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What was the set?

Breathe
No Line On The Horizon
Get On Your Boots
Magnificent
Beautiful Day / Blackbird (snippet)
Mysterious Ways
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Movin' On Up (snippet)
Angel Of Harlem / Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (snippet)
In A Little While
Unknown Caller
The Unforgettable Fire
City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo, Let's Dance (snippet)
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
MLK
Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone (snippet)
Where The Streets Have No Name / All You Need Is Love (snippet)
One
Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
With Or Without You
Moment of Surrender / 40

As far as I heard '40' wasn't played after Moment of Surrender.

I salute you,
TS

I was waiting to see what you were going to say about the concert.

Unfortunately you weren't very impressed and I wonder how many more people thought the same. Maybe you should have gone to the 2nd night as the setlist changed quite a lot from the other nights and from what I heard it was really good. And they don't sound so bad to me from the bootlegs I have, but I am not an expert of course.

They mixed it a bit up yes. Still I am glad I went there on night one. They didn't play The Unforgettable Fire and Unknown Caller on the 2nd show which I like better then Desire and Elevation.

The encore still is rubbish. Moment of Surrender doesn't work at all as closer.

I salute you,
Thunderstrucker

Thanks Thierry. I don't like the structure of that set at all.

The 2nd night got 3 tourpremieres. Still I am glad I was there the first night instead of the 2nd one.

Setlist 21 July:

Breathe
No Line On The Horizon
Get On Your Boots
Magnificent
Beautiful Day
Elevation
Desire
Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
One
Until The End of the World
City of Blinding LIghts
Vertigo
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (Remix)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Pride (In The Name of Love)
MLK
Walk On
Where The Streets Have No Name
Bad
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Ultraviolet
With Or Without You
Moment of Surrender

I salute you,
Thunderstrucker

Aloha !

Like Thierry said, it was a pretty bad show. The Edge is a wank guitar player, all he can do is strum a bit here and there and do guitar solo's that make Noel Gallagher sound like Jimi Hendrix. Bono was often out of key or either too slow or too fast. The remix of I'll Go Crazy was an embarassment (though Bono sang it like his life depended on it) and the structure of the set was completely lost.


That's a good example of the disaster that is Bono nowadays. And another thing; imagine Jon needing a lyric sheet for Bad Medicine. Because Bono needed one for One. All the improvising from Bono wasn't that great either, the Michael Jackson "medley" included just "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" and of the one line Bono sang he messed up the words repeatedly, so he's pretty convinced he's doing it right. He did the same for Man In The Mirror on other nights as well. Bono also did a part of The Beatles' Blackbird at the end of Beautiful Day which made absolutely no sense and I think he did a few others as well that made even less sense. I can't remember which ones though, he just blurred out a few words every now and then when he was out of breath so at times he was hard to understand, but I guess he thinks that his "I am God" look and pose makes up for it.

The encore was shit as well, and when With Or Without you started Bono started in the wrong key (again!), skipping from a high octave to a lower octave about 4 times in 2 verses, and then not singing the chorus like it's supposed to be sung, but singing it like you sing it when you just can't be bothered to do it anymore. And every time as soon as the audience joined in he stopped singing. He just stopped, pretending to do it because "he loved it when the audience sang it" but surprisingly it happened every time when there were the higher parts in the song.

We've got Jon not singing the chorus to Prayer properly anymore, U2 fans have got Bono not singing the chorusses to, erm, now let me see...Beautiful Day, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, The Unforgettable Fire, Pride, Where The Streets Have No Name...the list just goes on and on.

This band is being rated as one of the best live bands out there but they're far from it. Bon Jovi are miles better, even on a bad night. Tossers.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

I mostly agree with your reply brother.
I do not agree with that he sings too slow or too fast. There are a variety of ways to sing the words on a melody.
Besides that you mentioned quite some songs he didn't sing the chorus of which is wrong as well.

Still the show was better then the 2nd night.
The 2nd night didn't get Mysterious Ways, Still Havent Found, Unforgettable Fire, Unknown Caller but they got Elevation, Stuck in a Moment and Desire instead.

Then again. I prefer stuck in a moment over the pornversion of With or Without You with numerous moans of Bono hoping he will hit the proper key. Sounded a lot like U2 featuring Jenna Jameson. In my opinion that song was raped the most live by Bono.

I salute you,
Thunderstrucker

Right, that's it.....I'm selling my ticket!