I remain very proud of the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.
1. As Miri just posted, we had them from the start of Vertigo. Back in those days I made most of them, being at the height of my setlist obsession. I wasn't around for Elevation but from what I know, I don't think they were formalised - but that people did report back pretty quickly from the shows. I know Matthias usually had the set up straight away on U2gigs (or as it was then, elevation-tour.com).
2. The very first stream was run by gorman and me. Pretty much all the legwork and technological know-how was done by gorman, and it was during one of the North American legs of the Vertigo Tour. I honestly can't remember now which one, though my gut instinct is that it was early, during the first leg. They had really taken off by midway through Vertigo's third leg. On those primitive streams, we could only have a very limited number of people listening, and the connection cut out often; if you got accidentally booted, it could be really hard to reconnect. Sometimes they buffered like a mofo too.
3. We never achieved a video stream on Vertigo, though I remember talking with gorman about how we'd have that on the next tour.
4. Think this has already been covered sufficiently.
5. I'm sorry to all the 360 regulars, but those setlist parties generally weren't very good. If anything they were a victim of their own popularity by 360. I think the setlist parties peaked on the second leg and early stages of the third leg of the Vertigo Tour. There were some hilarious jokes. I forget exactly which party it was (pretty sure it was early third leg Vertigo though), but one of my top three Interference memories is the epic Wellington vs Auckland "war" waged by me and timothius. I laughed so hard I cried. My other two top moments, for the record, are the birth of the Superthread and Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.
I remember some of those parties got a bit vitriolic and before long I renamed them the "Setlist Bitch and Thread Party" - which just led to even more bitching about the setlists and one of the mods stepped in to ask me to revert to the old "Setlist Watch and Thread Party" title. Over time that shortened of its own accord to "Setlist Party".
Hello hello!
I'm cobbling together some pieces for an upcoming volume about the 360 tour. I'm gonna include a section about setlist parties and I'd like to delve deep into Interference lore for the beginnings of such shenanigans.
Some questions for Interference oldies who can recall the dim past of previous tours:
1) When was the first setlist party?
2) When was the first 1000Mikes live stream from a show?
3) When was the first unofficial video stream?
4) Which were the most popular? (in terms of number of members tuning in and number of posts)
5) Which was the best - just to try to provoke some nostalgic debate?
(I still think the tour forums should never have been locked, but hey ho!)
1. As Miri just posted, we had them from the start of Vertigo. Back in those days I made most of them, being at the height of my setlist obsession. I wasn't around for Elevation but from what I know, I don't think they were formalised - but that people did report back pretty quickly from the shows. I know Matthias usually had the set up straight away on U2gigs (or as it was then, elevation-tour.com).
2. The very first stream was run by gorman and me. Pretty much all the legwork and technological know-how was done by gorman, and it was during one of the North American legs of the Vertigo Tour. I honestly can't remember now which one, though my gut instinct is that it was early, during the first leg. They had really taken off by midway through Vertigo's third leg. On those primitive streams, we could only have a very limited number of people listening, and the connection cut out often; if you got accidentally booted, it could be really hard to reconnect. Sometimes they buffered like a mofo too.
3. We never achieved a video stream on Vertigo, though I remember talking with gorman about how we'd have that on the next tour.
4. Think this has already been covered sufficiently.
5. I'm sorry to all the 360 regulars, but those setlist parties generally weren't very good. If anything they were a victim of their own popularity by 360. I think the setlist parties peaked on the second leg and early stages of the third leg of the Vertigo Tour. There were some hilarious jokes. I forget exactly which party it was (pretty sure it was early third leg Vertigo though), but one of my top three Interference memories is the epic Wellington vs Auckland "war" waged by me and timothius. I laughed so hard I cried. My other two top moments, for the record, are the birth of the Superthread and Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.
First thread with setlist party in the title :
http://www.u2interference.com/forums/f280/anaheim-i-setlist-watch-and-thread-party-121305.html
I remember some of those parties got a bit vitriolic and before long I renamed them the "Setlist Bitch and Thread Party" - which just led to even more bitching about the setlists and one of the mods stepped in to ask me to revert to the old "Setlist Watch and Thread Party" title. Over time that shortened of its own accord to "Setlist Party".