U2 have announced a new EP, ZOO TV – Live In Dublin 1993. The five-song collection features tracks from one of the Irish band’s two legendary open-air concerts during the titular tour. While bootlegged copies of these shows have circulated for years, this is the first official release of these performances. The EP will be available August 30 via Interscope Records on CD, 12” Vinyl, and digital.
The songs featured on ZOO TV – Live In Dublin 1993 are “Zoo Station,” “Mysterious Ways,” “Tryin’ To Throw Your Arms Around the World,” and “Love Is Blindness” from Achtung Baby and Zooropa’s “Stay (Faraway, So Close!).”
The Zoo TV tour ran from February 1992 to December 1993 and was initially in support of U2’s acclaimed 1991 album Achtung Baby. Throughout the Zoo TV tour, the band performed to 5.3 million fans across 157 shows and 5 legs. During a break in the tour, U2 recorded their eighth studio album, 1993’s Zooropa. The ambitious Zoo TV tour established U2 as stadium rock revolutionaries. Zoo TV was a technical achievement, using multiscreen video projections and live satellite feeds to barrage audiences with visuals while grappling with questions of mass media, humanity, and technology.
The performances captured on ZOO TV – Live In Dublin 1993 EP are from their hometown stops on August 27 and 28. The August 28 RDS concert was recorded and broadcast live on radio worldwide. An estimated 700 million fans accepted the band’s invitation to “Watch More Radio.”
U2’s 1987 breakthrough The Joshua Tree recently appeared at no. 49 on Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums of All Time’ collection. Earlier this year, the band’s Ben Affleck and Matt Damon-produced Kiss the Future documentary arrived on Paramount+. The film chronicles U2’s 1997 concert in post-war Sarajevo, where they performed to 45,000 fans.
