U2 today returned to New York for the first of two more shows after their five consecutive concerts back in October, and although the setlist was pretty similar to that played two days ago at the second Atlanta concert, it contained one big surprise. For the first time ever, U2 performed John Lennon's Instant Karma. The song was performed in full with Patti Smith, who earlier in the evening opened the concert.

The full set was:

1. City of Blinding Lights
2. Vertigo / Rockaway Beach (snippet)
3. Elevation
4. I Will Follow
5. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
6. Beautiful Day / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (snippet) / Blackbird (snippet)
7. Original Of The Species
8. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own / Torna A Surriento (snippet)
9. Love and Peace or Else
10. Sunday Bloody Sunday / Rock The Casbah (snippet)
11. Bullet the Blue Sky / Please (snippet) / The Hands That Built America (snippet) / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet)
12. Miss Sarajevo
13. Pride (In the Name of Love)
14. Where the Streets Have No Name
15. One / Hear Us Coming (snippet) / Ol' Man River (snippet)

encore(s):

16. Until the End of the World
17. Mysterious Ways
18. With or Without You / Love Will Tear Us Apart (snippet)
19. The First Time
20. Stuck In A Moment
21. Instant Karma! (with Patti Smith)
22. Bad / People Have The Power (snippet)

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Posted on November 22, 2005 by Axver