U2 Tour 2009: Setlist

[mamaoe]

01. Magnificent
02. Get on Your Boots
03. Vertigo
04. Beautiful Day
05. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
06. Until the End of the World
07. New Year's Day
08. Sunday Bloody Sunday
09. Unknown Caller
10. Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own
11. Elevation
12. I Will Follow
13. Stand Up Comedy
14. Desire
15. City of Blinding Lights
16. No Line on the Horizon
17. Where the Streets Have No Name
18. Pride (In the Name of Love)

19. Bullet the Blue Sky
20. Mysterious Ways
21. With or Without You

22. Breathe
23. One
24. Moment of Surrender

 

[U2FAN2300]

does everyone really want COBL to survive? a lot are putting it in there setlists. i liked it on vertigo, but I hope it doesn't make to this tour.

On the Vertigo tour I think COBL was arguably the best live performance. And I am really surprised at some of the love for Kite. Always been one of my favs and I would kill to see them do it live, such an anthemic chorus!

 

[monsieur fly]

01. Magnificent
02. Get on Your Boots
03. Vertigo
04. Beautiful Day
05. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
06. Until the End of the World
07. New Year's Day
08. Sunday Bloody Sunday
09. Unknown Caller
10. Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own
11. Elevation
12. I Will Follow
13. Stand Up Comedy
14. Desire
15. City of Blinding Lights
16. No Line on the Horizon
17. Where the Streets Have No Name
18. Pride (In the Name of Love)

19. Bullet the Blue Sky
20. Mysterious Ways
21. With or Without You

22. Breathe
23. One
24. Moment of Surrender

I'm sorry but I really hope they don't do this setlist! It would be criminal if they ignored Zooropa and Pop again at the expense of the "anthems".

 

[u2roolz]

Here is my ideal setlist for this tour. I know it's too early to jump the gun and I probably will be way off.

1. No Line On The Horizon
2. Unknown Caller
3. Magnificent
4. Breathe
5. Stand Up Comedy
6. The Unforgettable Fire (would love it if the string ending went into the single version of
7. Please (2nd night shows I'd take out TUF & Please)
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday
9. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
10. City Of Blinding Lights
11. I Will Follow (2nd night add 2 from Out Of Control, Gloria, 11 O'Clock Tick Tock etc. after IWF)
12. Beautiful Day
13. One
14. Where The Streets Have No Name
15. Bad

16. A Sort Of Homecoming (2nd night replace with All I Want Is You)
17. Even Better Than The Real Thing (2nd night swap with Until The End Of The World)
18. Mysterious Ways (2nd night swap with The Fly)
19. Ultraviolet (Light My Way) (2nd night swap with Acrobat)

20. Elevation
21. Vertigo
22. Get On Your Boots

23. With Or Without You
24. Moment Of Surrender (2nd night swap with 40)


Seems a bit long but if they just play the weekends or 25 cities they may have the energy to do a show this long but spread out I think pretty evenly. I put this mix on my iTunes playlist and it sounds great. I'll look at some of the other setlist ideas later tonight. Even though Bullet The Blue Sky is one of my favorite live U2 songs, I kind of like the fact that I didn't include it. Same goes for some other songs I may have omitted.

Kristofor

PS A bit sad I may not win to get in to Boston March 11th club show. Oh well. Radio helps.

 

[monsieur fly]

I've got a fairly radical setlist. I think it's time for them to be a bit more brave and ditch the old warhorses. I'd also like to see their 90s material dominating this time around- it's only fair after Elevation and Vertigo.

1)No Line On The Horizon
2)Get On Your Boots
3)Even Better Than The Real Thing
4)Wire
5)A Sort of Homecoming
6) The Unforgettable Fire
7) Last Night On Earth
8) Until The End Of The World
9) New Year's Day
10) As White As Snow (b stage)
11) When Love Comes To Town (done a la Zoo TV)
12) Dirty Day
13) Exit
14) Acrobat
15) God Part 2
16) Moment Of Surrender
17) Magnificent
18) Streets/One/ Beautiful Day ( a revolving "anthem" slot)

Encore
19) Discotheque
20) Two Hearts Beat As One
21) Breathe
22) Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
23) Lemon (alternate nights with Mofo)
24) Night And Day (alternate with Love Is Blindness)


Other songs which would feature in rotation- Fez, Stand Up Comedy, Stay, Electrical Storm, Vertigo, City of Blinding Lights, Zoo Station, Mysterious Ways, Gone, Zooropa, Out Of Control, With Or Without You, Van Diemen's Land and Ultraviolet

 

[monsieur fly]

PS- I know full well the actual set will be far less radical than mine but if they can push the envelope a bit more than usual I'll be happy, still.

 

[monsieur fly]

1. Get on Your Boots
2. No Line on the Horizon
3. IGC
4. Wave of Sorrow
5. FEZ-Being Born
6. Magnificent
7. Every Breaking Wave
8. Vertigo
9. October--->New Year's Day
10.FULL BAND Desire
11. Dirty Day
12. Even Better Than the Real Thing
13. Lemon
14. Unforgettable Fire
15. Please
16. Streets
-----------------
POP MUZIK into
1. Mofo
2. Discotheque
3. Beautiful Day
4. Cedars of Lebanon
-------------------
1. Out of Control
2. Bad

Yeah thats right, 4 POP songs
including Mofo, Discotheque, Lemon, Please, Exit, and WAVE OF SORROW
No ONE
No COBL
No WOWY

all out rockin!

A cracking setlist, my friend. I'd love it if they performed those songs- especially the Pop tunes and Lemon.

 

[monsieur fly]

16 -- A Man and a Woman -- acoustic

SMB

Good call- I love that song.

 

[monsieur fly]

What are the odds of Wire and UF coming back do you all think?

 

[theu2fly]

1. Get On Your Boots
2. I Will Follow
3. Beautiful Day
4. Vertigo
5. Breathe
6. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
7. Trying To Throw Your Arms Around the World
8. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
9. City Of Blinding Lights
10. Magnificent
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
12. Stand Up Comedy
13. Bullet the Blue Sky
14. Please
15. Where The Streets Have No Name
16. Pride (In the Name Of Love)

17. No Line on the Horizon
18. Ultraviolet (Light my Way)
19. With Or Without You

20. Fez - Being Born
21. One
22. 40

 

[U2387]

1. Get On Your Boots
2. I Will Follow
3. Beautiful Day
4. Vertigo
5. Breathe
6. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
7. Trying To Throw Your Arms Around the World
8. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
9. City Of Blinding Lights
10. Magnificent
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
12. Stand Up Comedy
13. Bullet the Blue Sky
14. Please
15. Where The Streets Have No Name
16. Pride (In the Name Of Love)

17. No Line on the Horizon
18. Ultraviolet (Light my Way)
19. With Or Without You

20. Fez - Being Born
21. One
22. 40

I like this. Gets some rare fan favorites back, Ultraviolet, Please, etc... and is also very realistic!

 

[FlamingRudy]

Intro: Fez
1. No Line on the Horizon
2. Breathe
3. Even better than the real Thing
4. Vertigo
5. Beautiful Day
6. New Year´s Day
7. Stand up Comedy
8. Desire
9. Mysterious Ways / Hold me thrill me...
10. Gone / Ultra Violet
11. The Unforgettable Fire
12. Bad
13. Still haven´t found... / All i want is you
14. Magnificent
15. Crazy Tonight
16. White as snow (acoustic)
17. Unknown Caller
18. Where the Streets have no Name
19. One

20. Being Born
21. Get on your boots
22. Moment of Surrender

23. Until the end of the World
24. With or without you

 

[maycocksean]

I'd like to see the vast majority of the new material played. I won't mind of some of the classics get cut. These are some great tunes and they deserve to be heard live.

 

[Simon_DK]

I would love to see this one:

No Line On The Horizon
Get On Your Boots
Vertigo
Magnificent
Gone
Last Night On Earth
Until The End Of The World
City Of Blinding Lights
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Breathe
One
Unknown Caller
Moment Of Surrender
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Cedars Of Lebanon
Elevation
Beautiful Day
Where The Streets Have No Name

Encore:
Zoo Station
The Fly
Mysterious Ways
Bad

Of course these songs above are changeable so they could easily move around or be replaced in the set. And another thing: I really think they should drop that "Bullet followed by a ballad" segment that they've done since The Joshua Tree Tour. I don't think they played Bullet very well on the Vertigo Tour.

 

[JUSTinPUSHPLAY]

Get On Your Boots
No Line On The Horizon
Beautiful Day
Until The End Of The World
New Year's Day
Magnificent
Moment Of Surrender
Unknown Caller
I Still Haven't Found..
All I Want Is You
City Of Blinding Lights
I'll Go Crazy.. / Sometimes - acoustic
Desire - acoustic
Stand Up
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
With Or Without You
Mysterious Ways
___________________

Where The Streets Have No Name
Pride
One
___________________

Vertigo
Breathe
Bad

 

[Aygo]

European Setlist
Magnificent
MOFO
Lemon
No Line On The Horizon
Beautiful Day
Gloria
Unknown Caller
Moment Of Surrender
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
White As Snow
Get On Your Boots
Stand Up Comedy
Sunday Bloody Sunday
(...)Crazy Tonight
Running To Stand Still
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
One

Where The Streets Have No Name
Breathe
With Or Without You

The Fly
Until The End Of The World
Vertigo
40

NA Setlist
Magnificent
MOFO
I Will Follow
Get On Your Boots
No Line On The Horizon
Unknown Caller
Beautiful Day
Mysterious Ways
Moment Of Surrender
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Desire
Stand Up Comedy
Sunday Bloody Sunday
(...)Crazy Tonight
MLK
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
One

Where The Streets Have No Name
Breathe
All I Want Is You
Cedars Of Lebanon

City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Bad

 

[theu2fly]

For the European shows possibly;

Intro: Fez - Being Born
1. Get On Your Boots
2. Vertigo
3. I Will Follow
4. Beautiful Day
5. Breathe
6. Unknown Caller
7. Trying To Throw Your Arms Around the World
8. All I Want Is You
9. City Of Blinding Lights
10. Magnificent
11. Stand Up Comedy
12. Sunday Bloody Sunday
13. MLK
14. Where The Streets Have No Name
15. Pride (In The Name Of Love)

16. No Line on the Horizon
17. If You Wear That Velvet Dress
18. With Or Without You
19. One

20. Window in the Skies
21. Yahweh
22. 40

 

[u2btalu2]

Intro: Imagine - John Lennon
01. FEZ - BEING BORN
02. Get on your boots
03. Until the end of the world
04. Breathe
05. Elevation
06. New Year's Day
07. Beautiful Day
08. City of blinding lights
09. SYCMIOYO
10. The Unforgettable Fire
11. Stay (faraway, so close )
12. White as snow
13. Cedars of Lebanon
14. Where the streets have no name/ Please
15. Magnificent
16. ONE

17. Mysterious ways
18. Vertigo
19. With or without you

20. Moment of surrender
21. Original of the species
22. Bad/"40"

No Bullet the Blue Sky and Sunday Bloody Sunday?

 

[Yahweh_OMG]

INTRO : Fez

01. Being born
02. Magnificent
03. No line on the Horizon
04. Gloria
05. Vertigo
06. Get on your boots
07. Running to stand still
08. Bullet the blue sky
09. Moment of Surrender
10. Breathe
11. The Fly
12. Gone
13. The Electric Co
14. 11 o'clock tick tock
15. Beautiful day
16. Unknown caller

17. Mofo
18. Discotheque
19. Bad

20. The Unforgettable fire
21. Stand up comedy
22. Where the Street have no name
23. New Year's day
24. "40"

 

[dan_smee]

I would bet, given that they are playing so few shows, that we will see huge setlists. I'm talking in the order of 28-30 songs.

They have the catalogue to do it, and these shows are going to be events. They won't burn out, because there is plenty of recovery time.

I saw Cold Chisel play a 32 song set, and it didnt get long or tiring, it was amazing.

 

[MMP]

On the stupid and ridiculous hope that anyone from the U2 camp read this, I'll just repost my dream setlist. (Well, it could happen...):

[Intro - Fez with additional "Let me in the sound"s very, very loud]
1. Being Born
2. Magnificent
3. Stand Up Comedy
4. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
5. Moment of Surrender
6. No Line on the Horizon
7. Mysterious Ways
8. So Cruel
9. City of Blinding Lights segues into
10. Bad / The First Time (snippet) segues into
11. Levitate / Zooropa (second section)
12. In God's Country
13. God Part II
14. Elvis Ate America (snippet) / Buffalo Gals (snippet) / Desire [full band non-acoustic version]
15. Even Better Than the Real Thing
16. Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car (intro) / Miami
17. MOFO
18. Elevation
19. Vertigo / Stories for Boys (snippet) / Boy-Girl (snippet)
-ENCORE-
[Now a full orchestra goes on stage]
20. Unknown Caller segues into
21. Where the Streets Have No Name
22. The Fly [yes, an orchestral version of the Boston DVD version]
-ENCORE-
[The orchestra is still on the stage]
23. Bitter Sweet Symphony
24. Until the End of the World
24. Lady with the Spinning Head segues into
25. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
26. Get on Your Boots
["Let me in the sound"s echoes through the stadium as the band leaves]

Yes, there's a The Verve cover in there, before you ask.

 

[JDon169]

1.Get on your boots
2.Gloria
3.I will follow
4.New song
5.New song
6.Elevation
7.Mysterious ways
8.Bad
9.New song
10.New song
11.Sort Of Homecoming or Unforgettable Fire (rotate)
12.Out of Control
13.New Song
14.One
15.2 Hearts Beat as 1 or Electric Co. (rotate)
16.Pride
17.New Song
18.Beautiful day
Encore 1
19.New song
20.MLK
21. City Blinding lights
22. Streets
Encore 2
23.In Gods country or trip through your wires (rotate)
24.October
25.NYD
26.40

8 New songs/18 classics
Feel it really pleases the Consensus... Old fans(no real obscurities though)and New (want to love the old songs) fans.
rotating 3 or 4 tunes a night would be great
Bring back 40 to close!

 

[nirniva]

They're going to play Streets 30 times. Just to annoy the hell out of Axver.

 

[lemontreeexit]

1. GOYB
2. NLOTH
3. Magnificent
4. IGCIIDGCT
5. Breathe
6. Stand Up Comedy
7. Window in the Skies
8. Moment of Surrender
9. Beautiful Day
10. Vertigo
11. Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
12. Stay
13. October--->Wave of Sorrow
14. Cedars of Lebanon
15. Please
16. Streets
---------------------
17. Discotheque
18. Even Better Than the Real Thing
19. Walk On
------------------------
20. Fez
21. Bad
22. I Will Follow/Out of Control/Electric Co.

 

[Stingray]

Not much different than some of the sets already in here (that inspired this one...)

1. No Line on the Horizon
2. Magnificent
3. Beautiful Day
4. The Unforgettable Fire
5. Even Better Than The Real Thing
6. Get On Your Boots
7. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
8. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
9. One
10. White As Snow
11. New Year's Day
12. Please
13. Sunday Bloody Sunday (I basically stole your ending Axver)
14. Exit
15. One Tree Hill
16. Last Night on Earth
17. Love is Blindness

Encore one:
18. Love and Peace or Else
19. Vertigo
20. Breathe
21. All I Want is You

Encore two:
22. Where the Streets Have No Name
23. Pride (In the name of love)
24. Bad

I'd die happy...

 

[digitize]

Intro: Imagine - John Lennon

I would scalp my ticket if they did that.

 

[God Part III]

I just finished my dream setlist whilst still being a tad realistic (this could change though):

1. No Line On The Horizon
2. Get On Your Boots
3. Vertigo
4. The Electric Co.
5. Beautiful Day
6. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
7. Until the End of the World
8. New Year's Day
9. Running To Stand Still
10. A Sort of Homecoming
11. Please
12. City Of Blinding Lights
13. Stay
14. Mysterious Ways
15. Stand Up Comedy
16. Unknown Caller
17. One

18. FEZ (extended)-Being Born
19. Ultraviolet
20. With Or Without You
21. Magnificent (extended outro)

22. Breathe
23. Moment of Surrender
24. Where The Streets Have No Name

 

[The_Edge89]

Ok, so here's my take. I'm not really satisfied but I have been trying to be somewhat realistic whilst allowing myself to dream out loud.

Pre-Show (PA): FEZ--->

1. FEZ - Being Born
2. No Line On The Horizon
3. Magnificent / Do You Feel Loved (Snippet)
4. Stand Up Comedy / Whole Lotta Love (Snippet)
5. Beautiful Day
6. Out of Control
7. Even Better Than The Real Thing
8. New Year's Day
9. Last Night on Earth
10. I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight / American Prayer (Snippet) / Mothers of The Disappeared (Snippet)
11. City Of Blinding Lights or The Unforgettable Fire
12. Breathe
13. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
14. With Or Without You
15. One
16. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
17. Moment of Surrender
18. Where The Streets Have No Name

19. Get On Your Boots (Catherine Owens intro + national anthem) / Pump It Up (Snippet)
20. Two Hearts Beat As One / Let's Twist Again (Snippet)
21. Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
22. Unknown Caller
23. Hawkmoon 269 / All I Want Is You (Snippet) / Unchained Melody (Snippet) or Kite (Vertigo//Tour Leg 5 arrangement)

Post-Show (PA): Brian Eno & Harold Budd with Daniel Lanois - Against The Sky.

 

[camiloj]

Likely SET LIST GUESS

This is more of a logical guess, and I think the songs will probably be fairly accurate, but maybe not the order. And I highly doubt they'll play EIGHT songs from the new CD, but I could not decide which one they won't (besides the title track, I don't see them playing it and I think it's ONE of the reasons it's not the name of the tour!).

1. Magnificent
2. Even Better Than The Real Thing
3. Moment of Surrender
4. Fast Cars (wild card there but you never know)
5. Vertigo
6. Get On Your Boots
7. All Because of You
8. New Years Day
9. Elevation
10. Unknown Caller
11. Stand Up Comedy
12. I Will Follow or Gloria (some early 80s favorite)
13. With Or Without You
14. Pride
15. I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
16. Where the Streets Have No Name
17. Bad
18. Breathe
19. City of Blinding Lights
20. Beautiful Day
21. Gone
22. Walk On
23. One
24. White as Snow or Cedars of Lebannon

Breakdown:

8 - NLOTH (highly doubt this but then again, they do love love love this CD!)
4 - HTDAAB
3 - ATYCLB
1 - Pop
2 - AB
2 - UF
2 - JT
1 - War
1 - pre-War

This is not my dream set list, which will be a different post. This is my LIKELY setlist.

 

[camiloj]

1. Magnificient
2. Even Better Than The Real Thing
3. Do You Feel Loved?*
4. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock*
5. Like A Song*
6. A Celebration*
7. Ultraviolet*
8. In A Little While*
9. Please (full electric)*
10. Until the End of the World
11. Stay (Faraway, so Close)
12. Spanish Eyes*
13. The Lady With the Spinning Head*
14. I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Crazy Tonight
15. Moment of Surrender
16. God Part II*
17. Unknown Caller
18. Miss Sarajevo (with Bono doing opera again)
19. A Man And a Woman*
20. One
21. Bad
22. Walk On*
23. One Tree Hill*
24. Beautiful Day
25. Yahweh
26. Peace On Earth

*songs I'd particularly be THRILLED to hear live again (or for the first time!)