U2

It was quite long ago when I found out U2 was coming to Australia. My boss Belgian Chocolates told me about it, and he, like a typical fan, bought their tickets as soon as it went on sale online. A few months later, he got posted to Kuala Lumpur unexpectedly for two months. He refused to go initially, with an excuse that he already bought tickets to U2. Its U2 man, come on! His boss finally arrived at a compromise, whereby he goes to KL for that two months, and our company will fly him back to Melbourne for a night or two, just so that he can attend this concert. Sometimes it really amuses me how blatantly they spend money like that.

Out of the blue, two days before the first U2 concert, Grumpy rings me up at work and says to me "Do you want to go to U2?" I mean, I'm not really a fan. He tells me he has two free tickets from work and that they were really good tickets. Hell YEAH I want to go to U2's concert! Only thing is that the concert is on the night before our flights to Perth the next morning. Ah well we will manage. The tickets cost $300 each. I rang Belgian Chocolates in KL to tell him about it, and he says to me "I hate you right now" muahahahahahaha

We were so flat out with work that evening. We were still in the office past 6.30pm, and finally we made a quick dash out the office, and met up straight at Etihad stadium. We did not even have time to grab some dinner before the concert. Usually the main act only appears at 9pm, but because Jay-Z was opening for U2, we wanted to make sure we did not miss the opening performance!

Dopey was so jealous we got free tickets. He insists that he was more of a U2 fan than I was, he kept saying to me "You don't even know any of their songs!!!" That is sooo NOT true! Of course I know some of U2's big hits! I must admit, usually before any concert, I will listen to the CD religiously so that I know every song that the singer/group performs. But because this was quite last minute, I did not have enough time to do my homework!

I was told that U2's concerts are one of the most expensive concerts to produce... hence the expensive price tag.

Bono at the start of the concert.

This is one of my favourite shots of him, under the spotlight! He really is an amazing singer, so brilliant and passionate! He has been named by Time magazine as one of the most influential people in the world. I loved loved loved his Irish accent of course..

The U2 360 degrees concert Space Station. 60,000 people turned up for their first show in Melbourne that night.

The Space Station lit up in many different colours through out the night, it was very entertaining! I have been to many other concerts before but this was really very special!

U2 has plenty of hit singles! The older crowd would prefer The Joshua Tree album.. or Achtung Baby? Grumpy was quite surprised because even he knew many of the songs they performed that night. My favourite song they performed that night (for me personally anyways) is 'Elevation'! So here's a video I recorded..

Elevation - U2 360 deg concert at Etihad Stadium from Jules Ng on Vimeo.

I had such an awesome time that night. The show was brilliant and I will definitely go for another U2 concert again...!