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U2 played their 1983 song ‘Seconds’ for the first time in nearly four decades during the latest night of their Las Vegas residency (November 3). Watch the footage below.The song, originally released on the band’s third studio album ‘War’, was a regular in their setlists in the period after its release, but before yesterday, it had not been played at any U2 concert since 1985.U2’s residency at the dazzling new Sphere venue in Las Vegas, titled ‘U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere’, began on September 29, and was initially scheduled to run until December 16.

U2 at Las Vegas’ Sphere on Jan. 26-27 started at $737 before fees on Vivid Seats.Now, just six days later, our team found seats going for as low as $420 before fees.While still rather expensive, that’s a whopping $317 (!) in savings just for practicing patience.Given the show’s impressive bona fides; that’s a steal.“The term immersive doesn’t give this production its due justice,” the New York Post wrote in a glowing review of the show.

U2 live.Starting Friday, Dec. 1, the 2005 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees will pick their ongoing residency at Las Vegas’ The Sphere back up for 19 more shows.As of now, concerts are scheduled to take place at the visually spectacular, 20,000-seat venue on select Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays all the way up until Feb.

U2 are set to extend their residency at the new Sphere venue in Las Vegas, according to reports.Held at the newly launched venue in Nevada, the Irish rock veterans became the first artist to perform at the Sphere and are currently underway with their residency which sees them perform some ‘Achtung Baby’ deep cuts for the first time in 30 years along with other classic hits.The live shows – titled ‘U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere’ – kicked off on September 29, and was scheduled to run until December 16. However, according to new reports, it seems that the band are set to be adding more dates to the residency.The speculation arose after outlets like The New York Post claimed that U2 are set to add a total of 12 more dates to the list while organisers continue to seek out other acts to take on the headline spot at the $2.3billion venue.It is not yet clear whether these 12 extra dates have been locked in or not, however, with Bono and co.

U2 have said they have some “amazing new songs” in the can, teasing that they will be “ready soon”.The Irish group are currently a week into their spectacular residency at Las Vegas’ groundbreaking new venue, Sphere. Ahead of the first show last Friday (September 29) Bono and co. released a standalone single called ‘Atomic City’.Now, the band have taken Zane Lowe on another behind-the-scenes tour of the Sphere in a video for Apple Music.

U2 kicked off their residency at the MSG Sphere in Las Vegas by dedicating one of their tracks to drummer Larry Mullen Jr, who is not taking part in the shows due to various injuries.The Irish rock icons launched their long-awaited residency at the new MSG Sphere in Nevada last week, and used the opening show to pay tribute to the absent member.Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and stand-in drummer Bram Van Den Berg all made a nod towards Mullen Jr during the set, dedicating their 1988 track ‘All I Want Is You’ to him. The drummer is not taking part in their 25-show residency at the £2.3billion venue due to injuries sustained to his elbows, knees and neck.He previously confirmed that the injuries are all drumming-related, and said that he would “like to take some time… to get myself healed”, rather than persevere with the Las Vegas shows.

U2 is headed to Sin City to kick off their ‘U2/UV Achtung Baby Live at the Sphere’ Las Vegas residency at the MSG Sphere starting Friday, Sept. 29.Over the course of the year, Bono, The Edge and the band will play 25 huge shows at the brand new, state of the art venue.“Sphere is completely unprecedented,” the band’s creative director shared on Instagram.

U2 have announced ‘Zoo Station’ – an immersive experience for fans, designed ahead of their upcoming Sphere shows.Opening on September 28, the immersive fan portal, called ‘Zoo Station: A U2:UV Experience’ is designed to help fans gather a deeper understanding of the band’s acclaimed album ‘Achtung Baby’.Aiming to provide “a unique opportunity to interact with U2’s rich artistic legacy”, ‘Zoo Station’ is developed by Vibee, a Live Nation-founded destination experience company and VIP package provider, and is set to be the “ultimate hub for fans”.A ​​‘Zoo TV Cinema’ is featured within the experience, which has been curated by The Edge, as well as an Anton Corbijn Gallery, limited edition merchandise, VIP lounges and much more.It was developed in collaboration with Gavin Friday, U2’s longtime Creative Director, and also had direct input from the band members. The final result spans 12,000 square feet of interactive exhibit space across two floors, and is located within The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas.The portal was also created to support the Irish band’s groundbreaking run of upcoming shows, which will launch off the most state-of-the-art venue, Sphere, the next day (September 29).Open daily to the public from September 28, the exhibit borrows its name from the opening track from the 1991 album ‘Achtung Baby’, and is the nickname for the Zoologischer Garten – an actual Berlin train station, located not far from Hansa Studios where much of the album was recorded.U2:UV ACHTUNG BABY LIVE AT SPHERE pic.twitter.com/tNqEuBgufY— U2 (@U2) August 30, 2023“Fans can visit the Ultra Violet lounge for music and shopping and the Fly Bar for drinks and more interactive art,” the description of the upcoming portal reads.

U2 bandmates Bono and The Edge have reportedly managed to secretly grab a curry from Wetherspoons in London together.The duo made their way to the Central Bar in Shepherd’s Bush to tuck into a bowl of curry from the budget boozer without being spotted. They managed to have their meal completely incognito without other guests realising who they were.It was only after they had left that the pub’s manager Dan Corley clocked that the ‘With Or Without You’ hitmakers were in the establishment.

Bono surprised attendees at the Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia with an a cappella rendition of Bob Marley‘s ‘Redemption Song’ – watch the moment below.The frontman and The Edge were present at the film festival for a special screening of U2‘s Kiss The Future documentary when the legendary Irish vocalist hopped on the mic to serenade the crowd.Fans quickly joined in to sing along to the track after Bono unexpected belted out the opening lines to the Bob Marley classic. Watch a clip of the performance below.#Bono & #TheEdge at the #SarajevoFilmFestival for #KissTheFuture: "Redemption Song"Video © @28th_sff"When Bono's voice meets the silver screen.

U2‘s The Edge says the band have “a lot of great material in the pipeline” as they gear up to release new material.The Irish rockers shared new album ‘Songs Of Surrender’ this year, with 40 of the band’s biggest songs given a “21st-century reimagining”.Another LP called ‘Songs Of Ascent’ has also been heavily teased by the band, though is now seemingly on the backburner after Bono said he first wants to release “a noisy, uncompromising, unreasonable guitar album”.Now, The Edge has shared the frontman’s excitement over a return to guitar-based material, telling Guitar Player magazine: “I know the answer to that. [laughs] I’ve been working a lot on new guitar music, and I’m very excited about it.

U2 has done it all.They’ve been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, won 22 Grammy Awards and netted six Billboard Top 10 hits.Now, they’re doing something brand new.From Sept. 29 through Nov.

U2 announced the dates for their Las Vegas residency at the new Sphere performance venue, where they will perform ‘Achtung Baby’ in full.Speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, the band’s Bono and The Edge took him an on exclusive tour of the venue, sharing several key details about the Sphere, noting that it was built specifically for live performances and the arts, rather than a typical arena that’s built for sports.Bono said to Lowe: “Most music, over playing a theater, most music venues are sports venues. They’re stadiums, they’re arenas.

U2 guitarist The Edge has discussed frontman and fellow bandmate Bono‘s political “superpower” – and how he was right in becoming a high-profile political activist.In an interview with MOJO,  The Edge shared that U2’s music and extra-curricular political campaigning have become “so intermingled” with the band over time that it would now be “very hard to imagine one without the other”.“There’s obviously been challenging moments, particularly when Bono was making great strides in America and realised his superpower was being able to work both sides of the aisle and persuade politicians from different parts of the spectrum to work together,” he said.“But that meant he was having meetings with people like [right-wing US Senator] Jesse Helms, who famously dismantled the National Endowment for the Arts because of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs and made some terrible early comments about the AIDS pandemic.He continued: “So, that was hard. But we understood the logic.

U2 guitarist The Edge has said that he wants to be “the vanguard of this resurgence of guitars”.In an interview for the latest issue of MOJO, The Edge spoke about how he has a lot of “great material waiting” and that he hopes Bono‘s “noisy, uncompromising, unreasonable guitar album” will be their next project.“Well, I would love that to be the next U2 record!” He said. “The lockdown was a very creative period for me, just in composing music. I don’t want to jinx ourselves… but there’s a lot of great material waiting.

U2’s latest album ‘Songs Of Surrender’ is currently selling more copies than the rest of the Top Five in the charts combined – and fast on the way to becoming the band’s 11th Number One album.Released last Friday, the album saw the Irish rock veterans return with a series of re-recorded and re-interpreted songs from throughout their 40-year career, including fan favourites, ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’ and ‘With Or Without You’.Sharing its name with Bono’s 2022 memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, the album is already performing extremely well on the charts and, as of yesterday, outselling the rest of the Top Five combined, according to The Official Charts Company.If it were to peak at the top position, it would mark the band’s 11th number one album, and the first to reach the summit following their 2009 LP, ‘No Line On the Horizon’. Previously, U2 have scored consecutive Top 10 entries over the past decade, with 2014’s ‘Songs Of Innocence’ and 2017’s ‘Songs of Experience’ peaking at Number Six and Number Five respectively.Additionally, their greatest hits album, ‘U218 Singles’, has also resurfaced and is on its way to reaching the Top 40 for the second time.

U2‘s Bono and The Edge have become the latest stars to perform for NPR‘s Tiny Desk concert series – check out their concert below.The pair performed stripped down versions of four of their hits: ‘Beautiful Day’, ‘In A Little While’, ‘Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of’ and ‘Walk On’. They were accompanied by the Duke Ellington School of the Arts choir.Before playing ‘In A Little While’, The Edge joked: “All of these years trying to avoid a desk job.

“Pride (In the Name of Love)” to “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” to “Beautiful Day,” U2 has made a legendary career out of its super earnest and passionate anthems.And their fearless leader Bono doesn’t care if his band’s unforgettable fire comes off as corny.“Brian Eno … said to us, ‘You know, you should not be concerned with things like being cool. That would be uncool for you.

U2‘s The Edge has said that he and Bono are “anxious” to release a new guitar-driven album – and has confirmed that the band will play ‘Achtung Baby’ in full at their Las Vegas residency.The band’s guitarist said in a new interview that they have “an embarrassment of riches of new material” in addition to the reimagined originals appearing on their forthcoming album ‘Songs Of Surrender‘ (out March 17).The Edge told Rolling Stone that fans can expect new songs, which Bono recently said will make up “a noisy, uncompromising, unreasonable guitar album”, in the near future.“As soon as possible,” The Edge told the publication of the album’s expected release window. “But, of course, that’s just who I am.

The Edge has spoken about U2’s bond and their ongoing commitment to the band, saying it would be “very difficult to break up” the group.The Irish band formed in 1976 and are set to release ‘Songs Of Surrender’, a new album featuring reimagined takes on some of their most iconic work, this month.In a new interview, the guitarist spoke about rumours that U2 could be nearing the end of their time together. Drummer Larry Mullen Jr will not join the band for their upcoming Las Vegas residency due to requiring surgery and will be replaced temporarily for the shows by Bram van den Berg.“No one is more disappointed than us that Larry won’t be joining us in Vegas,” The Edge told the Telegraph.

U2 have shared a new version of their 2000 hit single ‘Beautiful Day’, taken from their forthcoming album ‘Songs Of Surrender’.The record, which will be released on March 17, will see the Irish band re-record 40 songs from across their back catalogue, reworking and reimagining them in the process.The new version of ‘Beautiful Day’ finds U2 delivering rearranged takes on its instantly recognisable melodies and instrumental layers, while Bono’s vocal performance finds new dynamics and emotion. Listen to the track in full below, alongside the original version.At the time ‘Songs Of Surrender’ was announced, The Edge explained that much of the band’s work “was written and recorded when we were a bunch of very young men” and that the songs had changed over the years to “mean something quite different to us now”.“Some have grown with us,” he wrote.

U2 documentary special that will see Bono and The Edge show David Letterman around Dublin is coming to Disney+ next month – check out the trailer below.The documentary, titled Bono & The Edge: A Sort Of Homecoming, with David Letterman, will see Letterman travel to Ireland for the first time to meet up with Bono and The Edge, who he later helps with a live performance. In a press release, it’s described as “part concert movie, part travel adventure plus a whole lot of Bono and The Edge, with Dave’s humor throughout.” [via Stereogum]The documentary is set to land on March 17 to coincide with the release of ‘Songs Of Surrender’, a compilation album of 40 “reimagined and re-recorded” songs from across their catalogue.

“Trustfall,” and the singer says that making the LP helped her cope with own crisis of faith.“In order to be a human being in this world today, it requires a lot of trust, like just to … drop your kids off at school and participate in elections and have an opinion,” Pink said at an album release party held 101 floors up in the sky at the Edge overlooking Manhattan.“ ‘Trustfall’ is sort of [about] two things … I feel like we’re falling backwards, and the ground is uncertain. But it’s also that freedom and letting go, trusting and having faith in the universe that it’s going to take care of you.”And the 43-year-old mother of two — daughter Willow, 11, and son Jameson, 5 — takes comfort in the fact that “I know if my kids had the muscles, they would catch me.”Making “Trustfall” tunes such as first single “Never Gonna Not Dance Again” — which Pink performed on roller skates to open the American Music Awards last November —  helped the artist deal with her issues during the pandemic.“I wrote ‘Never Gonna Not Dance Again’ because I felt like the world was ending,” said Pink, who also performed acoustic renditions of new tunes “When I Get There” and “Trustfall” at the event, where she was interviewed by Peloton star Cody Rigsby.“I’m not wasting any more time.

U2‘s Bono and The Edge are reportedly working on new music for North Star, an upcoming biopic about the director Jim Sheridan.Sheridan, who is best known for such films as My Left Foot and In The Name Of The Father, will direct the semi-autobiographical feature, which will tell the story of the director’s early life in Ireland in the early 1960s.North Star is described as “the coming-of-age story of 17-year-old Sheamie Sheridan, who lives with his rough-around-the-edges father and younger brother Frankie”.“A journey into the heart and soul of a family, Sheamie finds his world turned upside down when a teenage orphan moves in to live with them, revealing the deeper and more complicated problems Sheamie has with his dad; secrets that now threaten to tear the family apart.”Variety reports that Bono and The Edge are “in discussions to compose original music” for Sheridan’s North Star, which is being produced by Spinning Gold director Timothy Scott Bogart.The U2 musicians are in talks to write and perform the original song ‘North Star’ in addition to collaborating on the score.Shooting on North Star is set to begin in early 2023 on location in Ireland.Bono, meanwhile, will publish his memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story in November.The book is set to span the singer’s career, “from his early days growing up in Dublin, including the sudden loss of his mother when he was 14, to U2’s unlikely journey to become one of the world’s most influential rock bands, to his 20 years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty”.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.The superstars performed such U2 classics as “With or Without You” and “Angel of Harlem” along with a cover of Ben E. King’s “Stand by Me” — although they changed the lyrics to “Stand by Ukraine.”“President Zelensky invited us to perform in Kyiv as a show of solidarity with the Ukrainian people and so that’s what we’ve come to do,” the band tweeted from its official account in a message signed by Bono and The Edge — who played acoustic guitar for the makeshift subway concert.The U2 frontmen apparently chose to perform in the central Kyiv subway station because Ukraine’s transit stations have become de facto bomb shelters for residents to hide from Russian attacks. Videos on social media captured the moving event in the Eastern European country’s capital city.Bono and The Edge were accompanied for part of the performance by the Ukrainian band Antytila, whose member Taras Topolia joined the country’s military to fight off the Russians and can be seen singing in his military fatigues. Antytila recently collaborated with Ed Sheehan to raise money for the Ukrainian war effort.The U2 performance comes a month after Zelensky made a special address at the Grammys urging US musicians to use their platforms and talents to “tell the truth about” the war.“Fill the silence with your music!” Zelensky said at the time.

U2’s Bono and The Edge held a surprise acoustic concert in a bomb shelter in Kyiv earlier today (May 8), at the invitation of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.The duo delivered a set featuring some of their biggest hits as they showed their support for the country, which has been fending off an invasion by Russia since February 24.Bono and The Edge performed in one of Kyiv’s subway stations that have been repurposed as a bomb shelter since the invasion began. According to the Irish Times, the musicians started the set with ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ as the sound of air-raid sirens went off in the distance.Elsewhere in the setlist were ‘With Or Without You’, ‘Desire’ and ‘Angel Of Harlem’.

U2‘s The Edge, Amy Winehouse, Eric Clapton and more have sold for a total of over $5million at a recent auction.The event, titled Julien’s Auctions’ Icons & Idols: Rock N’ Roll, took place over the weekend and saw a stack of music memorabilia auctioned away, as Rolling Stone reports.

U2 guitarist The Edge has designed a new guitar strap, sales of which will go towards supporting refugee women.The guitarist has partnered with the charity Love Welcomes, “a social enterprise that helps refugee women begin to stitch their lives back together” by providing skills training, employment and humanitarian support.The Edge’s ‘Love Welcomes’ guitar straps – which each include an orange strip of upcycled life vest worn by refugees during their journey across the Mediterranean – have been