Come Together with U2
Win tickets to Joshua Tree
After the massive success and stellar reviews from their previous Come Together Album Concert Tours – the team at Liberty Stage announce the album line-up for the eagerly awaited 2024 Come Together trilogy.
And what a way to kick it off! First cab off the rank is none other than U2’s sensational fifth album Joshua Tree.
Frequently listed among the greatest albums of all time, it has sold over 25 million copies, has been inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame and was selected for preservation in the US National Recording Registry for being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the Library Of Congress.
Look out too, in upcoming issues, for the chance to win tickets to the remaining two Come Together shows, Led Zeppelin’s IV and The Beatles’ Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Meanwhile back to Joshua Tree. The band will perform this stunning album in its entirety, back-to-back, track by track, along with a bonus set of great U2 classics and deep cuts.
Released in March 1987 and co-produced by the legendary Brian Eno, whose early days included membership of Roxy Music, it contains a range of poignant and powerful tracks including Where The Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,
With Or Without You God’s Country.
As one youtube fan so aptly put it, in a comment attached to Trip Through Your Wires: Sheer brilliance, you can hear the reins are off. The first side sold the band for life. The B side is simply perfection in so many places.
Look out to for a song very special to the hearts of Kiwi fans and
● What: Come Together 2024 – trilogy of tribute concerts. Concert No.1 – U2’s Joshua Tree
● When: Saturday, May 11, 8pm
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● Where: The Civic Theatre, Auckland
● Tickets and all information: libertystage. com/current-tours
of U2 – One Tree Hill.
The track was written in memory of Greg Carroll, a New Zealander the band first met in Auckland during The Unforgettable Fire Tour in 1984. He became very close friends with lead singer Bono and later served as a roadie for the group.
Carroll was killed in July 1986 in a motorcycle accident in Dublin.
After Carroll's tangi in New Zealand, Bono wrote the lyrics to One Tree Hill in his memory. The lyrics reflect Bono's thoughts at the tangi and during his first night in New Zealand when Carroll took him up Auckland's One Tree Hill.
Just look at the impressive artists in the line-up who will perform across the three Come
Together album concert tours this year.
Jon Toogood and Julia Deans return to the bill, having wowed audiences on the sold out Come Together End of Year Big Bash tour in 2023. Both will feature on U2’s The Joshua Tree. For Led Zeppelin IV in July, Julia will be joined by the remarkable rock powerhouse, Devilskin’s Jennie Skulander and Eliza Jane Barnes, the daughter of legendary artist Jimmy – look out for your chance to win tickets to that shortly.
Fellow music stars including James Milne (Lawrence Arabia) and Sam Scott and Luke Buda (Phoenix Foundation) feature on The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band .
This record-breaking Come Together series has been enjoyed by more than 45,000 people over three years. Wow!
The epic line-up of Aotearoa’s finest artists also includes Milan Borich (Pluto), Dianne Swann (When the Cats Away, The Bads), Jazmine Mary, Sam Scott (Phoenix Foundation) and Seamus Johnson, along with the outstanding Come Together band, musicians Brett Adams, Matthias Jordan, Jol Mulholland (MD), Alistair Deverick, Mike Hall, Finn Scholes and Nick Atkinson.
Aotearoa’s Come Together supergroup has honoured 11 of the world’s biggest rock albums since the series began, with a killer band and some of our most celebrated artists.
Now the odyssey continues with three of the most revered LPs of our time. Be in quick!
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