U2’s Bono and The Edge held a surprise acoustic concert in a bomb shelter in Kyiv earlier today (May 8), at the invitation of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.The duo delivered a set featuring some of their biggest hits as they showed their support for the country, which has been fending off an invasion by Russia since February 24.Bono and The Edge performed in one of Kyiv’s subway stations that have been repurposed as a bomb shelter since the invasion began.
According to the Irish Times, the musicians started the set with ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ as the sound of air-raid sirens went off in the distance.Elsewhere in the setlist were ‘With Or Without You’, ‘Desire’ and ‘Angel Of Harlem’.
Before the latter, Bono told the crowd that there was “nowhere in the whole world that we would rather be in today than in the great city of Kyiv”.The pair also covered Ben E.
King’s ‘Stand By Me’, bringing up a Ukrainian soldier on stage to help them sing it, and changing the “me” in the lyrics to “Ukraine”.
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