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in this day and age, theres no such thing as a secret, especially if theyre free concerts. with u2<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

there was (supposedly) a secret u2<\/i> concert to be held in the fulton ferry park yesterday, to promote their new record and for some mtv special. for those of us that happened to work just down the street from the concert, we were like \u201cscore!<\/i>\u201d so come monday afternoon, i met up with janelle and her crew to head to what i had then just noticed to be a line that wrapped from the park down plymouth, over to washington, and right up to the front of my building. thats like, awesome. janelle mentioned that she had seen the line start forming as early as 1ish. those bastards. we felt particularly special however because we had (free) super-duper-special<\/i> advance e-tickets\u2026but apparently so did a couple hundred people in front of us. well whatev, im patient. i can wait. i even had the blessing of my art director to check out u2<\/i>, so long as i finished the work that had to be done (i ran back to the office once to finish something). so we\u2019re waiting for a while\u2026noticing how disorganized the line was, and how hundreds of people were probably cutting the line. by 3:30ish the line was still at a crawl, and a last-minute work-related task came up\u2026so i bailed. janelle and her crew stayed in line, and i trotted back to my office. bollocks to the concert\u2026*shrug<\/i>*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EPILOGUE<\/b>
u2<\/i> did show up eventually, and whilst playing on the back of a flatbed (for a new video apparently). their set was supposedly coo. 45 minutes or so of old and new material\u2026argh. as i was leaving work, i ran into the tail-end of the masses of people coming out of the concert and heading towards the subway. ball-lickers, all of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ADDENDUM<\/b>
news articles from people that were<\/i> at the concert. the ny times<\/a> has a particularly rockin\u2019 pic of the crowd with the brooklyn bridge as a backdrop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

> u2 rocks nyc<\/a> (via cnn)
> word of a free concert<\/a> (via ny times)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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