cobl04
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North Star might be their nadir. I saw them play that in Brisbane, it was incredibly boring.
I don't mind an acoustic song or two, or even a full acoustic show IF I know that's what I'm getting; so some of the above setlists don't seem so bad to me in that context.
I think the biggest peeve would be an over-abundance of warhourses, so something like:
1. The Miracle
2. I Will Follow
3. Iris
4. Volcano
5. Elevation
6. Beautiful Day
7. I Still Haven't Found
8. City Of Blinding Lights
9. Vertigo
10. Every Breaking Wave (acoustic)
11. Stuck/Stay (acoustic)
12. Pride
13. Sunday Bloody Sunday
14. California
15. Mysterious Ways
16. Miss Sarajevo
17. In A Little While
18. Song For Someone
19. Where The Streets Have No Name
20. One
21. Sleep Like A Baby Tonight
22. With Or Without You
23. Walk On
the stage is in the round with a massive, paper-mache volcano in the middle. it's filled with red food dye colored vinegar colored. the audience can smell it.
lights go out. we hear the Jock Jams "are you ready to rumble." flash strobe lights, drama club thunder claps. deep inside the volcano, baking soda falls into the vinegar, it "errupts," like a 5th grade science project. the band emerges on cue.
it's the U2 "about to blow" Volcano Tour 2015
1. Volcano ("hola El Paso! i've got something in you that's about to blow!")
2. Sleep Like A Baby Tonight -- ("every time i clap my hands, another teenager is touched by a priest")
3. Elevation // Call Me Maybe (snippets) (call-and-response, Bono: "I just met you!" Audience: "And this is crazy!")
4. The Playboy Mansion -- ("let's take a trip ... BACK TO THE 90s!")
5. The Miracle (slam poet reading by Clayton, "Cedars of Lebanon" snippets)
6. California (Orchestral version, Modena-style)
7. Song For Someone ("we gave up irony around the turn of the century, but here's someone who nailed it as well back in the 90s," cue Alanis Morissette link-up to harmonize during the chorus)
8. PITNOL (every time he sings "love" the volcano erupts)
(giant piano wheeled out to the b-stage, Bono cracks his knuckles and takes a seat)
9. Grace ("here's a little ditty about a girl I once knew, her name was Grace O'Sullivan, nice girl, didn't change the world much though.")
10. Sweetest Thing
11. Angels Too Tied to the Ground
return to main stage
12. Big Girls Are Best (Rebel Wilson visuals)
13. One Step Closer (Happiness is a Warm Gun snippets)
14. Holy Joe
15. North Star
encore, band in full mime make-up
16. 4th of July (Bono interpretive dance)
17. Promenade
18. Elvis Presley and America
19. Stand Up Comedy
2nd encore
20. The Refugee (The Corrs on backup)
21. Volcano
GOOD NIGHT EL PASO.
4th of July (Bono interpretive dance)
It reminded me of the ZOOTV setlists:Nightmare setlist for me has already been played. Night #1 in Vancouver. Nightmare as in; nothing special at all.
They should at least try opening a show with Volcano, then immediately follow it with a sudden but yet awfully depressing segue into Streets. Then as the closing notes fade out around the arena Bono starts singing the intro to Red Light urging the crowd to join him. SOLID!
Maybe if they played October back to back
12. Knocking On Heavens Door
Maybe if they played October back to back, but then there's 4 to 6 songs I would love.
Is it the amount of rarities they played during ZOOTV and POPMart or the awesome setlist variety why these tours do not feature in your worst dreams?My nightmare would be an all post-2000's setlist.
Is it the amount of rarities they played during ZOOTV and POPMart or the awesome setlist variety why these tours do not feature in your worst dreams?
Well someone has to be the guardian of good taste and it's obviously not going to be any of you lotGod forbid someone like Achtung Baby and Pop more than any of the last four albums