Shuttlecock XX - Laz Is All You Have Left

[Axver]

Maybe they'll play rarities like Grace and Stand Up Comedy

"This is a song we haven't played before. We know a lot of you talk about it regularly, that it's really got our fans passionate, that years after its release it's still a touchstone for many of you. So we've dug it out for you. C'mon ye people, I'm gonna fall down if I can't stand up for your love!"

 

[LemonMelon]

Are they REALLY playing Big Girls Are Best if it's augmented reality?

 

[cobl04]

Just put on The Joshua Tree. Man, U2 were so good.

 

[Axver]

Speaking of the Joshua Tree, this was shared in the Other Place but some of you might not have seen it: https://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/artic...ens-to-u2s-the-joshua-tree-for-the-first-time

I found it pretty amusing.

 

[Joey788]

The only album songs that haven't been played live are right fucking obscure. Do we really think they're going to do The Refugee, Playboy Mansion, Heartland, and Promenade? Those last two are fucking superb songs but U2's obsession with getting an overwhelming audience reaction means they'd go the way of Your Blue Room, probably quicker. I suppose Acrobat would hold some audience attention. But that song is Interference's favourite pipe dream.

Given the album’s theme of Bono’s brush with mortality, I think When I Look At The World or One Step Closer could be a good fit for the set. No idea how those would go down with a casual audience, but they could work.

 

[corianderstem]

You'd think I'd know better by now than to get excited when they say "we're doing x, y and z" on this tour, but here we are.

 

[YBORCITY]

You'd think I'd know better by now than to get excited when they say "we're doing x, y and z" on this tour, but here we are.

Same here

 

[LuckyNumber7]

You'd think I'd know better by now than to get excited when they say "we're doing x, y and z" on this tour, but here we are.

I imagine they don't think much about it. I imagine the only people who think much about it are either here or on other U2 forums.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

You'd think I'd know better by now than to get excited when they say "we're doing x, y and z" on this tour, but here we are.

Will when they say longer sets, I merely see that as playing the 24-25 of i/e as opposed to the 21 of Joshua Tree.

The rarities? They always pull a few out. If they do keep Joshua Tree songs to a minimum it leaves a lot of room in the set - and an album cut off of Achtung Baby or anything from Pop would certainly be considered a rare occurrence.

So I think they'll do both of the things mentioned... just not to the extreme that people around here would like to speculate about.

 

[gump]

Staring at the Sun acoustic, I can feel it.

 

[kabigon]

This will be the fifth tour since they've played any Pop (bar 3 performances in that time). If they don't play any now, with less casuals attending due to some overplaying of certain areas, then they never will.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

btw the tour trailer/commercial teases augmented reality... it's been right in front of out faces the entire time and nobody caught on.

About 4/5 seconds in... There's a blue Bono on the. If screen, but there are other blue... things?... flying all around him, including off the screen.

There's another moment at 9/10 seconds where there are objects all over the arena with the band inside the stage.

 

[Hewson]

The trailer is so scattershot its tough to tell what any of that is.

But I bet Blue Bono like Blue Bunny

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

The trailer is so scattershot its tough to tell what any of that is.

But I bet Blue Bono like Blue Bunny

Well it's the only concert footage that wasn't in the i/e show, and shows images off the screen... so it's either horrible editing, or they wanted to sneak some AR in there but not make it so obvious as to ruinthe surprise.

 

[martha]

You know, I don't think I know what "augmented reality" actually is. Are they giving each a tab of acid as we walk in the building?

 

[Axver]

You know, I don't think I know what "augmented reality" actually is. Are they giving each a tab of acid as we walk in the building?

That'd be much better than some dumb app that probably won't work.

 

[lazarus]

Augmented reality is the 4-inch lifts on the bottom of Bono's shoes.

 

[cobl04]

Or making his fat ass look skinny

 

[Hewson]

Or making his fat ass look skinny

http://www.u2interference.com/forums/f330/augmented-reality-222063.html#post8250570

http://www.u2interference.com/forum...-all-you-have-left-221864-46.html#post8250578

 

[Axver]

Hewson doesn't exist in Cobbler's augmented reality.

 

[lazarus]

Or making his fat ass look skinny

More like HOGmented Reality, amirite??

 

[Kieran McConville]

Augmented reality sounds like some creepy CD extra from 1999 where Bill Gates comes to you in a dream and hands you an egg that you're supposed to insert into your tummy.

 

[kabigon]

hands you an egg that you're supposed to insert into your tummy.

See you in Pittsburgh

 

[Kieran McConville]

windows 95 is ready to insert itself into your tummy now

 

[BoMac]

I can’t watch sports anymore without being subjected to American Soul before commercial breaks.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

They still have sports in Montreal?

 

[BoMac]

They still have sports in Montreal?

I, of course, meant on TV, you insufferable bastard.

Spoiler

But fair point. [emoji26] [emoji26]

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

[emoji7]

Spoiler

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[cobl04]

Eddie Vedder covers Bad! [emoji7]? http://www.alternativenation.net/eddie-vedder-debuts-incredible-version-of-u2-bad/

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Eddie Vedder covers Bad! [emoji7]? http://www.alternativenation.net/eddie-vedder-debuts-incredible-version-of-u2-bad/

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