It isn’t often that the members of U2 feel so moved by a single song, or like a song so much, that they choose to name their album after that song. It’s happened, of course, but now that I think about it, in most of those circumstances, it wasn’t so much that the band were […]
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I was pretty pleased with the U2 360 Tour. Although the tour ended several years ago…almost a decade, now…U2 did one thing that I wish that they would do a lot more of. They played some oddities. Songs like “Electrical Storm,” “Your Blue Room,” and “Mercy” made their long-awaited live debuts, and the band also […]
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I still remember the week building up to the release of No Line On The Horizon. I was, of course, neck-deep in U2, excitedly following the news, and downloading and listening to each and every one of their promotional appearances. It was one of those promotional appearances – I think the one from February 23, […]
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I fondly remember the fervor that hit U2’s online fan community back in August, 2002 when their new single, “Electrical Storm” first debuted on BBC Radio 1. It seems that the program’s DJ, one Sarah HB, had run into Bono on her wedding day. As a gift, he had given her a CD that contained […]
Read MoreA lot can be said about Irish rock quartet U2, but one of their most talked about accolades is their ability to sell concert tickets. When U2 hits the road, not only do they move tickets, they break records. The band’s iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE is reaching fans in more personal ways than ever before and […]
Read MoreThe first time I visited Chicago was for the U.S. opener of the 360 Tour in September of 2009. U2 played two back-to-back shows at Soldier Field. The first show was my favorite because it was opening night and everything was new to me. More importantly, that 360 Tour Opener in Chicago on September 12th […]
Read MoreI thought that I would take a break this week from reliving the Elevation Tour to reminisce about the 360 Tour that started five years ago this week. I did not go to the opening show in Barcelona, but I did go to the U.S. opener in Chicago in 2009. No Line on the Horizon was released […]
Read MoreHas it been 5 years since the kick off of the U2 360 tour? Yes, it has been 5 long years. Today is that anniversary of the Camp Nou show on June 30th 2009 where U2 played to some 90,000 Spanish fans in Barcelona. U2 performed 22 songs that night and introduced us to the “Space Station” which included the […]
Read MoreI’ve written a lot in the past about some of U2’s more obscure gems, deep album tracks like “Running to Stand Still” or “Electric Co.”, but today I want to celebrate one of U2’s best-known songs, “Vertigo”, from 2004’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (HTDAAB) album. “Vertigo” is, in my experience, one of those […]
Read MoreOne of the lessons I have learned on my musical journey on the road with U2 is to never ever leave a concert early. Not that anyone would willingly leave a U2 concert early, but you might feel it is safe to make your way out of the stadium when you see the band walking […]
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