A live performance of the song from Red Rocks Amphitheatre appears on the concert film U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky. Since then, neither song has been played live, although "A Day Without Me" has been snippeted on rare occasions.
The two songs were linked by a drum segue leading from the end of "I Threw A Brick Through A Window" into "A Day Without Me", and this pairing lasted until April 1985.
It did not appear on the October Tour until November 1981, when it was paired with "I Threw a Brick Through a Window", a song from the newly-released October album. On the Boy Tour, it did not have a firmly defined set list position, initially appearing in the main set before moving to the encore. "A Day Without Me" was played live during the first half of the 1980s. The black and white image on the single's slip cover appears to show a footbridge across the Princess Road in Hulme, on the southern outskirts of U.K.'s Manchester city centre: the same footbridge as in the iconic images of Ian Curtis and Joy Division taken by photographer Kevin Cummins in January 1979. Alan's subsequent promotion of the band was instrumental in introducing U2 to a U.S. audience. The B-side was an instrumental song called "Things to Make and Do".Īfter DJ Carter Alan of WBCN in Boston heard "A Day Without Me" in a record store, he became a U2 fan and included the song in his playlist. Steve Lillywhite had worked with Siouxsie and the Banshees and XTC, and "A Day Without Me" was the first time he recorded with U2.
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