did you know?
The song 'The Electric Co.' is about electric convulsion therapy, which was given to mental patients in state hospitals. It happened to a friend of the band so they wrote an angry song about it.

fan of the month
Every month we put an U2 fan in the spotlights, the fan of this month is user haytrain. Every fan of the month has an interview with us, you can read our interview with haytrain here.

latest site news
It's been a year since our last big update, but here we are again. U2start 2.9 is online, and better than ever. It may look the same as the previous site, but there are a lot of new features and improvements all over .. (read more)

bootleg of the month
Every month we have a bootleg in the spotlights, the current one took place on 1997-09-23 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. You can download this bootleg, read reviews or write your own review here. You can also join the discussion on this bootleg in our forums.

new fan around us
The most recent fan who registered is named xcbostonian, welcome to U2start xcbostonian! As a new user you can introduce yourself in the Welcome to U2start y'all forum.

statistics
There are currently 4,320 topics started on the forums with over 164,290 messages. More than 11,802 fans are a member of U2start. The average age of the U2start users is 28, only users who submitted their agae are included in this figure.

notable live performance
According to user RDB92 the song Walk On from the All That You Can't Leave Behind album was greatly performed on 2001-09-21 in London, England.