Actor played sell-out gig after U2 blunder
Published Tuesday, 16 October 2012
British actor John Simm once played a sell-out gig with his father's band after editors at a local newspaper mistakenly advertised the show as a U2 concert.
The Doctor Who star played in a father/son Beatles tribute act called Us Two during the 1980s but one show descended into chaos when a local publication mistook the group for the stadium-filling Irish rockers.
Hundreds of fans flocked to a tiny venue believing the One hitmakers were playing a secret show - and Simm even teased them by playing tiny sections of U2 hits.
He tells The Times: "The local paper had misprinted our name as U2 and they thought it must be a secret gig... I accidentally played a few chords of Sunday, Bloody Sunday and they went crazy."