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Toronto I Setlist Watch and Party, Part IV - FIRST PARTY OF THE THIRD LEG!
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corianderstem
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Thanks for the updates, GibsonGirl!
u2wedge
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So Fast Cars was awesome live, eh? That's good to hear! Hope they keep it in there, at least until Friday.
Lila64
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I think I'll be off too! For real this time! My mom can give me an update on what else happened after I left tomorrow. G'Night!
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G'night!
Shaliz
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Just dropped in for an "official" update.
Wow! Miss Sarajevo made it across the Atlantic! Yay!!
Wow! Miss Sarajevo made it across the Atlantic! Yay!!
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I have pictures. And a few video sections that I could possibly upload. (My father was manning the camera while I was freaking out and singing along, and unfortunately was unfamiliar with the concept of filming an ENTIRE song... *shakes fist*)
All in all, a perfect night. I'm exhausted. Dashboard sucked ass, but U2 made up for it a thousand times. It took them a couple of songs to get into it, I thought, but from that point on, it was U2 full throttle.
(My father was manning the camera while I was freaking out and singing along, and unfortunately was unfamiliar with the concept of filming an ENTIRE song... *shakes fist*)All in all, a perfect night. I'm exhausted. Dashboard sucked ass, but U2 made up for it a thousand times. It took them a couple of songs to get into it, I thought, but from that point on, it was U2 full throttle.
u2wedge
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Did you see any celebrities from the film festival?
Bono shout to anyone 'in the house'?
Bono shout to anyone 'in the house'?
Lila64
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Where was your seat, or did you have GA's?
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u2wedge said:
It was very cool! And I don't think Bono screwed up the vocals once! Before it started I almost shat myself, because the way he introduced it made me think it was going to be Acrobat.
TheBrazilianFly
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GibsonGirl: Was Fast Cars done electric or acoustic and did they really end the show with Yahweh?
timothius
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Was it everything you dreamed it would be?
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Lila64 said:
I was section 102, row five, the seats directly behind the mixing desk and perpendicular to the stage. I would have liked to have been closer, but I still got a fairly kick arse view of the stage.
u2wedge
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this story is just going up on U2.com:
New songs and famous faces as Fall dates get off to a flyer in Canada tonight.
Eighteen thousand Canadians got the third leg of Vertigo '05 off to a deafening start at the Air Canada Centre tonight. After a month away, the band appeared rejuvenated and a blistering 23-song set suggested the Fall dates are going to be among the best of the whole year.
'Hello, hello...Toronto!' announced Bono as the set opened with Vertigo and raced into the familiar quartet of I Will Follow, Electric Co., Elevation and Beautiful Day. The first surprise came with the opening chords of In A Little While, making its return to the stage for the first time since the Elevation Tour. 'We haven't played that in a little while...it's fair to say!'
Almost every song got an ovation tonight, Toronto was delighted to have U2 back.
'Don't get too big for your boots Toronto!' joked Bono. 'With your film festival and all, don't forget your rock'n'roll. Tonight this is a rock'n'roll festival.'
Seemed like everyone who is anyone is in town for the film festival and lots of them were having a rock'n'roll festival tonight. Ray Liotta, Cuba Gooding (in a very cool hat), Harvey Keitel, Lian Lunson, Toni Collete, Hal Wilner and Curtis Hansen to name a few. There's no doubt which film Bono thinks is the best in show. 'I'm very proud that the best film on show happens to be an Irish film,' he said. 'Breakfast On Pluto.' (And the best documentary he added, is Lian Lunson's 'Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man'.)
As Edge picked out the familiar chords of 'Still Haven't Found', Larry and Adam caught their breath, Bono thanked everyone for turning up... and offered a little apology. 'Normally we start out in Toronto and then move out West, this time we were working up to Toronto !'
No small earthquake of applause for that one. City of Blinding Lights had some beautiful new visuals thrown up on the illuminated curtains around the stage while Miracle Drug went out to all the doctors and nurses. The potent trio of Love and Peace, Sunday Bloody Sunday and Bullet The Blue Sky was as chilling tonight as on the first leg in North America six months ago, but this time there was a twist, brought over from the European shows: Miss Sarajevo.
'So what a strange year, we're lovers in a dangerous time,' rapped Bono, dropping in a reference to a song by the legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn. 'All the devastation, London, Turkey, the Middle East, these are strange times to live in London or New York or Toronto. We have a song to dedicate to this time and we'd like to turn it into a prayer tonight and the prayer is that we do not become a monster in order to defeat a monster...'
And so Edge began playing the keyboard intro to Miss Sarajevo, a song originally recorded with Brian Eno and set in war-torn Bosnia. 'Is there a time for human rights?' sang Bono, which was the perfect cue for the screens above the stage to begin scrolling the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
Pride, Streets and One ran into a lovely snatch of Old Man River as everything was illuminated with ten thousand cell phones. For North American fans this was the first time to hear and see the Vertigo '05 versions of Zoo Station and The Fly. A few minutes later came an even bigger surprise with the arrival of Fast Cars, a track that many fans had never heard before - and one, as Bono admitted, the band had never played live.
'I'm going nowhere
Where I am it is a lot of fun
They're in the desert to dismantle an atomic bomb
I watch them channel hop
Check the stocks
I'm in detox
I want the lot of what you've got
If what you've got can make this stop...'
Fast Cars appears as the twelfth track on How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, but only on the Japanese and UK versions of the album, and the Deluxe edition. Credit to those fans on the front row who were, unbelievably, singing along word for word!
We shouldn't forget to mention that earlier in the evening, Dashboard Confessional got the third leg off to a great start (more on them in the coming days). A fine opening night of four in Toronto, with lots of twists and turns and the promise of even more later in the week.
New songs and famous faces as Fall dates get off to a flyer in Canada tonight.
Eighteen thousand Canadians got the third leg of Vertigo '05 off to a deafening start at the Air Canada Centre tonight. After a month away, the band appeared rejuvenated and a blistering 23-song set suggested the Fall dates are going to be among the best of the whole year.
'Hello, hello...Toronto!' announced Bono as the set opened with Vertigo and raced into the familiar quartet of I Will Follow, Electric Co., Elevation and Beautiful Day. The first surprise came with the opening chords of In A Little While, making its return to the stage for the first time since the Elevation Tour. 'We haven't played that in a little while...it's fair to say!'
Almost every song got an ovation tonight, Toronto was delighted to have U2 back.
'Don't get too big for your boots Toronto!' joked Bono. 'With your film festival and all, don't forget your rock'n'roll. Tonight this is a rock'n'roll festival.'
Seemed like everyone who is anyone is in town for the film festival and lots of them were having a rock'n'roll festival tonight. Ray Liotta, Cuba Gooding (in a very cool hat), Harvey Keitel, Lian Lunson, Toni Collete, Hal Wilner and Curtis Hansen to name a few. There's no doubt which film Bono thinks is the best in show. 'I'm very proud that the best film on show happens to be an Irish film,' he said. 'Breakfast On Pluto.' (And the best documentary he added, is Lian Lunson's 'Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man'.)
As Edge picked out the familiar chords of 'Still Haven't Found', Larry and Adam caught their breath, Bono thanked everyone for turning up... and offered a little apology. 'Normally we start out in Toronto and then move out West, this time we were working up to Toronto !'
No small earthquake of applause for that one. City of Blinding Lights had some beautiful new visuals thrown up on the illuminated curtains around the stage while Miracle Drug went out to all the doctors and nurses. The potent trio of Love and Peace, Sunday Bloody Sunday and Bullet The Blue Sky was as chilling tonight as on the first leg in North America six months ago, but this time there was a twist, brought over from the European shows: Miss Sarajevo.
'So what a strange year, we're lovers in a dangerous time,' rapped Bono, dropping in a reference to a song by the legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn. 'All the devastation, London, Turkey, the Middle East, these are strange times to live in London or New York or Toronto. We have a song to dedicate to this time and we'd like to turn it into a prayer tonight and the prayer is that we do not become a monster in order to defeat a monster...'
And so Edge began playing the keyboard intro to Miss Sarajevo, a song originally recorded with Brian Eno and set in war-torn Bosnia. 'Is there a time for human rights?' sang Bono, which was the perfect cue for the screens above the stage to begin scrolling the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
Pride, Streets and One ran into a lovely snatch of Old Man River as everything was illuminated with ten thousand cell phones. For North American fans this was the first time to hear and see the Vertigo '05 versions of Zoo Station and The Fly. A few minutes later came an even bigger surprise with the arrival of Fast Cars, a track that many fans had never heard before - and one, as Bono admitted, the band had never played live.
'I'm going nowhere
Where I am it is a lot of fun
They're in the desert to dismantle an atomic bomb
I watch them channel hop
Check the stocks
I'm in detox
I want the lot of what you've got
If what you've got can make this stop...'
Fast Cars appears as the twelfth track on How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, but only on the Japanese and UK versions of the album, and the Deluxe edition. Credit to those fans on the front row who were, unbelievably, singing along word for word!
We shouldn't forget to mention that earlier in the evening, Dashboard Confessional got the third leg off to a great start (more on them in the coming days). A fine opening night of four in Toronto, with lots of twists and turns and the promise of even more later in the week.
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Any emotional moments Gibby,apart from the jumping up and down and going hoarse?
GibsonGirl said:
It was very cool! And I don't think Bono screwed up the vocals once! Before it started I almost shat myself, because the way he introduced it made me think it was going to be Acrobat.
Oh, that reminds me of WGRYWH at Boston III. UTEOTW was concluding, and Bono yells out "this is a song we haven't played-" and my heart skipped a beat, maybe Acrobat or Mercy? "- for ten years, maybe more", and then I released this almighty yell of "WHO'S GONNA RIDE YOUR WILD HORSES!"
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TheBrazilianFly said:
Electric! Drums, bass, guitar...and plenty of sexy dancing by Bono.
Show ended with 40.
Mofo
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GibsonGirl said:
It was very cool! And I don't think Bono screwed up the vocals once! Before it started I almost shat myself, because the way he introduced it made me think it was going to be Acrobat.
Well I'm off, again GibsonGirl nice to see someone with nothing but positive comments about the show, you just got me completely worked up!!
corianderstem
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Mmm, Bono dancing ....
I'm off, too. I didn't spend as much time away from the computer tonight as I had hoped. Whoops!
Night, all!
I'm off, too. I didn't spend as much time away from the computer tonight as I had hoped. Whoops!
Night, all!
timothius
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This feels like a web-chat!
My question is: Did you at any point dance?
My question is: Did you at any point dance?
Lila64
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Axver said:
Haha, you're still not leaving? I think you're here for good.
No, I just needed to get that question out of my system...OH No! I'm BACK!!
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trevster2k said:
I wept during Streets. The whole place was going absolutely mad and it made me bawl. To see 20,000 people going insane all around me was just...wow. I also bawled during Miss Sarajevo because Bono hit every note during the opera part practically perfectly.
Oh, and Bono mentioned the Film Festival a couple of times too. It actually got annoying.
I called Paul Martin! WOO!
u2wedge
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This doesn't make sense, does it?... I'm telling you... U2.com needs to fire their intern...
For North American fans this was the first time to hear and see the Vertigo '05 versions of Zoo Station and The Fly.
For North American fans this was the first time to hear and see the Vertigo '05 versions of Zoo Station and The Fly.
timothius
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anitram said:OMG it was fucking incredible. What a LONG show and Bono was having a fabulous time, talked and talked.
I did especially enjoy it from the front row.
:booya:
How loooong must Bono talk, How looooong....
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anitram said:OMG it was fucking incredible. What a LONG show and Bono was having a fabulous time, talked and talked.
I did especially enjoy it from the front row.
Lucky! And yeah, it was long! Unbelievable show, though.
How about that Fast Cars?!We're sexy in Toronto.
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