dan_smee
ONE love, blood, life
Are we going to have a traditional artist party thread for us plebs in ROW who just had babies so can’t travel?
Setlist Discussion Part II - Spoilers Allowed, Enter At Your Own Risk
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trevgreg
Rock n' Roll Doggie
You would think. I've been in some venues where they had Wi-Fi and such "upgraded" due to hosting the Super Bowl or whatever, and the reception is still awful (be it cellular or proper wi-fi, etc.). Hopefully the Sphere being new and upping the technological side of things in a venue helps, but you never know with 20,000 people crammed inside.
david
ONE love, blood, life
That’s what I love about all this new phone hype. I’m using my iPhone 8 still. Because what still sucks is battery life and cell reception in so many places. Fix that first tech jerks!!!
prbiker15
Blue Crack Addict
I couldn’t get a signal (TMobile and I generally have good coverage) and no Wi-Fi would work- but I only tried to connect once and then gave up. Maybe others were able to use the Wi-Fi
LuckyNumber7
Blue Crack Addict
I also had SOS only on T Mobile but bizarrely full bars on Verizon.
But the wifi was fantastic versus most arena wifi I’ve used. Really stable. Kinda helps when you get to build it from scratch and your building is an optimized volume that minimizes range and maximizes deployable surface diversity. If anyone’s having issues connecting, first thing I’d do is just reboot your phone. Oh, and no gateway page bullshit.
dan_smee
ONE love, blood, life
Been thinking about this setlist - it’s pretty good, just a bit disappointed at the length of the show. I think it would be perfect if they threw in a 3 song Zooropa/Pop set to close out the main set, dropped elevation and moved streets to the start of the encore.
You can do the rotating turntable set from other albums, but keep the idea just with Zooropa, Lemon, Stay, Discotheque, Gone, MOFO rotating post AB. 25 songs.
You can do the rotating turntable set from other albums, but keep the idea just with Zooropa, Lemon, Stay, Discotheque, Gone, MOFO rotating post AB. 25 songs.
ascender_RS
Refugee
I listened to the bootleg of night one this morning and really enjoyed it. Atomic City sounds great live and So Cruel has a real soul vibe to it.
First night nerves/mis-steps are there with some forgotten lyrics etc but they relax in to it and nice to hear snippets of lots of other songs in there. The Rattle & Hum section works well as a gap between the two "sides" of AB, I just wish it was a longer set, but I'm sure will be utterly epic.
First night nerves/mis-steps are there with some forgotten lyrics etc but they relax in to it and nice to hear snippets of lots of other songs in there. The Rattle & Hum section works well as a gap between the two "sides" of AB, I just wish it was a longer set, but I'm sure will be utterly epic.
david
ONE love, blood, life
Dang, so night 2 was pretty much the same. I wonder if they’ll do two back to back shows of the same set and then mix it up every two shows.
rosephile
Refugee
I’m disappointed in no other 90s, but am so grateful for AB in full. My god, what an album. I can’t sleep because parts of “so cruel” and “love is blindness” and “trying to throw your arms around the world” keep playing in my head. I finally got to see those performed :
lazarus
Blue Crack Supplier
Consider me pissed about the “rotating” part of the setlist being an exact carbon copy of the night before. No interest in hearing AIWIY without the full band and electric guitar solo, sorry.
4 songs from one album, two of the songs being ones we hear pretty frequently live, was lame.
And now reading that they’ve rehearsed a bunch of Zooropa stuff? Fuck.
Also, Beautiful Day is a shit closer. But I’ve never been a giant fan of the song to begin with. Would have rather they just ended with WOWY.
4 songs from one album, two of the songs being ones we hear pretty frequently live, was lame.
And now reading that they’ve rehearsed a bunch of Zooropa stuff? Fuck.
Also, Beautiful Day is a shit closer. But I’ve never been a giant fan of the song to begin with. Would have rather they just ended with WOWY.
Javin
Babyface
Are you going to make it over for any of the shows Dan? I like your idea of 3 more songs after Achtung Baby is complete. I think the last 6 songs just seem like token hits, but maybe the sequence will change. Or insert another break after 3 songs. I'd like to see Beautiful Day segue into Streets to close.
The 3 songs I'd chose to add after Love Is Blindness are Dirty Day into Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me into Last Night On Earth - they are all big rockers & they could do some great visuals. I think we will get 4 song sets of different albums, but as settlers & without visuals if Rattle and Hum is anything to go by. So for Zooropa & Pop, we are probably looking at:
Stay
Numb
Lemon (although the remix make me doubt it)
The Wanderer
Staring At The Sun
If God Will Send His Angels
The Playboy Mansion
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
Gonna Run 2 U
New Yorker
I’m sure there are legalities in place as to what exactly goes on that screen. Imagine they did a war segment and had red rocks stage background on the screen
david
ONE love, blood, life
I would not mind if the acoustic mini set was replaced with:
Unforgettable Fire
Pride
A Sort of Homecoming
Bad
Full band & electric with some sick visuals on the sphere screen.
Unforgettable Fire
Pride
A Sort of Homecoming
Bad
Full band & electric with some sick visuals on the sphere screen.
lazarus
Blue Crack Supplier
I think the point of this segment is that there are no visuals, and the crowd can focus on the band.
Plus, because the visuals are all attached to specific songs, it wouldn't make sense to use them for interchangeable titles in that part of the set.
Plus, because the visuals are all attached to specific songs, it wouldn't make sense to use them for interchangeable titles in that part of the set.
david
ONE love, blood, life
DomCobb
Acrobat
This is the exact set I'm hoping I get on my date.
dan_smee
ONE love, blood, life
A war set that has drowning man would be amazing too
DomCobb
Acrobat
That’s my top (any TUF set would be amazing but this is the most likely and would be perfect). Next most preferred for me would be a Zooropa, Pop, or October set (haven’t seen a single song from any of them played live). And then I’d say War, which would give us SBS, which I’ve already seen, but likely also NYD, which is a top 5 fave for me and I’ve never seen, plus two more, any of which would be amazing.
10/28, cross your fingers for me people.
ascender_RS
Refugee
Maybe they'll rotate that section of songs for each group of gigs?
So this week the three gigs will get songs from another album. That gives them time to rehearse those in between shows at their leisure rather than try to mix it up every night which I suspect they'd struggle with!
So this week the three gigs will get songs from another album. That gives them time to rehearse those in between shows at their leisure rather than try to mix it up every night which I suspect they'd struggle with!
dan_smee
ONE love, blood, life
Bono said at the second show the intention was to highlight different albums but they had so much fun playing RAH
super fly guy
New Yorker
Great review from the NME.
https://twitter.com/NME/status/1708771686244565056?t=WuEWcMCM2QF2Ss6wyIx6PQ&s=19
https://twitter.com/NME/status/1708771686244565056?t=WuEWcMCM2QF2Ss6wyIx6PQ&s=19
rosephile
Refugee
...the last pic, they're trying to mess with our minds. Where's it actually from?
ATLU2
The Fly
rosephile
Refugee
I figured that's what it was...after I posted, of course. ;p
ATLU2
The Fly
Took me a second to figure out what you saw.
rosephile
Refugee
My first reaction was like "...did they photoshop Larry in? and there's no plastic cage-thing around the drums either"
lazarus
Blue Crack Supplier
My heart sank when I heard that.
dmalezi
War Child
Those R&H songs are great sing alongs though. Bono enjoys hearing that from the crowd. There was a song when he seemed disappointed at the end that he wasn't hearing it. I can't remember which one it was now.
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