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I was thinking of Andy / drummerboy?s post from earlier this week and I thought of the scenario in which U2 decided to perform at one of these Christian music festivals. I wonder what songs would they choose and what would the set list look like for such an occasion and this particular audience ?
Bono addresses crowd, Michael W. Smith covers U2 at Christian Music Festival
Yesterday I was at the Creation festival, a massive Christian Music Festival in central PA. (approx 80,000 people in attendance) The fest runs for like 4 days, but yesterday's main event was a Michael W. Smith concert. Normally I'm not a big MWS fan ( a bit on the esay listening side for me) but he was doing a set of all worship-oriented music that was really, really cool. So, he starts talking about how as Christians, we need to be overflowing with love and pouring our lives into other people, and this leads to a stroy about meeting Bono at this year's Grammy awards. He said that the two of them talked at length about Africa and Debt Relief, and what role christians should be playing. He said that their conversation reaffirmed a lot of things that he had always thought about Bono's faith, and that he felt that God was truly stirring in Him and was going to be doing some amazing things through him. He then said that he had a message from Bono that he'd like to share with us, and up on the huge jumbotrons they showed a video which Bono had shot for the crowd from London, talking about our responsibility as Christians to love our African neighbors as ourselves, and encouraged us to contact our representatives to ask them to support debt relief. The video ended, and MWS then encouraged the crowd to pray for Bono and his efforts as well as for the African people, then said that he felt it would be appropriate to play one of Bono's songs, so he led the crowd in "40" as one of his closing numbers. A very, very cool night that I'll not soon forget...... - andy
btw - I highly recommend checking out creation if you live anywhere on the east coast - they have it the last weekend in June every year. www.creationfest.com
SECTION 1 : The Gathering - Up, up on your feet, celebratory, praise, rejoice
* Scarlet ? pre-concert
1. Influx Mix / Elevation
2. Beautiful Day
3. Gloria
4. Rejoice
5. When Love Comes To Town (Live In The Kingdom Mix)
6. Mysterious Ways
7. I Will Follow
SECTION 2 : The Word Of God - Personal reflection and awareness - faith struggles, doubts, difficulties
1. If God Will Send His Angels
2. Wake Up Dead Man
3. Love Rescue Me
4. I Still Haven?t Found What I?m Looking For
5. When I Look At The World
SECTION 3 : The Word of God - Community reflection and awareness - Societal problems, faith responsibilities in social action and justice
1. Mothers Of The Disappeared
2. One Tree Hill
3. Silver And Gold
4. Bullet The Blue Sky
5. Please
SECTION 4 : The Bread of God ? Passion, Death and Resurrection
1. With Or Without You
2. Bad
3. Where The Streets Have No Name
4. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
SECTION 5 : The Finale ? Communion, Unity, The Dismal, The Blessing, The Commission, The Sending Out
1. One
2. Drowning Man
3. Walk On
4. 40
* Scarlet ? post-concert
* Grace
AN ALTERNATE SET LIST
SECTION 1 : The Gathering - Up, up on your feet, celebratory, praise, rejoice
* Scarlet ? pre-concert
1. A Celebration
2. Three Sunrises
3. New Years Day
4. Dancing Barefoot
5. Mysterious Ways
6. Drowning Man
7. Everlasting Love
SECTION 2 : The Word Of God : Personal reflection and awareness - faith struggles, doubts, difficulties
1. Zooropa
2. Last Night On Earth
3. Numb
4. Mofo
5. The Wanderer
SECTION 3 : The Word of God : Community reflection and awareness - Societal problems, faith responsibilities in social action and justice
1. North And South Of The River
2. Peace On Earth
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday
4. Miss Sarajevo
5. MLK
SECTION 4 : The Bread of God - Passion, Death and Resurrection
1. With Or Without You
2. Bad
3. Where The Streets Have No Name
4. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
SECTION 5 : The Finale ? Communion, Unity, The Dismal, The Blessing, The Commission, The Sending Out
1. One
2. Always
3. Walk On
4. 40
* Scarlet ? post-concert
* Grace
There are other U2 songs that I believe would be lyrically appropriate such as Falling At Your Feet
Bono addresses crowd, Michael W. Smith covers U2 at Christian Music Festival
Yesterday I was at the Creation festival, a massive Christian Music Festival in central PA. (approx 80,000 people in attendance) The fest runs for like 4 days, but yesterday's main event was a Michael W. Smith concert. Normally I'm not a big MWS fan ( a bit on the esay listening side for me) but he was doing a set of all worship-oriented music that was really, really cool. So, he starts talking about how as Christians, we need to be overflowing with love and pouring our lives into other people, and this leads to a stroy about meeting Bono at this year's Grammy awards. He said that the two of them talked at length about Africa and Debt Relief, and what role christians should be playing. He said that their conversation reaffirmed a lot of things that he had always thought about Bono's faith, and that he felt that God was truly stirring in Him and was going to be doing some amazing things through him. He then said that he had a message from Bono that he'd like to share with us, and up on the huge jumbotrons they showed a video which Bono had shot for the crowd from London, talking about our responsibility as Christians to love our African neighbors as ourselves, and encouraged us to contact our representatives to ask them to support debt relief. The video ended, and MWS then encouraged the crowd to pray for Bono and his efforts as well as for the African people, then said that he felt it would be appropriate to play one of Bono's songs, so he led the crowd in "40" as one of his closing numbers. A very, very cool night that I'll not soon forget...... - andy
btw - I highly recommend checking out creation if you live anywhere on the east coast - they have it the last weekend in June every year. www.creationfest.com
SECTION 1 : The Gathering - Up, up on your feet, celebratory, praise, rejoice
* Scarlet ? pre-concert
1. Influx Mix / Elevation
2. Beautiful Day
3. Gloria
4. Rejoice
5. When Love Comes To Town (Live In The Kingdom Mix)
6. Mysterious Ways
7. I Will Follow
SECTION 2 : The Word Of God - Personal reflection and awareness - faith struggles, doubts, difficulties
1. If God Will Send His Angels
2. Wake Up Dead Man
3. Love Rescue Me
4. I Still Haven?t Found What I?m Looking For
5. When I Look At The World
SECTION 3 : The Word of God - Community reflection and awareness - Societal problems, faith responsibilities in social action and justice
1. Mothers Of The Disappeared
2. One Tree Hill
3. Silver And Gold
4. Bullet The Blue Sky
5. Please
SECTION 4 : The Bread of God ? Passion, Death and Resurrection
1. With Or Without You
2. Bad
3. Where The Streets Have No Name
4. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
SECTION 5 : The Finale ? Communion, Unity, The Dismal, The Blessing, The Commission, The Sending Out
1. One
2. Drowning Man
3. Walk On
4. 40
* Scarlet ? post-concert
* Grace
AN ALTERNATE SET LIST
SECTION 1 : The Gathering - Up, up on your feet, celebratory, praise, rejoice
* Scarlet ? pre-concert
1. A Celebration
2. Three Sunrises
3. New Years Day
4. Dancing Barefoot
5. Mysterious Ways
6. Drowning Man
7. Everlasting Love
SECTION 2 : The Word Of God : Personal reflection and awareness - faith struggles, doubts, difficulties
1. Zooropa
2. Last Night On Earth
3. Numb
4. Mofo
5. The Wanderer
SECTION 3 : The Word of God : Community reflection and awareness - Societal problems, faith responsibilities in social action and justice
1. North And South Of The River
2. Peace On Earth
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday
4. Miss Sarajevo
5. MLK
SECTION 4 : The Bread of God - Passion, Death and Resurrection
1. With Or Without You
2. Bad
3. Where The Streets Have No Name
4. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
SECTION 5 : The Finale ? Communion, Unity, The Dismal, The Blessing, The Commission, The Sending Out
1. One
2. Always
3. Walk On
4. 40
* Scarlet ? post-concert
* Grace
There are other U2 songs that I believe would be lyrically appropriate such as Falling At Your Feet