DRay9911
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Haha yep! They tried to do a half added space theme tie in, but it didn’t really work. That was my problem with that tour... they had this giant stage but it didn’t really do anything.
Well the intro song was Major Tom... Bono would call the claw a "spaceship" a few times... In A Little While/Your Blue Room and Beautiful Day all got spaceship type treatments, international space station and all, and they added the alien video thing before the encore.Haha yep! They tried to do a half added space theme tie in, but it didn’t really work. That was my problem with that tour... they had this giant stage but it didn’t really do anything.
On the note of the 360 Tour, some thought that went in to the 2009 setlists (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2_360°_Tour):
“Bono stated that the setlist was divided into two acts and a coda. The first half, from "Breathe" to "Vertigo", focused on the personal, where Bono "envisages himself as a young man, struggling to find his feet in life and in search of some kind of personal epiphany."[70] The remix version of "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" was created by the music team Fish out of Water as a mashup of previous remixes by Redanka and Dirty South.[93] The "I'll Go Crazy" remix is intended to disorient the audience as the band moves into the second act, "Sunday Bloody Sunday" to the encore, which focuses more on the political aspect of Bono's persona, where he "[wrestles] with the problems of the wider world."[70] The coda, showcased in the encore, displays U2 "at their most raw and vulnerable, stripped to the metaphorical bone.”
It's early in the tour and they're not playing as many shows per venue this time.
I saw nine 360 shows and listened to streams of the vast majority of the rest, and this never ever would've occurred to me.
These themes are bullshit.
NY/NJ best chance for bigger changes.
You forgot The Roots and Jimmy Fallon one night, and Bruce Springsteen another night.You’d think, but I’m not sure they have a good track record of switching it up in NY. If my memory is correct they played a total of 47 shows at MSG in 2015 and the only bone they threw was Lady Gaga. Two Hearts Beat as One, Troubles, Lucifer we’re also sprinkled in once.
Chicago and Boston always seem to get the best surprises.
First 2 Hearts and October in 20+ years, Party Girl, Volcano, Bad, Troubles, All I Want is You w Shine Like Stars, Gaga, Paul Simon, Bruce, 40. It was quite a run.You’d think, but I’m not sure they have a good track record of switching it up in NY. If my memory is correct they played a total of 47 shows at MSG in 2015 and the only bone they threw was Lady Gaga. Two Hearts Beat as One, Troubles, Lucifer we’re also sprinkled in once.
Chicago and Boston always seem to get the best surprises.
You’d think, but I’m not sure they have a good track record of switching it up in NY. If my memory is correct they played a total of 47 shows at MSG in 2015 and the only bone they threw was Lady Gaga. Two Hearts Beat as One, Troubles, Lucifer we’re also sprinkled in once.
Chicago and Boston always seem to get the best surprises.
Right... but wouldn't ya know the two shows in that run that I don't go to got Two Hearts, The Troubles and Bruce Springsteen.Yeah, the 8 NYC shows may have been the most static longterm engagement of the North America leg. Foreshadowed the Euro leg in a way.
Don't forget ZooTV style Satellite Of Love.First 2 Hearts and October in 20+ years, Party Girl, Volcano, Bad, Troubles, All I Want is You w Shine Like Stars, Gaga, Paul Simon, Bruce, 40. It was quite a run.
Don't forget ZooTV style Satellite Of Love.
Couldn't be worse than the Ordinary Love performance.
First 2 Hearts and October in 20+ years, Party Girl, Volcano, Bad, Troubles, All I Want is You w Shine Like Stars, Gaga, Paul Simon, Bruce, 40. It was quite a run.