Giant Lemon
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Sounds very cool, MissZooropa! It's great that you got to meet Bono and got his autograph. Please continue...
My last (?) U2-tour, part 1
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MissZooropa
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I will post my story here since this is the place I usually visit and I know a few of you here IRL and some just from your posts. It's not really a drooling story, just the 10 best days (and the worst, you will understand why in the next part) in my life.... So here you have part one.
My last (?) U2 trip
So, august 16th and I'm off for London and Dublin. I arrive in London about 5pm and try to find my way to my friend Martin who lives just next door to Earls Court and who had offered me a floor to sleep on, a shower to use and somewhere to store my stuff. When I leave the tube and steps out infront of Earls Court I finally realize what's going on. What meets me is a totally U2-decorated Earls Court, lovely!!
Thursday night I just spend checking out the area and goes to bed early. Friday I did the usual touriststuff, checking out Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge and on. Late at night I check out the venue but it seems very closed so I go to bed. Wake up at 6 and head to Earls court, just to find out that there were alot of people who had been camping out so I was "only" nr 38. Oh well, not to bad and I finally met Johanna again, who I met in Copenhagen and Stockholm and whom I had had a great time with there.
The day is filled with incorrect information and noone knew what was going on so everytime I left the line for toilet or whatever I was scared something had happened when I got back. Everything sorted out though and finally it was time to enter the arena. I do as the security tells me, walks, but when I see alot of people running pass me I start to run as well, too late though, but I got good spot just left of Bono, front row.
The show was great, as always, but nothing really special. Bono?s voice was great though and I got to hear him hit the high note in Stuck at the "the water is warm til you discover how deep". He usually goes down on deep but now he went up and I was in heaven. Such a little thing can make a big deal. He played around alot with his voice that night and I loved it!
After the show me, Johanna and some more friends went for some food, I took a shower and headed back to the arena to start queueing again, just to find out that the security had handed out numbered wristband and told people to go home and not come back until noon the next day. What kind of queueing is that? My concious told me not to do like that so I stayed.
Johanna comes and picks me up and we go to the place where the garage is. It's about 1.30 am and we are about 20 fans waiting for someone. After about ten minutes we decide to go to bed and are just about to leave when two cars passes and stops and Bono steps out of one of them. So strange, I had no thoughts at all of meeting him. He goes directly to Johanna, reaches out his arms and hugs her and thanks her for holding his hand during the show. She was in heaven. He signs, answers a few question and thanks us for a great show. He's not in a good mood though and politely says "No, I'm not really in for photos now" when one fan asks him to pose with him. I was stonned as always and don't get a word out of my mouth even if I'm less then half a metre away from him all the time. He looked gorogeus, but tired and his voice was abit soar. I had a few items I wanted to be signed but I choose a tag I had made. He had to sign it three times though til it worked, I really wanted to thank him for his patience but as always I can't say anything but Thank you. Standing there, shaking, looking at him in his grey shirt, armyhat and blue shades, I was about to cry cause of all emotions but I didn't, what an embaressment it would be, standing there crying for nothing infront of Bono.
Then while he was signing a tourbook for a guy someone put an albumcover over the tourbook so Bono couldn't finnish his sign so I lifted up the albumcover so he could finnish it and Bono thanked me for doing that? Bono thanked ME!!!
The slovakian guy with the U2-car (who have missed him?) is there and Bono is asked if he would like to sign the car and he says "oh, yes, I loove signing cars", walks over, study the amazing car and then makes a sign over one of the frontwheels saying "Bonos burning rubber". He signs a few more items and then heads back to his car. I was soo happy, mostly cause it came as a surprice meeting him.
After that I go to bed, outside the arena with a happy smile on my face.
I wake up the next morning at about 8 and a friend flying in from San Fransisco (awakening/Gabriella) is about to arrive at 8.30. I recognize here from the picture with Edge I'd seen of her. We sit together looking at pictures and chatting, alot of PLEBA-talk? The day passes with the same stress as the day before.
This night I decided to go for the outside tip of the heart and gets a great spot just left of the middle platform. Next to me I have a 13-14 year old guy with his older brother. He's just about to see his first U2-concert and his brother had lied to their mother and told her they had seats, otherwise she wouldn't have let the little brother go, here he was, front row! It's so great to see new U2-fans growing up, just as devoted as the older ones. During these days I've met fans in their upper 50?s queueing from 6.30-7am to get inside the heart, til boys and girls in their early teens, it's amazing!
The show was stonning, they had such a great time, Bono was laughing and smiling all the time, interacting with the fans. We got Out of control, amazing, Ground beneath her feet, written by a band called The Salman Rushdies, as Bono introduced it. I've never seen Bono dancing and rolling his hips as much as he did during Mysterious ways this night, he wasn't still one second, he smiled all the time and the front row held up dollarbills that he collected and put in his pants and then he unzipped his pants briefly to all our amusement!! He just laughed his funny grin and kept on dancing. When they reenter for playing One, he ask us, "What? What?, You want to hear One?" We all cheered, while he was laughing and looking at one guy in the front row. Then I hear Bono taking a chord while he looks at Edge, and it wasn't the first chord to One, for sure. He starts Angel of Harlem! First it was just him and Edge but for the second verse he turns around to Larry and Adam and asks them to join and so they did and we got the first fullband, fullversion of Angel of Harlem during this tour. Amazing!! Then we got One which Bono started with a lovely speech. He thanked us for following them around these last months. He had tonight seen faces he had seen in America, Miami, etc, in Europ?, Germany, Paris etc. He thanked us and said that he knows that we don't sleep in fancy hotels like they do, to be able to follow them, and we even pay for their hotels, and so he thanked us again. It felt good to hear!
Monday, one day off?.. went to the headoffice for Time out-magazine and picked up a copy of the magazine with U2 in it, choose the Bono-cover. Checked out Astoria. Then we started to line up again, this time I REALLY wanted to be infront of Bono, since it was his and Ali?s anniversary the next day and I had made my first sign ever, simply saying "Happy 19th anniversary".
To be continued?..
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"U2 on it?s own is a very interesting group and all. But U2 with it?s audience is a culture" - Bono
My last (?) U2 trip
So, august 16th and I'm off for London and Dublin. I arrive in London about 5pm and try to find my way to my friend Martin who lives just next door to Earls Court and who had offered me a floor to sleep on, a shower to use and somewhere to store my stuff. When I leave the tube and steps out infront of Earls Court I finally realize what's going on. What meets me is a totally U2-decorated Earls Court, lovely!!
Thursday night I just spend checking out the area and goes to bed early. Friday I did the usual touriststuff, checking out Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge and on. Late at night I check out the venue but it seems very closed so I go to bed. Wake up at 6 and head to Earls court, just to find out that there were alot of people who had been camping out so I was "only" nr 38. Oh well, not to bad and I finally met Johanna again, who I met in Copenhagen and Stockholm and whom I had had a great time with there.
The day is filled with incorrect information and noone knew what was going on so everytime I left the line for toilet or whatever I was scared something had happened when I got back. Everything sorted out though and finally it was time to enter the arena. I do as the security tells me, walks, but when I see alot of people running pass me I start to run as well, too late though, but I got good spot just left of Bono, front row.
The show was great, as always, but nothing really special. Bono?s voice was great though and I got to hear him hit the high note in Stuck at the "the water is warm til you discover how deep". He usually goes down on deep but now he went up and I was in heaven. Such a little thing can make a big deal. He played around alot with his voice that night and I loved it!
After the show me, Johanna and some more friends went for some food, I took a shower and headed back to the arena to start queueing again, just to find out that the security had handed out numbered wristband and told people to go home and not come back until noon the next day. What kind of queueing is that? My concious told me not to do like that so I stayed.
Johanna comes and picks me up and we go to the place where the garage is. It's about 1.30 am and we are about 20 fans waiting for someone. After about ten minutes we decide to go to bed and are just about to leave when two cars passes and stops and Bono steps out of one of them. So strange, I had no thoughts at all of meeting him. He goes directly to Johanna, reaches out his arms and hugs her and thanks her for holding his hand during the show. She was in heaven. He signs, answers a few question and thanks us for a great show. He's not in a good mood though and politely says "No, I'm not really in for photos now" when one fan asks him to pose with him. I was stonned as always and don't get a word out of my mouth even if I'm less then half a metre away from him all the time. He looked gorogeus, but tired and his voice was abit soar. I had a few items I wanted to be signed but I choose a tag I had made. He had to sign it three times though til it worked, I really wanted to thank him for his patience but as always I can't say anything but Thank you. Standing there, shaking, looking at him in his grey shirt, armyhat and blue shades, I was about to cry cause of all emotions but I didn't, what an embaressment it would be, standing there crying for nothing infront of Bono.
Then while he was signing a tourbook for a guy someone put an albumcover over the tourbook so Bono couldn't finnish his sign so I lifted up the albumcover so he could finnish it and Bono thanked me for doing that? Bono thanked ME!!!
The slovakian guy with the U2-car (who have missed him?) is there and Bono is asked if he would like to sign the car and he says "oh, yes, I loove signing cars", walks over, study the amazing car and then makes a sign over one of the frontwheels saying "Bonos burning rubber". He signs a few more items and then heads back to his car. I was soo happy, mostly cause it came as a surprice meeting him.
After that I go to bed, outside the arena with a happy smile on my face.
I wake up the next morning at about 8 and a friend flying in from San Fransisco (awakening/Gabriella) is about to arrive at 8.30. I recognize here from the picture with Edge I'd seen of her. We sit together looking at pictures and chatting, alot of PLEBA-talk? The day passes with the same stress as the day before.
This night I decided to go for the outside tip of the heart and gets a great spot just left of the middle platform. Next to me I have a 13-14 year old guy with his older brother. He's just about to see his first U2-concert and his brother had lied to their mother and told her they had seats, otherwise she wouldn't have let the little brother go, here he was, front row! It's so great to see new U2-fans growing up, just as devoted as the older ones. During these days I've met fans in their upper 50?s queueing from 6.30-7am to get inside the heart, til boys and girls in their early teens, it's amazing!
The show was stonning, they had such a great time, Bono was laughing and smiling all the time, interacting with the fans. We got Out of control, amazing, Ground beneath her feet, written by a band called The Salman Rushdies, as Bono introduced it. I've never seen Bono dancing and rolling his hips as much as he did during Mysterious ways this night, he wasn't still one second, he smiled all the time and the front row held up dollarbills that he collected and put in his pants and then he unzipped his pants briefly to all our amusement!! He just laughed his funny grin and kept on dancing. When they reenter for playing One, he ask us, "What? What?, You want to hear One?" We all cheered, while he was laughing and looking at one guy in the front row. Then I hear Bono taking a chord while he looks at Edge, and it wasn't the first chord to One, for sure. He starts Angel of Harlem! First it was just him and Edge but for the second verse he turns around to Larry and Adam and asks them to join and so they did and we got the first fullband, fullversion of Angel of Harlem during this tour. Amazing!! Then we got One which Bono started with a lovely speech. He thanked us for following them around these last months. He had tonight seen faces he had seen in America, Miami, etc, in Europ?, Germany, Paris etc. He thanked us and said that he knows that we don't sleep in fancy hotels like they do, to be able to follow them, and we even pay for their hotels, and so he thanked us again. It felt good to hear!
Monday, one day off?.. went to the headoffice for Time out-magazine and picked up a copy of the magazine with U2 in it, choose the Bono-cover. Checked out Astoria. Then we started to line up again, this time I REALLY wanted to be infront of Bono, since it was his and Ali?s anniversary the next day and I had made my first sign ever, simply saying "Happy 19th anniversary".
To be continued?..
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"U2 on it?s own is a very interesting group and all. But U2 with it?s audience is a culture" - Bono
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