![]() The work of De Oliveria, Oxley and Petry ( Installation Art in the New Millennium: The Empire of the Senses ) is a rich resource. I note the use of samples (song snippets, visuals, performance posture) and how these create connections and awaken communal memory. I then use theory of installation art to understand this evolving performance. This is followed by a prayer “for all the brave men and women of the United States.” It feels like a prayer of intercession, in which the impact of the war in Iraq is considered. ![]() Bono adopts a number of theatrical postures, that reference prisoners blindfolded in the Iraqi war, while a fighter jet is projected behind him. A number of song samples (Jonny Comes Marching Home, Gangs of New York) are used. “Outside it’s America,” occurs in Chicago in 2005.What was a song focused on American influence in Central America is now focused on all countries that traffic in bullets that rip on the skies of Ireland. Graphics note the worlds five biggest arms traders – USA, UK, France, China, Russia – which are then linked to the IRA and the British army. ![]() A spotlight shines upward, searching for fighter planes, then focuses on both the crowd and Bono. It evolves from a psalm of lament to a moment of confession. “And I can see those fighter planes appears” on the Elevation tour, in Dublin, in 2001.They stuck pictures around the studio and the song emerged, as a contemporary psalm of lament. Bono asks the Edge to put the conflict in Nicaragua and El Salvador through his amplifier. “See the Sky ripped open” describes the origin of the song, back in 1986.In “Bullet the Blue Sky” as an Evolving performance (in Exploring U2: Is This Rock ‘n’ Roll?: Essays on the Music, Work, and Influence of U2 ) I focus on a number of evolutions. This is fascinating given I have previously written about how Bullet the Blue Sky as a song has evolved over time. It included Bullet the Blue Sky, a song which had disappeared from the U2 360 tour. The U2 innocence and experience tour began last weekend in Vancouver. The ever evolving bullet blue sky: U2’s innocence and experience
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