Slane wipes its arse with Boston
Watching that just makes me realise how crap the boston DVD is. Well not really. Boston DVD is good, and has wicked versions of Bullet, the Fly + Beautiful Day, but it has to be said, Slane is 1000000 times better.
The songs we got were:
1. Elevation
2. Beautiful Day
3. Stuck in a Moment
Bit of Bono Talking
4. Out of Control
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bit of Bono talking with All I Want is you in the background
6. Where the Streets Have no Name
7. Pride (in the name of Love)
8. One
9. Walk On
In beautiful Day, At the end, Bono sang "Beautiful Goal!" which I think was a reference to the Football match which had been broadcast on the screen earlier in the day
Stuck in a Moment was actually ok. It was a much better mixing job then in Boston, which is really what the song is entirely dependant on.
Out of Control was very cool. At the beginning, BOno said "This is our first single, we hope you like it." Then half way through, in the quite bit, Bono thanked all the the band member's families for giving them 500 pounds towards renting a studio in London. He said that the audience were his tribe.
Sunday Bloody Sunday was the best. SO much better than Boston. In the middle, before he did "no more" he was singing something (can't remember exactly) about the omagh bombing, and turning this song into a prayer. And the no more. In the harmonic bit next, there was a mistake (I think from the Edge), but in their attempt to cover it up, it actually sounded better. At the end Bono started reading the names of the victims of the Omagh bombing (I think) then he said "29 people, too many!" Very very powerful.
Where the Streets have no name - good not great. Better than Boston.
I was really glad that we got Pride and One, what with them stupidly being left off the DVD. Pride was great, as always. One was sweet. On Walk On - well, what can I say? There was a problem with Bono's guitar half way through, and his technician had to take it away and fix it - funny thing is, I didn't notice ANY difference. Quite funny.
Larry Mullen, I couldn't quite tell, but I think he was crying for like the whole second half. It was very moving. + sweet!
My only minor grumble is with the audience. I was expecting 80000 pissed Irishmen + women completely losing it. It just seemed a bit tame. No-one really went nuts in Out of Control like they did when I saw them. And when they played Pride, and Bono tried to get the audiance to sing, he wasn't really getting much out of them. It really felt he was trying hard to get them to sing, particularly in Edge's solo, when he tries to do that audiance participation bit
Still lush tho. Loved every second of it. Except the adverts.