MTV Presents Trafalgar Square: U2 & David Guetta Play Once-In-A-Lifetime Show In London

In 2009 U2 performed in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate and 8 years later they took to the stage for the EMA once again, this time at London’s iconic Trafalgar Square.

Tomorrow the band will pick up this year’s Global Icon award at the 2017 EMA but first they celebrated in style playing one of the most memorable gigs Central London has seen in a long while.

Opening with ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, their set was a crowd-pleasing collection of the big hitters including ‘Beautiful Day’, ‘One’, ‘Pride (In The Name Of Love)’, ‘Elevation’ and more while the foursome treated us to tunes from their forthcoming album Songs Of Experience with ‘You’re The Best Thing About Me’ and ‘Get Out Of Your Own Way’ – the band even using the opportunity to film footage for the latter’s video, encouraging the crowd to honour the history protest at the location.

Onto the next act of the night, closing out MTV Music Week, the legendary David Guetta turned Trafalgar Square into the biggest party on the planet.

An hour of pure dancefloor devastation, Guetta pumped out the hits from his decades-spanning career, as smoke cannons blasted the crowd and lasers and pyros lit up the night sky underneath Nelson’s Column.

‘Love Is Gone’, still sounded as epic as it did ten years ago, while his more recent hits ‘2U’, ‘Hey Mama’ and more were met with the cheers they deserved.

Closing on the rousing ‘Without You’, Guetta declared Londoners the best party people on the planet and we couldn’t agree more.

MTV Presents Trafalgar Square was one of our most memorable shows in recent history and proves that London is well and truly open for business.