Twenty-five years and a day ago, U2 performed in Buffalo the day John Lennon was murdered. The set from that Buffalo show is unknown, but today's show included a number of Beatles and Lennon references. Severe snow in Boston threatened U2 from even flying to Buffalo, but they managed to fly out of Logan Airport a few hours later than intended and arrived in Buffalo just ninety minutes before the concert. Despite the delay, U2 did not choose to abbreviate their setlist - in fact, The Ocean was played for the first time in over a month.

The full set was:

1. City of Blinding Lights
2. Vertigo / Help (snippet)
3. Elevation
4. Gloria / Van Morrison's Gloria (snippet)
5. The Ocean
6. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / In a Little While (snippet)
7. Beautiful Day / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (snippet) / Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (snippet)
8. Original Of The Species
9. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
10. Love and Peace or Else
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday / Rock The Casbah (snippet)
12. Bullet the Blue Sky / The Hands That Built America (snippet) / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet)
13. Miss Sarajevo
14. Pride (In the Name of Love)
15. Where the Streets Have No Name / All You Need Is Love (snippet)
16. One / Help (snippet)

encore(s):

17. Until the End of the World
18. Mysterious Ways
19. With or Without You
20. Stuck In A Moment
21. Instant Karma!
22. Yahweh
23. 40

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Posted on December 10, 2005 by Axver