U2 - Live In Brussels 1981 (Boy Tour Pro-Shot)

U2 performing in Brussels on 10th Feb 1981
The show is recorded for the TV show Rock Follies, which broadcasts on 14th February.
Setlist:
1. Bono Interview
2. Another Time, Another Place
3. The Cry
4. The Electric Co.
5. Things to Make and Do
6. Stories for Boys
7. Twilight
8. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

[@JG-ds6qs]

Absolutely loved those first 4 albums. The music of my teenage years.

[@mojopin70]

Bono knew exactly what he was doing right from the start , after losing his mum he channelled his higher self and wrote some brilliant lyrics on the first album that really touch the soul...

[@SilverLine269]

Still say that to this day. His mum's death was the catalyst that made him a superstar. He's carried it with him all these years.

[@bonsummers2657]

@@SilverLine269 Hi Sarah, given your health condition as you mentioned on your 'About', what are your dietary practices, what do you, what do you not eat,… of the typical array of foods and drinks? I find diet is key to body integrity. Why am I asking,… body integrity is a major interest of mine,… and the controllable fundamental factors which have substantial effect on results,… but which are typically not realized,… including by 'health professionals'.

[@SilverLine269]

@@bonsummers2657 I'm trying to eat a low carb diet but I'm not exactly rich and good quality food costs so much. But I do agree with what you're saying. Thank you.

[@hiddencreekmanor8213]

Very well said and written! If your ID means you were born in 70 we are the same age and saw U2 develop. Love to You!

[@jeffreyedwards767]

My hero

[@garylagstrom3864]

MY LETTER TO U2-1987 I saw you guys on the Joshua Tree tour in 1987 at MTSU-Middle Tennessee State University Saturday November 28th 1987. The Bodeans opened up for you. I remember at the time Larry had a crush on Wynonna Judd and she came out and sang a duo with Bono! I didn't have tickets to the show. A friend of mine drove us 3 hours from East Tennessee to see the show. We bought tickets at the box office for $18.50. We ended up 8th row center stage! I remember back then the band held back tickets for fans who were willing to make the drive and couldn't get tickets via phone or record store locations. Thanks again to Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr for making a special album and tour! I was 18 and had just graduated High School that year! All the Best! Gary Lagstrom

[@vegetablehead]

i'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'the band held back tickets for fans who were willing to make the drive"...i suppose that could be the case....randomly showing up at the box office and being able to buy tickets for great seats. the key word is randomly...did u2 somehow leak this type of information to a select few, or was it just chance? in your case it didn't really matter. you got to see the show. i will tell from my experience, i was completely bummed by both the shows at Hampton, VA December 10-11 1987 Hampton selling out very quickly, less than an hour, and basically gave up. but very unexpectedly, and i suppose you could say by chance, i received notification from Propaganda, the U2 fan club/magazine, that since i was a member, they reserved two tickets for me, 7th row center. and the rest is history.

[@raffaelelombardi9541]

Raw power. When U2 were an innovative amazing rock band.

[@dreamlifeds4412]

Setlist: 1. Bono Interview 00:00 2. Another Time, Another Place 02:52 3. The Cry 07:19 4. The Electric Co. 07:51 5. Things to Make and Do 11:58 6. Stories for Boys 14:28 7. Twilight 17:30 8. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock 22:00

[@vegetablehead]

time stamp for the win!

[@bgierat]

Without Edge’s guitar, there is NO U2. God bless that man!

[@CapstoneTider]

He's definitely the genius of the lot. And they all know it, which is good.

[@chefjack33]

Spot on!

[@jeffreysmith594]

No U2 without any of them. A true Band of genius!😊

[@karloditomasso]

yes genius edge for group

[@kjguitarman]

They sounded amazing even way back in the beginning!

[@scottbensen3983]

44 years 9n and this is still cutting edge

[@danrease7505]

I was a 21 year old undergraduate when my local community college radio station played Boy in it’s entirety. I played guitar back then and when they started to play it I thought to myself “they got it they’ve got the sound I’ve seeking on the guitar” this was when “hip” people were onto the emerging keyboard sounds of bands like Gary Newman and the Tubeway Army and Ulravox. Edge had succeeded in emulating the repetitive sound of the keyboards in the recordings that we were getting such pleasure from the underground new wave and we were extremely exclusive about our love of this kind of music coming out of Europe. This concert brings me back to that night when the radio DJ came on the radio and said “this is a new band from Ireland we’re going to play their new record Boy, all of the tracks. I grew up with progressive rock radio. Georgetown University was playing artists on it’s station WGTB with were highly progressive as was WHFS. I thought to myself that night I don’t know who played guitar for U2 but he’d found the sound that same sound that these other bands were doing on the keyboard. I was taken with Boy that night. I knew immediately that this was a band that was going places and quickly. 😅

[@SunMaschine]

love getting back on this time machine to a purer, raw, authentic version of my fav Irish lads!

[@patrickryan5570]

That takes me right back to my childhood - U2 were destined for greatness - Their raw talent was absolutely brilliant.

[@lolilolmdrxd]

the drummer was on fire this night here

[@jeffreysmith594]

So true! His playing is perfectly in time and the tones are beautiful.

[@infogoodtaste]

So underrated!!!!

[@wallberttt]

U2 on the road to greatness

[@richiehoyt8487]

Naw. They were already great. Just after about '83 they got more and more crap.

[@merijnb1148]

@@richiehoyt8487tf is you talking about bro💀💀

[@richiehoyt8487]

​@@merijnb1148 OK, maybe I'm being _a little_ hard on them. Unquestionably, they've produced good work throughout their career. Up to, and including 'War', though, they were a great, tight, exciting New Wave band. After that, any impartial and discerning listener of taste (ie, _Me!_ ) would have to support the case that, in particular, Bono's escalating 'Gobsh¡†ery' (a term he'd be familiar with from his homeland) and Edge's phoning in of the 'Chokka Chokkas' had the result that, _overall,_ the standard of the work declined. Individual opinions may vary...

[@mrsuperger5429]

I saw U2 in Glasgow not long before in January 1981.

[@scottbensen3983]

This is the band that eas unlike any other . Pre Hoshua Tree will always be ny favorite version of U2 , but even as a pop band they were unique

[@nba.products.3449]

This is rock, four genius

[@dreamlifeds4412]

I remember that TV show. I saw them in Brussels some weeks later. Very approachable at the time. Thanx so much, Ste Walker !

[@hiddencreekmanor8213]

Bono said recently that they were playing clubs like stadiums. This shows that. Amazing band for the whole world! I saw The Unforgettable Fire show in Atlanta, Ga USA in the Omni (in 1985 at 15yo I think). "40" being sung by the crowd the whole train ride home changed my life!

[@TedMyrrh]

I love the frenetic rawness to their early stuff. It's so fresh!!!

[@jeffreysmith594]

This is such a gem of a concert!!! Thank you so much for posting this. Super important archival footage.

[@huishaai]

I enjoyed this so very very much !

[@davidrose1847]

Awesome, Everything I Loved about U2 and Still do

[@AlexandreDeOliveira-x7c]

Fico pensando,o que séria de mim se eu não tivesse conhecido U2. Meu jeito de viver e ver a vida foi esses caras que mim moldaram.

[@davidoverstreet6900]

My God, think of all the awesome music left to create in that head of Bono's.

[@howardarends8309]

The sound of my youth. Greatest band ever.

[@jethronh]

amazing.

[@bernardfitzpatrick3491]

They were quite wonderful back then. By far their best work 😎

[@fabiocosta5953]

A melhor banda de todos os tempos!!

[@ezequielrivera1267]

amazing bass line!

[@bonsummers2657]

This is great. My favorite live U2 vid, by far.

[@jzf128]

Saw them that year in belgium in the Brielpoort Deinze. Also great concert. The edge could really create soundshapes with guitar amp and his memory man delay pedal.

[@robertdepolo5094]

So glad I came across this.

[@Stonecutter334]

Rarely seen stuff. Great thanks

[@jusufzemplin]

sitting during this concert... :-o impossible!

[@HDIrwin]

Thanks for uploading

[@fabiocosta5953]

Quando eu era adolescente, não tinha acesso a esses vídeos! Só alguns shows em VHS poucos

[@CapstoneTider]

You can tell by the audience that this was before U2 hit there. The Edge is like having Chopin on guitar.

[@guille1083]

hermoso recuerdo

[@OscarGomez-ns8zj]

Siempre fantásticos.verdaderos profesionales ❤❤

[@TheLyricalDavidJames]

Reaching the top of their game here which ended with the pinnacle of Bad on the Wide Awake In America EP. Everything after that was a fading echo.

[@agnaldotempero1672]

Em 1982 eu tinha 11 anos de idade, U2 e melhor banda de rock

[@littleman1240]

Bono so cute

[@fabiocosta5953]

Excelente!

[@brianmcginnis4359]

Nice to hear the bass drum if u are learning to play u2 on the drums

[@PeterThoegersen]

Bono sang "Send in the Crowd" during Electric Co . pretty funny.

[@colmkavanagh460]

Send In The Clowns! ;-)

[@osninascimento734]

😁 awesome ✨ ...from Brazi

[@MartinusMartinus777]

Awesome

[@karloditomasso]

bono wow il était vraiment jeunes 40 ans plus toujours ensemble

[@Romacito76]

Raw!

[@ArmandoRuben]

bono munching on an apple... Awesome! hahah

[@jackquarantillo5192]

Yeah that was funny, he even laughed.

[@u2akrobata]

Best ever!

[@bonsummers2657]

Anglo-Gaelic children's story book rock,…. it's great for what it is.

[@marcelogomes7396]

Sucesso já parecia ser certo!

[@nielsonnunes8356]

The.best.band.the.rock.n.roll.the.world.

[@josemiguelpardorodriguez]

Muy buenos

[@Freerydah73]

They put Bono in a cage without food in between shows.

[@mysticedge4]

🤣

[@zachb7374]

Adam getting funky...??!! 13.40sec Things to Make and Do

[@emmaboulton1]

Eating an apple, so rock n roll!

[@jeffreysmith594]

I know! Such non-caring about what people think, yet so on it when he responds to the stupid question of "What is this Irish Thing?" He could have been offended but he just talked about originality since they were playing with all other bands at the show which were British.

[@miriamsadiqui5591]

U2 simple mind los mejores

[@brentemory1078]

sound great...whats up with the crowd?

[@TheBigbryan68]

was that crowd dead?

[@SilverLine269]

No... just mesmerised

[@jeffreysmith594]

I think this was a professionally recorded and filmed event with direct feeds from the mixing consol. Back then crowd noise was a bad thing for clean recording purposes. They would mix in the crowd noise separately to control it better.

[@scottlucidi6476]

Bono, do you prefer honeycrisp or granny?

[@oreally8605]

Bono just having a apple. 🍎

[@aaronjschaefer]

I was 10. This seems so long ago... grunge was only 10 years later??? It's been 32 years since then and I'm 52. I can't handle the passage of any more time...

[@infogoodtaste]

1:04 Hups! 😱 They catch Me!! 🍕🍕🤔🍕🍕

[@kipsumampong8732]

What a crowd 😂

[@lolilolmdrxd]

[@signedelacroix7213]

What a bad translation, anyway. He can be pround he interview Bono.

[@chrisknowlton9460]

Subtitled BONO EATING AN APPLE 🤭

[@Leovers]

2023

[@EricAndrewDodson]

Jools Holland speaks incredible French.

[@reinsanction5650]

Kick drum madness, tell the sound man to sober up😅😅😅

[@goodgrieffan]

Dude. Listening to French makes us all crave apple, but try to control yourself.

[@autumnking2246]

😆

[@nielsonnunes8356]

Bestdecadatrhebandtheirland

[@greenleaves2555]

1:06 2:30 🤣

[@emmanuelfogagnoli]

Worst crowd ever

[@TheMega25]

and best ever version of electric too

[@richiehoyt8487]

If it was for TV (I realise it was in a theatre), audiences 'on the continent' were generally told to sit still and 'look attentive' back then. Polite applause was permissable. Also, in Europe as a whole, even in 1981, venue managements were generally 'super' lairy of any 'group' that vaguely smacked of Mods 'n' Rockers, Bootboys, Metallers, Punks etc. ( _Especially_ Punks!) Any behaviour that came across as even _slightly_ boisterous was liable to get you chucked out!

[@jiminut]

24:41 Highway to the Danger Zone

[@nathandodge665]

That doesn't even look like the edge

[@chefjack33]

The Edge made this band! Bono now is a complete washout ffs

[@amandajones3303]

what is your fucking problem lol

[@zachb7374]

I know a boy called Trash ... Trash Can... I know he does all that he can... Wham Bam HRH Bono👑

[@j.bv.n.3577]

Hermoso recuerdo

[@deplorablesunited7168]

He's like what the hell is this french fry talking about anyway 🤣