U2 Rehearse Rarities and Play With Jay-Z Ahead of Tour
11/30/2010
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U2 fans who have the chance to see the band perform during its upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand will have the opportunity to hear something that very few fans have heard before. The band rehearsed intensively for the dates at the Mt. Smart Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand, and, according to the fan site u2gigs.com, the band have added to their standard concert repertoire a couple of rarely performed tunes, "Scarlet" and "One Tree Hill."The gospel-tinged "Scarlet" is from the band's early album October, and has only previously been performed live at a 1981 BBC taping. In Auckland, opener Jay-Z joined the band for a guest rap during "Scarlet," and he also showed up to help U2 with "Sunday Bloody Sunday." "One Tree Hill," from Joshua Tree, is also a rare addition to the band's live set, though its inclusion on this tour is not as surprising when one considers that it was written about Greg Carroll, a New Zealand native and friend of Bono's who died in a motorcycle accident in 1986. The band have also been preparing a concert version of "Boys Fall from the Sky," one of the songs that Bono and The Edge created for their score to the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, which opened in New York this week. - more on this story
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