did you know?
One night during the Achtung Baby recordings the band were struggling with a track called "Ultra Violet", The Edge came up with two possible parts which sounded both pretty good. They decided to put them together and there suddenly was the song "One", recorded completely in the following couple of hours.

audio and video bootlegs
The biggest audio and video bootleg collection are available on U2start, the latest bootleg we've added is from 2001-09-06 - New York, New York while the latest video bootleg is named Nice, France - Parc des Sports Charles Ehrmann.

latest site news
There is a phrase in Dutch that says 'stilstand is achteruitgang', which means something like doing nothing is going backwards. Doing nothing is not an option here at U2start, we are U2 fans, and U2 fans are people w.. (read more)

new fan around us
The most recent fan who registered is named GRABI25, welcome to U2start GRABI25! As a new user you can introduce yourself in the Welcome to U2start y'all forum.

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 unconcerned about YouTube furor' from atu2.com.

bootleg of the month
Every month we have a bootleg in the spotlights, the current one took place on 1997-09-23 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 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.

popular songs
The song Where The Streets Have No Name is requested the most at our songs pages and therefore quite popular, according to the favorite song lists of our users the song Bad is the alltime favorite song.

popular concerts
According to our user reviews, 1997-09-23 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 523 high resolution U2 photos available for you, the biggest photo collection you will find. The latest photo we've added is 'Panorama stage in Rome'.

notable live performance
According to user MWSAH the song Bad from the The Unforgettable Fire album was greatly performed on 1990-01-10 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

statistics
There are currently 4,395 topics started on the forums with over 170,099 messages. More than 11,904 fans are a member of U2start. The average age of the U2start users is 28, only users who submitted their agae 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 haytrain. Every fan of the month has an interview with us, you can read our interview with haytrain here.