September 3, 2023
Music News

Bono Loses Voice in Berlin

Ach nein, baby.

U2 are in the throes of a European leg for the eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE tour; all the time they’ve been spending on the road between their still-new album and last year’s Joshua Tree anniversary can take its toll on anyone, even Bono.

The band were in the German capital of Berlin on September 1st but unfortunately had to stop things after only a few songs following the usually reliable frontman losing his voice. Twitterer @warrenchrismas took a pretty good video of the exact moment when this happens to Bono – He throws up his arms in throaty defeat as the backing track to “Red Flag Day” can clearly be heard.

All of U2 seem baffled by the situation, as the other members released a statement saying they “don’t know what has happened”, but are “taking medical advice”. Here’s hoping they do figure out what happened to Bono, preferably before the next show in Cologne on September 4th. In case you’re wondering, Germany celebrated Labour Day on May 1st, not this weekend like in North America. U2 will be long gone before Deutschland’s next big to-do Oktoberfest (starting September 22nd), which isn’t a public holiday but should really be am I richtig?

Gilles LeBlanc

Gilles LeBlanc literally fell into “alternative rock” wayyy back at Lollapalooza 1992, where he got caught in his first mosh pit watching some band named Pearl Jam. Since then, he’s spent the better part of his life looking for music to match the liberating rush he felt that day, with a particular chest-beating emphasis on stuff coming out of his native Canada. It took him awhile, but Gilles now writes feverishly about all things that rock (and or roll) through his ROCKthusiast alter ego.

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