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By Jo D. — caffeinating about music since 2016

The Jacks are back. U2 dropped The Greatest Show On Earth and announced a 2027 stadium tour opening in Latin America with Beck.

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Tour poster for U2’s The Greatest Show On Earth, World Tour 2027: the title stacked in rusted neon letters of every colour in a desert graveyard of old signs at dusk, under a red arrow reading Carnaval De Luz presents and a neon devil in a top hat. A red and gold U2 sign glows in the bottom corner, next to the words with special guest Beck

I cried for a hundred minutes. Not in waves, not at the obvious bits — the whole way through, in a London cinema, in public, like an absolute professional.

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Twelve photos of the band in a grid, duotone yellow and black, portraits and live shots on a scratched black background

There’s gigs you walk out of thinking damn, that was a good one. And then there’s the other ones — the ones you don’t fully understand until three days later, when your brain goes DAMN. That was Yonaka at Kentish Town.

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Seen from behind the singer at the front of the stage, one arm raised, facing a packed room with the balcony above, black and white

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Album artwork: a four-panel collage of scratched photocopies in pink, grey, cream and olive, overwritten with mirrored handwriting and a cross of black tape, Stray Dogs scrawled in blue

Stray Dogs Took Me For A Walk

Roasted on: 30 Sep 2026
Cup score: 84
Brew time: 12 min

The band walking a shoreline in suits, ghosted images of their younger selves layered across the sky behind them

Fifty Songs For Fifty Years Of U2

Roasted on: 25 Sep 2026
Brew time: 16 min

Album cover: three women in pale, torn gowns posed on wet rocks in a shallow sea at dusk, the sky washed pink and lilac behind them

Everything’s Falling takes the hits but punches back

Roasted on: 16 Sep 2026
Cup score: 83
Brew time: 11 min

Slane Castle gig poster: a crouching figure rendered in iridescent pink, green and blue over a dark ground, behind the words SLANE CASTLE in large blue blackletter, with the dates 26 and 27 June 2027 and the support acts listed

Fontaines D.C. at Slane Castle 2027: Two Nights, One Hill

Roasted on: 06 Sep 2026
Brew time: 2 min

Fugaz artwork — a figure caught mid-fall against a dusk sky in an orange track jacket, one trainer sole facing the camera, fugaz set in white beside her

Karen Dió’s Fugaz Hits Harder Than an Espresso

Roasted on: 21 Aug 2026
Cup score: 89
Brew time: 6 min

Bang Bang Bang single artwork: a hand making a finger-gun gesture, shot through heavy video grain over a blue and green ground, with BANG BANG BANG stacked in red block capitals in the top left corner

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