Second of Two Posts: U2 Concert
Oct. 5th, 2009 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
debboamerikOn Tuesday, I got to go see U2 - concert tickets thanks to my mother, for my birthday. I took ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
klaughingbrook with me.
It was cold. The opening act, Muse, was pretty good. The audience was oddly dead - I was the first person to stand up, and nearly the only one for the first five songs. U2 played music from the War album all the way up to the present, including "The Unforgettable Fire" (song, not album), which I have never heard them do live in almost 23 years of U2 concert attendance. They brought up a small boy from the audience for "City of Blinding Lights" (the boy got to wear Bono's sunglasses) and a young Sikh man for "Sunday Bloody Sunday." They gave him an American flag and allowed him to sing the last verse (Bono helping on lyrics). He was thrilled and hugged Bono several times, which was adorable. At the first encore, Archbishop Tutu did a video introduction to "One." ("The people who marched for Civil Rights in America are the same people who liberated South Africa from Apartheid... the same people who broke down the Berlin wall... the same people who fought for debt forgiveness that freed up enough money to get AIDS drugs into Africa... the same people who are here tonight.... We are one people.") I cried through "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of." I hadn't listened to that song in so long... and clearly I'd needed to, because I sobbed when they sang,
And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along the stony path
It's just a moment
This time will pass.
It's what someone has needed to tell me for a long time now. I've needed to hear it.
I have such a long history with U2 (starting at about age 3) that I sometimes feel that I know them on a personal level. It was like a visit with family. It was good.
klaughingbrook with me. It was cold. The opening act, Muse, was pretty good. The audience was oddly dead - I was the first person to stand up, and nearly the only one for the first five songs. U2 played music from the War album all the way up to the present, including "The Unforgettable Fire" (song, not album), which I have never heard them do live in almost 23 years of U2 concert attendance. They brought up a small boy from the audience for "City of Blinding Lights" (the boy got to wear Bono's sunglasses) and a young Sikh man for "Sunday Bloody Sunday." They gave him an American flag and allowed him to sing the last verse (Bono helping on lyrics). He was thrilled and hugged Bono several times, which was adorable. At the first encore, Archbishop Tutu did a video introduction to "One." ("The people who marched for Civil Rights in America are the same people who liberated South Africa from Apartheid... the same people who broke down the Berlin wall... the same people who fought for debt forgiveness that freed up enough money to get AIDS drugs into Africa... the same people who are here tonight.... We are one people.") I cried through "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of." I hadn't listened to that song in so long... and clearly I'd needed to, because I sobbed when they sang,
And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along the stony path
It's just a moment
This time will pass.
It's what someone has needed to tell me for a long time now. I've needed to hear it.
I have such a long history with U2 (starting at about age 3) that I sometimes feel that I know them on a personal level. It was like a visit with family. It was good.
