Boston 10-03 Photos

[LostAtMoon]

Because she couldn't keep them off his butt. She sure wasn't shy about it!

That chest is absolutely irresistible.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

I got this article from the atU2 mailing list

Village Soup Times & Citizen: She dances...with Bono

By Lorie Costigan
Times Editor

BOSTON (Oct 5): Bragging rights are afforded the diehard U2 fan who
stands in line for tickets to an Oct. 3 Boston gig, and then gets
scanned to go "Vertigo," otherwise known as an approximately
200-person seating area inside the ellipse of the Irish band's rounded
touring stage.

Such a seat gets a ticket holder close enough to see every line on
guitarist The Edge's face, and even every emotion that crosses the
face of front man Bono, renowned for his ability to alternately move
audiences from tears to cheers as his voice rides free flow over
emotions and cries out equally over loss and injustice, love and
laughter.

Such a seat would be enough to carry most fans for a lifetime.

But Beth Anderson of Belfast has been taken higher.

Bono hoisted the plucky mother of two, with one more on board, to the
stage Oct. 3 during one of the band's sold-out fall concerts in Boston.

Anderson owes it all to a sign: "Baby in My Belly Wants to Dance with
Bono."

"I made a sign at home and my husband said, 'Oh, Beth, you're not
going to take that are you?'"

A pediatrician and father, husband Joe should have known the answer:
Never try to dissuade a pregnant woman.

So from Belfast to Boston went Beth and her sign, her babe-to-be and
her man.

Then, after the band opened with "City of Blinding Lights" and
"Vertigo," Anderson held up her sign as Bono strutted by, deep in song
and scanning the crowd. The Edge saw the sign first and smiled, she
said.

"Then I looked and Bono was heading back our way, so I decided I'd put
my sign up again," she said Wednesday.

The sign met its mark and Bono smiled and called her up to the stage.

Joe Anderson
Beth Anderson of Belfast dances with Bono Oct. 3 in Boston. As does
the Anderson babe on board... (Image courtesy of Joe Anderson)

"This is all so unreal and I can't stop gushing about it," she said
Wednesday.

She danced to Bono's "Elevation" -- "You make me fly, so high" --
along with the band and Bono, aka Paul Hewson.

Did he notice she was wearing the EDUN jeans, the designer label he
and his wife made to promote sustainable manufacturing and fair trade
in Africa and South America and India?

Probably not, Anderson said, but it doesn't matter.

"He said I was a sexy mama," she said, adding that she likes the cause
the jeans support as much as she likes the clothing.

Anderson, who is also a marathon runner, model and mother of two boys,
is on the cover of a Boston newspaper -- with Bono -- today, and
featured in the Boston Globe entertainment pages. She will head back
to a modeling job in Boston in the next few days, but would rather be
heading to the "Conan O'Brien Show," where the band is scheduled to
perform tomorrow.

Would she like to model for EDUN some day and become its face for
pregnant mamas everywhere?

"Lorie, really, what do you think," she said.

Along with dancing with one of the top performers of the 20th century,
Anderson may also have just gyrated with the next recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize.

Driving rhythms and lyrics is one thing; driving politics and social
justice is quite another. Bono, it turns out, excels at both. His work
to encourage the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to
offer debt relief to the impoverished nations of Bolivia, Ghana,
Honduras, Niger, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia, some say, is tireless.
Both banks agreed, just months after the initial decision of those
attending a G8 Summit in Scotland in July, to write off billions of
dollars of debt.

Calling for such a move was a chorus repeated over the last several
years by Bono. His work put him on the cover of the Sunday New York
Times Magazine just two weeks ago, one week before the announcement of
the historic $40 billion debt relief.

"Bono has done a tremendous amount of work that comports with Alfred
Nobel's intention to award the prize to a group or individual that
promotes 'fraternity between nations,'" peace scholar Scott Hunt said
in an Oct. 5 release about the Nobel Prize, due to be awarded Oct. 7
in Oslo. "On the heels of the G8 Summit and The One Campaign, when
awareness has been raised that we can, for the first time in human
history, end dire poverty worldwide, I think Bono is the clear choice."

Is it any wonder that a man who acts to improve the lives of
impoverished women and children should smile at the little sign of
humanity -- a "Baby on Board" sign -- asking for a dance in the middle
of a sold-out, Boston concert crowd?

No, no wonder at all.

 

[Schmeg]

Good article, thank you!

That was a really cute moment and the picture of her on the cover of the Metro was beautiful, she looked so happy! I'm glad her dream came true.

 

[oliveu2cm]

sweet article, thanks Mrs. S!