15. Yep, soundcheck was a big spoiler: here’s Sweetest Thing, back after missing ten shows. #U2ieTour #U2
For the statistically minded: Lucifer’s Hands had missed eleven shows before this appearance. #U2ieTour #U2
@EveryBrokenWave Not very well! Plus I was just a PhD student then, I could sleep any hours I wanted. I don’t have same flexibility now.
Bono makes a remark that for the people of Colombia “we are at your service”. Says hello over Meerkat. #U2ieTour #U2
Ha she must have asked if #U2 will ever go to Colombia! Bono talks about how they’ve never been there. #U2ieTour
@EveryBrokenWave I think we’d all be very happy to have you back! I know I would be. Covering European leg may kill me..
@EveryBrokenWave Haha. Deadlines are very good for getting me to do things.
@Tvbona @MarkCDarwin Partly I just prefer listing it as LAPOE. ;)
U2 |LIVE NOW| Tune in again tonight live from NYC… #U2ieTour #meerkat mrk.tv/1HWgBYQ
@Tvbona I’m surprised they actually only did that once.
@rdej68 I’m not sure what you mean? I thought you meant openers on the whole UF Tour. 11OTT opened at most North America & Europe shows.
@u2w Cool, cheers for clarifying!
@CBarcaSTJ Haha yeah, that’s why I ducked out around SFS. I knew nothing was likely to change there.
@rdej68 Wire opened one show, MLK opened one show. Most (but not all) other UF Tour shows were opened by 11 O’clock Tick Tock.
So after four shows of The Fly being the intermission music, #U2 return to The Wanderer, used for intermission at most prev #U2ieTour shows.
Intermission time - and the Wanderer video is back! Catch up on the full set so far: http://www.u2gigs.com/ar… #U2ieTour #U2
There’s the “well guess it’s a Love &Peace Or Else snippet…” moment. I’m not 100% sure he’s consciously snippeting anything! #U2ieTour #U2
10. Until The End Of The World. There was the usual Psalm 23 snippet at the end of Raised By Wolves. #U2ieTour #U2
@ryannichols7 Haha yeah I was wondering if I’d jinx it like when @atu2 ducked out for The Fly’s intermission debut.
I’m back! 7th was Song For Someone and now 8th is Sunday Bloody Sunday with a When Johnny Comes Marching Home snippet. #U2ieTour #U2
Sorry I (Ax) must duck out for a few min - will try not to miss more than 1-2 songs. Paging other U2gig-ers to jump in if they’re around…
@CBarcaSTJ Damn that sucks! Get well soon man. Do you feel up to covering a couple of songs just now? I uh need a bathroom break…
Well there we go, Bono got some trivia correct! #U2ieTour #U2 https://twitter.com/u2w/…
Bono’s talking about how #U2 have moved into Madison Square Garden. “Looking up, realising it’s round…” #U2ieTour #U2
Of course I Will Follow not #U2’s 1st EVER single (U2:3, or if you call it an EP then Another Day), but not sure which was 1st w/ US release
@BrianovichIV @u2w Well, what I’m not 100% sure of is whether U2:3, A Day Without Me, 11OTT, etc., had worldwide distribution.
@SudburyShawn @atu2 I’d be keen if it meant more early stuff in rotation like 11OTT. And Electric Co and Gloria same night? Yes please!
@LOVEnver_fails @atu2 He modifies it every night to “no future in Ireland’s dreaming” (rather than England’s).
Bono introduces I Will Follow as U2’s first US single. There’s a bit of trivia I’m not sure on! @u2w, you guys should know this!
@Drea104 Not quite! Acrobat was done at private rehearsals in Hershey, but not at the public rehearsal on 1992-08-07.
Well done to those of you who got it right. Some good guesses! Yes, Elevation Tour came v close: BDay opened 1 show, Elev got the rest. #U2
Trivia answer: ZooTV (Zoo Station) and Popmart (Mofo). ZooTV fails on technicality because SBS opened the Hershey, PA public rehearsal. #U2
@CBarcaSTJ I was just suggesting you may have a conflict of interest. ;) Hope you don’t feel too wretched today!
@CBarcaSTJ Are you really allowed to enter this trivia competition? ;)
Here’s our mainpage article that will have tonight’s full set as it happens: http://www.u2gigs.com/ar… #U2ieTour #U2
Only two #U2 tours have ever had the same song open every show (and one of those tours fails on a technicality). Can you name the tours?
One more Mixlr to add to the 3 posted earlier: http://mixlr.com/mysteri… #U2ieTour #U2
1. First song of the night, as with every night of the #U2ieTour so far, is The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone). #U2
Here we go folks, People Have The Power is (finally) playing! #U2 will be on in a couple of minutes. #U2ieTour
Preshow music went silent briefly there… but it’s back. #U2 are a bit late on stage tonight. #U2ieTour
Bunch of Mixlr audio feeds for #U2 NYC 4: http://mixlr.com/zoostat… & http://mixlr.com/allison… & http://mixlr.com/fockinp… #U2ieTour
Last night I (Ax) saw 2 epic gigs in Melbourne: Purity Ring & Wolf Alice. Wow. If you’re not on the Wolf Alice hype train, fucking hop on.
@TheGoalIsSoul Ha probably in three or four different songs if the Leonard Cohen “Anthem” snippet madness in Montreal is any indication!
Apparently Jimmy Page is in attendance tonight, and Dallas played some Led Zep riffs while checking Edge’s guitars. #U2ieTour #U2
@babetteross Not sure what you mean? I was only referring to performances of Angel Of Harlem in NYC.
Hello all, Ax here for #U2 NYC 4. @mattstaniz reports that Electric Co, Sweetest Thing, and Lucifer’s Hands soundchecked today. #U2ieTour
@douglasmintz Corrected, thanks!
I (Ax) just added a few little tidbits to Chris’s write-up of today’s #U2ieTour show in NYC: http://www.u2gigs.com/ar… #U2
@thom2805 140 times across Popmart and 360: http://www.u2gigs.com/Ho…
Haha. I just wish Jimmy Fallon had instead brought #asignofhomecoming for A Sort Of Homecoming. #U2ieTour #U2 https://twitter.com/mtmu…
Today’s performance of Angel Of Harlem is the first time #U2 have performed it at a full tour gig in NYC since October 2001. #U2ieTour
And with that, I’m outta here! I (Chris) havebBeen sick as a dog all day today. Nyquil is calling my name. Goodnight!
Show’s over, folks! Here’s what was played: http://www.u2gigs.com/ar… #U2ieTour
All You Need Is Love snippet with Paul McCartney in the house
@KevinMFeeney I kinda get it. Crowd sings as “one.” But yeah, this is a song that needs Bono’s vocals.
@stephenreilly2 Well Elevation has been played very sparingly this tour. But Streets isn’t going anywhere, bank on it.
The crowd takes over lead vocals. T’was a nice touch at NYC 1, but I missed hearing Bono sing it with us. #U2ieTour
Exactly what I’m saying RT @bethandbono: I recognize and respect Streets’ philanthropic provenance. But I miss it as a fan anthem. #U2ieTour
23rd and presumably last is One. #U2ieTour
California snippet in Streets.
Hopefully you Europeans get treated to a different Streets. I miss those seamless transitions of tours past.
Don’t get me wrong, it was still great. But far from the show’s highlight. I’m actually really disappointed about that fact.
For as great as Streets is and was at NYC 1, the speechifying really killed the momentum leading into the song.
22nd is Mother And Child Reunion / Streets, per usual. #U2ieTour
I love Bono’s speechifying so much, but it does not belong before Streets.
Me too, me too. RT @bethandbono: Soul, soul! The goal is soul, soul! I miss it. #U2ieTour #BeautifulDay
I Remember You snippet at the end of Beautiful Day. Did I hear a Summer In The City snippet too? #U2ieTour
After the flood, all the colors came out <3
@PhilbyB Ehh. Bullet/Hands/Pride = Angry at America/longing for the goodness of America to return/goodness of America returns. Its sensible
21st is Beautiful Day to open the encore. Still as awesome as ever. #U2ieTour
Here’s the Stephen Hawking video… #U2ieTour
Pride ends the main set. Encore time in a second. Catch up on what you missed: http://www.u2gigs.com/ar… #U2ieTour
@PhilbyB I get Bullet/Hands/Pride. That makes sense. COBL/Bullet doesn’t to me, as much as I try to make sense of it.
20th is The Hands That Built America / Pride, as usual. #U2ieTour
@MANemeth But on some nights, the power of that rant has been bone chilling to me at least.
19 snippet in Bullet. #U2ieTour
@KevinMFeeney I’m with you. But if he’s going to speechify before Streets of all songs, Bullet/Hands/Pride should precede it.
@MANemeth See, I LOVE Bullet this tour. Totally reinvigorated. Its the placement of Bullet that’s so strange.
@rendigryce Keep the Hands/Pride transition. Then lead that into speech/Mother-Child/Streets.
End the main set with something like: EBW-WOWY-Bad/All I Want Is You-City Of Blinding Lights-Beautiful Day. Then encore w/Bullet.
I’d love to see Bullet The Blue Sky open the encore. Then Pride. Then speech about America-AIDS/Mother and Child/Streets. Lot less awkward.
19th is the so awkwardly placed Bullet The Blue Sky #U2ieTour
@rendigryce It should start the encore
Apparently the Stephen Hawking video that normally precedes City Of Blinding Lights was not shown.
18th is City Of Blinding Lights, in the actual city of blinding lights. #U2ieTour
@rendigryce Totally agree. I really don’t like Bullet’s placement after COBL
@KevinMFeeney Totally agree. Wish that’s how the main set ended sometimes.
The Every Breaking Wave-With Or Without You transition is leagues better than Wave-Bullet The Blue Sky. Makes so much more sense.
17th is With Or Without You. #U2ieTour
@u2girl1966 He fell in his home and his wedding ring caught against a table. Nearly ripped his finger off. Had to have surgery last week
@madfl3a I’m just happy I was there to see its live resurrection!
16th is Every Breaking Wave. No October tonight, it seems. #U2ieTour