U2 performed their first ever show in the Philippines. It is the third country U2 have visited for the first time on the current tour after Singapore and South Korea.

If you attended the U2 Conference in Sydney last month, you would have heard our setlistorian Axver present on U2's touring history in a wider context. He has a database of how many countries over 400 bands have performed in, and U2 have now reached the average of that dataset: 38 countries. (Ax plans to publish content from this database in the future, but isn't sure when or where just yet—stay tuned!)

The show took place at Manila's Philippine Arena. This venue is the world's largest indoor arena, with a capacity beyond that of many stadiums.

Gloria appeared in the setlist for just the second time this tour, following its debut two shows ago in Tokyo. Bad also returned to the setlist after missing one show. Desire and Every Breaking Wave retained their rotational spots in the setlist.

You don't often hear those four songs in the same setlist. Bad, Desire, Every Breaking Wave, and Gloria have all been in the same set just three times, all in 2015: 10 October, 3 November, and 7 November.

The full setlist was:

1. Sunday Bloody Sunday
2. Gloria / Van Morrison's Gloria (snippet)
3. New Year's Day
4. Bad / Heroes (snippet)
5. Pride (In the Name of Love)
6. Where the Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet)
7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
8. With or Without You
9. Bullet the Blue Sky / America (snippet)
10. Running To Stand Still
11. Red Hill Mining Town
12. In God's Country
13. Trip Through Your Wires
14. One Tree Hill
15. Exit / Wise Blood (snippet) / Eeny Meeny Miny Moe (snippet)
16. Mothers Of The Disappeared
17. Desire

encore(s):

18. Elevation
19. Vertigo / She Loves You (snippet) / I Love Rock 'n' Roll (snippet)
20. Even Better Than The Real Thing
21. Every Breaking Wave
22. Beautiful Day
23. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
24. Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way
25. One / Invisible (snippet)

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Posted on December 12, 2019 by Axver