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I remember during SIAMYCGOO during the Elevation Tour when Edge sang the crowd went nuts.
I remember during SIAMYCGOO during the Elevation Tour when Edge sang the crowd went nuts.
That's because Bono sounded like he was having minor throat explosions throughout that tour, and Edge didn't.
But, yeah, wow... with VDL and WLCTT being played recently, that makes me have some hope for a good R&H presence on the next tour.
Although I'm assuming these songs were a tribute to the Lovetown Point Depot nights.
But as yet unheard interview might, so I guess that's why it's here
k this is reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally weird....we have no news, pics, audio, video, nothing! nobody is talking about it...this is HUGE! wtf
k this is reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally weird....we have no news, pics, audio, video, nothing! nobody is talking about it...this is HUGE! wtf
U2 recorded both Desire and Van Diemens Land in the Point Depot just before it was converted into a concert venue - as immortalized on Rattle & Hum. Thus they were the first band ever to play the point. This little gig makes them the first band to play the newly renovated Point or "o2" as it's now known. I think it's fitting that they reprised the two songs they recorded in the venue - I wouldn't read anything more than that into it.
Maybe it will show up on The View tonight.
The View's webpage says tonight's performance is Jack L, so maybe next week
Next Week on The View
On Tuesday 2 December, John Kelly will be joined by actress Kate O'Toole, archivist and critic Catriona Crowe, and Irish Times online editor Hugh Linehan to review two films, 'The Changeling' and 'Rivals', Toni Morrison's new novel 'A Mercy' and the play 'Everybody Loves Sylvia' by Randolf SD.
09.12.2008
Completing the Circle
Edge and Bono dropped in on Dublin's brand new O2 arena at the weekend, performing a couple of numbers from Rattle and Hum ... just as they did in the same place more than twenty years ago.
They were there to take part in a special RTE programme about the late Ronnie Drew which will be screened over the holiday period and the performance had a certain synchronicity about it.
It was twenty one years ago that Harry Crosbie set up camp in the then derelict old railway goods yard on Dublin's deserted docks to begin work on what became The Point Depot - one of the city's great music venues of recent times.
The first phone call Crosbie got, surrounded by trains and freight, was from U2's office. The band booked the venue for the filming of Rattle and Hum. They shot 'Desire' on their first day in the venue.
'The first morning,' recalls Crosbie. 'When Bono arrived to shoot, he picked up a red guitar and played a chord and that was the first music ever played at The Point.'
Harry asked Bono to come back and do it again for luck for the O2, a brand new venue which has been built on the site of The Point. It was a pretty intimate performance by all accounts - the venue doesn't open for a few more days. 'The circle is complete and Ireland's greatest venue had its first music played by its greatest band.'
More on the RTE tribute to Ronnie Drew as we get it.
http://www.u2.com/news/index.php?mode=full&news_id=2274
Yes it looks like the lineup for last week's episode alright - I remember flicking through channels last Tuesday night and seeing something about "Changeling" on RTE1. Plus on the RTE Television homepage it mentions that this week they will be reviewing a book called The Lemon Tree - not mentioned in the lineup on The View's page. Looks like they just haven't updated the page since last week's broadcast.
Very good chance that the U2 appearance will be tonight's performance I think...
Lets hope that that someone record todays programe, we may have on online in two hours then
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lovely avi comet, btw
...could you add a santa's hat to mine too?