Kilbrittain, Ireland, Superthread

[coolian2]

Toulouse along the way
The spark that set the flame



Bono, quoting geography. The guy's a genius.

 

[Axver]

I've never understood why ISS is so underrated here. It seems like a natural partner to Wire to me, and atmospherically something of a hint of what was to come with Bullet's darkness and intensity.

 

[bono_212]

Yeah, but nobody listens to vinyl any more.

Bye bye, inferior medium!

It was rather offputting when I listened to it the day I bought it

*switches over to EPAA*

 

[coolian2]

My First show:

Setlist:
City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation
The Electric Co. / Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting (snippet) / Three Little Birds (snippet) / Break On Through (snippet) / See Me, Feel Me (snippet)
The Ocean
Walk On
Beautiful Day / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (snippet) / Many Rivers To Cross (snippet)
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own / The Black Hills of Dakota (snippet)
Yahweh
Love And Peace Or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky / Please (snippet) / The Hands That Built America (snippet) / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet)
Miss Sarajevo
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Where The Streets Have No Name
One / Ol' Man River (snippet)

encore(s):
Discothèque
The Fly / Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car (snippet)
With Or Without You
All Because Of You
The First Time
Bad / 40 (snippet)

Comments: The First Time is played in full for the first time ever. Discotheque is played for the second and final time on the Vertigo Tour. Walk On makes its Vertigo Tour debut; it is performed acoustically and Bono forgets the lyrics.

FUCK! You got the definitive version of The Electric Co! I've heard no performance better.

 

[Serena Vox]

Black flash of my own love
Tell me open my eyes
Black flash come through my own life
Telling me to sing
And I believe in him
And I believe in you
Black flash sees the sky
And it turns inside from you
She won’t turn my back
And I know her tears are blue

And you know
And your sky is fading blue
And your heart – so cold when I’m with you
And you feel like no one told you to
And your time is on side
And you’ll talk with me – oh don’t talk to me
Oh, don’t talk to me, don’t talk to me

 

[RedRocksU2]

I was at the first show for the Vertigo Tour, TEC...awesome, it got me by surprise. I was like..

 

[Axver]

Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own / The Black Hills of Dakota (snippet)

OH, THIS REMINDS ME.

One of my lecturers "snippeted" that!

He was making some remark, I forget exactly, but I think it was along the lines of "it doesn't matter whether you're in [this random location], [that random location], or the black hills of Dakota, really."

 

[bono_212]

FUCK! You got the definitive version of The Electric Co! I've heard no performance better.

I hear tell I saw the best show of the tour

(I'm sure otheres would beg to differ, but nothing will ever top TFT)

 

[Serena Vox]

ISS is definitely one of my favourites from UF.

 

[coolian2]

OH, THIS REMINDS ME.

One of my lecturers "snippeted" that!

He was making some remark, I forget exactly, but I think it was along the lines of "it doesn't matter whether you're in [this random location], [that random location], or the black hills of Dakota, really."

Lecture / The Black Hills of Dakota (snippet)

 

[Axver]

FUCK! You got the definitive version of The Electric Co! I've heard no performance better.

GOTHENBURG. If memory serves correctly, anyway. Will check once UF is done.

But that show does have the definitive Discotheque and possibly definitive Fly.

 

[bono_212]

Hopelessly
So hopelessly
I'm breaking through for you and me

 

[Serena Vox]

You know and though no one told you so
And you know
The sky – like a heart in shades of blue
And you walk when you want to let go
We live on the outside
Turn away
Fade away
Drop me down but don’t break me
If you can’t stay

 

[coolian2]

GOTHENBURG. If memory serves correctly, anyway. Will check once UF is done.

But that show does have the definitive Discotheque and possibly definitive Fly.

Oh fuck, I forgot about Gothenburg. But yes to Discotheque and The Fly.

 

[Serena Vox]

:totally lost in the song:

 

[bono_212]

Me, I'm on the outside, tell me fade away BITCHES!

 

[Serena Vox]

And you know, and though no one told you how
And you wipe the sweat of your white brow
And you care, and though no one told you try
And your heart is left out from the side
And the rain beats down
And the shame going down
And this rain keeps on coming down
And the sky is black

 

[bono_212]

Stay safe above b-side EPAA...stay safe above b-side

 

[Axver]

I hear tell I saw the best show of the tour

(I'm sure otheres would beg to differ, but nothing will ever top TFT)

In no particular order, I'd nominate the following as the top four shows of the tour:

26 May 2005, Boston
27 June 2005, Dublin
20 September 2005, Chicago
25 November 2006, Auckland

 

[Serena Vox]

The word "and" sure is used a lot though.

 

[bono_212]

fuck yeah here it comes!


You know
And though no one told you sky
And you feel
Like you pretend you can
You say go, you live
Go live outside of me
Don't you leave
Don't leave out part of me
Then I can feel
Like I feel before
Like it hurt now
And I see the floor
If you pick me up
Bits and pieces on this floor

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

"Stay safe above a B-side"

^ Best part of EPAA.

 

[Axver]

Bits and pieces on this floor ...

EPAA really is quite stunning.

 

[Serena Vox]

Don’t you leave – don’t leave out part of me
Then I can’t feel like I feel before
And I can’t hold on and I see the floor
And you pick me up
Bits and pieces on this floor

 

[Axver]

MLK, you really should just be UF's intro.

 

[Serena Vox]

I like MLK and all...but I think UF could do without it.

 

[bono_212]

I hate that there is ANYTHING mediocre after EPAA.

 

[Serena Vox]

MLK, you really should just be UF's intro.

EPAA should be the closer.

 

[Axver]

Time for TEC from Gothenburg for me.

Shall we put on another album? We could set a new thread record here too ...!

 

[coolian2]

*segue into Streets*

No? Damn!