U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle
| U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Ireland | |||||
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| Video by U2 | |||||
| Released | 17 November 2003 | ||||
| Recorded | 1 September 2001 at Slane Castle in Slane, Ireland | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 132 minutes | ||||
| Label | Island / Interscope | ||||
| Director | Hamish Hamilton | ||||
| Producer | Ned O'Hanlon | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
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| PopMatters | (very favourable) |
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U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Ireland is a concert video release by rock band U2 from the European leg of their Elevation Tour. Recorded on 1 September 2001 at Slane Castle on the band's featured stop in County Meath, Ireland, it was released on DVD in November 2003. Although Slane Concerts at Slane Castle are traditionally held once a year, U2 played two concerts. This was the final concert of the European leg of the Elevation Tour. The film was the second of two concert releases from the tour, preceded by 2001's Elevation 2001: Live from Boston.
The Elevation Tour was a worldwide concert tour by the Irish rock band U2, launched in support of the group's 2000 album All That You Can't Leave Behind. The tour was designed by Willie Williams and Mark Fisher, designers of a number of U2's tours.
The key feature was the stage, which included a large heart-shaped ramp which jutted halfway out onto the arena floor, creating a glorified catwalk. Some general admission ticket-holders were placed inside the heart, on which band members could walk, getting closer to the audience on both sides. Visual images were presented on scrims mounted high among the lighting rigs, sometimes in dynamic swirling fashion such as for "Kite", and even on the entire indoor surface.
Williams would win Live Design magazine's 2001 EDDY Award for his work on the tour; the award stated, "While U2's current Elevation tour is striking in its simplicity, Williams created an almost complete amalgamation of lighting and video by using the entire space of each arena as a projection surface."
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