Originally posted by dulique:Actually, I know the exact date of me becoming a U2 fan: 1 January 1990. The New Year's concert in Dublin was namely broadcast live to a couple of post-Communist countries, including my home country Czechoslovakia. So just about six weeks after the regime ended in my country, I was able to listen to U2 on the radio (I hadn't known their music, just had seen a photo of them in a magazine and thought they might be interesting). I nearly fainted when I heard Bono say my country's name in Pride.
I still have the tape I made on that day, awful quality by today's standards but it has priceless emotional value for me.
So I was over the moon when I managed to get a ticket to a U2 concert in Dublin's 3Arena last year - the exact place where my devotion to U2 started back in 1990.
I am also from Czech and it was on the Evropa 2 radio station. My friend taped it on cassette and I still remember the comments of radio anouncer (sometimes totally wrong - they started to play Streets and he was anouncing I Still Haven't Found 
). And I remember that it was Bullet The Blue Sky what was the main highlight of the show (to me). And that's why I prefer 1993 ZooTv than 1992. 