At the Cutting Room, the “U2 Tribute Concert” is presented as a live rock/pop set built around U2’s catalog, performed by U2EXP. The evening tracks the band’s shifts from early post‑punk urgency to arena‑scale pop, using arrangement and vocal phrasing to map what changed and what stayed consistent. In New York, U2’s music has long been part of the city’s large‑venue concert culture, and this tribute functions as a local footnote to that history. The best moments treat imitation as craft rather than costume.