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fan club does offer good seats if you're willing to spend big After several frustrating attempts yesterday, I was able to buy a ticket for the June 14 show in Tampa, Florida. I can't do GA because I'm a very small person and I would get trampled. So I tried to buy a seat on Level 1. The website...

They're supposed to announce the rest of the nominations at 2 p.m., according to news reports.

Well, I guess I don't have to worry about trying to buy tickets tomorrow. There are NO tour dates scheduled in 2015 in the southeastern United States (I live in Georgia.) We Southerners always get shafted. This sucks! (Hopefully there will be another leg of the tour in 2016 -- but that is a long...

We're U1, but we're not the same...

Bono will NOT be attending, because the press release quotes him as "speaking from Dublin." So presumably he's gone back to Ireland to recuperate. I take that as a good sign, that the doctors felt he was well enough to fly home.

U2.com has just announced the new bonus gift for ordering or renewing a subscription. It is a double vinyl album of a rare, early U2 performance. Well, that sounds great -- except that I suspect there a lot of fans (including me) who do not have the equipment to play a vinyl album and are not...

I did notice that for most of the rest of the week, they didn't bring in any last-minute musical guests. Instead, they mostly had stand-up comedians, and one night they had chef Mario Batali (who happens to be friends with U2).

I, too, find it hard to believe that Bono would be lucid enough right now to write an article. I have been a professional journalist for 35 years. I make my living by writing every day, and I've done it plenty of times under adverse circumstances. But I can't imagine writing about Ebola while...

Last night it occurred to me that the chorus of this song kind of describes Bono's current, heavily medicated situation: Sleep like a baby tonight In your dreams, everything is all right Tomorrow dawns like someone else's suicide But you're gonna sleep like a baby tonight I'm sure he wishes...

no laughing matter Oh my god, I just now learned the extent of Bono's injuries, and I felt sick to my stomach. He didn't just "fall off" a bike; he had a high-speed collision that literally shattered parts of his body. He -- and we -- are lucky that he's even alive. And I honestly cannot...

Oh, you just haven't lived until you've seen Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake do their parody of the BeeGees.

BTW, Fallon wasn't the only talk-show host doing a U2 bit last night. Stephen Colbert claimed he had found Bono's lost luggage that had fallen out of the plane. It was pretty funny. He also allegedly found a suitcase belonging to the Edge -- it contained nothing but knit caps!

In his intro, Fallon acknowledged that the musical guest was "Not U2," but said, "We'll have a performance of some sort." I didn't know what to expect, but I was blown away by what he came up with. There is no other talk-show host who could have done a spot-on rendition of "Desire" like he did...

It's weird because as I was getting out of the shower this morning, I had a feeling of trepidation about U2's "residency" on the Tonight Show. Jimmy Fallon has been promoting it so heavily for the past 10 days or so, and I couldn't help thinking, "Don't count your chickens before they're...

Maybe the gremlin from The Twilight Zone's "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" loosened the bolts on the door. ;) I do think the angels, if they exist, must have a fondness for Bono. After all, he's written several songs about them.