by Porl Winchester Ditsky

I traveled 833 kilometers from eastern France to hear U2 play "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" - twice. Let me restate that: I traveled 833 kilometers from eastern France to hear U2 play "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" - twice.

I know it's only your second show on this pointlessly-enormous roadshow you've got going, U2, and you still need time to adjust to the production, but if you must do a video shoot for the worst song on your new album - I beg that you do it on your own time. I don't think the new stage can really be represented well on the small screen by a song like that. Don't you need something a bit more majestic and anthemic - like the title track of maybe "Being Born?" I'm going crazy, it's so crazy.

Despite that I had to hear that song twice, the show pretty much rocked. Everything you heard about the "Electrical Storm" bust-out is true - it was spot on. New songs are given some more breathing room live and sound spectacular, specifically "Unknown Caller" and "No Line On The Horizon." I think it's time to retire "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "Pride," and "With Or Without You" - but I understand the need to fulfill the desires of those concert goers who know little about music and choose to only listen to the same old stuff most of the time. I don't have time for that. If I wrote U2's setlists, they'd consist of the entire new album and songs only from Zooropa onward (with "The Unforgettable Fire" (rocked live!) and "Ultra-violet" (it's back!) thrown in for good measure).

Can't wait to see them in New Jersey in September when I visit my uncle George and aunt Louie.

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