Irish megastars U2 played to a packed, soggy Raymond James Stadium in Tampa on June 14, 2017. Cathy Salustri was there, and had this to say in her review:
This tech-heavy show brought the big guns — over 1000 screens made up a backdrop, and they didn’t seem remarkable until the video kicked into high gear after the first few songs. I realized why they wanted to get a few songs in before they launched into the video for “Where the Streets Have No Name”: For the first 15 minutes after the footage started playing behind them, I don’t think anyone saw anything else. It wasn’t any one thing that made it spectacular; it was the movement of the camera and the places the video took us…
…As for the music, well, when the Edge got going, those strings saw Jesus. It was some Frampton-style playing that hit you square in your soul. Bono played the harmonica and joked that he couldn’t and hell, I wish I couldn’t play it like he couldn’t play it. The Salvation Army joined them on screen — a pre-filmed, horn-heavy accompaniment.
Read the rest of the review here, and listen to the songs Bono Vox & co. played below.
This article appears in Jun 15-22, 2017.
