Thursday update:
5 songs I've personally heard for the first time:
Cedarwood
Song 4 Someone(final minute was re-arranged to be a bit more upbeat)
Iris
Haven't Found
Out of Control
Sleep & Reach are the only new songs I haven't personally heard yet.
Bullet and Miracle got extensive work tonight(30 minutes each). Bullet is now a very involved Bono rant bookended by the start/finish of a song. Can't quite make it out but it's very passionate and Bono was changing it up from version to version a bit. "Fire in the hole" a couple times was the only thing I could make out. Edge fiddled with M-Drug for a long time and it seems to be a corner piece to the show with some kind of spoken work intro and segway into Streets that's happened 2-3 nights this week.
Invisible into E-Better into Desire into California into M-Ways seems to be a front section loose grouping they done for 3-4 nights this week. Think set/show opener. Invisible is getting lots of work this week and tonight had yellow effects on the screen.
Breaking Wave and Troubles seem destined to be set closers of some kind(set 1, set 2 or encore closer)
Mysterious Ways was full band non-slide arrangement, but tonight was Larry on bongos instead of drum kit for the first minute. A very curious twist that I hope they explore. Some snippet I didn't catch before the "One day.." verse.
Sunday Bloody Sunday was a *MM*AA*SS*SS*II*VV*EE re-arrangement. Full band best described as flamenco belero version. Last week I was told SBS sounded different from a casual fan, but assumed he was referring to the "Barry White version" we've grimaced through on the last couple tours. it's obviously had extensive rehearsing. This along with Playboy Mansion, Electric-Co, Out Of Control and the new songs are by far the coolest thing I've heard out at the PNE and will be a highlight for difficult to please curmudgeon fans. Singing is changed a bit and Bono is singing a couple semi tones up from the 360 version with Edge/Bono doing some cool harmonies in the choruses. Some of the melody follows a common war march songs(IIRC, Johnny comes marching home...)
A Rogers Arena source says the Red Zone is BOTH sides of the catwalk. The "e-stage" will have a barricade right around it for regular GA. U2 selling $600 face value front row tickets is Eagles/Bon Jovi/Irving Azoff/Rolling Stones/Madonna territory and deserves fan ridicule.
There's seems to be "end" screens on both sides of the fancy video wall to show the same graphics which I think are projection screens. Tonight was the first time I've seen faint glimpse of live band member video on the giant screen which tells you it's really good quality playback for a "transparent" screen. They are really making use of the "widescreen" framing when shooting the band on a couple songs. Some songs have the band in B&W and others were colour. Streets used the tradition red lighting scheme with no flags in sight which may be "why am I reading this?" some but critical part of the show to fans going back 20-30 years.
Another fan report of a Johnny Cash cover. Doesn't appear to be "Take Your Guns To Town" or "Wanderer". See if I can find more info and hopefully it turns up again.
