The morning after the U2 Elevation show in Pittsburgh, I flew to Columbus, OH for the show at Nationwide Arena that night. My head still hurt from where I hit it in the GA line in Pittsburgh. Even though I enjoyed my first time inside the heart in Pittsburgh, being that close to the stage, […]
Read MoreElevation Pittsburgh 5.6.01 – where it all began
Even though it was my sixth show on the Elevation tour, that show in Pittsburgh was what really started the magical experience for me that was the Elevation tour. It was the first time I waited in the GA line all day, my first real GA experience. It was the first time I made friends that […]
Read MoreU2 Elevation Lexington, May 4 2001
Less than a month after the U2 Elevation show in Tacoma, I found myself in Lexington, Kentucky. I was going to make a weekend of U2 and the Kentucky Derby. At the time, I thought this U2 show was the best I had ever seen – as I would write after every Elevation show because […]
Read MoreThe U2 360 Tour 5 Years Later
I 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 MoreU2 Elevation Tacoma 4.12.01
The U2 show in Tacoma on April 12, 2001 marked a lot of firsts for me. It was my first time visiting Seattle, my first real GA experience and my first time seeing P.J. Harvey open (I would see her 13 more times). I had a friend in Seattle, so I flew out Easter weekend […]
Read MoreU2 Elevation Charlotte 3.29.01 – my 1st GA show
A few days after the opening shows in Florida, I flew to Charlotte on March 29, 2001 for the third show on U2’s Elevation Tour. It was on my way home to Baltimore. This show was my first U2 GA (General Admission) show. It was assigned seats for the previous two tours, ZooTv and Popmart. […]
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Larry Mullen the hugger
Yes, that’s right. Not Larry Mullen the drummer, but Larry Mullen the hugger. To hug is to clasp or hold closely, especially in the arms, as in affection; embrace. And a Deena Dishes on LARRYhugger is someone who enjoys hugging, and who hugs as often as possible. U2’s supposedly shyest, least public member, the one […]
Read MoreU2’s Elevation Tour begins in Florida March 24, 2001
2001 was one of the best years of my life, but it started just over two months prior with the release of All That You Can’t Leave Behind in October 2000. That album was an instant favorite. I didn’t have to listen to it a few times to fall in love with it like I had with Achtung […]
Read MoreU2 101 – Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
One of U2‘s most rockin’ songs is their single from the 1995 film Batman Forever, “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me.” The song’s title first appeared, in an obscured fashion, on the cover to their 1993 album Zooropa, and in many ways could serve to explain the ways in which Achtung Baby, it’s […]
Read MoreU2 Popmart Tampa and Miami, when I almost became a Bono girl
This is the third and final installment of my retrospective on U2’s Popmart tour, a tour we seem to forget about. The last two shows I went to on Popmart, on the third leg, were quite fabulous. They were in Tampa and Miami on November 10th and 14th in 1997, and that is the week […]
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