Overview
- The pair performed Darlene Love’s “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” outside the Gaiety Theatre as hundreds gathered in Dublin city centre.
- Video from the night shows Bono stepping in on early lines before May delivered soaring lead vocals at the shared microphone.
- Observers reported that Bono added a brief lyric referencing the Dublin Simon Community during the performance.
- Glen Hansard organized the 15th annual busk, which also featured The Script’s Danny O’Donoghue, The Riptide Movement, Danny O’Reilly and Shobsy, closing with “Fairytale of New York.”
- U2 previously recorded the song for the 1987 A Very Special Christmas compilation and brought it back live during the band’s 2023 Sphere shows.