U2 Tour Archives

iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour

The Edge and Bono, Denver, 7 June U2015

You Are Rock and Roll!

The tour is now underway and, of course, Mattopia Jones is on the scene. Stay tuned for lots of photos, videos and stories of innocence and experience.

The Future Needs a
Big Kiss

And I'm all puckered out after an astounding 13 shows in eight terrific countries.

What a phenomenal tour! The madness and magic of 360 came to a triumphant close in Moncton, New Brunswick, on 30 July U2011.

Now it's time to put the wallet in the freezer and catch up on all the photos, videos, and journals.

Stay tuned - and continue to dream out loud, in high volume!

I Will Follow,
How 'bout You?

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Snow Patrol

Snow Patrol's Shut Your Eyes
Zagreb, Croatia, 9 August U2009
Snow Patrol opened all eight of the European shows I saw in U2009-U2010.

The 360° Journal

Bono in Istanbul
6 September U2010

Check out the 360° Journal, a work in progress.

From the Sky Down

U2: From the Sky Down
Davis Guggenheim's documentary about the making of
U2's Achtung Baby is now on Blu-ray

Ullevi Stadium

Bono, U2 360 Tour in Gothenburg, Sweden
Gothenburg, Sweden, 1 August U2009
Photo: Matthew Anderson

I Will Follow

Everyone should have a rock band for a muse.

U2 took a quiet kid who graduated in a high school class of nine and fed his inner, malnourished soul and stirred his latent megalomania. (I was valedictorian, after all.)

And to think, once upon a time • in the "Dark Ages" • I thought Bono was a humorless asshole. Now I happily refer to him as my "mentor," my "sensei." And it amuses when I hear, on occasion, that so-and-so thinks I'm a humorless asshole. Those poor, misguided folks • as rare as they are • clearly haven't visited the PRM.

After a period of living the dull, gray life of an accountant, this band helped me regain my voice and I went back to my roots as a writer, as a creative-minded individual. They're the band that's provided the inspiration behind the madness that is my great life. It's all about dreaming out loud, in high volume.