U2's Opening Acts

Opening acts for U2 on their 2005 Vertigo tour in Europe were a veritable who's who of our favorite current artists:

• Snow Patrol
  
• Doves
  
• Interpol
  
• The Killers
  
• Starsailor
  
• Keane
  
• Franz Ferdinand
  
• Kaiser Chiefs

So Megan and I were looking forward to finding out who would open for them when they returned to the U.S. and played the Oakland Arena (which is listed on the tour schedule as being located in San Francisco. Boy, even with an NFL franchise, Oakland gets no respect.)

Their opening acts surrounding the Oakland show were announced as being:

• Dashboard Confessional
  
• Keane
  
• Arcade Fire
  
• Patti Smith
  
• Kanye West (in Salt Lake City, no less!)

And then ...

U2 taps Kanye West, Arcade Fire, others to open fall shows

(Damian) Marley takes on the lion's share of shows; the son of reggae legend Bob Marley links up with U2 in Philadelphia on Oct. 16, and remains on board through Nov. 9.

Even though I set my expectations low, I did not consider reggae. Well, at least we got to see Kings of Leon open for them back in April.