RTÉ Music RTÉ 2FM TO MARK 30 YEARS OF U2 WITH U2 WEEKEND BONANZA

To celebrate 30 years since U2 had their first single played on RTÉ 2fm the station will broadcast U2’s top 30 moments on the RTÉ airwaves starting from 5.00pm on Friday 25 September onwards throughout the weekend. In September 1979 three songs were in contention to be the A-side for the U2’s first single U2 3. RTÉ 2fm DJ Dave Fanning polled listeners on his radio show to vote which song should be the A-side. The three songs were Out of Control, Boy/Girl and Stories For Boys. The RTÉ 2fm listeners chose Out Of Control, a song that Bono wrote on his 18th birthday. Both Out Of Control and Stories For Boys appeared on the Boy album and Boy/Girl was only released as a single. The rest is history. Throughout the weekend tune in to hear recordings from their first ever radio interview in RTÉ with Dave Fanning, their performance of Beautiful Day on the roof of the Clarence Hotel in Dublin, the night they got naked in studio, when they got the Freedom of Dublin, their famous interview with Pat Kenny and when they were live at Slane. This, plus bucket loads of tracks from over the years makes RTÉ the home for U2 fans from Friday 25 – Sunday 27 September. You’ll also be able to listen back to these clips throughout the weekend online at www.rte.ie/u2 (Live from Friday 25 September). This website is a presentation by RTÉ Libraries and Archives made up of a collection of clips collated from RTÉ TV and RTÉ Radio. Exclusive extracts can be heard regularly throughout the weekend on RTE Gold, one of RTÉ Radio’s new digital radio services As if that wasn’t enough RTÉ Pulse – RTÉ’s new digital dance station will be hosting a special show, called U Too, which will exclusively feature U2 remixes. Presented by Christian Homan, the show will feature classics such as Lemon, City of Blinding Lights and Where The Streets Have No Name remixed by the likes of Ferry Corsten, Rendanka, David Morales and more. U Too will air at 8.00pm on Friday 25 September, 9.00pm on Saturday 26 September and at 5.00pm on Sunday 27 September. Tune into RTÉ 2fm for the U2 30th Anniversary Weekender from 5.00pm on Friday 25 September – Sunday 27 September. Tune in to RTÉ’s new digital services at www.rte.ie/digitalradio, Chorus NTL (RTÉ Pulse only) and on DAB digital radio sets in the Greater Dublin area, Cork and Limerick. Full schedules for RTÉ Pulse can be found at www.rte.ie/digitalradio.