July 03, 2019

Fans discovered two unheard U2 songs

U2 fan site ATU2 has uncovered a live recording of the band from the summer of 1979, the oldest known recording of the Irish band, and it features two previously unheard songs. It was on August 11, exactly 40 years ago that U2 played the Dandelion Market in Dublin, and the show was taped by Pete McCluskey, who was a member of that day's opening act the Stougers, Rolling Stone reports. This tape precedes the bootleg of U2's set at the Cork Opera House on October 22, 1979, that was previously believed to be the oldest recording. The newfound tape captures U2 before they had ever been in a recording studio, and apart from the songs that would end up on U2's debut 'Boy', the band performed 'In Your Hand', a songs that is never to be officially recorded, and 'Concentration Cramp', a song similar to 'Live My Life Tonight'.