s quick divergence away from our series on Joshua Tree related tracks. Our topic today is one of those songs that didn’t make the cut when The Joshua Tree was initially released, but was included on the twentieth anniversary edition as a bonus track. The song is […]
Read MoreU2101 – XXX (With Kendrick Lamar)
This week, I’m temporarily setting aside my ongoing series on Joshua Tree related songs to talk about another recent release, U2’s collaboration with West Coast rapper Kendrick Lamar, a song titled “XXX”.
Read MoreHappy Record Store Day!
Some of us plan on visiting our local record store this weekend while others have no local record store to visit. Fortunately, we can all hear U2’s contribution to Record Store Day, the remixed Red Hill Mining Town with new Bono vocals, thanks to the magic of the Internet (and, in a late-breaking twist, Spotify). […]
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