![]() In fact the song was inspired by a series of four coordinated car bombs on that killed 33 people in Dublin and Monaghan. An earlier version said Raised By Wolves was inspired by a 1974 car bomb that killed 33 people in Dublin. This article was amended on 3 November 2015. Even in minimalist (for them), stripped-down mode, U2’s defiantly ambitious, meticulously choreographed live productions put virtually every other rock band to shame.Īt O2 Arena, London, until 3 November. ![]() Then, a recorded introduction by Stephen Hawking leads into an encore that climaxes with the sumptuous, lovelorn One, still the most visceral love song that the band have ever penned. On this particular performance, U2 changes the lyrics to allude to Trump’s warmongering, greed, xenophobia, nationalism, inexperience, and detrimental policies. Fleeing migrants and Isis training camps illustrate Bullet the Blue Sky, as Bono recites the complaints of critics of his global activism: “You’re part of the problem, not the solution.”Ī set-closing greatest-hits run of the earnest Where the Streets Have No Name, Pride (In the Name of Love) and With or Without You harks back to the days when U2’s sole aim was to write colossal, insatiable pop songs. Bullet the Blue Sky was a song originally written to raise awareness about oppression and violence and that still holds true today and was updated to hold its truth that night on Fallon. U2 would not be U2 if they did not compulsively meld the personal and the political, and October is accompanied by harrowing images of the devastation being wrought by the bombing of Syria. A few weeks earlier, he had been in Sarajevo, staying at the former Yugoslavian Olympic city’s war-torn Holiday Inn. I honestly thought we were all going to die, Bono, lead singer of the Irish band of conscience, U2, told friends one January night. ![]() More effective is Every Breaking Wave, a melancholy ballad sighed by Bono accompanied only by The Edge on piano. Buffett, Blackwell, and Bono: Bullet the Blue Sky. ![]() U2’s flirtations with technology have always veered from the cutting-edge to the cheesy, a trend continued as they pull a woman from the crowd to film Elevation: the shaky footage becomes a simultaneous live stream for subscribers to a mobile video app. On the same theme, mock explosions rock the hall before new track Raised By Wolves, inspired by a series of four coordinated car bombs on that killed 33 people in Dublin and Monaghan. The Troubles obviously cast a huge shadow over U2’s youth, and Larry Mullen beats a tin drum on a central walkway for a revisit of Sunday Bloody Sunday. ![]()
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