The US iTunes store sells the "Live from Under the Brooklyn Bridge EP" with 4 tracks from the Brooklyn show a few days ago. The songs included are:

All Because of You (3:42)
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own (5:20)
I Will Follow (4:11)
Vertigo (3:32)


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    Posted by Macphisto on Thursday, December 09 @ 16:02:33 CET

U2Log.com reported the following setlist from yesterdays show:

Vertigo
All Because Of You
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
City of Blinding Lights
Original of the Species
She's a Mystery To Me
Beautiful Day
I Will Follow
encore(s):
Out of Control
Vertigo

If you were at the show post your review here.

Some pictures are here.
More great pictures are available at brooklynvegan.com.
You can submit your own pictures here.

Sickshow.com has a great video of U2 performing All Because Of You in the streets of New York from the flatbed truck.

AP Photo/Ramin Talaie

(U2Log.com) -- Confirmed with Principle Management: The show will be at Empire Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn at 3 pm. Tickets are not required.

There will be NO show at Washington Square Park. It was the original location for the show, but they decided it was too small and in too busy of an area to hold a show.

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    Posted by Macphisto on Saturday, November 20 @ 17:47:16 CET

Bono & Edge performed 3 songs at todays dedication ceremony for the William J. Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Rain
Sunday Bloody Sunday
The Hands That Built America

Video of Sunday Bloody Sunday is available here.

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    Posted by Macphisto on Thursday, November 18 @ 21:33:41 CET

(NME.com) -- U2 are playing an exclusive gig for RADIO 1 next week.

And the station will be packed with themed programming as the band gear up for the release of their new album ‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’.

On Tuesday (November 16) they will play a tiny show for Radio 1 competition winners and special guests at their studio at Dublin’s Hanover Quays. The performance will be broadcast live on Zane Lowe’s show between 7-9pm.

That morning, Jo Whiley will be joined by the band live at the venue for her 10am show.

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    Posted by Macphisto on Wednesday, November 10 @ 14:39:40 CET

Here is the setlist from todays CD:UK taping in front of 150 people at the Riverside studios, London:

Vertigo (with backing tapes; like TOTP yesterday)
City of Blinding Lights
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own

The band arrived 3 hours behind schedule. Planned was a ~30 minutes set. As you can see the final set was much shorter. SYCMIOYO had to be started twice because the band wasn't satisfied with the song after the first minute.

If you attended the show write a review.

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    Posted by Macphisto on Saturday, October 16 @ 21:08:43 CEST

Today U2 played a short set in front of 200 people (and a few more outside) on the BBC car park. The show has been taped for BBC Top of the Pops and Vertigo was aired live. Here is the setlist:

Vertigo
All Because Of You
Desire
She's A Mystery To Me
City of Blinding Lights

U2 will also play a few songs for ITV’s CD:UK tomorrow.

If you attended the show write a review.

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    Posted by Macphisto on Friday, October 15 @ 21:30:35 CEST

(Belfasttelegraph.co.uk) -- Almost 20 years after they first set their fans rocking in Croke Park, Bono and U2 are set to repeat the performance on the hallowed GAA turf.

Secret negotiations have been under way to clinch the GAA headquarters for a U2 concert next May as the band want to play a major open air venue for their legions of Irish fans.

In 1987, the last time Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton were in Croke Park, 120,000 ecstatic fans sung and screamed their way through two concerts.

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    Posted by Macphisto on Monday, July 05 @ 13:55:44 CEST

Omnibus Press (www.omnibuspress.com) has released the new and updated edition of Pimm Jal de la Parra’s book U2 Live: A Concert Documentary.

Since their formation in 1976, U2 have played more than 1,000 concerts to millions of fans around the world. Now updated to include the band’s PopMart and Elevation tours, U2 Live: A Concert Documentary takes you along to every single U2 live performance. From their earliest shows in Dublin clubs to the heart-warming spectacle of their 2001 Elevation tour, this book includes:

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    Posted by Macphisto on Sunday, November 02 @ 00:58:47 CET