Washington, D.C. Setlist Party

[coolian2]

I'm starting to think Bono stays up every night Googling/Youtubing "songs called America"

 

[kabigon]

I'm surprised Exit hasn't had a Hands That Built America snippet yet

 

[prbiker15]

I'm starting to think Bono stays up every night Googling/Youtubing "songs called America"

Could be the case!

 

[prbiker15]

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[coolian2]

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....well, at least this post makes some sense to me now:

Nevermind. It was just a guy standing on his head

 

[Irvine511]

Does Drum Roll (Handstand snippet) make it to U2Gigs?

I was four bodies behind this guy. His sign was in my fucking face.

Other than that, the show was fantastic. Bono was especially "on." Better than Philly. Which never happens.

 

[cleazer]

I expect UV

I was right!

I also kinda have a feeling that Vertigo might skip a night and TLTTGYA might make a reappearance.

I was wrong.

 

[superchuk5]

That show was awesome. Opening suite got energy pumping, JT was a great song suite, UV feminist icons was a lovely moving segment and a highlight, Vertigo was a great closer, and that headstand was a wonderfully weird way to end a show. Checked a lot of great songs off my live bucket list. Night to remember.

 

[superchuk5]

I was four bodies behind this guy. His sign was in my fucking face.

Other than that, the show was fantastic. Bono was especially "on." Better than Philly. Which never happens.

Good Lord, so he was just standing there the entire show with a big "Let me do a handstand!" Sign?

 

[Irvine511]

Good Lord, so he was just standing there the entire show with a big "Let me do a handstand!" Sign?

Eventually he got tired. But it was annoying in the beginning. The sign said something about how his handstands would inspire kids. So, yeah.

 

[Axver]

Does Drum Roll (Handstand snippet) make it to U2Gigs?

I'm rather tempted.

And how the blithering fuck does a handstand motivate kids?

 

[nitebusnitebus]

so glad Ultraviolet made it back in. now let's get ASOH and Little Things in there.

what a bizarre way to end. compare it with how Radiohead ended their show in U2's city tonight (an amazing version of "How to Disappear Completely", I'd link it but Interference makes every youtube vid big and intrusive) and it's sort of night and day. the Vertigo rock ending is fun, sure (though I prefer Little Things, Bad, IWF, that kind of thing) but this just added a whole level of weirdness.

 

[mama cass]

I'm rather tempted.

And how the blithering fuck does a handstand motivate kids?

totally motivates one of mine - she spends her life searching for a nice flat piece of ground or a good wall (it's great for core strength and abs and just basically fun haha)

i think it's great for kids to use their bodies to do extraordinary things instead of sitting on their arses all day in front of a screen... we have an amazing international circus school down the road, teenagers come from all over to train while studying for their Bac (French high-school diploma) at the same time (daughter has friends there, hence her love of all things circusy), many get selected to go on to train in Quebec and become circus artists, and we get to see their end-of-year shows - really is inspiring

her facebook feed is often filled with pics of friends doing handstands in weird, wonderful and mundane, urban and rural settings - basically they just like to walk on their hands the whole time pretty much haha

 

[Axver]

I... well then. I can't say I'd have found seeing a random dude doing a handstand motivational when I was a kid, but then I have never done a handstand in my life. As a kid I was terrified of hitting my head and bending my neck badly. I guess I still am.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

It motivated me to call that guy an asshole

 

[mama cass]

I... well then. I can't say I'd have found seeing a random dude doing a handstand motivational when I was a kid, but then I have never done a handstand in my life. As a kid I was terrified of hitting my head and bending my neck badly. I guess I still am.

i used to do lots, and could walk on my hands many moons ago (did some physical theatre + acrobatics training a loooong time ago) - hadn't done any in ages, and my daughter talked me into it a couple of months back and i thought what the hell it must be like riding a bike, you never forget, and so i kicked my legs up into the air, my arms buckled and i literally fell on my face ha

 

[coolian2]

I really hope he only got up there with a pissweak reason for a pissweak thing was because someone in the band wanted him to stack it.

 

[mama cass]

It motivated me to call that guy an asshole

totally - any person in front of me with a sign at a gig, or holding their arms up in front of my face to film the whole gig, is an asshole in my book...