Moncton Setlist Party Part II: The Final Chapter

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Sounds like it was a great show - OOC, 40, champagne. Glad for all who go to go .. Good night.
 
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.
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:sad: Those last few sentences for some reason did hit me - what the fuck, are those tears? :wink: :reject:
 
When I watched the EBTTRT video above, I got chills, and then a bit sad. Loved this version. Loved the tour.
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breathe said:
They ended with 40???? What?? Was edge on bass? Or did they do the guitar version?ATu2.com says they ended with 40.
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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.
 
40 was fucking amazing. As was the mud. We saw Edge put on the bass and freaked out. Stuart had checked the bassline to 40 earlier so we thought it might happen. Band was on fire for OOC. Bad would have made might night complete but 40 was a perfect uplifting ending.
 
prbiker15 said:
A good point from @Zoomo72: tour started with a drum solo (Breathe intro) and ended with one (40 outro). #U2360
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Good observation :up: Also: They left in reverse order. Very good way of connecting the start of the tour with the end of the tour, first with last show.

"40" was the right, best and only way they could have possibly ended this tour. I really expected it to be played. I love this song as a closer.

I'm quite sad right now, but I know that this is not goodbye. Thank you U2 :wave:
 
:sad::sad::sad:

Watched all night as crew started to tear Claw apart and drank beer :sexywink::lol:
BB U2360 Tour and fuck U2.com and management, you all ppl deserved a stream :hug:

bedtime now :sad::sad:

:wave:
 
All I can say is: Thank God no announcements of farewell or handling over to Arcade Fire or what not. Interference does it again. This is not goodbye to U2.
 
However, Out Of Control was not the end of proceedings. After Bono sprayed the crowd with champagne, U2 went into 40. This is, amazingly enough, the song's tour debut, having last been performed in full on 20 February 2006 on the Vertigo Tour. This is the first time an original U2 song has ever made its tour debut at the last show of the tour, let alone as the last song of the tour. Larry was left alone as the last band member on stage at the end of 40, and with his final drum beats, the 360° Tour came to a close, two years and one month after it began in Barcelona on 30 June 2009.
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Wow. 360 come full circle. Larry was alone on stage on the 30th of June 2009 to open the show with the drum intro to Breathe. And now he's the last one to leave.
 
GraceRyan said:
40 was fucking amazing. As was the mud. We saw Edge put on the bass and freaked out. Stuart had checked the bassline to 40 earlier so we thought it might happen. Band was on fire for OOC. Bad would have made might night complete but 40 was a perfect uplifting ending.
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The fact that they didn't include "Bad" sucks...my God, what has become of my old favourite band???
 
Galeongirl said:
30 July, 2011, Moncton NB Final show
Tonight’s Setlist:

Intro - Space Oddity
1. Even Better Than The Real Thing
2. The Fly
3. Mysterious Ways
4. Until The End Of The World
5. I Will Follow
6. Get On Your Boots
7. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For / Springhill Mining Disaster (Snippet)
8. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
9. Beautiful Day / Space Oddity (Snippet)
10. Elevation
11. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
12. Miss Sarajevo
13. Zooropa
14. City of Blinding Lights
15. Vertigo
16. I’ll Go Crazy if I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight (Remix) / Discothéque (Snippet)
17. Sunday Bloody Sunday
18. Scarlet
19. Walk On

Encore
20. One
21. Halelujah (Snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name

22. Hold Me, Thrill me, Kiss Me, Kill me
23. With Or Without You
24. Moment of Surrender
25. Out Of Control

Tonight's special events:
Drum solo at the end of Elevation
Band faces on Crazy Tonight intro replaced by Crew faces, only Larry and Adam noticed.


That's all. I cannot believe this is the first tour that did NOT end with 40. :(
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If this is the real setlist it's pathetic...they've lost it you fanatics...and this coming from a guy who bought the "Boy" album in 1980!!! I've seen them, met them, talked with them over decades...i'm a bigger fan than MOST of you (not all of you but MOST of you)...My God, if I was Bono and the rest of the crew, after finally finishing the biggest tour of all time...I would have pulled some great surprises out of the bag?!?!?! Jesus Murphy, money really does blind people doesn't it? This is proof?!?! Same set as always???? You've GOT TO BE KIDDING!!!???!!!???!!!??
 
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