private messages

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.

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'.

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.

statistics
There are currently 4,711 topics started on the forums with over 205,044 messages. More than 13,097 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.

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.

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

did you know?
In the 2007 NHL All Star Game every time the Western Conference team scored a goal the song Elevation played.

notable live performance
A great performance of Original Of The Species from the How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb album was played in Portland, Oregon on 2005-12-19, according to user U2Nick.

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)

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.

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.