Kylie Minogue - via social media - "Where do I begin??? 🥹💗😝 Thank you U2 for elevating us ALL with your music AND the out-of-this-world show at Sphere Vegas. Utterly amazing on every level and congrats to the entire team. Plus …. Yes, I lost it when you sang some of Can’t Get You Out Of My Head. 😘😘😘😘😘"
The Soundtrack of Our Lives: A Reading List on Pop Concerts
"One of my favorite get-to-know-you questions is, 'What’s the first concert you went to?' Whether a cool act or a cringy one, talking about that experience always stirs people’s emotions—and I get a better understanding of the person telling the story. "
It's been a huge year for live tours! Read Elizabeth Blackwell's new reading list on pop concerts here.
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This song is “The Fly” by U2, recorded from their ZOOTV tour from 1993. It’s by far one of my all-time favourite concert videos. If you like this snippet, then you’ll probably like the rest of the concert, and the two albums they toured it for (Achtung Baby and Zooropa, amazing btw)
You can't hear how great the band sounded through photos and photos don't do Sphere justice. U2 and Sphere both need to be experienced.
Missed LMJ, of course.
Shout out to all the lovely fans I met at Zoo Station and Sphere, those who complimented my 'fit, helped me take photos, who took my U2 friendship bracelets! Going to shows by myself can be awkward, but you guys made it a blast before the show even started!
Following the release of their 2021 debut album It Won't Always Be Like This, Irish band Inhaler promoted the album on their second North American tour.
The band's name Inhaler comes from a nickname frontman Elijah Hewson was called at school when he would use his inhaler to treat his asthma. But did you know that before Hewson's nickname inspired the band's current name, that they where called "Pat Mustard and the Milkmen", after an episode of the Irish sitcom Father Ted, a tourbus favourite for the boys.