To commemorate (and emphasize) the return of POP in the set (albeit in snippetry) here’s a slideshow of some 106 webcam shots I recently discovered on an old zip-disc (captured in october 1996 during the POP recording sessions).
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Documentary: Working on U2’s Popmart
It takes a lot of work to get a U2 tour on the road. This Discovery Channel documentary provides some insight into the crew’s jobs and the logistics behind perhaps U2’s greatest tour ever: Popmart. Anyone fancy a lemon?
‘Shooting Peacocks up the arse’, vintage interview surfaces
Debbi Voisey of U2 fanzine “The Real Thing” has donated a phone interview given by Bono (Chicago, June 26th, 1997 on the first leg of the Popmart tour) to the U2 interview archive. This must have been one of the last fanzine interviews U2 have done, although I’m sure someone will correct me on that.
You can read her own introduction to the interview on her blog and listen to the interview on U2source.com.