U2's second show in Singapore featured three setlist changes from night one.

The band performed Desire for the second time this tour and You're the Best Thing for the third time, replacing Angel of Harlem and Every Breaking Wave respectively. Love Is Bigger also returned to the setlist after missing yesterday's show, taking the length of the gig to 25 songs.

At the end of Mothers of the Disappeared, Bono added the El Pueblo Vencerá chant. He did this during some performances on the 2017 Joshua Tree Tour, but this is the first time in 2019.

Singapore is the first—and, for the time being, will remain the only—Asian city outside Japan in which U2 have performed two concerts on the same tour. Two Japanese cities can claim that honour. On multiple tours, U2 have performed two or more shows in Tokyo (including Saitama in the greater Tokyo area). And on the first leg of Lovetown, U2 performed three shows in Osaka; other tours have visited that city, but only for one show.

The full setlist was:

1. Sunday Bloody Sunday
2. I Will Follow
3. New Year's Day
4. Bad / Heroes (snippet)
5. Pride (In the Name of Love)
6. Where the Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet)
7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
8. With or Without You
9. Bullet the Blue Sky
10. Running To Stand Still
11. Red Hill Mining Town
12. In God's Country
13. Trip Through Your Wires
14. One Tree Hill
15. Exit / Wise Blood (snippet) / Eeny Meeny Miny Moe (snippet)
16. Mothers Of The Disappeared / El Pueblo Vencera (snippet)
17. Desire / Not Fade Away (snippet)

encore(s):

18. Elevation
19. Take Me To The River (snippet) / Vertigo / Rebel Rebel (snippet)
20. Even Better Than The Real Thing
21. You're The Best Thing About Me
22. Beautiful Day / One (snippet)
23. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
24. Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way / All You Need Is Love (snippet) / One (snippet)
25. One

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U2 performed their very first show in Singapore on 30 November. We have both a report and videos from the show.

Singapore is the first country U2 have visited in southeast Asia, and just the third anywhere in Asia—they have played Japan on multiple tours, and once in Israel on 30 September 1997. Their show on 6 September 2010 in Istanbul took place on the European side of the Bosphorus Strait, not the Asian side.

U2 made tentative plans to perform here on 16 March 1998 on the Popmart Tour, but this did not come to pass. Instead, on that date they performed in Cape Town, South Africa. During Bad's introduction, Bono alluded to this. He snippeted a line from New Year's Day, which had just been performed in full, and then remarked that it has taken 42 years for U2 to get to Singapore (if we count from the band's formation, as Bono appears to be doing, then it's actually a little over 43 years). He joked that this would, therefore, be U2's best show ever in Singapore.

The setlist was the same as that played three days ago in Perth, with one difference: Love Is Bigger was not performed. This is the third show it has missed on the current tour.

Exit contained a notable snippet: it ended with Van Morrison's Gloria, a snippet often associated with Exit thanks to its inclusion on the Rattle and Hum movie. Bono has snippeted Gloria in a number of songs over the years, most recently in U2's own song titled Gloria on 13 November 2018, but he had not previously sung it in Exit on either the 2017 or 2019 Joshua Tree Tours. The last time he sang it in Exit was 14 October 1989.

The full setlist was:

1. Sunday Bloody Sunday
2. I Will Follow
3. New Year's Day
4. New Year's Day (snippet) / Bad / Run (snippet)
5. Pride (In the Name of Love)
6. Where the Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet)
7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
8. With or Without You
9. Bullet the Blue Sky / The Star-Spangled Banner (snippet) / America (snippet)
10. Running To Stand Still
11. Red Hill Mining Town
12. In God's Country
13. Trip Through Your Wires
14. One Tree Hill
15. Exit / Wise Blood (snippet) / Eeny Meeny Miny Moe (snippet) / Van Morrison's Gloria (snippet)
16. Mothers Of The Disappeared
17. Angel of Harlem / Sunday Bloody Sunday (snippet)

encore(s):

18. Elevation
19. Vertigo / It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) (snippet) / I Love Rock 'n' Roll (snippet)
20. Even Better Than The Real Thing
21. Every Breaking Wave
22. Beautiful Day
23. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
24. One / Invisible (snippet)

The rest of Matthias's videos are below.

U2 performed in Perth on Wednesday. It was the last Australian show of the current tour, which is the first U2 tour since 1989 to visit both Perth and Adelaide. Two intervening tours only went to Adelaide (1993 and 2006), and two only went to Perth (1998 and 2010).

All five U2 shows in Perth in the 1980s were at the Entertainment Centre, while all three subsequent visits have been in different venues. This was U2's first time playing the rather new Optus Stadium. In terms of stadium venues as opposed to arenas, Perth is the only Australian city where U2 have never performed at the same stadium on different tours. (You might think this is also true elsewhere, but it is not. Take the list of shows in Melbourne, for example; the three most recent tours have all visited Docklands Stadium, but under different sponsor names.)

The setlist featured three changes from U2's most recent show in Sydney. Angel of Harlem and Every Breaking Wave both returned to the set after missing one show. Love Is Bigger returned after missing two, which means that Sydney remains the only city on the current tour to miss out on that song so far.

Bad featured a lengthy snippet of the David Bowie song Heroes. This will be familiar to those of you who pay attention to snippets, as Bono inserted it into Bad at many European and Latin American shows in 2017.

Also speaking of snippets, there was a brief reference to the Zooropa song Daddy's Gonna Pay at the start of Vertigo, a repeat of something Bono did in Adelaide. The song seems to have been on his mind a bit recently, as it also made short appearances in Vertigo four times late last year.

The full setlist was:

1. Sunday Bloody Sunday
2. I Will Follow
3. New Year's Day
4. Bad / Heroes (snippet)
5. Pride (In the Name of Love)
6. Where the Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet)
7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
8. With or Without You
9. Bullet the Blue Sky / The Star-Spangled Banner (snippet) / America (snippet)
10. Running To Stand Still
11. Red Hill Mining Town
12. In God's Country
13. Trip Through Your Wires
14. One Tree Hill
15. Exit / Wise Blood (snippet) / Eeny Meeny Miny Moe (snippet)
16. Mothers Of The Disappeared
17. Angel of Harlem

encore(s):

18. Elevation
19. Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car (snippet) / Vertigo / Rebel Rebel (snippet) / It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) (snippet)
20. Even Better Than The Real Thing
21. Every Breaking Wave
22. Beautiful Day
23. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
24. Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way
25. One / Invisible (snippet)

Today, U2 played their second of two shows in Sydney.

At the end of the main set, U2 performed the tour debut of Desire, replacing Angel of Harlem. For a while fans have expected this slot to feature some rotation: U2 rehearsed All I Want Is You in Auckland and soundchecked Desire in Melbourne, but at the first six shows of the tour Angel of Harlem always followed Mothers of the Disappeared. The most recent previous live performance of Desire was on 3 July 2018 at the end of last year's North American tour leg. Tonight's performance concluded with Larry doing a drumroll from Sunday Bloody Sunday.

The setlist featured another change: The Best Thing made its second appearance of the tour, following its performance in Auckland on 9 November 2019. At the start, Bono was unhappy with the tuning of Edge's guitar and, while Edge and guitar tech Dallas Schoo sorted things out, he told stories about his father Bob Hewson, meditating on the fact he did not tell his father he loved him enough while he was alive.

During Bad, Bono made his now-customary acknowledgement of Australia's firefighters. He reflected that he had "said this every night during our shows here but some things are worth repeating: take a moment of gratitude to thank the firefighters... putting themselves in harm's way to keep others out of harm." This led into an extended snippet of the classic Australian bush ballad Waltzing Matilda. Bono has snippeted it four times before; if you check the list, you will note one was not in Australia but in San Antonio, Texas. The explanation for that is it was the show the night after Michael Hutchence died.

Speaking of Hutchence, Stuck in a Moment remained in the setlist after its tour debut yesterday. Bono described receiving emails and texts from friends about how much it meant to them that U2 performed the song yesterday on the anniversary of Michael Hutchence's death. He then gave a shout-out to Richard Lowenstein for his film Mystify about Hutchence, describing it as a "great gift" both for Hutchence's friends and for those who did not know him.

Hutchence is not the only Australian musician that Bono mentioned tonight; the other one, happily, is still alive. At the start of Bullet the Blue Sky, Bono announced "Rob Hirst, this one is for you". Hirst is the drummer of legendary Australian rock band Midnight Oil.

The full setlist was:

1. Sunday Bloody Sunday
2. I Will Follow
3. New Year's Day
4. Bad / Waltzing Matilda (snippet)
5. Pride (In the Name of Love)
6. Where the Streets Have No Name
7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Many Rivers To Cross (snippet)
8. With or Without You
9. Bullet the Blue Sky / The Star-Spangled Banner (snippet) / America (snippet)
10. Running To Stand Still
11. Red Hill Mining Town
12. In God's Country
13. Trip Through Your Wires
14. One Tree Hill
15. Exit / Wise Blood (snippet) / Eeny Meeny Miny Moe (snippet)
16. Mothers Of The Disappeared
17. Desire / Sunday Bloody Sunday (snippet)

encore(s):

18. Elevation
19. Vertigo / It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) (snippet) / I Love Rock 'n' Roll (snippet)
20. Even Better Than The Real Thing
21. You're The Best Thing About Me
22. Beautiful Day
23. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
24. Stuck In A Moment
25. One / Invisible (snippet)

Today, U2 performed their first of two shows in Sydney. This is the first time they have performed at the Sydney Cricket Ground. It is smaller than stadiums they have played in Sydney before, but scheduling this show was made difficult by stadium demolitions/refurbishments currently under way. The size of the SCG, however, worked in Sydney's favour, as this helps explain its status as the only Australian city to get two gigs on the current tour.

The SCG is next door to the Sydney Football Stadium, which is currently being demolished to make way for a new stadium, and at which two major U2 events occurred. On 26 November 1993, U2 performed their only show without one of the band members, when Adam's tech Stuart Morgan stood in for him on 26 November 1993, and then the next night they filmed the ZooTV live video. Bono alluded to Adam's missed gig in his band introductions before Even Better Than the Real Thing, describing Adam as having begun "the second act of his life in this city all those years ago".

Bad returned to the set after an absence of one show. It featured an extended snippet of INXS's Never Tear Us Apart, which Bono sang to honour the memory of Michael Hutchence. Bono explained that "22 years ago today, one of your country's brightest lights went dark... tonight some of his loved ones are with us. I was wondering, could we have a moment in the dark to shine our light for Michael Hutchence?" It is unsurprising that Bono reached for Never Tear Us Apart on this occasion, not only for its lyrical qualities but also because he has done so previously: the night after Hutchence died, he snippeted it during both Last Night on Earth and All I Want Is You in San Antonio on 23 November 1997.

Another tribute to Michael Hutchence came late in the set. U2 performed the tour debut of Stuck in a Moment, which Bono sang for Michael Hutchence. He described it as a song to Michael, and possibly an argument with himself. The most recent performance of this song was a full-band acoustic version on 11 September 2018 as part of a surprise acoustic set in Paris. It has been performed at a bunch of other off-tour dates in the last few years, but its most recent performance at a regular tour gig was 19 July 2015.

Stuck in a Moment replaced Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way. This show, therefore, is the first completed gig that Love Is Bigger has missed since its debut. The qualifier "completed" is important because it missed one show last year: 1 September 2018, the Berlin gig that ended when Bono's voice failed five songs in, before Love Is Bigger's spot on the setlist. It had otherwise appeared at every Experience+Innocence Tour and Joshua Tree Tour 2019 show before today.

Bono gave a shout-out to another Australian band at the start of Bullet the Blue Sky, fortunately one whose lead singer is still with us: Midnight Oil. He acknowledged the passion for justice that animates their music.

Larry has joined Bono in inserting snippets to the setlist. In Adelaide, he ended Angel of Harlem with a drumroll from Sunday Bloody Sunday, and did so again tonight.

Larry also had a confession to make. During Bono's chat with the band members before Trip Through Your Wires, Larry admitted that the rhythm he had been playing as a sample of what he learned as a teenager in the country band The Drifting Cowboys was not a foxtrot. It is a waltz. Larry conceded this error is deeply embarrassing as a musician, but he played the foxtrot-that's-actually-a-waltz anyway and promised the crowd they could all play it in their sleep.

The full setlist was:

1. Sunday Bloody Sunday
2. I Will Follow
3. New Year's Day
4. Bad / Never Tear Us Apart (snippet)
5. Pride (In the Name of Love)
6. Where the Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet) / Singin' In The Rain (snippet) / Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head (snippet)
7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
8. With or Without You
9. Bullet the Blue Sky / The Star-Spangled Banner (snippet) / America (snippet)
10. Running To Stand Still
11. Red Hill Mining Town
12. In God's Country
13. Trip Through Your Wires
14. One Tree Hill
15. Exit / Wise Blood (snippet) / Eeny Meeny Miny Moe (snippet)
16. Mothers Of The Disappeared
17. Angel of Harlem / Sunday Bloody Sunday (snippet)

encore(s):

18. Elevation
19. Vertigo / Devil Inside (snippet)
20. Even Better Than The Real Thing
21. Every Breaking Wave
22. Beautiful Day
23. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
24. Stuck In A Moment
25. One