new fan around us The most recent fan who registered is named mgray, welcome to U2start mgray! As a new user you can introduce yourself in the Welcome to U2start y'all forum.
did you know? Adam couldn't play the bass at all while U2 were rehearsing as a band for the first time, the rest of the band didn't even notice at first and blamed everything but Adam for the bad sound.
bootleg of the month Every month we have a bootleg in the spotlights, the current one took place on 2001-02-07 in London, England. 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.
fan of the month Every month we put an U2 fan in the spotlights, the fan of this month is user MWSAH. Every fan of the month has an interview with us, you can read our interview with MWSAH here.
latest site news I'm sure in a few hours somewhere on the world it will be 2009, if it's 2009 where you are, I wish you on behalf of me and the whole U2start crew all the best, a happy, healthfull and U2-ish new year!
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news headlines We cover the news of many international U2 websites including U2.com, the most popular headline in the last two weeks was 'On The Horizon' from u2.com.
high resolution photos We have 709 high resolution U2 photos available for you, the biggest photo collection you will find. The latest photo we've added is 'Band on Conan O'Brien'.
popular concerts According to our user reviews, 1987-04-29 - Rosemont, Illinois 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.
statistics There are currently 4,872 topics started on the forums with over 218,615 messages.
More than 14,048 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.
notable live performance A great performance of Kite from the All That You Can't Leave Behind album was played in San Jose, California on 2001-04-20, according to user beau99.
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.
"If a student with an accordion had come along, I would've played with them ya know...that was where I was at, I was that desperate to play with somebody."
- Larry Mullen jr. on forming a band
