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fan of the month
Every month we put an U2 fan in the spotlights, the fan of this month is user Ali709. Every fan of the month has an interview with us, you can read our interview with Ali709 here.

did you know?
The song 'Van Diemen's Land' is sung from the point of view of an Irish poet who spoke out against the British government and was going to be exiled to Tasmania (Van Dieman's Land is the original name for the island).

popular songs
Where The Streets Have No Name is the most-requested song from the song pages and quite popular. According to the favorite song lists of our users, Bad is the all-time favorite song.

new fan around us
The most recent fan who registered is named goals, welcome to U2start goals! As a new user you can introduce yourself in the Welcome to U2start y'all forum.

notable live performance
A great performance of Miss Sarajevo from the Passengers album was played in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 2005-07-16, according to user ladyhawkmoon.

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)

bootleg of the month
Every month we have a bootleg in the spotlights, the current one took place on 2005-05-18 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. 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 4,716 topics started on the forums with over 205,332 messages. More than 13,121 fans are a member of U2start. The average age of the U2start users is 29, only users who submitted their age are included in this figure.

popular concerts
According to our user reviews, 1987-07-08 - Brussels, Belgium is the best bootleg we have in our collection. Our users also think that 1993-08-28 - Dublin, Ireland was a great concert since it appears the most in the list of favorite concerts.

high resolution photos
We have 696 high resolution U2 photos available for you, the biggest photo collection you will find. The latest photo we've added is 'October'.

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 fans queue in mysterious ways' from atu2.com.

audio and video bootlegs
U2start has the biggest U2 audio and video bootleg collection. The latest bootleg we added is 2005-09-17 - Toronto, Ontario . The latest video bootleg is Bologna, Italy - Stadio Comunale.