Saturday 25.02.2006: After a great afternoon playing music with my band (we play progressive and classic rock as Pink Floyd, Genesis, Rush, King Crimson and Yes ) we took the bus to Santiago at 9 o clock.
11:30 PM: Finally we (My brother, my friend and I) arrived to a friend´s in Providencia, Stgo.
We spend the night there. We went to bed early because we wanted to keep energy for the gig...
Sunday 26.02.2006:
7 AM: We got up, we took a big breakfast, then we took a shower and went to the stadium
8:30 AM: We got off the bus and walked to the Stadium.
8:40 AM: We started the loooooooooooong wating. People from security marked our hands with a number (the first 4500 people could enter to the Golden Circle). We were the number 3200 and something. Fortunately the weather was mostly cloudy !!! (all other days the sun was really hot, above 30° Celcius)
12:30 PM: We took our lunch ... still waiting...
14:00 PM: The gates were opened (just for us, people from Golden Circle) and we went to the "Velodromo del Estadio Nacional" part.
15:00 PM: We got into the field of the Stadium
17:00 PM: Some nuts started to throw plastic bottles to nowhere.
Despite that, the people´s behaviour was smooth.
20:00 PM: Franz Ferdinand were onto stage and performed for 45 minutes (more or less) with an excelent and high-energy show, great communication with the audience. Despite I didn´t knew all the songs, some ones they performed were Darts Of Pleasure, Take Me Out and Dark Of The Matinee.
21:15 PM: U2 was getting late. The show should have began at 21:00 PM. Audience was LOUD !!!! and impatient (including me, jejeje). Several people were on stage changing some things, setting up the stage for U2.
21:20 PM: Some person from the production I think said us that we were calmed and don´t push and squash each other after several guys from the rest of the filed jumped onto Golden Circle.
21:35 PM: President Ricardo Lagos was announced over the speakers, the crowd was pleased and he got an ovation from the whole stadium. We knew the band was ready to go and they were just waiting for the president !!!
21:40 PM: City Of blinding Lights ...
...The Rest is history...
23:50 PM: The concert was over
12:40 AM: We were back home exhausted, having attended to a wonderful gig.
Highlitghs?...
Well... City Of Blinding Lights, I always Said that it was a great opening, and IT WAS
The old numbers as Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Year´s Day, etc
All the cell phones iluminating the stadium
Achtung Baby Encore
The poingnant ending Mothers- Yahweh- All I Want Is You
The overall playing by the band, top-energy, helped by (honestly) the loudest crowd I´ve ever heard of this tour. Yes, far superior than Brazilians, Mexicans, etc Also great chattering and communication between the band and us
Low Points? The Sound wasn´t as good as it were back in 1998. This time it was somewhat saturate. Edge´s guitar was LOUD and sometimes I couldn´t hear Bono´s voice, but that was mainly for us, jejejeje, I mean, too much crowd singing !!!
I missed Running To Stand Still instead of Miss Sarajevo and The Electric Co instead of Elevation.
How I wish I joined to the band onto stage for performing Mothers Of The Dissapeared. I know how to play Charango very well !!!!!!!. Also I really wish I was onto stage for singing "No More!" instead of that child
... So... which gig was better? Pop Mart 1998 or Vertigo 2006? In my humble opinion, I really believe it was Pop Mart 1998. Despite this time the crowd was even more enthusiastic, Pop Mart 1998 had another flavour. It was more poingnant, specially for the lost-for-words ending with One and Mothers Of The Dissapeared with the Chilean Mothers Of The Dissapeared on stage, and the sound was cleaner and better. Neverthless, in both gigs the band played at 110%.
One thing I´m sure off: This one blow Chicago DVD on the water by infinite miles. All we´ll have a decent DVD at last !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.humonegro.com/videosu2.html
I love that they played MOTD. 
anyway I have always said that I love songs like City Of Blinding Lights 
it´s my fav U2 song !!!
