What are you expecting from the Giants/O2 shows?

I'm sorry, that's wrong. You can watch videos of the These Days tour and clearly see that ITA is played in D (which would be Db since they tune down a semitone live).

The other song that is played in a lower tone than normal is Livin in sin, and it's been played in D since the New Jersey tour (again look for videos in youtube for a cleare idea of what I'm saying).

Edit:
Both songs are originally in E as has been said by various posters in a lot of threads so far....

Thanks Javier. I don't know WHEN ITA dropped it's key but i'm pretty sure it was pre-2000. Changing the key of a song is more the exception than the rule when it comes to the band. 2 songs out of how many? Really not that huge a deal.

Changing the tempo is a much bigger problem.

I don't think people who see the 3 Giants shows will be disappointed. Of course I don't expect 25 different song every night, but if you look at the cities that have get 2 shows this tour there is a lot of interesting songs.

This tour Jon is really changing setlist for cities with more than one show. And if we add to this the fact that Jersey is always a special city, the new Stadium... For example, I think we'll get better shows in Jersey than the two last shows in Twickenham or the shows at Milton Keynes in 2006.

By the way, why people think Bruce o Little Steven will be on stage? Any rumours?

Aloha !

It was dropped to D when they started doing it the acoustic way on the 1996 tour. They always did it in E on the Keep The Faith and I'll Sleep When I'm Dead tour but near the end of the tour Jon often struggled with it.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

Ill be happy as long as I dont get The Circle in full. I like the album, but it would kill the atmosphere.

Really want to hear Love's The Only Rule.

I think the objections to posts like this is that you are objecting to "wants" and preferences more than you are actual problems. I have yet to read a review from a diehard or a casual fan that has seen a show this tour, that has aid that the band is playing poorly, that Richies sound is ruined because of his guitar choices, (at the shows I saw he played very very well), that Jon was singing badly or performing lacklusterly. Those are real problems as far as I can see. Predictable setlists are pretty much the norm in the US, it's a fact and has been forever that Europe and the world get much more varied sets than the US.
Would the diehards here like the Europe type setlists??? we would love them but the majority of the audience here wouldn't agree, the one time in recent years I saw the band bring a European type thing to a US show, the comments all around me were "it was ok but the best part was when they plugged in and played the hits."
I just don't get why European fans get all worked up over a US leg of a tour. You know you are going to get a different show, you know you are going to get a varied setlist, so why worry about what they play in the US other than seeing how ell or how badly they are playing? If the quality of what is being played matters, based on the US leg, you guys are in for some really great shows.