{"id":636013,"date":"2026-09-25T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/636013\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T21:42:08","slug":"u2-play-to-packed-grafton-street-crowd-from-bewleys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/636013\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 play to packed Grafton Street crowd from Bewley&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U2 have played a surprise gig from the balcony of Bewley&#8217;s on Dublin\u2019s Grafton Street as the band marked 50 years together.<\/p>\n<p>A packed crowd gathered below on Friday evening as the Dublin rockers played a set spanning their five-decade career.<\/p>\n<p>They opened with I Will Follow, followed by Out of Control and One, before playing Where the Streets Have No Name and With or Without You.<\/p>\n<p>The band also performed their new single Silencio, from their forthcoming album Carnaval de Luz.<\/p>\n<p>There was a poignant moment as U2 paid tribute to the late Glen Hansard with a performance of Falling Slowly, the song Hansard co-wrote with Mark\u00e9ta Irglov\u00e1 for the film Once.<\/p>\n<p>Hansard, who died in July, had a long association with Grafton Street and was closely associated with the annual Christmas Eve charity busk in Dublin city centre.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful Day was also among the songs performed during the balcony set.<\/p>\n<p>The performance came just hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2026\/0925\/1593002-u2-reflect-on-extraordinary-mount-temple-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U2 returned to their former school, Mount Temple Comprehensive in Dublin<\/a>, for another surprise gig in front of students and staff.<\/p>\n<p>Friday marks 50 years to the day since the musicians who would become U2 first rehearsed together at Larry Mullen Jr\u2019s family home in Artane on 25 September 1976.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U2 have played a surprise gig from the balcony of Bewley&#8217;s on Dublin\u2019s Grafton Street as the band&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-636013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}