latest site news There is a phrase in Dutch that says 'stilstand is achteruitgang', which means something like doing nothing is going backwards. Doing nothing is not an option here at U2start, we are U2 fans, and U2 fans are people w.. (read more)
news headlines We cover the news of many international U2 websites including U2.com, the most popular headline in the last two weeks was 'U2 is not enough to close Obama's TV deal' from atu2.com.
fan of the month Every month we put an U2 fan in the spotlights, the fan of this month is user yeah. Every fan of the month has an interview with us, you can read our interview with yeah here.
bootleg of the month Every month we have a bootleg in the spotlights, the current one took place on 1984-11-05 in Edinburgh, Scotland. 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.
statistics There are currently 4,446 topics started on the forums with over 174,369 messages.
More than 12,030 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.
new fan around us The most recent fan who registered is named cwstrabinick, welcome to U2start cwstrabinick! As a new user you can introduce yourself in the Welcome to U2start y'all forum.
popular songs The song Where The Streets Have No Name is requested the most at our songs pages and therefore quite popular, according to the favorite song lists of our users the song Bad is the alltime favorite song.
notable live performance According to user cathyarwen the song Vertigo from the How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb album was greatly performed on 2006-12-04 in Saitama, Japan.
did you know? The song 'A Day Without Me' was written in response to the suicide of Ian Curtis of Joy Division and reflects Bono's take on the selfishness of suicide – which is the dominant theme of the song.
high resolution photos We have 554 high resolution U2 photos available for you, the biggest photo collection you will find. The latest photo we've added is 'Edge showing how to play guitar'.
"I had no idea about videos, none of us did. I had just bought a brand new pair of red Doc Martens boots which cost me fifteen pounds, a lot of money back then. There was a scene where the director, Meiert Avis, asked me to spash though a puddle. I said,"I'll get my new Docs wet." He said, "Yeah, well that's what we want for the scene." I told him "Forget it." I wasn't getting the boots wet."
- Larry Mullen jr. on U2's first video for Gloria
