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 […]
Read MoreLive Review: U2 are still one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time
Back in 2017, U2 announced to their legions of loyal fans that they would be hitting the road. No, they weren’t going to be touring support of their yet-to-be-announced Songs Of Experience record, rather, they were planning to take a look back 30 years, touring in support of their 1987 record, The Joshua Tree. Their […]
Read MoreU2 Joshua Tree review Melbourne: It’s one love, you’ve got to share it
Returning to Melbourne after a nine-year absence, U2 showed they have lost none of their remarkable ability to woo and wow an audience, even one of 60,000 forced to endure a smattering of rain before the roof of Marvel Stadium was belatedly closed. “Our drug of choice tonight isn’t alcohol,” frontman Bono said at one […]
Read MoreU2 review – who knew stadium rock didn’t need constant reinvention?
It is hard to imagine a time when U2 was not a rock and roll monolith; even harder to recall the last time the band performed their music without the giant screens and props that have for decades turned its concerts into extroverted performance pieces. The 2019 Joshua Tree tour – the third time U2 […]
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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 MoreTHE RISE OF U2
The astounding popularity of the rock group U2 raises this question: How has an Irish band that sings of the strife in Northern Ireland (“Sunday Bloody Sunday”) and the horrors of heroin addiction (“Running to Stand Still”) been able to achieve the same iconlike status enjoyed by Bruce Springsteen? Evidence of the group’s dominance is […]
Read MoreU2: The Joshua Tree
It’s a little unsettling how implacably serious these four young Dubliners have become in a relatively short period of time. The darkness of their costumes, the grimness of their faces and the bleak majesty of the desert terrain in which they are photographed on the cover of their new album announce a mood that is […]
Read MoreOver the Edge
With their finest LP U2 stands and delivers More than any other rock band, U2 is associated with rock’s revived social consciousness. Whether it is as a result of, or in spite of, their professed Christian beliefs, U2 is one band that gives a damn. And their latest album, The Joshua Tree, delivers even deeper into […]
Read MoreAt Home in Dublin
(Dublin, Ireland) — It’s raining downtown, but that doesn’t discourage shoppers along Grafton Street, one of the city’s busiest commercial areas. Dubliners appear so used to the rain that most of them don’t even carry umbrellas. Quips one merchant, “If you let the rain bother you here, you’ll live your life indoors.” The shoppers are […]
Read MoreU2 continues its cause with effect
U2: The Joshua Tree We say: A joyful noise. U2’s idealistic, hopeful vision of a world without war, drugs, hunger, racial tension and religious persecution is growing moredesperate with each album. On The Joshua Tree, its first LP in almost three years, this not-so-young-anymore Irish band comes across as feisty and concerned as ever, despite […]
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