'Vertigo 2005 // U2 Live from Chicago'

…this Saturday. Join us for another live show special.

Remember this? A film by Bono.

The opening night of the tour in Barcelona is only weeks away so no better time for a reminder of life on the road.

Rocko Reedy on the night his band opened up for U2.

How Come? Well, Tamara Kendall from the UK won the 'Hunt The Lyric' competition for those return flights and tickets ...

The one hundred and thirty first Vertigo show and it was one to remember. Report, photos.

Wonderful closing night with Pearl Jam in Hawaii and lots of surprise touches as Vertigo 05/06 comes to a close ...

The U2 support act you've never heard of. (Until Hawaii that is.)

New backstage shots before showtime in Tokyo.

Eric Clapton was at the final Tokyo show on Monday and chatted with Edge ...

Video of the band playing 'Window in the Skies' for Japanese TV at the weekend.

Out of Control, released in 1979 was in the show tonight, along with Window in the Skies, set for release in January, 2007. And Vertigo came back for its own encore at the third and final show in Japan. Here's what they played.

With the Tokyo skyline behind them, U2 performed two tracks live for Japanese TV tonight.

All I Want is You closes out the second night at the Saitama Arena as the set list gets ...

New Zealand fans were over the moon as Bono came out dressed in an All Black Rugby Shirt with their ...

Ten live tracks from the Milan stop on Vertigo 05. Get them on DVD with 'U218 Singles'.

Ten live tracks from the Milan stop on Vertigo 05. Get them on DVD with 'U218 Singles'.

Within the bands entourage (certainly by comparison to the crews clockwork scheduling) travel departure times are often a little loose. This morning was especially so, due to three contradictory memos which had been emailed out last night and this morning.

The First Time and Bad make their debut as the band mix up the set for tonights second show in ...

'Tonight it's Melbourne that belongs to me,' sang Bono at the first of two shows here. Check out the set ...

Beautiful Day got a special lyrical makeover to mark the band's appearance in the city of Adelaide.

Bono and Edge performed with Pearl Jam tonight, part of the Make Poverty History concert in Melbourne.

There was a 6.30pm conference call arranged between Bono (Dublin), The Edge (Los Angeles), Steve Matthews (London) and myself (also London) to blow the cobwebs off our brains and discuss the reincarnation of the Vertigo Tour.

I was planning on resurrecting the tour diary today, being the day we were scheduled to fly to Auckland for the load-in tomorrow. However, its now old news that the remainder of the tour dates have been postponed, so Im not going anywhere further than the corner cafe. Its been a very weird week indeed - much akin to driving into a wall.

Bono has told Australian TV that U2 will be back in the country in November to reschedule postponed shows. ...