We believe that we can see Benoit, Claude and I at this concert in this photo. We could not locate Joelle though who is standing right next to me.
What can I say? Their first set of 90 minutes flew by. It felt like 15 minutes. That is what the U2 experience is all about…it allows your entire being just get into the music.
Setlist:
City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation
I Will Follow
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For / In A Little While (snippet)
Beautiful Day
Original Of The Species
Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own
Love And Peace Or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday / Rock The Casbah (snippet)
Bullet The Blue Sky / The Hands That Built America (snippet) / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet)
Miss Sarajevo
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Where The Streets Have No Name
One
Encore(s):
Until The End Of The World
Mysterious Ways
With Or Without You
Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of
Yahweh
40
Highlights of U2:
- Foil wrappers being released as soon as City of Blinding Lights begins
- Realizing that my fears of Bono having a weak voice (after watching the Vertigo DVD) being squashed as soon as I hear Sometimes You Can’t Make it On Your Own. Magical.
- Literally being 12 feet away from Bono during Love and Peace while he bangs the drum. While I’m at it, it’s great to be 12 feet away from any of the band when they come to our end of the catwalk. Read that again. 12 feet away. We were SO CLOSE.
- Seeing a little boy scream “No More!” during Sunday Bloody Sunday and realizing it’s the boy I met in the washroom. His dad was saying how they’ve been following U2 for the past few weeks.
- Bullet the Blue Sky – what can I say. Beautiful.
- Pride (in the name of love) – looking a few feet behind me to see Claude have the greatest grin on his face seeing his favourite U2 tune being played
- Joelle and her concert shoes
- Hearing With or Without You – didn’t expect that
- Spending an hour in traffic, getting to the Corel Centre, missing the pre-party with free drinks, going to the scalper, talking him down from $400 a ticket for Floor to $125 (with our tix to trade in), going in, finding the wrong entrance, continuing on, the anticipation of (almost) getting picked to go inside the ellipse, suprisingly meeting up with Claude and Benoit on the floor, the lights, the sound, the magic…
Everything was beautiful.
Quick review of the Arcade Fire: I love these guys. Mega-band on tour. They switch instrumental positions. That’s so wild. Drummers playing guitar. Fiddlers going on the drums. Back and forth and round again with people banging the ski helmets with their drum sticks. Excellent opener.
Links of interest:
http://www.u2-vertigo-tour.com/
Benoit’s Review