Tag: New Year’s Day

Happy New Year from Slicing Up Eyeballs: ‘Here she comes… the future…’

Happy New Year from Slicing Up Eyeballs: ‘Here she comes… the future…’

Many think of U2 on New Year’s Day — including us at Slicing Up Eyeballs HQ. But not for the obvious reason (uh, ‘New Year’s Day’). No, the clock striking midnight on New Year’s Eve always reminds us one most heavily bootlegged concerts of the era, when U2 rang in the 1990s at Dublin’s Point Depot in a show broadcast live across Europe and behind the crumbling Iron Curtain.

Vintage Video: U2 performs ‘New Year’s Day’ in the studio for French TV documentary

Vintage Video: U2 performs ‘New Year’s Day’ in the studio for French TV documentary

Haven’t run across this one before: It’s a promo clip of U2 performing along to what sounds like the album version of ‘New Year’s Day’ in a recording studio, circa 1983. Apparently it was included in a French TV documentary on the band.

Vintage Video: U2 rings out the 1980s with New Year’s gig at Dublin’s Point Depot

Vintage Video: U2 rings out the 1980s with New Year’s gig at Dublin’s Point Depot

Tweet For a lot of us, the go-to New Year’s song is, somewhat unimaginatively, U2’s “New Year’s Day.” Yet while I’ve always associated U2 with […]