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U2 to Take Over BBC Screens and Airwaves This Month

U2 are heading to the BBC later this month with U2: Live on the BBC at Tate Modern, an exclusive concert filmed at the London gallery on 3 November. Jo Whiley of Radio 2 hosts the show before a small crowd of art students, ballot winners and guests such as Noel Gallagher, Lily Allen and Richard Curtis. The 22-time Grammy winners mix older songs including The Unforgettable Fire, Bad and With Or Without You with two new tracks, Can’t Stop Us Now and The Greatest Show On Earth, both taken from their forthcoming album Carnaval De Luz.

The set is staged against 77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno, the band’s longtime producer and collaborator, who also came onstage with them. Bono told the room: “A lot of rock and roll bands went to art school… U2 didn’t go to school, we went to Brian Eno.” The Greatest Show On Earth is already available on BBC Music’s YouTube channel, while the full hour-long concert follows on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer on Saturday 28 November at 10.10pm, with an international YouTube simulcast. Whiley said she had never heard the band in better form and praised the creative way they paid tribute to Eno.

The Tate Modern show forms the centrepiece of a U2 night on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer on 28 November. It opens at 8.25pm with U2 at the BBC, which gathers memorable appearances from their 1981 Top of the Pops debut through to their 2011 Glastonbury headline set. At 11.10pm comes a visualised edition of U2: Tracks of My Years, and at 11.55pm the evening closes with U2 play Belfast 1981, a rare Queen’s University gig shown in full outside Northern Ireland for the first time.

On radio, Tracks of My Years with Vernon Kay runs on BBC Radio 2 next week, from 16 to 20 November, and is available early on BBC Sounds and iPlayer from 6am this Sunday, 15 November. Whiley then broadcasts the Tate Modern concert along with a new band interview on Monday 30 November from 7pm.

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