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U2 Faces the Music About New Songs at Concerts
At the two U2 shows I saw last week in New Jersey, I was stunned by how few in the audience were familiar with the band’s new songs. I felt … sad? disturbed? … something like that … at the end of the show when Bono was singing “Moment of Surrender” and you could see people leaving in droves so they could beat traffic. Bono could clearly see this happening, and I wondered if it bothered him. (If I was a singer, it would probably piss me off something fierce to see that.)
Well, it looks like U2, or at least Bono, is facing the music. In the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine, Bono talks about how the new songs are being received in concert:
“I walk out and sing (album track) ‘Breathe’ every night to a lot of people who don’t know it. They’re great songs live, and I think it’s a great album. I think it will be seen as ‘Gosh, one of their more challenging albums.’”
That comes from this blog post on Reuters.com, and it also says that, in the Rolling Stone article, Bono, Adam, and Larry all feel that “Get On Your Boots” was the wrong choice for NLOTH’s first single, but Edge thinks it was right.
Here’s hoping the whole article is as interesting as some of the nuggets in the Reuters blog post.
This is a post from the @U2 blog.
U2 Faces the Music About New Songs at Concerts
U2 @ 30 – RTE Retrospective-30 years of U2 clips 1978 to 2009
RTE has put together 30 moments of U2 in an extensive range of video and audio clips. These are taken from appearances on Irish television and radio.
1978 to 1986
1986 to 1993
1994 to 2009
This is a post from the @U2 blog.
U2 @ 30 – RTE Retrospective-30 years of U2 clips 1978 to 2009
U2 coming for the music or the message?
Political activism from rock stars has a long lineage.
You can trace it all the way back to George Harrison’s “Concert for Bangladesh” in 1972, the “No Nukes” concert in New York in 1979, “LIVE AID” and “We Are the World” in the 1980’s, and many more. Today such activism is ubiquitous.
Concert-goers are urged to support [...]
U2 to hit Russia for the first time ever
Legendary Irish band U2 has never before given concerts in Russia, but will come to Moscow next summer for their first live show – the U2 360° Tour – in support of the band’s latest studio album “No Line on the Horizon.”
The tour started in 2009, and the rockers, inspired by their last album’s success, decided to continue their tour in 2010. “European fans who missed out in 2009 will have a new opportunity to experience the U2 360° Tour extravaganza, with stops confirmed in Germany, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Austria, Greece, Turkey, France, Brussels, Spain and Portugal,” the band’s website reports.
U2 will travel with loads of technical gadgets and a huge stage crew to organize the dream performance for the stars. A perfectly round stage is among the hardware allowing each spectator see all the nuances of the show. Apart from the stage, the spectacle will also be equipped with numerous screens, and other visual effects.
The rock group was founded in Dublin, Ireland in 1976, and to the present time is one of the most popular and successful bands in the world. Their discography totals 17 studio albums, around 140 million copies of which have been sold worldwide.
In 2005, U2 were inducted into the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”. U2 members are also known for their active political and social involvement in the sphere of human rights and social justice.
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