U2 Tour 2009: Setlist

[dan_smee]

1. Unknown Caller (as detailed above)
2. The Fly
3. Magnificent
4. Beautiful Day
5. Crazy Tonight
6. Get On Your Boots
7. Sunday Bloody Sunday
8. A Sort of Homecoming
9. White As Snow
10. City of Blinding Lights
11. Breathe
12. Vertigo
13. Walk On
14. With or Without You
15. New Years Day
16. Moment of Surrender
17. Electrical Storm
18. No Line on the Horizon

19. Fez-Being Born
20. Bullet the Blue Sky
21. Please
22. Where the Streets Have no Name

23. All I Want is You
24. Cedars of Lebanon
25. Bad

 

[2861U2]

I tried to find a balance between wishful thinking and being realistic. I don't see them dropping Pride, but I didn't put it in here. Also, I'd love to hear Stuck In A Moment and Ultraviolet, but I didn't put them in here either. But I don't think this is bad.

1) Fez-Being Born
2) Get On Your Boots
3) Breathe
4) Stand Up Comedy
5) Gone
6) The Unforgettable Fire
7) I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
8) Vertigo
9) New Years Day OR Sunday Bloody Sunday
10) Beautiful Day
11) Bad
12) White As Snow
13) I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
14) Mysterious Ways OR The Fly
15) No Line On The Horizon
16) Where The Streets Have No Name
17) Magnificent
18) City Of Blinding Lights

19) Unknown Caller
20) Please
21) Electrical Storm

22) Moment Of Surrender
23) One

 

[Veckatimest]

Fez Intro
Intro video or whatever they're going to use to open the show into
Beginning of No Line on the Horizon
Spotlights are on each of the band members and the rest of the stage is dark.
The band blasts into the second verse (I know a girl with a hole in her heart) and at that moment the stage explodes with lights and color and the crowd goes insane.

That's how it's going to start

/thread

 

[TIJERINO]

suggested setList (this is so difficult!!)

1. Magnificent
2. Beautiful Day
3. City of Blinding Lights
4. The Unforgettable Fire
5. Moment of Surrender
6. Crazy Tonight
7. With or Without You
8. The Fly
9. Until the end of the world
10. In a little while
11. Bad
12. where the streets have no name
13. Breath/Desire
14. Boots/Vertigo or elevation
15. One/Unchained melody

Encore Break

1. Sunday Bloody Sunday
2. Angel of Harlem
3. New Years Day
4. Unknown caller
5. Stay

Second Encore

1. who s gonna ride your wild horses or KITE
2. Pride
3. Walk on
4. Love is blindness/cant help falling in love

 

[Jeef690]

No Line on the Horizon will open...end of story. That's the best opener on the album. It wouldn't fit anywhere else.

 

[namkcuR]

1.No Line On The Horizon
2.Get On Your Boots
3.Even Better Than The Real Thing
4.Vertigo
5.Magnificent
6.New Year's Day
7.11 O'Clock Tick Tock(or I Will Follow)
8.Elevation(or Discotheque)
9.City Of Blinding Lights
10.I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
11.Stand Up Comedy
12.Bullet The Blue Sky
13.The Unforgettable Fire
14.All I Want Is You
15.Beautiful Day
16.Unknown Caller
17.Where The Streets Have No Name
18.Breathe

19.Fez-Being Born
20.Mofo
21.Mysterious Ways
22.Ultraviolet(Light My Way)
23.Please
24.Bad
25.Lemon
26.Moment Of Surrender

 

[jphelmet]

Absolute Dream set, not realistic.

01 MLK
02 Until The End of the World
03 NLOTH
04 Are You Gonna Wait Forever
05 Out Of Control
06 I Threw A Brick
07 A Day Without Me
08 Beautiful Day
09 A Sort of Homecoming
10 Promenade
11 Unknown Caller
12 Dirty Day
13 Gone
14 Exit
15 In God's Country
16 Running to Stand Still
17 Streets
18 Moment Of Surrender
19 With Or Without You
_________
20 Zooropa
21 The Fly
22 Breathe
23 Cedars of Lebanon
24 Love Is Blindness
_________
25 Magnificent
26 White As Snow
27 One Tree Hill
28 Bad-40

 

[HansaTonImbiss]

1.No Line On The Horizon
2.Get on Your Boots ("She Loves You" snippet)
3.Stand Up
4.MLK
5.Streets
6.Magnificent
7.New Year's Day
8.Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
9.Unforgettable Fire
10.I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
11.Angel of Harlem
12.Beautiful Day
13.Bad
14.Breathe
15.Vertigo
----BREAK ONE----
16.Fez/Being Born
17.Even Better Than the Real Thing
18.The Fly
19.Always Forever Now (snippet)/Lemon
20.With or Without You
21.One
----BREAK TWO---
22.A Sort of Homecoming (snippet)/Unknown Caller
23.Stranger in a Strange Land
24.Cedars of Lebanon
----FINALE--------
25.All I Want Is You (or "Acrobat"- sorry, it's on the mind now)
26.If You Wear that Velvet Dress (snippet)/Moment of Surrender

My picks for "temporary retirement": SBS, Mysterious Ways, Pride, BTBS, Elevation, Staring at the Sun. I'd love to see Miss Sarajevo in here, along with anything from "Pop", most notably "Please".

 

[HansaTonImbiss]

heres another shot. I lurv making setlists

get on your boots
vertigo
mofo
magnificent
where the streets have no name
city of blinding lights
exit
no line on the horizon
bullet the blue sky
seconds
sunday bloody sunday
breathe
moment of surrender
please
walk on
unknown caller
ultraviolet light

acrobat
love is blindness
40
until the end of the world
stand up comedy

fez-being born
a sort of homecoming
one

If they play "Acrobat", I'm rushing the stage....CANNOT believe this hasn't regularly featured. The intro teamed with Zoo Station is epic.

 

[bono_man]

Seeing it will be light in the northern hemisphere at the start of each show, they might take a different tact, kind of like they did on Vertigo, but taking it an extra step. Maybe split the show into two sections, Day & Night. It could work quite well I think...

Intro - Whole Lotta Love
1. Magnificent
2. Desire
3. Breathe
4. Until the End of the World
5. New Year's Day
6. Unknown Caller
7. Beautiful Day
8. Still Haven't Found
9. White As Snow
10. Bad-40

Intermission - House Lights Out

11. Streets
12. I Will Follow
13. No Line on the Horizon
14. Boots
15. Real Thing
16. Ultra Violet
17. Moment of Surrender
18. Unforgettable Fire
19. Sunday Bloody Sunday
20. Two Hearts Beat as One
21. Vertigo

Encore

22. With or Without You
23. The Wanderer

 

[djparky]

I can't come up with a running order but my guess is we'll get the following:

No line on the horizon
Magnificient
Get on your boots
Breathe
White as snow
Crazy Tonight
Unknown caller

One
The Fly
Pride
Elevation
Beautiful Day
New Years Day
Where the streets have no name
Desire
Walk on
Vertigo
Bad
Staring at the sun
Angel of Harlem


and a couple of odd ball album tracks...

to be honest unless they play crap like Miami and Indian Summer Sky for 2 hours I'll be happy with a bunch of new songs and the hits- I haven't seen U2 so many times that I'm bored with those songs

it's a stadium tour they have to play the well known tracks

 

[ZOOTVTOURist]

it's a stadium tour they have to play the well known tracks

This nonsense argument, we have discussed here for ages, really makes me

 

[djparky]

This nonsense argument, we have discussed here for ages, really makes me

didn't think my post merited that but never mind..the point I was trying to make was..

not all of the crowd are long time fans so they have to cater for that audience as well- the casual fan will likely want to hear the hits rather than obscure album tracks or b-sides from 20 years ago

I consider myself a fan but by no means do I know all their back catalogue- I'd never heard In Cat Dubh or Electric Co until I saw them on Vertigo- I think they'll do the same kind of thing this time- mix the less known tracks with the hits

 

[mirrorballman]

Fits here more than in previous thread:

01. Vertigo
02. Vertigo
03. Vertigo
04. Vertigo
05. Get on Your Boots/Vertigo (snippet)
06. Vertigo
07. Vertigo
08. Vertigo/ Vertigo (snippet)
09. Vertigo
10. Vertigo
11. Vertigo
12. Vertigo
13. Vertigo
14. Vertigo/Vertigo/Vertigo (medley)

15. Vertigo (tape)
16. Vertigo
17. Vertigo

18. Vertigo
19. Vertigo (acoustic)
20. Vertigo

Now just replace "04. Vertigo" with "04. A Sort Of Homecoming" for Dublin III and we might have one of THE finest setlists ever EVER!

 

[Yahweh]

If they bring back this id be happy,

YouTube - U2 Hawkmoon 269 Live 1989

 

['RoomOnFire]

didn't think my post merited that but never mind..the point I was trying to make was..

not all of the crowd are long time fans so they have to cater for that audience as well- the casual fan will likely want to hear the hits rather than obscure album tracks or b-sides from 20 years ago

I consider myself a fan but by no means do I know all their back catalogue- I'd never heard In Cat Dubh or Electric Co until I saw them on Vertigo- I think they'll do the same kind of thing this time- mix the less known tracks with the hits

Exactly.

As much as I love a hell of a lot of lesser known album tracks, having them as the crux of a stadium show wouldnt work imo.

 

[bono_man]

you need songs that will reach right to the back of the stadium. some tracks just dont work in stadiums and you need a different setlist to suite. the odd obscure track is fine but you need the songs that reach the wider audience for it to work.

see the rolling stones licks tour when they did club shows/arenas/stadiums alternating. they catered the setlist for the venue sizes.

 

[louiecooper]

This would be a set i'd love to hear at Wembley 2nd night as its my first time seeing them, so I want a hit laden set for my first gig wont happen like, but no harm in putting it down!

1. No Line on the Horizon
2. Magnificent
3. Beautiful Day
4. Vertigo
5. Electric Co.
6. Out Of Control
7. Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own
8. City Of Blinding Lights
9. Moment of Surrender
10. New Year's Day
11. Miracle Drug
12. Kite
13. Love and Peace or Else
14. Get On Your Boots
15. Sunday Bloody Sunday
16. With or Without You

17. Bullet The Blue Sky
18. Running to Stand Still
19. Pride
20. Streets

21. The Fly
22. Breathe
23. One
24. With Or Without You
25. 40

 

[Veckatimest]

you need songs that will reach right to the back of the stadium. some tracks just dont work in stadiums and you need a different setlist to suite. the odd obscure track is fine but you need the songs that reach the wider audience for it to work.

see the rolling stones licks tour when they did club shows/arenas/stadiums alternating. they catered the setlist for the venue sizes.

Mind giving an example of a song that would work in a stadium but not in an arena and vice versa

 

[bono_man]

October, Your Blue Room ...great for a small venue. Not so good in a stadium.

Songs like Even Better than the Real Thing, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me...they wouldnt work in a little club really. Even Streets needs an arena/stadium...

From memory, the Stones would use the smaller venues to play really rare stuff for the die hards and the larger venues for more of the casual fans.