I like them a lot. I saw them open for REM at the Hollywood Bowl. Sadly but in LA fashion... the Bowl was empty when they started. All of the LA 'cool kids' tend to show up for the headliner and forget the openers. (Lame!)
I love The National! They're excellent. Boxer is one of my favourite albums. I missed them when they played here last year, which was a shame. But yes, agree about how great they are.
fan of the month Every month we put an U2 fan in the spotlights, the fan of this month is user AllBecauseOfU2. Every fan of the month has an interview with us, you can read our interview with AllBecauseOfU2 here.
did you know? Tht title of the song Hawkmoon 269 came from a place U2 passed by during the Conspiracy of Hope tour called Hawkmoon. The number 269 stands for the amount of mixes the song needed before it was ready, it took the band three weeks to record.
latest site news Jeremy, known as haytrain here, is the latest addition to the U2start crew. Jeremy will be a crew member specialised in bootlegs, he will mainly work on maintaining our bootleg collection, making it even better, more r.. (read more)
notable live performance According to user gimp2u23 the song Zoo Station from the Achtung Baby album was greatly performed on 2006-11-11 in Sydney, Australia.
news headlines We cover the news of many international U2 websites including U2.com, the most popular headline in the last two weeks was ''Next time... music.'' from u2.com.
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.
statistics There are currently 4,568 topics started on the forums with over 187,740 messages.
More than 12,461 fans are a member of U2start. The average age of the U2start users is 28, only users who submitted their age are included in this figure.
bootleg of the month Every month we have a bootleg in the spotlights, the current one took place on 1987-07-08 in Brussels, Belgium. 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.
high resolution photos We have 616 high resolution U2 photos available for you, the biggest photo collection you will find. The latest photo we've added is 'Adam Clayton in Sydney'.
new fan around us The most recent fan who registered is named schizo, welcome to U2start schizo! As a new user you can introduce yourself in the Welcome to U2start y'all forum.
"And if we have, it's not even the point, is it really? You don't write a song because you think it's going to change somebody. You write a song because that's the way you feel."
- The Edge
