I think the show will open with some expansion of the idea of "dinosaur, wonders why it still walks the earth", so the first four songs are the idea of this. The Fly and Desire are two big hits/live favorites that will get the crowd going early, and I see Desire being played in the style it was for the
iHeartRadio performance, which was great. Reach Me Now is probably going to end up being forgotten, but I'm amazed it was never attempted during IE, and it could lend into this theme well. LOH will begin the narrative of what it's like living in these modern times, the "experience" if you will. this will be the electric version, like on the record. RFD continues this idea with a slightly more political angle, which Please will further. I wanted to be bold and predict no JT songs aside from Streets, but I could see Bullet come crashing out of the quiet ending "please..please.." with a new slant updated for the times (but I don't think will be overly Trump-focused, as there's so much else going on in the world). I will go as far as to predict Drowning Man's live debut, it's been discussed a good amount in interviews, Bono sang a good bit of it at the end of One on the JT tour, and plus it's already been rehearsed a lot in the last decade. I think this is as good a fit of any. Gone makes for a logical resurrection, replacing UTEOTW from the last tour as the catharsis that ends the first act.
Numb as a sweet "intermission" with cool, in-the-screen visuals would be a great thing that I'm lead to believe was tossed around as an idea for I&E. GOOYOW is a logical Invisible replacement and perfect way to start the second half. American Soul makes sense coming out of it and starting the E-stage segment for several reasons...and Vertigo also would work well coming right out of it. plus, e-stage Vertigo would be alot more fun compared to e-stage Elevation. Discotheque will come in for Mysterious Ways, as it should've last tour. played in the style of the Elevation tour with the lengthy Staring at the Sun snippet at the end, so you kill two birds with one stone. I hope for more e-stage variety (list below), but we'll probably get the same songs over and over again. I agree with the prediction earlier in the thread that TBT will get the EBW-acoustic treatment. this will effectively wrap up the e-stage segment, before Dirty Day slowly rises from the ashes to bring us back to the main stage segment. this will again tie back to the "troubled times we live in" idea from earlier in the show, with a full video/etc show on the screen. U2 will finally shut up everyone and play Acrobat, tying into this whole "no matter what you do things are going to be hard..." thing, leading right into LIAWHL as the bridge between darkness and hope, which is where the casual fans get rewarded with Streets/BD/AIWIY after sitting through a bunch of shit they don't know. AIWIY features the Walk to the Water snippet because how do they not play it that way every time??
I thought I had a better narrative idea for this encore but ultimately I do not. I just want them to play Zooropa with crazy visuals and the flying crosses and put COBL to bed. I guess this actually living up to the the idea that the I&E encore was supposed to reflect "the future". for some reason I could see Your Blue Room working here too (they could use the same visuals as COBL!) but I've made enough ridiculous predictions. I don't think any U2 fan would be opposed to HMTMKMKM's return, and Love is Blindness is also pretty due for a revival (shocked it didn't happen on 360!). I think some combo of Bad/Little Things will end the show, with possibility for IWF/OOC/Gloria/Electric Co/etc as a surprise ending.
they're obviously gonna play One and Pride and all that other shit but I really wish they wouldn't, I mean we've heard all of these a ton by now. I think SBS will take a backseat this tour, as stated up thread since it was crucial to last tour's narrative
and opened every JT show. it could use a break. NYD could be played but I didn't know where to put it in the set. same goes with Summer of Love, which I really like but couldn't figure out where to put. I don't like Love is Bigger like the rest of this forum does, and I think it would be a pretty lame closer, a retread of what Walk On already did on Elevation and 360.
okay, I've put too much thought in this for what will only be read by like 20 people.
maybe I should send this to Willie Williams???
