Official June 29, 2011 - RDS Arena, Dublin, Ireland thread

2011 SETLIST
1. Raise Your Hands
2. You Give Love a Bad Name
3. Born to Be My Baby
4. We Weren't Born to Follow
5. Just Older
6. It's My Life
7. Blaze of Glory
8. We Got It Goin On
9. Captain Crash
10. Bad Medicine
.~. Gloria
.~. Not Fade Away
.~. Pretty Woman
11. Love's the Only Rule
12. When We Were Beautiful
13. Bed of Roses
14. I'll Be There For You (Jon & Richie)
15. Who Says You Cant Go Home
16. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
17. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
18. Have a Nice Day
19. Keep the Faith

20. Dry County
21. Wanted Dead or Alive
22. These Days
23. Always
24. Livin' on a Prayer

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They didn't play IN Dublin in 2008, but they played Punchestown Racecourse which is close enough to Dublin. Here's the set.

1. Lost Highway
2. Born To Be My Baby
3. You Give Love A Bad Name
4. Raise Your Hands
5. Captain Crash & The Beauty Queen From Mars
6. Just Older
7. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
~ Mercy
~ Start Me Up
8. Blaze Of Glory
9. Whole Lot Of Leavin'
10. In These Arms
11. Bed Of Roses
12. We Got It Going On
13. It's My Life
14. Keep The Faith
15. I'll Be There for You (Richie Sambora on lead vocals)
16. Have A Nice Day
17. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
18. Who Says You Can't Go Home
19. Livin' On A Prayer

Encore I:
20. Hallelujah
21. Always
22. Wanted Dead Or Alive
23. Bad Medicine
~ Shout

Encore II:
24. Rockin' All Over The World
25. These Days

There's quite a few going, expecting great shows. But I expect the goods to be delivered on night 2.

Is it really horrible that I hope it's a bit of a vanilla show? :P got my fingers crossed night two will be amazing and as much as I'd like to think they'd do two stunning three hour sets in a row... we all know it doesn't work like that.

I am curious about one thing though, has anyone been to a gig at the RDS before? How good a venue is it?

I am going night one. i chose night one because i expected it to be at least as good as the second night, given that they have not been there for a while and they would be excited to put on a good show. Do you really think night two would be much better than night one? hope not!!! this is the highlight of our year!!

Anyway, this is off tpic but i will ask and see if anyone responds.

WHY WOULD THE BOYS NOT PLAY 'Glastonbury'? ----- Would they not be welcome or something. Is it the 'not a real rock band' thing?


Night 1 Dublin better be bloody good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they dont need to go thats the thing....

Its a great ''wee'' venue..only about 25,000 capacity or so and quite intimate when compared to Croke park or Punchestown. Saw Jovi there twice, front row both times but that was before the days of diamond packages...

I think both nights will be great, for maybe different reasons - Night 1 Jon will be in a great mood (weather and pain permitting of course..) just to be back in Dublin which he has always said is one of his favourite cities. Night two will be special as there a good week or so downtime after the show for him to recover so he will probably go that extra bit further i think.

Either way, its gona rock and make hard rock calling look like Hull, see you there

Hopefully it'll prove me wrong then - I can order the best shows I've seen for Bon Jovi by arena size! I think 25,000 is smaller than Bristol (just) so it'll be the smallest Bon Jovi gig I've been to.

Lovely quote

Can't wait, going to both nights. The RDS is where God rocked in august 2000, it was a magical night, thunder storm and all, and I'm petrified!

Then we had the following summer in June 01 when they finished with an acoustic version of One by U2.

As much as subsequent gigs have been amazing, Jovi in the RDS is special. And we have 2 nights so bring it on Jon.

This will be the 1st time I've seen them outwith the uk so very excited about it! Goin to both gigs too tho only have a cheap seat on wed (got it of ebay last week) and GC for thurs so mega excited about that!

Can't wait for both nights. I just hope Jon isn't lazy and plays the same set list both nights.

I would love to hear some Fahrenheit stuff but I know I probably have more chance in winning the lottery than that happening.

Also if he has to play songs from lost highway I'd rather it be the ones he hasn't played this tour.

No doubt I will probably enjoy it no matter what they play