As you might have noticed our photo department is experiencing some issues, our hosting provider for the photos decided to remove all of our data (not on purpose). They're doing everything they can to fix the issue, we hope it's working again soon and that they are able to restore the data.
And if they're not.. well, we have a small problem
new fan around us The most recent fan who registered is named ap2008, welcome to U2start ap2008! As a new user you can introduce yourself in the Welcome to U2start y'all forum.
fan of the month Every month we put an U2 fan in the spotlights, the fan of this month is user drewhiggins. Every fan of the month has an interview with us, you can read our interview with drewhiggins here.
latest site news Jeremy, known as haytrain here, is the latest addition to the U2start crew. Jeremy will be a crew member specialised in bootlegs, he will mainly work on maintaining our bootleg collection, making it even better, more r.. (read more)
bootleg of the month Every month we have a bootleg in the spotlights, the current one took place on 1989-12-27 in Dublin, Ireland. 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.
high resolution photos We have 696 high resolution U2 photos available for you, the biggest photo collection you will find. The latest photo we've added is 'October'.
did you know? When U2 were recording The Joshua Tree Bono didn't make it to Ali's birthday, so Bono wrote the song The Sweetest Thing for her.
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 rocking O2 Arena ... as the support act' from atu2.com.
popular concerts According to our user reviews, 1987-07-08 - Brussels, Belgium 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.
popular songs Where The Streets Have No Name is the most-requested song from the song pages and quite popular. According to the favorite song lists of our users, Bad is the all-time favorite song.
statistics There are currently 4,745 topics started on the forums with over 208,185 messages.
More than 13,281 fans are a member of U2start. The average age of the U2start users is 29, only users who submitted their age are included in this figure.
notable live performance A great performance of Bad from the The Unforgettable Fire album was played in Milan, Italy on 1992-05-22, according to user AllBecauseOfU2.
"Adam became our manager and had cards pirinted up. For a while, Adam and Bono were certainly the two most vocal characters in the group, myself and Larry being a big younger. Adam's understanding of such exotic terms as gig and riff gave him a certain authority. I think we were using the word "rift" until Adam put us right. We were suitably impressed"
- Edge on Adam