A new edition of the V-U2 book is now released, along with a poster and tee featuring John Gerrard's iconic 'Flare' flag from Sphere. Carter, who shot the documentary in the Bosnian capital in the run up to U2's historic concert, is an accomplished film-maker and writer. It was in , working with an eccentric cabal of artists and activists - The Serious Road Trip - that he decided maybe U2 could help spotlight what was happening in the Balkans to their European tour audiences.
Check out more about Bill's work here www. Meantime, here's the first part of an in-depth interview with Bill, special to U2. How did you first come across U2? By that time I had been in Sarajevo for a few months, living in an abandoned building near the center of town.
The idea to hook up to U2, which seemed like a logistical impossibility, came from a brief moment of me catching an interview with them on MTV. The bombing was heavy in those months and I had walked down to the television station to see a friend.
The television station was one of the only places where electricity was constant and had satellite television. Well, to be quite honest, from where I was sitting Europe, that very notion - a united Europe - seemed insane. Southern Europe was on fire. There were millions of Bosnian refugees on the move, hundreds of thousands dead throughout the Balkans and the city of Sarajevo was being strangled alive.
And the worst part was that it was being beamed live via satellite all over Europe. This is where the idea to get in touch with them began. It was as simple as me suddenly thinking, "Where are all the artists in this time of insanity? What were you doing in Sarajevo at the time? I was delivering food for the Serious Road Trip. While they went back and forth to the coast to get more humanitarian food, Graeme Bint, one of it's leaders, and I stayed behind.
