The members of U2 feared their Innocence and Experience tour was going to end on its opening night when The Edge fell off the stage in Vancouver earlier this month. Bassist Adam Clayton said he was “sick in the pit of my stomach”, while drummer Larry Mullen Jr said he feared the tour might “start and end in the same evening”.
The band members were speaking on CBS Sunday Morning, where The Edge explained what happened to him.
“It was a moment of reverie where I just completely lost track of where I was on the stage,” he said. “Out of the corner of my eye I could see the curve of the round and I thought I was already there. I stepped off on what I thought was the stage and I had basically cut the corner. It was one of those things you do only once.”
The band had been performing I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For when The Edge went walking along a ramp from a stage into the audience and accidentally stepped off the side into the pit between the stage and the audience.
Although U2’s last album, Songs of Innocence, met mixed reviews and annoyed many people by being put into the iTunes accounts whether they wanted or not, the tour has been getting glowing write-ups so far. The Arizona Republic said “it was everything a U2 fan could possibly have hoped for in 2015,” while Rolling Stone said of the opening show: “They played this show like a young band with something to prove, and this tour is only going to get better as the year goes on.”
