I predict that Boots will stay on the setlist as the Digitech Synthwah pedal, which is used on that song, is still in Edge's new effect rack. Oddly enough the Korg A3, which is the only unit that can do the Mysterious Ways sound, is now absent from his rack, so who knows?
I fully expect SBS to be there as this has become the definitive U2 song, the one that defines U2 to most people. The band didn't seem to have liked it much in the 90's, like it was what Creep is to Radiohead, but nowadays it looks like they have made peace with the song and that their audience wants to hear it. Of the old warhorses I'm of the opinion that SBS, One. WOWY and Streets are the ones that the band now feels that they absofragginlutely have to play those every night. The fact that Pride got dropped from quite a number of 360 shows shows however that it is no longer on that list.
Vertigo and BD will obviously be in there as they are the recent additions to that must absofragginlutely have to play each night after night list. COBL and Elevation would do alright, Elevation in particular would electrify a crowd, but they're not necessary as they have other songs that can do that as well. I hope they stay though, otherwise the setlist would probably lean even more on their 80's and Achtung Baby classics as I'll doubt they will revisit Pop.
MOS? Magnificent? Not bloody likely. MOS was a good song, but so was Love is Blindness, and we don't get treated to that one again either. It was a closer to a specific tour and this tour will undoubtedly have another one with a completely different feel. Magnificent's ditching from the 360 tour doesn't bode well for it either. I hated the album version and I don't understand who so many people here were ecstatic about it, although the reworked 2011 version was quite good.
I don't expect anything from their first three albums other then IWF, OOC and NYD, as those have proven track records, plus they did the whole 'lets revisit those old albums for hidden gems' thing already. I do hope that they will revisit some of their hidden gems from Pop, otherwise I predict a tour that will lean heavy on 80's and AB classics, BD, Vertigo and a few new songs, a number of which will probably be axed for even more classics as few people are really wanting to hear them.
