EDGEmonton - June 1st, 2011

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EDGEmonton - June 1st, 2011

It seems like forever ago that I’d started making a typo when spelling out the name of the capital city of Alberta, Canada.  As I write so much about U2 online, I couldn’t get the extraneous GE to disappear after starting a word with ED, thus, EDGEmonton was born.

My friend Heather actually jokingly wrote a letter to her city councillor asking if the city would consider changing the name on June 1, 2011 to EDGEmonton instead – and she didn’t get a response.

As we arrived on the Monday before the show, it was clear that he should have considered her request – U2 mania was in full swing with the Edmonton media’s constant coverage of all things U2 for days leading up to the concert.  However, instead of the band being the story on May 30/31, the fans actually became the story.  I suppose when you can’t get an interview with Bono, you have to settle for us!


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Wine-peg - May 29th, 2011

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Wine-peg - May 29th, 2011

What a weekend.

Still a 6 hour drive from me, Winnipeg was geographically the closest U2 has ever come to where I live.  So to me, this show was my ‘hometown’ gig if you will.  U2 has only ever played in Winnipeg one other time which was on the PopMart tour, and unfortunately life circumstance did not allow me to travel to see them in 1997.  For the record, The Edge did “Daydream Believer” karaoke that night.  I didn’t even need to look that up.  That is, by the way, becoming my favourite trivia question for those who tell me they went to a PopMart show.  ”Which song did Edge do karaoke?”  I don’t have them memorized, of course, but it’s fun to hear fans try to remember.

We drove the 350 miles from Regina to Winnipeg on Saturday AM, the day before the show.  There we met HJ who’d flown from Edmonton for the show – we were all excited to do our first Red Zone of the tour.  We drew Adam’s side for this one but you’ve got to practice before the main event, right?  (I’ve got Edge Red Zone for Edmonton… which at time of writing is tomorrow night, and I can hardly contain my excitement!)

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