U2

We're not huge concert people. We like them when we go, but never really go that often. The last concert we went to was John Mayer a few years ago, and before that was a Beatles 1964 The Tribute during our BYU-Idaho days. :-) Oh wait, actually that's a lie... we went to The Stadium of Fire for free (thanks Kaye!) a couples years ago that featured Shedaisy & The Jonas Brothers, but we only knew a couple of the (Shedaisy) songs.

So last night we broke out of the mold once again and went to the U2 360 Tour concert here in Salt Lake City. We're both huge U2 fans and listened to it (a lot) when we were dating (right Nate?) so we decided it was finally time for us to go to one of their shows.

It was at the Rice Eccles Stadium and they had a huge contraption (called The Claw) set up. It was an awesome stage and venue and an amazing performance. Luckily the rain cleared up just on time for the show and held out the whole night!

The Fray opened for them - here they are performing

The Fray played from about 7 pm to 8 and then it took a whole hour for U2 to come on... talk about anticipation. Finally smoke was released from the huge tower on top of the claw and they came out.

There were a couple of bridges that extended from the main stage to the outer perimeter stage, but the cool thing is that the bridges moved and rotated around the whole stage.

We originally purchased tickets in the stadium seating but as soon as U2 came on and the bass started pounding our chests we couldn't help but move down into general admission. There was tons of room down there and we had an awesome view.
Here's our view of The Claw and stage from the floor

Half way through the show the lcd screen extended all the way down to engulf the band

Up close shots of Bono walking by on the perimeter stage

My left ear hasn't completely recovered yet but we're so, so glad we went - it was so amazing to see them perform live. What a party it was!

Here are some clips that we got:

Until The End Of The World (you can see The Edge crossing the moving bridge as he's soloing)




With Or Without You (the big circular thing that Bono was swinging around was a mic that came down toward the end of the show)




Sunday Bloody Sunday (one of my favorites)