11/27/2023 0 Comments U2 the joshua tree cdI watched nervously when they finally made Top of The Pops. I queued for the Dandelion, followed their progress in the UK, bought every single I could. They were good, but after their gig someone played a pre-release of their debut single, U23, over the PA. I’d name one and he’d, invariably, say, “Shite.” When I said “U2” he said, “Particularly shite!” before adding, “but I’ve only seen them as The Hype, not since they became U2.” But then we saw them, supporting Patrick Fitzgerald, in the Project Arts Centre. His main job was rating other Dublin bands. My best mate had been the first to spot U2’s enormous potential. We were still making whooshing noises with our mouths. If was as if kids, pretending to be astronauts, had suddenly noticed that four of their number had actually built a real spaceship and gone to the moon. Being contemporaries of theirs was not easy.
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