U2 Go House: Reside from Slane Fort, Eire is a live performance movie by Irish rock band U2. It was filmed on 1 September 2001 at Slane Fort in County Meath, Eire, throughout the European leg of the group’s Elevation Tour. The video was launched on DVD in November 2003. Though Slane Concert events on the fort are historically held yearly, U2 performed two concert events; the second was filmed for the video, and was the band’s last present on the European leg of the tour. U2 Go House was the second of two live performance movies from the tour, preceded by 2001’s Elevation 2001: Reside from Boston.
Filming
“It was twenty years since we might performed Slane. And it was thrilling to return to our house city and play to that many individuals. However Bob’s funeral actually felt like the top of an period and it took the sting off an enormous event. The second present, per week later, was fully totally different.”
—Drummer Larry Mullen Jr., on U2 taking part in at Slane Fort
Slane Clastle, the positioning of the live performance depicted in U2 Go House
The movie options the second of two concert events performed by U2 at Slane Fort on the Elevation Tour. The performances, which attracted crowds of 80,000 every,[5][6] had been the band’s first at Slane since 1981, once they opened for Skinny Lizzy. Bob Hewson, the daddy of lead singer Paul “Bono” Hewson, died of most cancers a number of days earlier than the primary live performance.
The stage earlier than the primary U2 Slane Live performance in 2001
U2’s first evening at Slane was on 25 August, a day after Bono’s father was buried. He devoted the music “Kite” to his father. U2 Go House was filmed on Saturday, 1 September 2001, the identical day the Republic of Eire beat the Netherlands to safe a spot within the 2002 FIFA World Cup Intercontinental Play-off the place Eire would go on to defeat Iran. The match was proven to the gang at Slane Fort previous to the live performance, including to the already festive air. In the course of the bridge in “New 12 months’s Day”, Bono drapes himself within the Irish flag and tells the gang “shut your eyes and picture, it is Jason McAteer”, who scored the decisive objective throughout the match.
Reception
| Evaluate scores | |
|---|---|
| Supply | Ranking |
| Allmusic |   [17] |
| The Arizona Republic | [18] |
| Leisure Weekly | B+[19] |
| Philadelphia Day by day Information | B+[11] |
| PopMatters | very beneficial[12] |
| Rolling Stone | [20] |
| The Salt Lake Tribune | A[21] |
| Santa Cruz Sentinel | A[22] |
U2 Go House obtained constructive opinions from critics. Chuck Myers of Knight Ridder mentioned, “Few bands can flip a big gathering into an intimate affair like U2, significantly when it is on house turf”. Myers praised the group’s efficiency and the cinematography, saying that the video “has a extra visceral, much less sanitized high quality” than the Elevation 2001: Reside from Boston video filmed earlier on the Elevation Tour.[10] Michael Beaumont of Popmatters mentioned, “Whereas the present might have simply appeared superfluous, it’s if truth be told the definitive doc of not solely the Elevation tour, however arguably of U2 dwell, interval.” He praised the “unfastened, carefree, freewheeling ambiance” that permeated the efficiency and Hamish Hamilton’s route. He concluded by calling it “fairly merely the most effective dwell U2 efficiency put to DVD or video”.[12] Christian Hoard of Rolling Stone mentioned that the “joyous vibe” of the band’s album All That You Cannot Go away Behind was evident all through the efficiency, and that “Apart from stripped-down variations of ‘Need”‘ and ‘Staring on the Solar,’ U2 current the songs in all their arena-rocking glory.”[20] Christopher Grey of The Austin Chronicle mentioned that the video “captures the Greatest Band Ever in peak Elevation tour kind, spurred on by 80,000 rabid countrymen.” He mentioned that “Bono’s in his aspect” and that “The Edge, Adam, and Larry rip by way of the set like they’re nonetheless in Mr. Hewson’s lounge.”[23]
Chris Willman of Leisure Weekly mentioned that U2 Go House “may impress extra” if not for the band’s earlier Elevation 2001 DVD with which there have been a couple of dozen shared songs, however mentioned “the present is as spectacular as it’s repetitious, and that fort makes a pleasant, Crimson Rocks-ian backdrop”.[19] Tracy Collins of The Arizona Republic known as it “a stable funding for the U2 fan”, calling Bono’s recollection throughout “Out of Management” of the band members asking their dad and mom for 500 kilos every a “key second”.[18] Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Instances singled out the group and their followers for being “supercharged emotionally”, saying, “Seeing U2 earlier than a home-town crowd in Dublin have to be quite a bit like seeing Springsteen on the Meadowlands in New Jersey”.[24] Dan Nailen of The Salt Lake Tribune praised the group’s efficiency, the audio high quality, and the digicam work that captured “one of many largest acts on the earth at a inventive zenith”.[21] Ron Rollins of the Santa Cruz Sentinel mentioned, “Creatively shot, tightly edited, the DVD pulls within the crowd as an essential aspect of the present”.[22]
