By BOB SHRALUKA
WZBD.com
Brian Harvey came home Thursday night for the first time in years, bringing with him some great U2 music.
And with Mother Nature tossing in ideal weather, a large crowd stuffed the Madison St. Plaza in Decatur for a rocking start to the Decatur Chamber’s ninth Summer Concert Series.
It was the first of 13 consecutive weeks of tribute music, all but one to be held on the plaza.
Harvey, a Decatur native, is the lead singer for The Push, four men providing the music of the internationally-famous Irish rock band which was formed in Dublin in 1976.
Harvey told the packed plaza that he was “home for the first time in 28, 30 years,” having last performed here, “as I remember,” at Vinnie’s in downtown Decatur,
A 1982 Bellmont grad with relatives in this area, he often yelled out the name of someone in the crowd whom he knew from the past.
A couple of times during the two and one-half performance, Harvey was joined on the stage by Lisa McDavid, the locally popular singer for the Sweetwater All-Stars – who will be on the plaza stage with that band next Thursday.
The Push cranked out all the big U2 hits and more: “With or Without You”, “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, “Vertigo”, “Pride in the Name of Love”, “New Year’s Day”, and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” – the latter with the beautiful lyric, “I believe in Kingdom Come, then all the colors will bleed into one…”
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