- Music
- 11 Mar 05
As U2 get ready to launch their Vertigo World Tour in San Diego, a whole gaggle – or should that be whoop? – of Irish artists have covered their songs on the Today FM supported Even Better Than The Real Thing.
A 50:50 split between tracks performed live on the Ray D’Arcy Show and material recorded in private studios, all proceeds go to the UNICEF Tsunami Relief Fund.
Lending added currency to the project is the fact that Adam Clayton was in Malaysia when the disaster ocurred, but escaped injury.
The full track-listing is:
Mark Geary – ‘All I Want Is You’
The Frames – ‘40’
Declan O’Rourke – ‘When Love Comes To Town’
Mundy – ‘Seconds’
Paddy Casey – ‘Mothers Of The Disappeared’
BellX1 – ‘Heartlands’
Erin McKeown – ‘So Cruel’
Jack L – ‘Even Better Than The Real Thing’
Mickey Harte – ‘Running To Stand Still’
The Divine Comedy – ‘October’
Lisa Bresnan – ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’
Tom Baxter – ‘Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses’
Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club – ‘One’
Aslan – ‘New Year’s Day’
The Walls – ‘With Or Without You’
Juliet Turner – ‘Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’
The Devlins Feat. Sharon Corr – ‘Love Is Blindness’
Luka Bloom – ‘Bad’
Picturehouse – ‘Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses’
Hazel Kaneswaran – ‘A Sort Of Homecoming’
Roesy – ‘Love Rescue Me’
Elvis/Kevin Doyle – ‘Vertigo’
Damien Dempsey – ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’
George Murphy – ‘Van Diemen’s Land’
St. Fiachra’s Junior School Choir – ‘Sweetest Thing’
The 2CD package shouldn’t set you back more than €25.