"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - september 4, 1984. U2 perform in Sydney, Australia at the Entertainment Centre. The show suffer minor techincal difficulties, but none like the first night. Support for all five concerts is Matt Finish.
"The Joshua Tree" tour - september 5, 1987. U2 arrive in New York City, New York to start the third leg of the "Joshua Tree" tour. Along with them is Phil Joanou, who is recording footage for what will eventually become the rockumentary "Rattle and Hum". U2 have chosen four dates to film the entire concerts live. Joanou will follow the band members to capture all the events that surround the tour on film. U2 themselves have each put up a million dollars in order to maintain artistic control, and will market the finished product to movie production companies. If no one will market the film, Adam notes that it will be "the most expensive home video ever made."
"Island wins first battle in Negativland suit" - september 5, 1991 - Island Records/Warner-Chappell Music sue SST Records and Negativland, and successfully obtain an injunction against the sale and promotion of Negativland's "U2" single, which was released two weeks ago.
"ZOOTV" tour - september 5, 1992. U2 perform in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Canadian National Exhibition Stadium. Over the two shows, U2 perform in front of more than 108,000 fans. The CNE is situated in the middle of a fairgrounds, and the Ferris Wheel can be seen spinning from the venue -- the carnival adds to the ZooTV atmosphere. While flipping, ZooTV unexpectedly goes off the air, leaving all the vidi-walls, etc., blank. Bono attempts to telephone President George Bush: "Hi there. I'm calling from Canada tonight, from Toronto. I've got 60,000 people here that would like to speak to George Bush... The President is not available for the people of Toronto? Well..." Support is B.P. Fallon, "Primus", and "Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy".
"U2 meets (again) with Clinton, this time in Ireland" - september 5, 1998. U.S. President Bill Clinton wraps up a 3-day visit to Ireland, and meets again with U2. Clinton tells reporters: "They're nice people. He's a smart man" in reference to the band, and Bono in particular.
"Financial Times reports on new record deal for Best Of albums(3)" - september 5, 1998. London's Financial Times newspaper reports that U2 will soon sign a new record deal with Polygram which calls for the band to release no fewer than three "Best Of" records. The first of the three, the article says, will cover the 1980-1990 period and will be released this November.
Edge and Bono in Nice - September 5, 2005 - Bernard Henri Levy, who wrote the book "Who Killed Daniel Pearl" was with them, during the last days, this week.
Abbey Road Studios:Tuesday, September5th, 2006 - London, Abbey Road Studios: birthplace to most of the Beatles records, and countless other classic albums from Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ to Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’. Larry and Edge have flown in from Dublin, Bono from France and Adam, already in the city, has taken the short drive across town. Waiting in the control room is the instantly recognisable figure of Mr Rick Rubin, a producer whose musical pedigree stretches from Justin Timberlake to The Mars Volta, from Johnny Cash to Metallica. Rubin met up with the band earlier in the summer down in France and word is that some of what was written and demoed then will be recorded properly in the coming days. Whatever the heritage of the famous Studio 2, it wasn’t the spirit of the sixties blasting out when U2 showed… it was seventies punk. Barely had the band arrived than they were into a cover of ‘The Saints Are Coming’, a 1978 hit for The Skids. ‘The saints are coming, the saints are coming. I say no matter how I try, I realise there's no reply’ Larry tells us they spent most of the day on this and were still working in the small hours of Wednesday. Green Day are arriving in a few days to work with them on a cover, a collaboration to benefit Music Rising.
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