@GnoccoFritto @CrazyLemonCat Starting a tour somewhere doesn’t mean it’s important! Playing lots of shows there is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@gilson_jr_ Yeah he’s usually been pretty decent in the past, but it sounds like he’s barely tried the last couple of nights, hah.
caron_djc @u2gigs So far this tour Ives seen CHI -1 and MTL-1. I thought MTL crowd last night was way more into it then CHI
So what just happened? Hard to tell on the Mixlr. Did Bono engage with someone in the audience, bring them on stage, or…? #U2eiTour
@GnoccoFritto @CrazyLemonCat Which is irrelevant to the statement above? The previous two tours aren’t a relation o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@CrazyLemonCat No curtains in Montreal after all
@CrazyLemonCat Gotta keep visiting random American cities where they have to curtain off whole segments of the aren… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
CrazyLemonCat @u2gigs Canadian audiences are always great, and Bono always goes on about how they love us - but ya know, one stop on this tour ????
17. Staring at the Sun. “It’s hard to explain this next song… let’s just play it!” #U2eiTour
@gilson_jr_ Hahahaha yes
15. Macphisto samples Sympathy for the Devil in the speech leading into Acrobat.
Macphisto tonight says “I was there when comrade Putin flushed the Euro down the loo”. A hint of what his speech mi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@gilson_jr_ Stories For Boys has always been my favourite Vertigo snippet, but that one does work quite well too, agreed.
Bono: “we desire to be in the room with the greatest rock’n’roll fans on the planet!” He hasn’t said that so far th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
14. Desire. Bono: “We might have been in a bit of a rush to get rid of our innocence, to be men of the world. We di… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Bono is trying to talk in French, even worse than my feeble attempts. #U2eiTour
Snippet of It’s Only Rock’n’Roll at the end of Vertigo. #U2eiTour
“Different intro” perhaps, but more seems like they flubbed their timing! Edge kept going with the riff to give Lar… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@pappy90 @EveryBrokenWave Yeah, and about the emptiness in his life after he lost her, which explains the lines abo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
13. Vertigo. Shout-outs to Venezuela, Chile, Brazil in the intro. #U2eiTour
U2Community Two hearts beat as one. #Womenoftheworldtakeover #U2eiTour #Montreal https://t.co/3JgqqOBNhK
12. Elevation kicks off the second set. #U2eiTour
@EveryBrokenWave Mofo? How?
Intermission time now. An opportunity to brew a pot of tea and put on my laundry, because that’s how rock’n’roll I am today.
Haha yep sounded like a couple of bum notes there. twitter.com/Rodrivox/statu…
Until the End of the World contains a snippet of William Blake’s Introduction near the end. #U2eiTour
11. Until the End of the World. Snippet of The Garden of Love at the end of Sunday Bloody Sunday leads into UTEOTW’s intro. #U2eiTour
Well, SBS is full band at the moment, but you know what I mean. Not stripped back or anything. #U2eiTour
10. Sunday Bloody Sunday. I do wish they’d bring this back full band. With no Song for Someone, a full band version… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@KeithsTweets Hahaha I was going to make a tweet to this effect but got distracted updating the database.
9. Cedarwood Road. #U2eiTour
This site didn’t exist during Popmart (and I was ten years old!). Just once—and preferably a lot more times—I’d lik… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
8. “Gonna go search for Iris tonight, somewhere out in the universe…” #U2eiTour
7. The Ocean #U2eiTour
Wow, the crowd sounds absolutely massive, @mysteriousdays wasn’t kidding earlier. #U2eiTour
“Leonard Cohen right in front of you” Bono sings during Beautiful Day. Bono can see ghosts now? #U2eiTour
Here is our mainpage article with the full setlist in progress from #U2eiTour Montreal night two: u2gigs.com/article1290.ht…
@YoDre Cheers, I must’ve missed it last night!
6. Beautiful Day #U2eiTour
@MarkCDarwin Nope, that was out of the blue!
u2songs Do you know my name? #u2eitour #u2montreal https://t.co/xVdhSbTtS6
5. All Because of You. Back after missing six shows. So there’s one of the soundcheck songs! The way Bono introduce… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@MarkCDarwin With you on that one.
Snippet of The Police’s Walking on the Moon in I Will Follow. #U2eiTour
4. “We’re a band from the northside of Dublin called The U2, this is our new song: I Will Follow!” #U2eiTour
mysteriousdays #Montreal audiences are one of the loudest in the world! #U2eiTour #U2
3. Lights of Home #U2eiTour
After this big old saga, I hope the show last night was worth it for Matkin! twitter.com/u2gigs/status/…
That “1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4” count into Blackout seemed to work pretty well. #U2eiTour twitter.com/LarlarGamingYT…
Also, shoutout to the guy right behind us who kept doing these really loud and high-pitched whistles. You hurt our… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2. The Blackout, with more MRI sounds before it. That’s new, right? #U2eiTour
Final note on last night, the wife took about 15 videos last night of somewhere around 17 songs. Not up today obvio… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
1. Noel Gallagher’s sang his not-Winter-Beats song, the MRI sequence has played, and it’s showtime in Montreal with… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
mysteriousdays I’m doing a Mixlr. mixlr.com/mysteriousdays
u2songs We are live Mixlr.com/u2songs
pepokiss La historia del Limón ???? y @U2, en español y en inglés, aquí:
facebook.com/pepokiss/posts…
#PopIsNotABadWord… https://t.co/vlolL2EnzS
MoFo_U2 U2 Show… https://t.co/X0XB63s3aj
@trojanchick99 The In a Little While/Stand Up Comedy medley everyone’s been begging for!
pepokiss Todo listo para mi último (?) show del #U2eiTour en #U2Montreal en el escenario principal ????????????
@U2Chile @u2gigs… https://t.co/KGph6cWSGC
UNLESS you consider E+I to be a portion of the larger I+E, kinda like Zooropa/Zoomerang legs on ZooTV (albeit with… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Hey, Matkin here but not for the concert sadly. If anyone has been following my car saga over on @EveryBrokenWave,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Remember, after the Roxy show in 2015, 11 O’clock Tick Tock and The Ocean did not enter the IE Tour setlist. But Stuck did.
@LarlarGamingYT Yep. The optimist thinks The Electric Co. could enter rotation with Gloria/I Will Follow, but this… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Four songs have been soundchecked today. SPOILERS BELOW.
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Electric Co. All Because of You. Angel of Harl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The goods folks of @u2songs have said they will be running a Mixlr tonight. #U2eiTour Not on now, but should be whe… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Hi folks, Ax here to bring you coverage of #U2eiTour night two in Montreal. Looks like I’ve made it in time for the start of the show? Phew!
markpeterboro @cth71 @koenvenkhuizen @u2gigs @U2 @u2songs #setlistgeek fact. Red Flag day has only been played in cities that have had two shows.
pepokiss @u2gigs I had this sign that everyone saw. Then at the beggining of SATS he looks for it and I wamted to hand it ov… https://t.co/JPM8Ns8Eh4
EveryBrokenWave #U2eiTour postshow Take 2: Montreal has broken me @u2gigs pscp.tv/w/bedXkDFwempN…
Here is our writeup and the full setlist for #U2eiTour first night in Montreal: u2gigs.com/article1289.ht…
@MarkCDarwin It’s always baffled me that it didn’t work live, it shouldn’t be that difficult.
@themadirishman3 Surprised today to find that cover has a couple of fans after all. One of the nadirs of U2’s career if you ask me. -Ax
Ooh, sounds like Matkin and his wife might have some videos from tonight, but need to wait on quality. #U2eiTour
Our own Matkin @EveryBrokenWave reflecting post-show on #U2eiTour in Montreal. pscp.tv/w/1vAxRVQlaDDxl
EveryBrokenWave #U2eiTour posts how @u2gigs pscp.tv/w/bedE9zFwempN…
@EveryBrokenWave Go for it!
@darlingnikki44 Yep. The nights that it was preceded by the extended solo version of Desire…. those were out of t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
EveryBrokenWave Great night. Have some thoughts. Might try to periscope with my last 15% if anyone is interested. #U2eiTour @u2gigs
And it seems that is it for #U2Montreal #1, thanks to Ax and Matkin for having me guest star, I hope to see you al… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
markpeterboro U2 Setlist chart after first show in Montreal (14 gigs) #setlistgeek #U2eiTour #U2Montreal @u2gigs https://t.co/02ak4OOJzK
That’s it for night one of #U2eiTour in Montreal. Thanks for joining me and Baja; it’s been great to have Baja with… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
#24.13 (There Is A Light)
Bono: “I feel not quite a grown-up. I stayed 11, just like the rest of the band. They got to 16, I only got to 13.” #U2eiTour
and love is bigger than anything…oh oh oh oh oh, oh. oh oh oh oh, oh.
I (Ax) think Love Is Bigger is one of SOE’s best songs, studio or live, but when I enter it into our database and g… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
#22 Amended ….Women of the World (snippet) / One / Invisible (snippet)
23. Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way. I (Ax) want to take this moment to wonder who on earth permitted that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Invisible snippet at the end of One. #U2eiTour
Bono: “Canada is doing more than most to prioritise women as a transformative force in the world.” #U2eiTour
Bono: “I would like to take this moment to talk about Canada … a country, and it’s not an overstatement to say th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Bono ask you to go to U2.com and sing #WomenoftheWorldTakeOver and use the hashtag and upload #U2eiTour #U2Montreal
Bono has come out to sing along with the end of Women of the World before his speech and the song that you know wil… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
And main set is over, we will go into the encore, probably starting with Women of the World…
hangingoninquie Psst. @u2gigs, I was wrong. Both Vertigo and Elevation still rock when one is listening to them perform live. https://t.co/1cqU7aooHq
Bono runs through a big list of thanks at the end of City of Blinding Lights, and that’s it for the main set. “So t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@bflamel Didn’t really strike me as that different. A little maybe, but still the usual “this is not America!” shou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@LarlarGamingYT I would expect it to be altered somehow, yeah. If NOTHING else, different speeches. But surely some… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@pappy90 cc. @EveryBrokenWave to the above
As per usual, U2 don’t change up the US-themed parts of the show much for Canada, just drop some of the most overt… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
21. City of Blinding Lights. #U2eiTour Matkin is there tonight and I don’t doubt he will be feeling it. Here’s what… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
u2songs No flag behind the stage but Canadian flag on the screen… https://t.co/QpzaNMpZFV
@ferroni_matt @BiggusReddus @atu2 @U2 @u2songs @timneufeld I’ve actually heard that a few times in public in Austra… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
And this is another song debut for #U2Montreal #AmericanSoul #U2eiTour
Bono urges Canadians to “stand up for your brothers and sisters” while shouting through the megaphone in the intro… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
u2songs Amazing audience tonight… https://t.co/JY7hYIF6qh
@ClaytonsKitten I’m all too happy to forget about Paint It Black! -Ax
19. “Sing across the border. We love you, America; Get Out of Your Own Way!” #U2eiTour
@U2Baja The right idea! Nice!
Yep, shouted out to people from countries such as Venezuela, and then added “even Winnipeg!” #U2eiTour twitter.com/TEvansBuhr/sta…
No real change to Pride’s presentation, just a bit of shouting about Canada as well. Bono says that “this is where… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@Maideneer JEALOUS.
@rjblaskiewicz Honestly it’s never really quite done it for me (Ax).
We decided on a tasting, opening all of them ;) I do not guarantee accuracy of set list after this. Salud everyone! #U2eiTour #U2Montreal
I’ll be on the next plane haha! -Ax
#18 Pride (In the Name of Love) #U2eiTour #U2Montreal (B)
@Rodrivox Oh hell no, that’s easily the worst of the worst! -Ax
Ok Ax, if you want to come over…. twitter.com/U2Baja/status/…
@TEvansBuhr One can piss off, but then that’s always been my hottest of hot takes. Beautiful Day definitely passed… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I (Ax) concur that Dancing Barefoot is U2’s best cover, and by a good distance. I’m also fond of Night and Day. As… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
For the record, I ADORE POP, and think it is magnificent. Please birng back Mofo, Gone and, well everything actuall… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…