Watch U2 Play “Red Hill Mining Town” for the First Time Ever at Joshua Tree Tour Opener

Watch U2 Play “Red Hill Mining Town” for the First Time Ever at Joshua Tree Tour Opener
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U2 just released a new mix of The Joshua Tree track “Red Hill Mining Town” for the album’s 30th anniversary, and they played the song live for the first time ever when they performed the LP in full at their 30th anniversary tour opener in Vancouver last night. As @U2 points out, Bono explained why they have never done the song live before in an interview with BBC Radio 2 last month:

I used to write songs that I couldn’t sing. And sometimes that was OK because the strains of the notes I couldn’t…