U2

[jameslofton29]

Have any of you guys seen U2 in concert on their current tour? Do any of you know what their setlist is? Did they play 'Helter Skelter' or 'When Love Comes To Town'? I might go see them in Oakland in November, but would like to know what they play.

[Ignatius]

Tell him Malcom...

[Eduardo]

They havent been playing those songs. But they have been playing awesome songs, such as eletric Co., Zoo Station, The Fly, Who's Gonna ride your Wild Horses, etc. Obviously they are playing their big hits too such as one, with or without you, beautiful day, pride etc

[Malcolm]

Theres a thread a few pages back with setlits on there ill post a recent one and bump it up so u can see some of them

[Malcolm]

08.08.2005
Hot In The City
A blistering set in Barcelone last night. Here's what they played.
Full report to follow....

Vertigo
I Will Follow
Electric Co.
Elevation
New Year?s Day
Beautiful Day
I Still Haven?t Found
City of Blinding Lights
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can?t Make It On Your Own
Love and Peace
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride in the name of love
Where the Streets have no name
One

Zoo Station
The Fly
With or Without You

All Because of You
Party Girl
Vertigo

[Malcolm]

30.07.2005
?A World in White is Underway?
More breathtaking action from the audience and a great show at the Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg tonight.

Here?s the set list, report to follow. (The audience, just so you are not in total suspense, created a sea of white tonight, surprising the band as they arrived on stage. The band, just so as you are not in total suspense, surprised the audience with Party Girl, including traditional champagne bottle opening moment!)


Vertigo
I Will Follow
Electric Co.
Elevation
New Year?s Day
Beautiful Day
Still Haven?t Found
All I want is You
City of Blinding Lights
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can?t Make it On Your Own
Love and Peace
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride in the Name of Love
Where the Streets have No Name
One

Zoo Station
The Fly
With or Without You

All Because of You
Party Girl
Vertigo

[jameslofton29]

Thanks for the info. I checked out that thread. They could have done better with their setlist. No Helter Skelter, When Love Comes To Town, Desire, and they dont seem to play 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' every night. I cant believe they dont play Helter Skelter. They had a live version of it on Rattle and Hum, and its the best version of the song I've ever heard. It would be a great opener for their show.

[Malcolm]

12.08.2005
Madrid Set List
U2's final Vertio//2005 concert in Spain in Estadio Vicente Calderon. Set list below with report to follow.

Vertigo
I Will Follow
Electric Co.
Elevation
New Year?s Day
Beautiful Day
I Still Haven?t Found
City of Blinding Lights
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can?t Make It On Your Own
Love and Peace
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride in the name of love
Where the Streets have no name
One

Zoo Station
The Fly
With or Without You

All Because of You
Yahweh
Vertigo

[Malcolm]

15.08.2005
Vertigo Europe Climaxes in Lisbon
The band performed their final European date for 2005 tonight, to a packed
stadium in Lisbon, Portugal.

It was a bit of a special day for the band in Portugal. Apart from the final show of the hugely successful European leg of Vertigo ?05, earlier in the day they received the prestigious Order of Merit. More on this, plus photos and a report of the show, later. Meantime, here tonight's set list.

Vertigo
I Will Follow
Electric Co.
Elevation
New Year's Day
Beautiful Day
I Still Haven't Found
City of Blinding Lights
Miracle Drug
Sometimes you Can't Make It On Your Own
Love and Peace
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride in the Name of Love
Where the Streets Have No Name
One

Zoo Station
The Fly
With or Without You

All Because of You
Yahweh
40

[Malcolm]

12.09.2005
Fast Cars In Toronto
New songs and famous faces as Fall dates get off to a flyer in Canada tonight.

Eighteen thousand Canadians got the third leg of Vertigo '05 off to a deafening start at the Air Canada Centre tonight. After a month away, the band appeared rejuvenated and a blistering 23-song set suggested the Fall dates are going to be among the best of the whole year.

'Hello, hello...Toronto!' announced Bono as the set opened with Vertigo and raced into the familiar quartet of I Will Follow, Electric Co., Elevation and Beautiful Day. The first surprise came with the opening chords of In A Little While, making its return to the stage for the first time since the Elevation Tour. 'We haven't played that in a little while...it's fair to say!'

Almost every song got an ovation tonight, Toronto was delighted to have U2 back.

'Don't get too big for your boots Toronto!' joked Bono. 'With your film festival and all, don't forget your rock'n'roll. Tonight this is a rock'n'roll festival.'

Seemed like everyone who is anyone is in town for the film festival and lots of them were having a rock'n'roll festival tonight. Ray Liotta, Cuba Gooding (in a very cool hat), Harvey Keitel, Lian Lunson, Toni Collete, Hal Wilner and Curtis Hansen to name a few. There's no doubt which film Bono thinks is the best in show. 'I'm very proud that the best film on show happens to be an Irish film,' he said. 'Breakfast On Pluto.' (And the best documentary he added, is Lian Lunson's 'Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man'.)

As Edge picked out the familiar chords of 'Still Haven't Found', Larry and Adam caught their breath, Bono thanked everyone for turning up... and offered a little apology. 'Normally we start out in Toronto and then move out West, this time we were working up to Toronto !'

No small earthquake of applause for that one. City of Blinding Lights had some beautiful new visuals thrown up on the illuminated curtains around the stage while Miracle Drug went out to all the doctors and nurses. The potent trio of Love and Peace, Sunday Bloody Sunday and Bullet The Blue Sky was as chilling tonight as on the first leg in North America six months ago, but this time there was a twist, brought over from the European shows: Miss Sarajevo.

'So what a strange year, we're lovers in a dangerous time,' rapped Bono, dropping in a reference to a song by the legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn. 'All the devastation, London, Turkey, the Middle East, these are strange times to live in London or New York or Toronto. We have a song to dedicate to this time and we'd like to turn it into a prayer tonight and the prayer is that we do not become a monster in order to defeat a monster...'

And so Edge began playing the keyboard intro to Miss Sarajevo, a song originally recorded with Brian Eno and set in war-torn Bosnia. 'Is there a time for human rights?' sang Bono, which was the perfect cue for the screens above the stage to begin scrolling the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

Pride, Streets and One ran into a lovely snatch of Old Man River as everything was illuminated with ten thousand cell phones. For North American fans this was the first time to hear and see the Vertigo '05 versions of Zoo Station and The Fly. A few minutes later came an even bigger surprise with the arrival of Fast Cars, a track that many fans had never heard before - and one, as Bono admitted, the band had never played live.

'I'm going nowhere
Where I am it is a lot of fun
They're in the desert to dismantle an atomic bomb
I watch them channel hop
Check the stocks
I'm in detox
I want the lot of what you've got
If what you've got can make this stop...'

Fast Cars appears as the twelfth track on How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, but only on the Japanese and UK versions of the album, and the Deluxe edition. Credit to those fans on the front row who were, unbelievably, singing along word for word!

We shouldn't forget to mention that earlier in the evening, Dashboard Confessional got the third leg off to a great start (more on them in the coming days). A fine opening night of four in Toronto, with lots of twists and turns and the promise of even more later in the week.

[Malcolm]

14.09.2005
Bad in Toronto
Here is the set list from the 2nd show in Toronto. Full report to follow.

Vertigo
Electric Co.
Elevation
Beautiful Day
Still Haven?t Found
City of Blinding Lights
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can?t Make It On Your Own
Love and Peace
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride
Where the Streets have no name
One

The Fly
With or Without You

All Because of You
Yahweh
Bad

[Malcolm]

17.09.2005
Three Out of Four
Here's the set list for the third of the four Toronto shows tonight. (Report to follow).

City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation
Electric Co.
The Ocean
Beautiful Day
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can?t Make It On Your Own
Love and Peace or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Human Rights
Pride in the Name of Love
Where the Streets have no Name
One

The Fly
With or Without You

All Because of You
Fast Cars
Yahweh end of ramp
?40?

17.09.2005
'Happy Birthday BB King'
Birthdays, video shoots, local band onstage. Third night in Toronto is out of control.

What a night in Toronto for the third show. Not only did we open up with City of Blinding Lights - haven't seen that since Boston way back in the Spring - but we ended up with a local Toronto band on stage playing Out of Control. And the reception from the audience tonight, right from the opening shout of 'Larry Mullen Jnr, Hello Hello Vertigo...!' was phenomenal.

'Alright, Night Three' confirms Bono, as if there were lingering doubts, and then, during The Ocean, he recalls The Maple Leaf Bar to big respect. 'We made this album when we were kids 17,18,19...'

The band are as fat and basey and loud as the biggest rock and roll band in the world tonight - and Adam is smiling like he knows it. 'After 20 years we might need more than 20 minutes,' suggests the singer as the heart is a bloom and Beautiful Day segues into Many Rivers To Cross.

'This is for the children's hospital here in town,' explains Bono as Edge opens up Miracle Drug. 'It's dedicated to doctors and nurses ? and the scientists who help them come up with new solutions to old problems.'

As the songs fly by the temperature rises. Larry drives 'Love and Peace or Else' into 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' and on into 'Bullet The Blue Sky' with a meditation from Bono on contemporary global conflict.
'We grew up in Ireland, and we grew up with terrorism a hundred miles up the road ? but even in Dublin we had problems. Now you look around the world and it's everywhere. The thing about terrorism is that they fundamentally don?t believe that people are more important than ideas.. we believe that people are more important than ideas, from Louisiana to Mozambique to Toronto to Sarajevo.'

In Miss Sarajevo Bono summons the spirit of Luciano and every spine is tingled. Maybe it's the arrival of the weekend but boy is it loud tonight, everyone yelling along in every chorus for song after song.
'Wow, that?s an incredible sound,' exclaims Bono as Streets reaches a crescendo and the cellphones come winking out of every pocket and shoulderbag. 'We?re looking for the Milky Way tonight, lets see what we can find, or some other galaxy.'

And with One who should turn up on stage but one of the people who helped first bring this wonderful piece of music to birth in the first place, local Canadian boy Daniel Lanois, back for his second night on back-up guitar.

No sooner had the band caught their breath than director Lian Lunson - she of the acclaimed Leonard Cohen documentary (I'm Your Man), premiered in the city earlier this week - is up on stage with a film crew. The band are playing Fast Cars again, only the second live performance ever (Don't laugh!' says Bono) and it is being committed to film. (Who knows what for ? Guess we'll find out soon enough.) The director gets a kiss on the cheek as she takes her crew off stage and it's a time for celebrations - this being the eightieth birthday of the one and only BB King.
'Lets call him at home and wish him Happy Birthday!'
And so the man who was LoveTown with U2 in the decade before last, takes the call to hear 18,000 Canadians sing him Happy Birthday.
'You know how much you mean to us.' says Bono, and we did.

You'd think that was enough excitement for one night, that perhaps with Danny and a film-crew and BB we might have had our quota of the guests on the Vertigo stage tonight. Not quite. Spotting an inviting sign in the crowd ('U2 + a song with our band = a happy crowd'), before we quite know what is happening a local Toronto band are up on stage to perform their own version of Out of Control. With Edge joining Menew (as we discover they are called) on guitar (he could go far), Shade, Key and Nathan Samuel Phillip showed they know how to rock'n'roll - and the locals loved them.

After that we only needed the cool, balming qualities of '40' to send us on our way, chilled and content after a wonderful show.

[Malcolm]

17.09.2005
Discotheque in Toronto
Discotheque makes it's Vertigo//05 debut in Toronto.

Set list below, report to follow.

City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation
Electric Co.
The Ocean
Beautiful Day
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can?t Make It On Your Own
Love and Peace or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Human Rights
Pride in the Name of Love
Where the Streets have no Name
One

Discotheque
The Fly
With or Without You

All Because of You
Fast Cars
Yahweh

19.09.2005
More Blinding Lights in Toronto
Eddie Veder was on hand to help close a week of memorable shows in Toronto.

From the moment we kicked off with the dazzling City of Blinding Lights to the final ?how long? of ?40?, this was a Saturday night of celebration.

Who else can start a show with three top ten hits of the noughties - City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo and Elevation ? and then soar into Electric Co and The Ocean, a pair of treasures from the 1970?s ? Within minutes of the opening bars of tonight?s show, the guitar man was soaring mystically around the elipse like a character from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, eventually passing the singer who was ad-libbing ?People I don?t know are trying to kill me.? (Note to trivia fans: a line from the recent self-penned charity single by long-time friend of the band Neil McCormick).

The thundering bass of Adam took the strain for The Ocean while, in near-darkness, Larry stopped the drums, as Beautiful Day kept the spell: ?Maple Leaf Ballroom right in front of you!?

Again Bono rapped enigmatically on the strange extra-terrestrial origins of the one they call The Edge before Miracle Drug was dedicated to a childrens hospital in Toronto. ? We got some nurses down the front there, we do like the nurses.?

No need to mention the volume levels of the Torontonians ? they?ve been off the scale all week ? and as Love and Peace signalled a sequence of songs which ricochet between the decades (but all sound as if they were written yesterday), there was a surprise or two still in store.

Danny Lanois was back with us tonight (that?s four shows in four nights, such dedication) and also back on stage was director Lian Lunson, again shooting All Because of You and Fast Cars. As Danny came on stage for One, Bono thanked him ?for your guidance over so many years and your poetic spirit.? There was one more player for this band though ? with Bono breaking into the lyrics of Old Man River, the band welcomed Eddie Veder of Pearl Jam on stage who took up the vocals while Bono watched from the side of the stage.

Returning after One, cellphones switched off again, could it be, surely not, yes it was... the unmistakeable chords of Discotheque, it?s first airing since Elevation in 2001, but it hasn?t been a regular since PopMart back in ?97. Tonight it included a snatch of that ?80?s classic from Frankie Goes To Hollywood, ?Relax?. Willie Williams, on his final night of the current run, had come up with some suitably funkadelic visuals with the light curtains and suddenly we were all back in club Vertigo. At the end Bono dedicated Yahweh to Willie remarking that while he thought it was the end, in no way could he leave: ?It?s like a priesthood!?

[Malcolm]

20.09.2005
?Rockin? In The Free World?
Bono, Edge and Larry were all at the Pearl Jam show in Toronto last night.

Eddie Veder had been on stage with U2 in the same arena just a couple of nights back and tonight thanked U2 for opening up for them ? and breaking in the building!

Introducing Hide Your Love Away, Vedder was full of praise for U2 and thanked them ?for all the drink they?ve bought us over the years?. He spoke of U2 as a great band who had lasted the distance and been an inspiration ? the Pearl Jammers loved it.

Later, Veder remarked that ?the best song ever written about addiction is called Bad? - and Pearl Jam slipped a section of it into their own song ?Daughter?. And, just when you thought maybe it wasn?t going to happen, during the band?s second encore Bono came up on stage with tambourine in hand and helped them cover Neil Young's ?Rockin' in the Free World?.

[Malcolm]

20.09.2005
'She got soul, soul, soul, sweet soul'
U2 mixed it all up tonight and came up with a great new set list.


Here's what they played, report to follow:

City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation
Electric Co.
The Ocean
Walk On
Beautiful Day
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can?t Make It On Your Own
Yahweh
Love and Peace or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride in the Name of Love
Where the Streets Have no Name
One

Discotheque
The Fly
With or Without You

All Because of You
The First Time
Bad


21.09.2005
Original Second Night in Chicago
More surprises tonight as Original of the Species and Wild Horses make it into the set. Here's what they played, report to follow.

City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation
Electric Co.
The Ocean
Wild Horses
Beautiful Day
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can?t Make It On Your Own
Yahweh
Love and Peace or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride in the Name of Love
Where the Streets have no Name
One

Bad
Original of the Species
With or Without You

Fast Cars
All Because of You
40

[Evolution]

Aaaah. Just got this bad boy on right now. What can i say? Fucking A album!

Surely others appreciate this excellent cd?

[GnFnR87]

its pretty good, havent listened to it in a while..... i should put it on.... i think "With Or Without You" is one of the best songs ever...

[Dr. Blutarsky]

I got it for X-mas in '87.

Fucking fantastic album! U2's finest moment.

It is one of those timeless albums I can put away for a year or so & rediscover all over again.

[Jonathan]

At their best! The best U2 album, no doubt..

[Izzy]

First 4 tracks are superb - but after that....it goes downhill fast

Same as most U2 albums - first few tracks (the singles) are fine but then the rest is very average