Tom Chaplin’s Big Issue Busk must have made waves as far away as Berlin as U2 gave their own intimate street-side gig in the German capital.
The veteran Irish rockers celebrated the release of 14th record Songs of Experience earlier this week by stunning commuters with renditions of old classics One and new tune Get Out of Your Own Way.
The Vertigo combo boarded an underground train at Deutsche Oper to, aptly, perform for 120 competition winners on the U-Bahn in a 15-minute acoustic set.
The moment your subway stops at the station and Bono enters the door singing….#U2#U2SongsofExperience#TheU2Experience#U2Berlin#bvgpic.twitter.com/qXaldf9Tkm
— U2tour (@U2tour) December 6, 2017
U2 just performed in the my underground line of U2 Berlin ???? pic.twitter.com/V9VXRozSf7
— RΛMIN NΛSIBOV (@RaminNasibov) December 6, 2017
The concert was just a short distance from where Bono and Co recorded Achtung Baby at Hansa Studios in 1990.