Tenth is Until The End Of The World!
Ninth is Unknown Caller, back in the set after missing yesterday’s gig.
Rambling, as usual, leads to I Still Haven’t Found, eighth song of the night.
Bono’s rambling…
Poor North America, stuck with this fluff as a nightly staple. To think what else is in the band’s repertoire too…
Seventh is Elevation.
Naturally, this is the latest Magnificent has been in a setlist.
By the way, short snip of the Stones’ She’s A Rainbow in B Day. Well, possibly Crazy Tonight! Counting it as She’s A Rainbow for now.
Sixth is Magnificent.
MW has never been played earlier than 3rd. Only other time it was 3rd was 7 March 1992, Hampton.
Fifth is No Line On The Horizon!
Snip of Blackbird at end of Beautiful Day.
@ryr3888 Correct, Your Blue Room has only been done once in each city.
Earliest Beautiful Day has been in the set this tour. It is played without that Celtic-y intro.
Fourth? Beautiful Day!
No MW solo, alas.
Third is… Mysterious Ways! The opening barrage of 4 NLOTH songs is now down to just two.
Points to @Matkin22 for predicting this. First time Boots is not third in the set.
Oh hello! Boots is second!
Sizeable minority of you win Predict-a-set. Maybe Magnif opening Boston II will just go down as a one-off experiment…
First up? It’s just Breathe.
Space Oddity now playing at Giants Stadium. Here we go!
If Mofo is played, my bet is it will show up in Raleigh to make up for their Popmart gig being cancelled.
OK folks, Predict-a-set time. Breathe or Magnificent to open? Hoping for Magnificent… or in a more ideal world, NLOTH.
New York II setlist, 24/09: U2 are performing their second New York area show today, across the state border at Giants S http://url4.eu/W3Do
That, apparently, is all for Muse (maybe I missed something?). Now we play the waiting game for U2. Prob on-stage in ~45 mins.
OK, previous post had right set, except Uprising instead of Resistance. Now they’re doing Plug-in Baby! Ax=wishes he was there.
Don’t think I can do full Muse set today. Set inc. Time Is Running Out, US of Eurasia, maybe Resistance?, Starlight. Not 100% on order.
Muse opened with Knights Of Cydonia (yesterday’s closer). Think next 2 songs Hysteria and Supermassive Black Hole.
Alright, Muse are now on.
Opening band Muse are yet to take the stage in NYC. They were on by this time yesterday.
Today’s U2 soundcheck? Elevation… and don’t get too excited, but reportedly Mofo.
Even older snippetwatch: Psalm 116 over intro of Streets, 10 October 2001. Thanks John W.!
I actually noticed that snippet at the gig - promptly forgot by the time I got back to the hotel and put the set on the site.
Snippetwatch: Very, very brief We Are Family at the end of Streets, Dublin III. Thanks Gerard!
OK, so Bono referenced the Mofo lyric… or did he? It’s also a line of a Yeats poem. Great. Well, let’s count it as Mofo for now.
Reportedly, Bono did the Mofo snip again in COBL at NYC I. Anybody got a link to some audio/video that confirms this?
Although not in the itinerary yet, U2.com’s tour page blurb mentions Brussels along with the itinerary’s countries. Well spotted, @marekbz!
After the Russia & Turkey gigs, U2 will have played in 34 different countries. 35 if you count a Bono solo appearance in Monaco.
OK, think I’m done with stats and stuff in the 2010 European tour article: http://www.u2gigs.com/ar…
Love U2.com getting venue names wrong. “Stadium” in Horsens and Coimbra? They have actual names!
Still adding stats to the mainpage article, bear with me…
2010 European tourdates: http://www.u2gigs.com/ar…
So, U2 to play Russia and Turkey for the first time ever. Nice.
2010 European tourdates have been posted without fanfare on U2.com’s tour page. Our own article with list of dates coming soon.
Snippetwatch: Still Haven’t Found at Boston II ended with a snip of Run by Snow Patrol. Added to database.
@EdgeFest Far Far Away is by Wilco, already list it for Chicago II. No idea what the snip before B Day is at Toronto I, though…
Snippetwatch: Far Far Away snip at start of Beautiful Day, Boston 1. Added to set. Thanks Kristofor G.!
You’ll Never Walk Alone snip was in Walk On and some extra details have been added re: She’s The One/Desire. Thanks @atu2!
Today’s full set, stats, etc: http://www.u2gigs.com/ar…
That’s the gig over, folks. Looking forward to tomorrow.
Despite THAT soundcheck, it looks like Bruce isn’t joining U2 onstage, and just enjoying a birthday gig from the crowd.
24th and presumably last is Moment Of Surrender.
23rd is With Or Without You…
Getting close to the end of the gig now… will Bruce himself appear?
Encore opens with Ultra Violet.
@JRFuerst I’ll take that bet! I say this will be the 3rd 360 show at which Unknown Caller isn’t played.
Encore break…
All You Need Is Love snip in Streets.
I’ll claim that ten bucks now, thanks.
21st is Streets, of course.
Here’s the Amazing Grace snip.
One has Hear Us Coming.
20th is One.
Ten bucks says One/Amazing Grace snip/Streets will be next.
19th is Walk On, as you’d expect.
Bono rambling… 18th is MLK.
No snip in SBS.
@Matkin22 Couldn’t tell snips in Vertigo or Crazy, sorry.
@dougmiestergen Croke I, Chorzow, London II all had 21-song main sets.
17th is Sunday Bloody Sunday.
16th is Crazy Tonight.
15th is Vertigo.
14th is City Of Blinding Lights.
4 ATYCLB songs in one set (you know Walk On is coming). 0 from Boy, October, Pop combined all tour. Uh, U2…
13th is The Unforgettable Fire.
Twelfth is Stuck In A Moment. (They skip Unknown Caller but not this?! U2, it’s 2009, not 2001.)