U2 To Release Live EP Recorded At Legendary 1993 Dublin Concert

Even more than 30 years later, U2’s “Zoo TV Tour” is regarded as an achievement, a keystone tour for one of the world’s biggest bands.

Built around the now-classic 1991 album Achtung Baby, it was a reaction to their perceived austerity and the world-historical swirl of events during the Cold War’s death throes, both album and show offered commentary on the then-new concept of media overstimulation and information overload. It was ambitious not just in staging — massive video screens, blaring with text and color; Bono as “The Fly” — but in scope with 157 shows over five legs, drawing 5.3 million fans on a tour that stretched from February 1992 to December 1993.

The concerts in the band’s hometown of Dublin, performed in open air at RDS Arena, are legendary and five songs from those pair of shows will be released by Interscope Record on EP August 30. Though oft-bootlegged — one of the performances was broadcast on the radio to an estimated worldwide audience of 700 million — it is the first time they’ve been released officially.

Zoo TV Live In Dublin 1993, which will be released on CD, vinyl and digitally, includes “Zoo Station,” “Mysterious Ways,” “Tryin’ To Throw Your Arms Around The World,” “Stay (Faraway, So Close!)” and “Live Is Blindness.”