MAY 19: this time in larger venus / Day 1 - Kansas´ video-Last Night Of Earth / "Yes" concert for Good Friday Agreement / with Mikhail Gorbachev / Bono implores media not to 'dehumanise' Africa / U2 goes 3D and rocks Cannes

"Boy" tour - may 19, 1981. U2 perform in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Ryerson Theater. During this stage of the tour, U2 return to many cities they had already played, but this time in larger venues.

"War" tour - may 19, 1983. U2 perform in Cleveland, Ohio at the Music Hall. Support is "Dream Syndicate".

"ZOOTV - Zooropa" tour - may 19, 1993. U2 perform in Oviedo, Spain at the Estadio Carlos Tartier.

"Last Night On Earth" - may 19, 1997: Day 1 - U2 record video in Kansas City. U2 spends two days in Kansas City, Missouri, shooting the video for their next single, "Last Night On Earth." Traffic in and around the city is tied up both days, as U2 is permitted to close streets while the video is shot. Local residents are angered by the delays. The video is a send-up of 50s and 60s sci-fi movies and beatnik poet Alan Ginsburg appears at the end of the video pushing a shopping cart with a spotlight in the basket. It is one of Ginsburg's final public appearances, as he would die later in 1997.

"Yes" - may 19, 1998. U2 performs at YES concert for Good Friday Agreement. U2 participates in a "YES" concert in Belfast to draw support for the national vote on the Good Friday/Northern Ireland Peace Agreement four days later. Northern band Ash also plays at the show at Waterfront Hall in front of about 2,000 young people, and Ash's lead singer comes on-stage with U2 at one point. More importantly, U2 brings on stage David Trimble and John Hume, leaders of the traditionally opposing Ulster Unionist Party and Social Democratic and Labour Party, respectively. The political leaders stand on each side of Bono as he raises their arms together in a show of unity. Four days later, the Peace Agreement is approved overwhelmingly by voters in both the North and South.

"Bono interviews Gorbachev" - may 19, 2003 - Bono is in Turin, Italy, for the World Political Forum -- an event organized in part by Mikhail Gorbachev. While in Italy, Bono interviews the former Soviet president and plans are in place to sell the interview to international TV news networks with the money going to charity.

Bono implores media not to 'dehumanise' Africa - may 19, 2006 - U2 rocker Bono has made a fervent plea to the world's media not to 'dehumanise' Africa by always displaying its people as 'supplicants'....now needed to show the African people not as 'supplicants' but as 'noble, entrepreneurial, very handsome, beautiful, smart' people. "The thing I'm learning is breaking with cliches. We see this pattern of Africans displayed as supplicants. We need to start portraying Africans as noble, entrepreneurial, very handsome, beautiful, smart. Break the cliches. As people dehumanise African people it's very easy to turn away from them," Ratethemusic quoted him, as saying.

U2 goes 3D and rocks Cannes - May 19, 2007 - Irish band U2 rocked the Cannes Film Festival early on Sunday with a short live set on the famous red carpet on their way into the main cinema for the premiere of a new film "U2 3D". One of the world's biggest rock acts, U2's gig attracted hundreds of fans who crammed around the VIP entrance to the Grand Theatre Lumiere to hear Bono belt out "Vertigo" and "Where the Streets Have No Name". U2 have just performed on the steps of the Grand Théâtre Lumière at the Palais des Festival in Cannes. This is the first time the band has performed live since the last gig of the Vertigo Tour in Honolulu on 9 December 2006. In a throwback to the tour, The Arcade Fire's Wake Up was played as the band walked up the red carpet, and then U2 performed a brief set. It was: 1. Vertigo / Ca Plane Pour Moi (snippet) / 2. Where The Streets Have No Name / All You Need Is Love (snippet) - Bono made a number of comments in French, including the count-in to Vertigo and a short speech during Streets' intro. This set is notable as one of the extremely few times that Streets has been performed outside of a full tour concert. This has only occurred twice before: the first instance was the very first time it was publicly performed, at its video shoot in Los Angeles on 27 March 1987, and the second instance took place on 3 February 2002 when U2 performed the Super Bowl's half-time show.
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