'ZOO TV – Live In Dublin 1993'

30 Aug 202472

Now 'ZOO TV – Live In Dublin 1993'

Five song EP released Friday 30th August. 

Order here.

The EP features five tracks from one of the two open-air performances at the RDS Arena, Dublin in August 1993, hometown stop on the ‘Zooropa' leg of the ZOO TV Tour. 

While sought-after bootlegged copies of the RDS show audio have been in circulation for years, this marks the first official release, making it a highly covetable collectible for fans and collectors alike.

Were you at the Dublin show in 1993 ?  
Use the comments below to tell us what it was like and what you remember.
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Hitting the road in support of their acclaimed 1991 album ‘Achtung Baby', ZOO TV took U2 around the world between February 1992 and December 1993, playing to 5.3 million fans over 157 shows and 5 legs, a period which also saw the band record and release their eighth studio album ‘Zooropa'.


In another first, a worldwide live radio broadcast of the August 28th, RDS, Dublin show allowed an estimated 700 million fans around the globe to tune in with a very ZOO TV invitation to ‘Watch More Radio.'

The ZOO TV Tour is acknowledged as one of the most ambitious tours ever undertaken –  its influence is felt to this day - and established U2 as a band who have consistently pushed the boundaries of live performance, with ground-breaking stage shows that embrace the latest in technology and innovation.

The full tracklisting for ZOO TV – Live In Dublin 1993 EP is:

1. Zoo Station
2. Mysterious Ways
3. Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World
4. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
5. Love Is Blindness

 
ZOO TV – Live In Dublin 1993 EP is available in the following formats:
CD, Vinyl (12'') and Digital Release (including Spatial Audio/Atmos).

ZOO TV Merchandise also available.

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colinriordan
What a Concert
This is my concert ticket with 1 Zoo Ecu. In the middle is a very faint Bono autograph from a Dublin Frank Sinatra concert around that time.
U2LIVECD
Time for a real version!!
While listening to boots for 30 years of this show I was at, it will be nice to have an official release to sit amongst the unofficial ones…..
mich40
Dreaming out loud in Dublin
First time flying, first trip out of the US. First tour I got to see U2 live. It was a party in the streets walking up to the RDS. We had seats on Edge’s side and watched at the crowd on the field made a giant human wave back and forth before the show. As for the show, it was amazing and I was so happy to experience some of the Zooropa songs live since it came out after the US legs. I am so excited about this release. Hard to believe it’s been 31 years.
azray17
Nice idea!
I wish this was a bit more complete, but it’s a start. A most epic release would be the complete Red Rocks 1983 show on LP and CD. It would be so much better than Under A Blood Red Sky. Preferably before those fans who remember it can still remember it, IYKWIM. Thanks! I’ve always wondered why it wasn’t that entire show all along.
johnnyboy1
Zoo Dublin 93!
I was there! What a massive gig. To this day, this gig was the best I’ve ever seen.
BrianInMichigan
'Uncertainty could be a guiding light'
Quick story about these shows. Our brother, Ben Messing, who is no longer with us, and I were in Ireland for all three shows in 1993. They played in Cork a few days before, and ended with the two shows in Dublin. In the days before the internet, we bought our tickets after cold calling a girl whose name we found at the back of the U2 Propaganda fanclub magazine. We called from the U.S. and it was the middle of the night in Ireland, and we got her mother, who put her on the phone. She gave us the onsale date and time and provided a number to call. Anyway, we spent three weeks in the UK and it culminated with these shows. The day we got off the plane, we saw the show at Wembley Stadium in London where they brought out Salman Rushdie in the middle of that whole death threats flap over his book. After we got to Ireland, we hitchhiked from Dublin to Cork and spent the night in the home of Liz and Sean Daly, at their insistence, after they discovered us sleeping on their property in the darkness of the Irish countryside. I met my French pen pal who later became my girlfriend at the first show at the RDS on August 27. A little side story here: She was a translator for American Airlines. We corresponded regularly for the next 10 years and flew all over the world together. My flight to Brussells to meet her mother was canceled after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and that probably changed the course of my life. When I married my wife in 2004, Isabel, my pen pal, bought the plane tickets for our honeymoon. We flew from Virginia, where we were married, to Chicago, London and then Zurich, and back to Detroit via New York City in first class for $400. Now, back to Ireland. Before the second Dublin show on Aug. 28, we considered selling our tickets because we were out of money. As fate would have it, we found a ticket to the show on the ground and sold it for face value. We experienced this final amazing show and we used the money to buy two pints of Guinness and our ferry tickets back to England the next morning. After that, we hitchhiked from Holyhead to the airport in London in less than 24 hours and made our flight back home to Detroit. That's a true story from Zooropa '93. If you know you know. Indeed, "Uncertainty could be a guiding light!"
mcgeebers
Magical Memories
I queued the night on Grafton Street for tickets and headed with my then teenage siblings and a bunch of Belfast friends. We were inside the pit and experienced a show like no other…still have my ticket inside my Zooropa album sleeve. Simply the best live show I ever saw with Sphere a close second
larry4mf
Bravo!
Love the release. Can we get a full show of an indoor broadcast or maybe use the Stones and PJ as inspiration to release the live vaults!!!!
tomp7
Dublin 1993
Cork and twice Dublin, 24hrs travel from Belgium to Dublin (there were no cheap airlines compagnies nor internet) but there was U2, Naomi, Dockers, Hannover Quays and Guinness
julienguyen
U2 Zoo TV tour
I wish but I wasn’t born yet. But since I discover the band in 2015, I watched many videos and documentary found on YouTube. I must admit I really love this tour. The aesthetics, Bono’s character and joke, the stage, the energy is wow. Here I share the T-shirt I bought on U2.com. It’s my now memories.
NAOMHAN
Outstanding
My 2nd U2 concert and it blew me away with it's visuals plus hearing some zooropa songs, I'll never forget it
Dean Allison
Excellent
Outside of the fan club stuff this is one of the best releases they’ve done. They should do one of these live ep’s every 6 months or year at least.
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