The opening night of the tour in Barcelona is only weeks away so no better time for a reminder of life on the road.

How Come? Well, Tamara Kendall from the UK won the 'Hunt The Lyric' competition for those return flights and tickets ...

The one hundred and thirty first Vertigo show and it was one to remember. Report, photos.

Wonderful closing night with Pearl Jam in Hawaii and lots of surprise touches as Vertigo 05/06 comes to a close ...

The U2 support act you've never heard of. (Until Hawaii that is.)

New backstage shots before showtime in Tokyo.

Eric Clapton was at the final Tokyo show on Monday and chatted with Edge ...

Video of the band playing 'Window in the Skies' for Japanese TV at the weekend.

Out of Control, released in 1979 was in the show tonight, along with Window in the Skies, set for release in January, 2007. And Vertigo came back for its own encore at the third and final show in Japan. Here's what they played.

With the Tokyo skyline behind them, U2 performed two tracks live for Japanese TV tonight.

All I Want is You closes out the second night at the Saitama Arena as the set list gets ...

New Zealand fans were over the moon as Bono came out dressed in an All Black Rugby Shirt with their ...

Within the bands entourage (certainly by comparison to the crews clockwork scheduling) travel departure times are often a little loose. This morning was especially so, due to three contradictory memos which had been emailed out last night and this morning.

The First Time and Bad make their debut as the band mix up the set for tonights second show in ...

'Tonight it's Melbourne that belongs to me,' sang Bono at the first of two shows here. Check out the set ...

Beautiful Day got a special lyrical makeover to mark the band's appearance in the city of Adelaide.

Bono and Edge performed with Pearl Jam tonight, part of the Make Poverty History concert in Melbourne.

There was a 6.30pm conference call arranged between Bono (Dublin), The Edge (Los Angeles), Steve Matthews (London) and myself (also London) to blow the cobwebs off our brains and discuss the reincarnation of the Vertigo Tour.

I was planning on resurrecting the tour diary today, being the day we were scheduled to fly to Auckland for the load-in tomorrow. However, its now old news that the remainder of the tour dates have been postponed, so Im not going anywhere further than the corner cafe. Its been a very weird week indeed - much akin to driving into a wall.

'From Guadalajara to Monterrey/Cabo San Lucas, Acapulco Bay/A new world is in motion/ From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean...' ...

Nearly two months after Vertigo '05 closed in Portland, and eight years since their last visit to Mexico, U2 opened the fourth leg of the Vertigo Tour in Monterrey last night.

Everybody was feeling grateful at last night's final show of 2005: the fans with their signs around the venue; ...

U2 will play in Buenos Aires on March 1st with Franz Ferdinand in support. Tickets for the Estadio River Plate (River Plate Stadium) show will go on sale this Thursday, December 22nd.

That's what Bono was calling out as the show kicked off in Omaha last night. Beautiful performances of Original ...

First night with Kanye West opening up and for the first time on the tour, Bono arrives on stage ahead ...

A great sign in the crowd tonight: 'Bono I married your reflection'. U2 audiences are becoming more creative ...