i saw U2 last night at the Rose Bowl, they played The Joshua Tree. It was good! However The Lumineers opened for them. my impression of them is they seem like very nice folks who have exactly one song played at the same tempo with the same obnoxiously loud bass drum which exists exclusively to inspire handclaps, and they don't wear trilbys but some other kind of hat for strummers and foot stompers. their banjo player was pacing back and forth in suspenders and he was barefoot.
the other opening acts for U2 on this tour are Mumford and Sons and OneRepublic.
Black Eyed Peas in 2009 at the same venue was a better opening act.
― nomar, Sunday, 21 May 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link