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U2gigs (@u2gigs)

Matt: Berlin / Ax: Wollongong / Matkin: Toronto / Chris: NY

The below is an off-site archive of all most tweets posted by @u2gigs ever

May 5th, 2018

Admit it: you guys would miss it if Ax didn’t complain about 75% of the set and Matkin wasn’t wrong all the time! #U2eiTour

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@Blest2BAwitness @GerCoyne I can think of quite a few songs I’d call worse than either of them. Red Light, Grace, E… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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mysteriousdays Respect Existence or
Expect Resistance
#U2eiTour #U2

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It’s unfortunate that so many misunderstood the “I believe in the third world war” line. twitter.com/initapplette/s…

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I’m genuinely amazed that Boots seems to have picked up fans in the last 9 years. Where have you all been??

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@Lunnzies @ryanvivianlive I completely fucking lost it when they did Bad instead of LAPOE at that second Auckland s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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@Lunnzies You and me both. It also made sense as a replacement for Invisible - from an innocence-y themed non-album… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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@michaelflan94 This is officially the worst opinion anybody has ever tweeted at us.

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@VitaloniL No reports of it being rehearsed. Very strange.

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bethandbono The Pink Adams Family! ???????? #U2eiTour https://t.co/2grEEzdYPm

 via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 9:26 AM, May 5th, 2018  via Tweetbot for iΟS)

@mikebara33 Yeah it wasn’t much of a surprise when it finally disappeared from the setlist. Nor did anybody at the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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U2 Love Is Bigger Than Anything In It’s Way from St. Louis youtube.com/watch?v=lLeMVF… #U2eiTour

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U2 Pride (In The Name Of Love) from St. Louis youtube.com/watch?v=lYljyu… #U2eiTour

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@coribald Earthquake-simulation effects for “SHAKE! SHAKE!”

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@themikelaszlo Miami improved out of sight live. The studio version is one of U2’s most embarrassing moments, but M… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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@coribald I still remember someone trolling before the Vertigo Tour with claims that A Celebration had been rehears… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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@Rusty_Olson I wonder how many fans in 1987 were all “what the fuck, no 11 O’clock Tick Tock, seriously?! Have they lost their minds?”

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@Mnnbdt @Maideneer I suppose two people have to like it. It’d get lonely otherwise.

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Matkin, I will have no slurs against A Celebration on this account! twitter.com/u2gigs/status/…

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Worse than Get On Your Boots? Worse than A Celebration? twitter.com/welshevs75/sta…

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U2 Love Is All We Have Left from St. Louis youtube.com/watch?v=38jQW1… #U2eiTour

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Thanks to joe, Stefan, and teacheronradio for streaming on mixlr tonight. Hope you enjoyed yourselves! Goodnight fr… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Here is our write-up and the full setlist from today’s #U2eiTour show in St Louis: u2gigs.com/article1274.ht…

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RyanMcCaskill @u2gigs Wondering if Acrobat to Wild Horses to Best Thing would work. Agree sounds weird going from MacPhisto to Best Thing…

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JT_isOnline @u2gigs @Kaz_Matthew @atu2 @joe_ahorro Maybe Ally said: Bono, I want you back at 11. I don’t want you walking outs… https://t.co/WPuWKqj0F3

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@TheeEdge I’m honestly quite glad that I can’t imagine it.

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U2 ‘So glad that we are all still here…’ St. Louis #U2 #U2SongsOfExperience #U2eiTour #stlouis https://t.co/oHjYTIWq6W

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@atu2comSherry @Kaz_Matthew @atu2 @joe_ahorro Interesting, so they could have gone another hour if they wanted to (… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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It’s becoming too much of an issue, it’s affected multiple concerts over the last few tours. If security is that th… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Probably, but taking the innocence and bleeding straight into experience, for me would be beautiful. From the child… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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@TheeEdge Oh it was, but a song about the moment you think you are about to die is hardly a happy ending to a show!

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@stuc2011 Yes, I’m quite curious how they will change things up there. The Pride/GOOYOW/Soul/COBL run won’t work in Europe one bit.

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@Kaz_Matthew @atu2 @joe_ahorro Hard to know, depends if they had a curfew I guess.

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A happy ending to a U2 concert seems unusual! Moment of Surrender, Wake Up Dead Man, One, Love Is Blindness, Little… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Previous encore starters over the last few years… Ultraviolet, Beautiful Day, Hold Me Thrill Me, Streets, City of… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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To me, there are two glaring absences from SOE: Little Things, as it has been played live already, and Summer of Lo… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Yep, thank you everybody! Thanks to Stefan for being able to stream some of the show for us, and thanks to the othe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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The ending of the show is perfect theatre. The only problem, however, is that it basically rules out the band addin… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Well I guess my job for tonight is done. Over to Ax for the write-up! #U2eiTour

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By not playing it in act one U2 set up a prime opportunity to try the Song For Someone / 13 medley I’ve been advoca… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Surely 13 should lead into Streets, give the St Louis punters a JT tune after last year’s cancellation. #U2eiTour

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25. This will be the final song of the night unless something wild happens: 13 (There Is a Light). #U2eiTour

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Ax’s Hot Take #56,773: Love Is Bigger sounds the best of the SOE songs live, with The Blackout in second. #U2eiTour

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I’m all for changing up the sets night by night, but I can’t say that the changes tonight were a resounding success… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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I’ll be there so I hope so! twitter.com/KarenJPerras/s…

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@keeprockingmate But why was it applied to songs? Where did it make the jump from military to music?

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24. Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way. Soon as I (Ax) heard this song, I thought it’d be ideal for the encore, and so it is. #U2eiTour

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No “do you hear us coming” verse in One, just some ooh-oohs and “thank you for giving us a great life”. #U2eiTour

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I know that’s just a typo, but by God I love it. #U2eiTour twitter.com/fransis_zappa/…

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Why do we call them war horses? What is the etymology there? And why does it apply to songs? Some language question… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Just for the record, the quoted tweet is actually Matkin, not Ax! But I’m with him. Not sure WGRYWH was ideal as an… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Hockey and maple syrup!

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Bono calls One “a prayer tonight for unity”. #U2eiTour

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It’s not a place, this country is to me the sound of hockey and politeness? twitter.com/u2gigs/status/…

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Please tell me they haven’t dropped Wild Horses after just one night. It was brilliant in Tulsa, and three slow son… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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23. Encore begins with One. Bono’s giving his usual speech and thank-yous over the intro. “Thanks again for having… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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I’d include it if it was called Canadian Soul!

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atu2 This intermission video features Sian Evans, wearing the SoE helmet and written social justice / human rights messages. #U2eiTour

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I’m guessing Matkin really hates American Soul because he forgot to include it in the set before COBL. ;)

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atu2comSherry To be fair, all of us who were in Tulsa for the show didn’t get a lot of sleep last night either. twitter.com/u2gigs/status/…

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I like the song, it’s one of the better post-Pop tunes, but it’s overdone live and it shouldn’t stand in for the Streets role.

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Bono thanking the crew and others: Willie Williams, Smasher, Gavin Friday. “Give it up [for the crew], they didn’t… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Whatever Ax may say, I will forever love this song. #U2eiTour twitter.com/u2gigs/status/…

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@stuc2011 Haha I’m with you on American Soul! It does seem COBL is serving as a Claytons Streets: the Streets you h… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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@connachtpa Hell, Matkin, slagging myself as a troll is that good old Kiwi self-deprecation!

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@stuc2011 Nor me (Ax). No need to keep this song around.

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@ChrisRisheill Yeah, I (Ax) have been much less excited about it than many other fans. You have to be a pretty hard… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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22. City of Blinding Lights, probably last song of the main set. #U2eiTour

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Oh my God, I LOVE that new intro to City of Blinding Lights. They didn’t have that in Tulsa! #U2eiTour

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@Rodrivox Honestly, Weigh True Words is the only song I really rate from the second album. I rarely return to the r… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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@connachtpa That’s not fair Ax, you yourself think you’re a troll!

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@keirdubois I envy anyone who got to hear Do You Feel Loved. That song got a raw deal live. It would still work well today.

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@atu2 Aha. We’ve got that in our database but not counted as a song for the setlist total.

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@doverwb If I remember right, the only recording of it that exists is 31 August 1984. The performance before and on… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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@atu2 Have you miscounted or have I skipped a song? I count American Soul as 21st of the night.

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@ZooTvAle Not in the slightest, but he looks the same. In the end Shadow Man is Bono’s protection; he sheltered him… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Bono shouting through the megaphone: “stand up for America! Stand up to America!” #U2eiTour

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21. American Soul, of course, follows GOO Your Own Way. #U2eiTour

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@doverwb They’ve pulled it off before though; the first few times they played it live they did it and it worked.

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@connachtpa Oh good at least one person doesn’t think I’m a troll whenever I take live set duties on this account, hah.

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@bflamel Bono wearing his influences on his sleeve eh!

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@zaharadessert @popkewitz @U2 Indeed! As it happens I’ve only just got back from a trip to Wellington two days ago…. twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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20. GOO Your Own Way starts as the crowd chant the outro of Pride. #U2eiTour

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If I ever meet Edge, I will ask why they never play that guitar part to completion a la the studio version (about 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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During Pride, Bono refers to St Louis as “the heartbeat of America”. “Tonight we dream with our eyes open!” #U2eiTour

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@zaharadessert @popkewitz Ha, and I’m originally from Wellington! Well, just north of there: Raumati Beach.

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Yes, that and the Decade of Difference performance are the two seminal in my (Matkin) opinion. #U2eiTour twitter.com/MarkCDarwin/st…

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20. Pride. The intro is at least something new for this longstanding warhorse. #U2eiTour

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@Drea104 Possibly, but my gut says it needs more of an edge to work. #U2eiTour

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@MarkCDarwin @JesseBasi There are a couple of Popmart shows where they got SATS electric right and it sounds GREAT…. twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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SATS sounding a bit rough tonight, Bono refers to mood as “a bad acid trip”. You might recall that the band took qu… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Did someone say Staring at the Sun? twitter.com/drmistercody/s…

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Never gonna happen. That requires too much interplay with the acoustic and electric. Good as Edge is, he can’t play… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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19. Staring at the Sun, which Bono describes as “from our psychedelic period”. Though it’s one of the less adventur… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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I dunno Ax; Shadow Man is working up to that possession/corruption before by invoking the sin of Desire. That would… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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@paulwalker87 It’s the best of Simpsons references, it’s the blurst of Simpsons references.

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Swap the order of Acrobat and Desire, and Best Thing won’t seem quite so weird in its placement. #U2eiTour

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Yes. I love this version of the song, but they are missing something between it and Acrobat. #U2eiTour twitter.com/hayitscarolina…

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@hayitscarolina Like watching a car slam into a brick wall.

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@Rusty_Olson I (Ax) am totally with you there. ATYCLB is my least favourite U2 album; HTDAAB is my favourite post-Pop.

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It’s, uh, just a smidge weird to follow Acrobat with Blurst Thing. #U2eiTour

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Hold Me Thrill Me is the only song that comes to mind immediately. #U2eiTour twitter.com/no_end_2_love/…

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18. “Showman gives you the front row to his heart” Bono intones over the intro of You’re the Best Thing About Me. Y… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Edge is just killing it tonight! Wow! What a finish! #U2eiTour

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Sherry dropping loads of truth right here. twitter.com/atu2/status/99…

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@daveweiss68 High praise indeed from Ax.

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@MarkCDarwin Yeah Bono definitely flubbed a line there. But, early days at least.

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Either that was a seamless snippet or Bono flubbed the lyrics there! #U2eiTour

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It’s great to have MacPhisto back, but his voice gets better as the speech goes on.

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@Giuseppie82 He does sing some of them. I suppose it’s quite comparable to how Scarlet was used to open Walk On in 2010-11.

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guidominguez @u2gigs I can’t believe they are playing those hits they played on JT30 and no Songs of JT at all! It is a bold mov… https://t.co/rAEuwab5Wf

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17. Don’t believe what you hear? You better get excited, it really is ACROBAT. #U2eiTour

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The spirit of Macphisto is possessing Bono now. #U2eiTour

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Bono: “greed, lust, deceit - all essentials for the showman in all his forms” #U2eiTour

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lulenn_ @u2gigs He got that line from Edge (min 1:12) youtu.be/VV94j9wzU2U

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Completely missed it here! Anyone able to confirm? #U2eiTour twitter.com/atu2/status/99…

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I generally agree, but that shredding solo into Watchtower was something fucking else.

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Desire has “a beat made famous by Bo Diddley” according to Bono, but I didn’t catch if there was actually a snippet… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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No way, Ax. They have too many songs in the back catalogue to bother with covers! #U2eiTour

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If we’re reviving things from U2’s past, let’s go with Desire + shredding solo + All Along the Watchtower from Love… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Toonamette @u2gigs I LOVE that line, dare I say it’s a bit flirty?

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It may not have the sirens, but god damn that bass is straight from the Hollywood Mix and I LOVE it! #U2eiTour

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Bono asks: “Who needs innocence when experience is more fun? … Experience brings us everything we think we want…. twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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“Alright, let’s get this party started!” Bono exhorts during the outro reprise of Vertigo. No snippet tonight though! #U2eiTour

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So… theory is that mysterious wheel will come into play next? #U2eiTour

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You know you run a setlist website when: you prefer Vertigo over Elevation live because there’s a greater chance of… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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@JT_isOnline Hahaha yes if anybody’s going to advocate for dropping either of them it’s gonna be me. HMTMKMKM live… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Reference to a certain man’s fixation on Mexico? “How far are we from the border?” Bono asks before Vertigo, as he did in Tulsa #U2eiTour

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@hangingoninquie I’d say this is the majority opinion among hardcore fans! Whenever it gets played we get a whole b… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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My wife will tan your hide if she catches you saying that! #U2eiTour twitter.com/hangingoninqui…

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Rusty_Olson All of this! It was a fire-breathing dragon in the encore of the Popmart show I saw in Dallas. twitter.com/u2gigs/status/…

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To my ears, Edge’s guitar during the “Woos” still has that little difference in it; I can only describe it as a little roll. #U2eiTour

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@DrDreHistorian @pappy90 Yes, I’m abusing my position to like this with two accounts, such is the degree of my concurrence.

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Oops, Intermission over! Time for Elevation with the Influx intro! #U2eiTour

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I idly began writing something about this thread earlier today. If enough people are interested I might post it in… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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My thoughts on using a taped Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me? PLAY THE BIG BLOODY BEAST LIVE. #U2eiTour

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Reg1385WZ Hey! WTF! All the way to St Louis & you don’t do the Wolf song? #PISSED #U2eiTour

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That was a Love Reign O’er Me snippet in UTEOTW unless I misheard. Psalm 23 again snippeted during the outro. #U2eiTour

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@Toonamette I (Ax) prefer SFS because it has slightly more life to it, but that’s not saying much for me!

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hippycatpilates @MarkCDarwin @u2gigs Reading the setlist before hearing show #1, I was not enthusiastic. After hearing it all toge… https://t.co/qnNw3ECyzv

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Bono asks for the bass to be turned up during UTEOTW. “Let’s feel the bass! We feeling the bass? Stay on the bass.”… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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I’m not so sure about using the samples and explosions without Raised By Wolves. They still make sense tied to Sund… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Very long intro to it though, as they have to wait for Larry to get to his drums before really kicking the song off! #U2eiTour

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Psalm 23 snippeted over the intro of Until the End of the World. #U2eiTour

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U2 have kept the samples and explosion used as an intro to Raised By Wolves, but gone straight into Until the End o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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INTERESTING! U2 keep the post-SBS car bomb and go directly into Until the End of the World with it instead of Raise… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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@hippycatpilates Please would fit so well with the current climate too; U2 could do so much with it.

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Agreed. They dropped it for most of ZooTV because it was dull and lacked energy. When they brought it back on PopMa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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@mbergs12 I (Ax) kept accidentally forgetting to put Pride in setlists last year when I updated the database, that’… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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This is the first IE/EI Tour show to not have Song for Someone. Fair enough I say, as it seems a bit redundant to p… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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@mbergs12 I only noted one song as a warhorse. Need more than 280 characters to list all of them!

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U2 have skipped Song for Someone and gone straight to Sunday Bloody Sunday (though those of you who looked at the s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Sunday Bloody Sunday is next, with Song for Someone knocked out of the arena for tonight. #U2eiTour

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I’ll be honest, it didn’t really stand out to me at all at my two concerts in 2015. #U2eiTour twitter.com/mbergs12/statu…

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Bono puts more energy into Cedarwood tonight than in Tulsa, but it’s not quite at I+E levels just yet! #U2eiTour

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Mofo falls into the same problem that A Sort of Homecoming did last tour (yes, I went there). The casuals today don… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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@coribald I can’t believe Gone hasn’t been played since 2001. It’s such an exceptional live rocker—and hardly obscu… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Cedarwood Road is absolutely my (Ax) favourite song from SOI and it works very well live, so I’m pretty pleased it’… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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@guidominguez Didn’t think you were, just enjoying the conversation =)

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Worth mentioning that Iris isn’t exactly the same as on I+E. Shortened opening verse and I think the first chorus is skipped? #U2eiTour

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@Toonamette Mofo would work just as well thematically and HEAPS of people have been pleading for it.

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@PhilSounds Yeah, chucking out all the JT songs while keeping other songs played every night last year is daft.

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Toonamette @u2gigs the ocean into iris is beautiful, almost had tears in my eyes #U2eiTour

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I’ll raise you a mole digging in a hole. twitter.com/bijans/status/…

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@tanya_az2 Which I (Ax) finda silly statement. It’s so clearly a War-era song, especially given its genesis at a War Tour soundcheck.

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You can tell Ax is back because our Twitter feed is now full of complaints! #U2eiTour

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The Ocean serves as an extended piece for Bono to talk about his mother and introduce the next song, Iris (Hold Me Close). #U2eiTour

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@tanya_az2 Bono has said in the past that it was on the wrong album, that it is really the first song on the Joshua Tree.

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The quoted tweet is definitely Matkin. I wouldn’t even notice if they booted ABOY out. About 150 U2 songs I’d rathe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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For the record, All Because of You is the first song from How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb not called Vertigo or Cit… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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The Ocean; All Because of You into this one works surprisingly well I think. ABOY is very underrated; the guitar is sublime. #U2eiTour

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He means with the “Maybe the time is right” and without the final verse from the album version.

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I’m not sure what you guys are talking about? It was done all last year…

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At least you’re honest about it! twitter.com/Giantandre/sta…

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Also, multple people have contacted us about statistics regarding All Because of You, confusing it with All I Want Is You. #U2eiTour

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Ax will know for certain, but I think early performances included it every now and then. twitter.com/AntonioMbass/s…

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I (Ax) am mystified by All Because of You’s revival, to be quite frank. There are so many songs that fans have clam… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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It’s a surprising choice, but it sounds pretty damn good with that opening! twitter.com/u2gigs/status/…

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Bono does the “Maybe the time is right” lyric, but holds off on the Golden age verse. #U2eiTour

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7. All Because of You sticks around in the set after its surprise resurrection. #U2eiTour

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I (Ax) tire of some of the old warhorses. Pride, for instance, has almost never sounded better live than the studio… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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With the Shadow Man on this tour as well, they could easily slot in Exit! twitter.com/SilRigote/stat…

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Bono is introducing the band during Edge’s piano solo in New Year’s Day. #U2eiTour

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Eh, it was more menacing last year. Bring back that darkness, Adam!

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Bono again asks forgiveness for last year’s cancellation, this time over New Year’s Day’s intro: “So we came a year… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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6. TOUR DEBUT of New Year’s Day. #U2eiTour

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In that case i think it’s fairly understandable; his voice was still not really there after it basically collapsed… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Snippet of Lennon’s Mother in I Will Follow. #U2eiTour

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Lunnzies @u2gigs Looks to me like it’s a “solution” to people who don’t have the app. My first reaction was to be mad that t… https://t.co/pI1injT9tj

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“Sorry about last year!” Bono says at the start of I Will Follow. Sorry enough to give them a taste of some JT song… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Beautiful Day ends with a Many Rivers to Cross snippet. #U2eiTour

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@guidominguez Yes, the St. Peter’s String Version would have been my pick for album opener. I wonder if we should l… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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@crische The band aren’t on stage for the intermission either. We just devised a way to include that in the setlist… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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It’s a beautiful Day; Ax is considering one of my suggestions!

Just kidding Ax, we love you!

#U2eiTour

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Ah hell true we probably should, and to think during the Vertigo Tour we took that out because it didn’t conform to our usual standards!

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Here’s another discussion for you Ax: Since we include “Intermission” on this tour and the i+e one, should we add L… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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We do list some TV performances where the band mime, or where only Bono sings while the rest mime (e.g. Top of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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If we find out definitively we can remove it. We eventually got rid of “Walk On (not live)” after all! twitter.com/coribald/statu…

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2. The whole band are out now for The Blackout. Our mainpage article will have the full set in progress, as well as… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Extinction event time; we’re in a Blackout (rather apt considering everywhere around me has lost power today!) #U2eiTour

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@coribald Well Bono’s either singing live or miming singing!

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At the very least Bono is moving his lips, and he isn’t generally given to lip-synching #U2eiTour twitter.com/coribald/statu…

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1. Time for Bono to lead us in with Love Is All We Have Left. #U2eiTour

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You folks have no idea how much easier this is to do when there are two of us. Whenever I (Ax) cover a show by myse… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Right, Ax has the mainpage and I have the set page. We’re sharing Twitter. Let’s go!

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@bkdkdkdd It’s embedded in the article, so you can listen to the show live.

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Here we go! I love that Winter Beats by @Ibreakhorses is U2’s intro music for #U2eiTour. It’s a great song from the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Here is our article for the St Louis gig. The band are yet to take the stage but we’ve got soundcheck details and o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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They better buckle up today then!

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I think people rather enjoyed not hearing any complaints two days ago, Ax! twitter.com/u2gigs/status/…

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Our mixlr is running tonight thanks to Stefan: mixlr.com/u2gigs/ #U2eiTour

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Time for a Pride snippet in Pride, I say. twitter.com/u2songs/status…

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andrew91271 @U2start @atu2 Fwiw…friend shared this text after talking to someone at a merch stand…. https://t.co/6gsHh1FU1o

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I’m honestly just a little bit disappointed nobody’s responded with a snarky “because Ax doesn’t like anything”. I’… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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Hopefully two if that is indeed what it is for! Gotta say I’m really sad about the final omission… twitter.com/Steven_Anthony…

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Easy, Ax is the one eating cheese while Matkin is the one who is cutting it. twitter.com/u2gigs/status/…

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Setlist just been spoiled online; one song added and another removed by the looks of it. #U2eiTour

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U2start SPOILERS AHEAD:
Setlist for St. Louis leaked. Don’t look if you want to remain spoiler-free.

Discuss it at our for… https://t.co/GbwMRr2DTo

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Yes, this is one of those days where the account appears to have a split personality. But if we don’t sign our twee… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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My keyboard and statistics are ready to go, Matkin.

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Hope you are ready to do the write-up today, Ax; that was hell two days ago!

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@QueerCatDubh These are sections with unobstructed views that were on sale (though, for a technical sellout, they w… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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jrodconcerts This is the timeline distributed to security tonight. #U2eitour #U2Stlouis cc: @atu2comSherry @atu2 @u2songs https://t.co/alkCBjbpnC

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atu2 Pre-show periscope. The Iceberg screen AR Experience has begun. #U2eiTour

pscp.tv/w/1mnGeXzAOoRK…

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Looks like it might be a bit of a later start than planned tonight, since it’s taking so long for the audience to get through security.

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Only when I’m still awake to see the sunrise. ;)

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@popkewitz Yep, almost 11am here in Wollongong.

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Your normal breakfast? Or so I’ve been led to believe.

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It’s not even midday Matkin, what are you trying to encourage in me!

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No pint for you today, Ax?

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Hey, Ax here to bring you #U2eiTour in St Louis. I’m brewing a pot of tea and I have a plate of cheese and crackers… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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teacheronradio Going live on Mixlr ‘Andrew William Smith on Mixlr’. Listen here mixlr.com/andrew-william….

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U2_australia @guyoseary When will @U2 next tour Australia?
#U2eiTour #SameTweetEveryDay https://t.co/h6Wxtn8F20

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Oh dear. How long until show time again? 30 minutes, a bit more? twitter.com/WTSHNN/status/…

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It’s very hard to tell from so far away, but it looks like 7 slots there? With some sort of image, maybe faces on them?

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How many of the slots are Stuck in a Moment? =P twitter.com/gpthe3/status/…

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fakebono Can you picture me as NOT a legend? twitter.com/amubalt/status…

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u2songs Update: Read by Wolves: The books Bono is using during #U2eiTOUR (updated with more books from Tulsa and the start… https://t.co/sbyb1vY1O2

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That’s a very curious choice twitter.com/gatobronco/sta…

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U2DesireGR Since @U2 is not coming to Greece or Australia (again), perhaps you could arrange a live broadcast through @YouTubehttps://t.co/lzZD46bn36

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U2start Fans are into the @ScottradeCenter for #U2eiTour! The rear upper bowl is curtained off. Not enough tickets sold? https://t.co/m4rIGp12ic

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Was this used in Tulsa? Very curious little device there! twitter.com/U2start/status…

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Pictures indicate that some upper seats in St Louis have been curtained off. To think that last year they would hav… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

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atu2 More from sound check today, courtesy of @AshleyJudd

instagram.com/p/BiXz2X8ltrb/…

#U2eiTour

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U2start SPOILER: Reports in St Louis have an old classic soundchecked today. See video. Do you want to see this at every sh… https://t.co/CAKsSNpQPc

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U2tattooproject “A woman needs a man like … ”

Amy from Ft. Worth struggled with alcohol in her life and found a message she need… https://t.co/veJLqDeTTA

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