It's a Beautiful Day

It's official : K and I will be going to see my all time favourite band, U2, on the 28th March 2006. Here's how it happened.

Ever since I can remember, I have been a die-hard U2 fan. I have all their albums (except for a few singles CD's), and all the DVD's that I can get my hands on in SA. I've only ever seen them live once - when they first came to SA in 1998. We camped outside computicket for the entire night, and got the first tickets when the systems went online the next morning. The concert was definitely the best that I have ever been to. So when we heard that they would be touring the world at the beginning of this year, we quietly hoped that "the world" would include SA. That wasn't to be. I even resorted to signing up with a local site (wewantu2.co.za) petitioning Bono and the boys to head over to SA. At one stage, K and I considered flying to London for a few days, just to go and see them playing, but when we tried to get tickets in April of 2005, we found out that every single leg of the world wide tour had been sold out. Over 3.4 million tickets sold across the world.

So you can imagine our delight, when I read on the U2.com site, that they would be adding New Zealand and Australia onto the last leg of their tour, and that tickets would go on sale on 5th Dec 2005. And even better, was the fact that it coincided perfectly with our trip to Perth for Angie and Greg's wedding next year. Granted, we'll have to catch a flight to Adelaide to watch them, but we were looking to spend a bit of time in Australia anyway, and what better way to spend a holiday, than with a trip to see what is arguably the worlds most successful rock band.

The pieces have fallen into place perfectly - and a huge thanks to Greg and Ang for organising the tickets.