Moncton Setlist Party Part II: The Final Chapter

[LuckyNumber7]

I wish we could have champagne on Interference and turn our sorrows into joy!

[prbiker15]

Originally Posted by ryancoke71

Did they leave and come back? That sure is quite a delay!

Nope, it was immediately after Out of Control - as said before, Bono sprayed champagne at the crowd before the song began. I knew they would end the show with it. So glad the people at the show got to witness an epic ending.

[Dfit00]

This time around Adam and Edge definitely had to switch sides since the whole song was played, and moreover it ended just like Larry ends the Vertigo-Chicago DVD. Those drumbeats at the end are amazing.

I bet Larry was pissed though, too much work for his standards.

[U2BROTHR]

U2 Setlist - Moncton, NB - Jul 30, 2011 - U2tours.com

[U2BROTHR]

Comments: The U2 360 tour ends with three artists on the bill at the Magnetic Hill Music Festival in Eastern Canada. Bono sings a bit of 'The Ballad of Springhill' (AKA Springhill Mining Disaster) in honor of the nearby town devastated by an earthquake in 1958. It's the first time he's sung any of that song since 1987. The show ends with 40, which has only been snippeted twice before on this tour (Pittsburgh and Chicago 2009). The 360 tour ends as the most successful ever, grossing $736 million on sales of 7.2 million tickets.

[ryancoke71]

that was actually the ending that made the most sense!

[U2Girl1978]

Thx to @zoomo72 and @Dutchelevation -- "40" was full band, each one leaving separately, with Larry last to go

[prbiker15]

A good point from @Zoomo72: tour started with a drum solo (Breathe intro) and ended with one (40 outro). #U2360

That's just awesome. To me, it shows how important Larry is in the band! It will sink in soon that U2360 is over.

[Lila64]

[gocolts]

I was there.....awesome ending and stay was amazing....Bono sang a bunch of extra verses about the tour and family

[u2fantexas]

Sounds like it was a great show - OOC, 40, champagne. Glad for all who go to go .. Good night.

[prbiker15]

U2.com's write-up of the last show:

U2 > News > 'We'll Miss You. Goodnight!'

'Moncton, Hub City, where you gonna take us tonight?'

Moncton in Atlantic Canada was going to take us to the end of the world tonight, and then even further, to the end of U2360°, the most successful concert tour of all time.

Two years after opening up in Barcelona in June, 2009 tonight the band played their final show in a record-breaking tour of 110 concerts in 30 countries across 5 continents. It's been some ride and the fact it had rained all day and was moist underfoot here in Moncton was not going to stop anyone in this 75,000-strong audience making this a night to remember.

A breathtaking flyover from the Canadian Airforce set the scene before the show along with powerful opening sets from Carney and the one and only Arcade Fire.

'Extraordinary band, give it up for Carney,' said Bono, after Get On Your Boots. 'I don't know if there's vocabulary in English or French to describe Arcade Fire. They asked to play here as they have a relationship with you guys. They're not like a band, more like a miraculous event, carnival of chaos...'

Six songs in and Moncton had put the 360° spaceship into orbit for one final trip: 'This is the best time we could be having anywhere,' explained Bono, adding that the band wanted to make the most of the fact that this is the end of the tour. 'Eighteen babies, two marriages in the crew, eight separations... over 7 million served!'

And the best thing about this remarkable structure they've played under night after night ? It has no roof, 'but that's because it won't rain - right?'

On bass guitar tonight, we had Adam Clayton. On drums, 'the man who gave us our first job', Larry Mullen. On guitar? 'People like to remind us that without Edge we'd be nothing... but without us, he'd still be in his room twiddling knobs.'
And at the microphone: 'My name is Bono, I'm a work in progress...'

'I have climbed highest mountains
I have run through the fields...'

The end of 'Still Haven't Found' segued into Springhill Mining Disaster while the lyrics of 'Stay' were customised for the occasion.

'110 shows, strangely it feels like home
Glad my wife is here tonight, not a night to be alone
Just a bang and a clatter, as 360 leaves town...'

The night, like this tour, raced by. Special thanks to Live Nation, Universal Music, Principle Management and the unrivalled 360 Crew gave way to Moment of Surrender which was not to be the final song of the tour.
' We're a band from Dublin, Ireland. We're called U2..'
Out of Control, the band's first single, was an inspired way to bring things to a close.
'A higher than high here, out on the Atlantic Coast
Larry Mullen, Adam Clayton, Bono, The Edge... still... out of control.'

But there was one final piece of inspiration, marrying this legendary tour to the band's earliest tours as a bottle of champagne was found for Bono to spray the audience and leave this audience, singing with so many others, as the night came to an end.

'How long to sing this song
How long to sing this song ...'

Bono, Edge and Adam waited at the back of the stage for Larry to end '40' and once he did, he took the mike at the front of the stage; 'We'll miss you guys, Goodnight!'

With that the four members of U2, arms around each other, took a final bow and the U2360° spaceship was gone.

Those last few sentences for some reason did hit me - what the fuck, are those tears?

[prbiker15]

EDIT - Double post.

[Lila64]

‪U2 360 Tour Moncton 2011‬‏ - YouTube

[Lila64]

‪U2 2011 moncton‬‏ - YouTube

[Lila64]

Streets

‪U2 - what im looking for‬‏ - YouTube

[breathe]

They ended with 40???? What?? Was edge on bass? Or did they do the guitar version?ATu2.com says they ended with 40.

[zuropa_fit]

Originally Posted by prbiker15

A good point from @Zoomo72: tour started with a drum solo (Breathe intro) and ended with one (40 outro). #U2360

That's just awesome. To me, it shows how important Larry is in the band! It will sink in soon that U2360 is over.

Ok. I'll admit. THIS got to me a little.

[Lila64]

When I watched the EBTTRT video above, I got chills, and then a bit sad. Loved this version. Loved the tour.

[LuckyNumber7]

Originally Posted by breathe

They ended with 40???? What?? Was edge on bass? Or did they do the guitar version?ATu2.com says they ended with 40.

Yeah, after everyone at the setlist party cleared out we got some twitter updates. They took their sweet time to come back out with some champagne and played "40", full band.