Tonight was the most very special feeling for me....just because I had the chance to hear lots of the show over the phone...it was like if I was there. UNBELIEVABLE I can say. No changes in the set. It's the regular set....same tunes. Anyway....tonight I can say (based in what my own ears heard) that the boys are back in great shape...ready to rock each single soul that has the priviledge to be in the right place at the right time to ear them play.
Set:City of BLinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation
Electric Co
An Cat Dubh
Into the heart
Beautiful Day
Miracle Drug
Sometimes You Can't make It On Your Own
Love and Peace or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky (Snippet of 'When Jonnhy Comes Marching Home/Hands that Built')
Running to Stand Still
Pride
Streets
One
Encore:Zoo Station
The Fly
Mysterious Ways
All Because Of You
Yahweh
40
Two little girls about 10 years old were pulled to the stage during 'Into the Heart'. At the end, Bono asked their names, and told them: 'My name is Paul, but I call myself Bono'.
For 'Mysterious Ways', a fan is pulled on stage from the front row of the elipse. Her time on stage is very short though.
Larry slightly failed the beggining of 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'.
Bono's voice failed a bit at the beggining. but with 'Sometimes' and right after sounds unbelievable. He hits the high notes in such a strong and easy way that it's incredible. he started 'Sometimes' saying 'This is a song about my father Bob' and nothing else. He just went straight to the tune.
Reviews:Picture and review by Jay (Thank you Jay)
'Saw the show last night. The following is just my opinion so there's no need to rip into me if I say anything negative.
Bono's mike was off for the first two songs (City and Vertigo) but it was fixed by Elevation. There was some kind of miscommunication going on between Bono and the Edge at the end of Vertigo so it ended a little abruptly.
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own was extremely powerful last night. The close-ups of Bono's face on the four screens over the stage had me on the verge of tears. His glasses were off, his eyes were closed and he was singing with more passion than I've ever seen him. AMAZING!!!
Where The Streets Have No Name was one of the best versions I've seen them do (and I've seen them do it 19 times). Pride was exceptional too (and this is a song I think they should've dropped from the setlist three or four tours ago). Both songs got the crowd totally to its feet and the crowd in general was a lot more into it than at the tour opener in San Diego (sorry San Diegans-I just think the East coast is a lot louder).
My only complaint (and this is purely for selfish reasons) is it was the same exact setlist as San Diego with the exception of adding Mysterious Ways last night.
But, I've got twelve more shows on the tour so I know they'll mix it up a little bit in the future.
One last note: Philly is a great city (my first time there) and everybody was extremely nice. So kudos to Philly. And thanks to the gentleman who gave me all the advice about where to go and what to do.'
By Theresa (Thank you Theresa)
This is my first U2 show ever, and I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!! If i had another chance, i would definately go to another one of their concerts! They played more new material this concert from what i noticed from the set lists from other concerts they put up on the site. Personally, I haven't screamed so much in my life since i was in middle school during one of our pep rallies, and that was 6 years ago. I'm surprised I never lost my voice at all because of all the screaming I did, and my sister did and she did as much screaming as I did, if not, close to it. I may have screamed more than she did! I had danced and jumped so much as well as screaming; I may looked like an idiot, but i honestly don't care. i had so much fun, you can't believe! Our (my sis and me) seats were in the lower level of the Wachovia Center in section 107 (they can look up the seating chart at WachoviaCenter.com ) which is dead center view of the stage. They were awresome seats! I jus wish the tix i won from the radio staion (93.3 WMMR - their site is WMMR.com and u can listen to the station online) were on the floor in the elipse...
I loved how they went straight into Vertigo from City of Blinding Lights (which was the first one they sung tonight, well last night now that it's after midnight), then into Elevation which everyone in the stadium did the "oooo-ooo, ooo-a-oooo" (how ever it goes, u guys know what i mean, right? ::scratches head while thinking 'i hope'::). When they did "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" they had the Light Curtains down with a man walking in the middle one (the man had no face or ne thing) and Bono was singing on the Elipse, and he was crying. I could hear it in his voice, and you could tell by the 4 video screens they had way above the stage. During the song, i even tried not to cry b/c i felt his emotions, along with my own b/c I think of my loved ones and how I would feel if I didn't have them when i hear that song. I severly felt bad for Bono, hell, still do. I would be crying to if I was singing a song for someone close to me that died. They played an acoustic version of "Yahweh"; it was real beautiful, i wasn't expecting them to play it acoustic. They played "One", "Pride", "Where The Streets Have No Name", "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "All Because of You" towards the end, " So much more, even ended it with "40". Bono brought 2 little girls on the elipse and walked with them towards the end of the song to the very end of it (sucks that I can't remember the song right now), and brought a woman to stage for "40" (if not "40" the song right before it, but i definately thing it was "40".). Definately worth not coming home until midnight for, u know?! The lights were marvelous, the video screens above the stage were awesome when they weren't showing the Boys. If you ask me "what was my favourite part of the concert?", it would be from the first step the boys steped onto the stage and Bono appearing out of no where on the elipse all the way to the dead end of the concert. The worst part was for me was waiting for the Kings of Leon to get off stage (Goddess, they were aweful, they only had a good beat for 2 songs and they couldn't even sing) for the boys to come on! I was a lil upset that they didn't do "New Year's Day", I was looking forward to seeing it live. When they did "Bullet in the Blue Sky", Bono started out drumming on the drum on the elipse with his headband and shades, and then later in the middle of the song/towards the end (by this time, he was on the stage), he pulled his headband down over his eyes and knelt down for a bit. Then got back up to finish singing. Every was just about singing every song played or every other song played (from what I noticed, anyway, including myself singing a lot of them...).
Words can't explain anymore of how awesome and great the concert was, I have no idea how to explain anymore it at all. Yea, me so "wow"ed, amazing, and giddy still (Tee-hee...!) :-D
So yea, the Kings of Leon sucked so bad that my sis and i were actually waiting for them to get off stage within the first 5-10 minutes they were playing. And their songs went on and on and on, especially the first one.... Jus sucked for me especially b/c I forgot my cell phone at home so i couldn't play any of the games one it (i have Tetris on it, too!!).
I wish I could've brought my camera - the tix said that we couldn't bring any cameras or recorders in at all.... Well, at least i had the memories! To me, that's all that matter. Jus wish i could go to another concert and then some, and my sis wants to go to another concert, as well!
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