wow wow wow :-)

U2 rocks!!

That’s pure energy, that’s rock’n&roll;, that’s live playing

I am listenning to / watching the DVD U2 go home: Live from Slane Castle – Ireland and I remarked that I haven’t posted something about it yet, although I played it so many times for months!! That’s somewhat criminal, I must apologize. This band is so deeply integrated in my own life that I sometimes forget to speak about it!

U2 was one of my first contact with music in 1984 when I was 12, and what for a contact! I mean with The Unforgettable fire: Pride, 4th of July, Bad, MLK. Not so bad for a start. Afterwards, it was just a kind of never-ending-love with this band. You remember The Johsua Tree? I mean: Where The Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, With Or Without You, Running To Stand Still, Red Hill Mining Town, One Tree Hill, Mothers Of The Disappeared. Surely one of the best album ever recorded! without mentionning all their great concerts.

With or without you is somewhat particular because it is linked to Laurence – my wife – and myself. You know, all the couples have their song. We have two: With or without you from U2 and On the turning away from Pink Floyd. Both still present after all these great years (16) ;-)

Back to this DVD: 160’000 people in two days, the 20th anniversary of U2 in their own country, the Slane castle (they played there in 1981), a great tour world-wide. U2 played “at home” with their first tribe. These 4 guys are just AMAZING. A must-to-have, definitely.