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May 24, 1983 Minneapolis Star and Tribune 2C jmmmm. jgswwsKwssw. -wrww rO 1 1 On 1 1 rw ttmitM(M Stem 12 soars over previous local appearance nil Sunday found that U2 is more about fun than the politics many critics attribute to the group. Critics have likened U2 to the Clash because of the Irish lads new album, "War," and the song "Sunday, Bloody Sunday." Although the musicians have strong feelings about the conflict in Northern Ireland, Vox introduced "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" on Sunday by saying "This is not a rebel song." Then stage fog and red lights enveloped the band as Vox delivered his most committed vocal of the night. He's a curious frontman, this young man named Paul Hewson who has adopted the stage name that's Latin for "good voice." Vox looks like a chubby Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones.

He's not very sexy or graceful onstage, but he's a nice-guy, cheerleader-type who frequently runs into the audience, brings fans onstage to dance with him and passes around the white flag of surrender attached to a long pole. Although Vox was the visual focal point of this largely unanimated band, it was guitarist Dave "The Edge" Evans who fascinated musically with his edgy, sonic drones that would ring like the '80s with a slight echo of '60s psychedelia. He also knew how to rock rhythmically, and that's what most thrilled the fans, many of whom stood for the entire 75-minute set at the urging of Vox. The fans stood but didn't necessarily dance'except to the peppy "Out of Control," the driving "Two Hearts Beat as One," the guitar funk of "Seconds" and the inevitable "I Will Follow." Byloii Bream Writer tM years ago, Rolling Stone called rock band U2 the "next big thing." In the current issue, the cultural bible has featured the group in front of the magazine, which rawly happens for a band that has yet to arrive. Alrihis attention from Rolling Stone may be premature for U2.

But one tfclog was evident at the band's con-iflj Sunday at Northrop Auditorium, Wiis one of the most improved yAuig bands around. The progress tguartet has made since its last performance here in February 1982 aE30rst Avenue is impressive. If U2 cjjgfd only make its albums measure upio its performance, the band rjflgjit be able to live up to Rolling Sjgje'shype. Qtfrecord, U2 suffers from a dron-1 ing sameness and a lack dynamics, in concert, Larry Mullens' drums boom, Adam Clayton's bass pops wtjji a new-found dance fever and stager Bono Vox exudes a populist enthusiasm that offsets the lack of in his voice. In short, U2 was geod enough Sunday to be consid-.

the leader of the modern-rock fjement that is being embraced by gwtew generation of fans under the ike their fans, the members of U2 aTdoung, ages 21 to 23. They came together at a Dublin school in 1978. Only drummer Mullens had any previous musical experience or training. by the beginning of 1980, Ul-was one of Ireland's most popu Great Selection of Furniture Bedding Home Appliances Home Improvement Items and More All at BIG SAVINGS! Warehouse Surplus, Floor Samples, Discontinued Merchandise, Few-of-a-Kind, Slightly Soiled and Damaged Items Demonstrators, Returns. Ask about Sears credit plans laisma dances too 'interior' to be stimulating ers use black cylinders instead of poles.

This was the most kinetic work on the program and the one time Jasmin successfully blended sculptural poses with movement. The piece didn't seem to have the kinetic spirit I remember it having, but it was by far the strongest work on the program. The dancing, by the Hauser company augmented by guest dancers, was generally solid and willing. And the Cricket stage, in its first use as a dance space, proved extremely useful and flexible. Staff Photo by David Brewster Bono Vox of the Irish rock band U2.

A review lar rock bands. That year the group signed with Island Records, struck with the hit "I Will Follow" and toured England and the east coast of the United States. Now, with three albums and four hit singles to its credit, U2 is a major act in England and in the process of moving beyond cult-band status in the States. The main reason is the A review his hands, Haisma was given a series of stretching, slowly evolving, sinuous movements, very controlled like a sculpture being created and then recreated over and over. Her newest work, a large group piece called "Wallflowers' Dance," was at its best dealing with changing shapes.

It was also Jasmin's best use of humor, something that was a bit lacking in the concert and in which she's especially good. Jasmin uses a lot of props and strange costumes and in this one the 10 dancers, a real spectrum of sizes and shapes, all wore gray costumes with cubes built in around their midsections. She lined them up. across the back of the stage, then spun them out and around and back into line but this time in-order of height, so the design sloped from top left to bottom right She had them lie down so the cubes created strangely intriguing shapes, then had the dancers peer over them like kids over a back fence. It was amusing stuff and soon hands and arms were brought into play.

But when she set the whole group off spinning onto the floor things started weakening. Her sense of design and dynamics proved far less strong than her sense of sculptural shape. 'oD rn 1 s7 THE GERANIUMS READY Industrial Boulevard and Winter Street Minneapolis Phone 379-5600 current hit "New Year's Day," which has received widespread exposure on MTV, the rock cable TV channel. Unlike most new, young bands coming over from the British isles, U2 is not, as Vox has put it at his concerts here, "another English fashion band." In other words, it is not a dress-up-and-dance, techno-pop group. U2 doesn't even use synthesizers, and the musicians wear unflashy street clothes onstage.

The 3,674 concertgoers at Northrop Jasmin's "Reeds," a solo for Judith Bonsignore (a fine, expressive dancer), is a lovely work, almost Oriental in its deft, clear, minimal sense of line. In this case, Jasmin uses long reed poles of great flexibility and creates shapes in space with them. Bonsignore can whip the poles about her body almost like rope or hold them up in elegant shapes and Jasmin wisely doesn't push the idea beyond its modest but beautiful merits. "Pipeline" is a variation on the same thing, only this time a group of danc Colorful-Largest LARGE SELECTION OF HANGING BASKETS mm Man. thru Fri.

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These take the form of In-ttSe, personal reflections on the Irish countryside to more-cosmic, MBstantly shifting concerns from art His group choreography is simple, loose, circling with jgay counterpoint he likes to set a SSffle dancer off against a group of mcers but It hardly ever blends Ll the total picture he's trying to Bgte. ESIsma's concerns are real and Sraftfe, on rare occasions, can be a powerful vehicle to express them, kitflhey must work through the and subjective into the objec-tw and universal, and Haisma's pieces remained interior and closed. jt3also had trouble balancing the tmcing against the other media he using. It was seldom more than and exclamations within a fepger visual context MM who left these parts several ers ago after dancing with the Hauser company, remains a Jrpjig, quick, interesting dancer but hwas shown off best in Jasmin's Like Haisma, Jasmin (asso-ERtfe artistic director of the Hauser troupe) has a strong interest in jtculptural shape, which was appar-Ptftjn her solo for him called "Chro-fnyHum." Wearing what looked like Malr of silver, webbed flippers on 2 Got a problem? 4 UmimnU Flxit STHftrei 1 I 1 I 1 SAVI ON Wf STERN'S 22 23' 2 CAR GARAGE COMWTHY SUIIT i. mipniwimn II II I ii III.

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