I suppose you can’t expect him to comment on everything but this seemed likely. I guess there’s indirect commentary in some songs. #U2360MIN
By the sounds of it, Bono didn’t actually make any mention of the events in Norway. Surprising… #U2360MIN
OK, this is Ax, signing off for now. Good to be back! Still no word re: a mention of Norway. Will let you know if we get any info. #U2360MIN
@Gravy1199 Unquestionably!
K’naan guesting for Stand By Me is confirmed. Thanks @u2_news for pointing out a tweet by @ChrisRstrib that confirms the matter.
Here we go, full #U2360MIN setlist and show info: http://u2.gs/MN
Also, a guest appeared to be introed in Stand By Me but hard to tell on stream. A tweet suggests it was K’naan. Any confirmation? #U2360MIN
No word yet whether or not there was a dedication at the end of the show re: Norway. #U2360MIN
OK, here’s confirmation. @ST_U2 reports that #U2360MIN ended normally with MOS, Bono rounding it out with one last Singing In The Rain.
I’m going to post the set for now with MOS 25th and last, and if any differing info comes to light, it can be edited. #U2360MIN
@tnbosoxfan Nope, there’s barely any info coming out of the venue at all.
OK, looks like Moment Of Surrender was indeed 25th and that the show may be over. Unconfirmed right now. #U2360MIN
Is the end of #U2360MIN going to be shrouded in mystery? Can only presume they’re up to MOS by now, but can’t find many tweets from venue.
24th is With Or Without You as expected. #U2360MIN
Stream is dead folks, it just keeps looping a verse of HMTMKMKM. #U2360MIN
@harbinger384 Haha, woops! I’ve fixed it now. I’ll pretend it was there in readiness for another rain snip. ;)
I would say it’s easy to guess the rest, but will there be another big surprise after MOS? #U2360MIN
@blasisaguirres Yeah, the mainpage updates are here: http://u2.gs/MN
… or not back? Either way, many thanks to @u2br for a damn quality stream, and to @u2radiocom for re-streaming it to all of us!
Ooh no, are we back? Phew! #U2360MIN
@iambradk We could try to quantify it in terms of ratio of songs, but then we’d be here all night.
23rd song of the night, first of the second encore, is Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me. #U2360MIN
@iambradk Oh wait, that’s really only 11 albums inc. Passengers, since HMTMKMKM is there for “non-album songs”. Hmm.
Encore break time now. #U2360MIN
@iambradk Wouldn’t really any recent show count? 12 albums, inc. Passengers. Trying to think if any has got to 13.
Streets is followed by a Singing In The Rain snippet. Bono loves this song. #U2360MIN
@iambradk You could count 1992-05-22 as most Achtung though, i.e. 10.5 songs. 10 full songs, plus So Cruel snippet in Bad.
@iambradk 11 theoretically could’ve happened, but none of So Cruel’s rare appearances were in the same set as WGRYWH.
More snippetry of Purple Rain after Hallelujah in Streets’s intro. #U2360MIN
@iambradk The most Achtung songs in a set is 10. Most 1st/2nd leg shows of ZooTV, plus a few on the 3rd leg.
Hallelujah snippet leads into 22nd song of the night, Streets. #U2360MIN
Purple Rain snippet at the end of One. #U2360MIN
One is first song of the encore and 21st of the night, incidentally. And uhoh, @u2br reports low battery… #U2360MIN
As the encore begins, catch up on the full set so far here: http://u2.gs/MN #U2360MIN
No snip of You’ll Never Walk Alone at the end of Walk On tonight. Feels a bit odd now when Bono doesn’t do it. #U2360MIN
@CBarcaSTJ The Please snip was shouted over the opening drumbeat of SBS tonight.
One of these days I’ll think of a trivia question that takes Ax more than 90 seconds to answer ;-)
Walk On follows as usual. #U2360MIN
This show, for instance, has an example of Bad with six snippets: http://www.u2gigs.com/sh…
Oops, I mean #U2360MIN. #U2360MON isn’t for another two shows! It’s an easy enough typo to make though!
Scarlet is up next. #U2360MON
Ax: Bad has had five snips in a single performance … think there are a rare few with six. #U2360MIN
CBarcaSTJ @u2gigs Zooropa along with the Discotheque snippet. Great times to follow the setlist indeed. I don’t want this tour/set to end
5 snippets during Crazy Tonight today. Is that a record for most snips in one performance? Ax? #U@360MIN (Now I’m just being difficult!)
And Please snippet introduces Sunday Bloody Sunday. #U2360MIN
Sunday Bloody Sunday #U2360MIN
There are the Life During Wartime and Psycho Killer snips in Crazy. #U2360MIN
Hope you didn’t miss that Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head snip in Crazy back there. Now time for Discothèque snippetry. #U2360MIN
Predictions for snippets in Crazy Tonight tonight (I think that is grammatically correct): Psycho Killer and Disco. #U2360MIN
atu2comSherry @u2gigs perhaps he doesn’t want to lose himself whilst singing it
RT @u2wanderer: from what the weather guys are saying there may be a lot of rainy snippets for Moncton too…
(The Miss You snippet being at the beginning of Crazy, not the end of Vertigo :P)
Miss You snip leading into Crazy Tonight though. #U2360MIN
What snippets in Vertigo tonight? None, surprisingly. They go straight into IGCIIDGCT #U2360MIN
@skid63 Amazed how much most people have been lapping it up. It felt esp awkward at Glastonbury.
Matkin: or even better, how about your own Summer Rain? #U2360MIN
Also, FTR, I ALWAYS snippet the first verse of Streets at the end of City when singing along. They fit so well!
Wonder if the end-of-Vertigo snip will be something rain-related. C’mon Bono, how about some So. Central Rain by your REM mates? #U2360MIN
One of his lengthiest Singing In The Rain snips too. Just keeps going right up to the Vertigo count-in. #U2360MIN
Singing In The Rain snip at the end of COBL, fairly predictably! #U2360MIN
Singing in the Rain snippet leads into Vertigo #U2360MIN
CBarcaSTJ @u2gigs It must never get old typing out “Zooropa is next”. Incredible that I’m able to read that
City of Blinding Lights is next. #U2360MIN
For those just tuning in, @u2radiocom is carrying a stream of the show from @u2br: http://u2radio.com/live/ #U2360MIN
Now, for something truly cool and out of this world, here’s Zooropa. ;) Still drooling over this song.
Ax: I’d just like to say that, for the record, I’m with Matkin re: the Kelly link-up. I thought I was the only one so I kept my mouth shut!
Zooropa is next. No dedication (that I heard about) to Norway in Miss Sarajevo. probably happen in MoS then. #U2360MIN
The Mark Kelly link-up is cool and all, but… I can’t appreciate it. Not when they focus only on Giffords and ignore those who did die.
Miss Sarajevo. #U2360MIN
Pride
Nice to see Can’t Stand the Rain snippeted. It’s a change from the usual snippetry of Rain and, err… Rain, during wet shows! #U2360MIN
If you need to catch up on the full set so far, we’re posting it here: http://u2.gs/MN #U2360MIN
Can’t Stand The Rain snip at the start of Elevation. #U2360MIN
Space Oddity at the end of BD as usual. Next up is Elevation. #U2360MIN
Space Oddity snip at end of BDay. #U2360MIN
RT @julesport: @u2wanderer @u2gigs I’d choose Drowning Man for Amy… Would really love to hear that song one day…just saying :-)
@atu2comSherry Logistically, I mean
@atu2comSherry Guess it’s too difficult to do a new ISS link to the show with so few nights left
“Tell my wife I love her. She knows”. #U2360MIN
A moving tribute to Amy Winehouse. Next up is Beautiful Day #U2360MIN
I (Ax) agree with earlier suggestions that Bad would’ve been a perfect tribute to Winehouse. #U2360MIN
Stuck is dedicated to Amy Winehouse. #U2360MIN
halloweenbeat @u2gigs Did he dedicate it to Amy Winehouse?
Following that surprise acoustic full song rendition of Stand By Me, U2 give us Stuck In a Moment #U2360MIN
Ax here, they’ve sung all of Stand By Me, and the music is SBM’s. I’m counting this as a sep song, seamless segue from ISHFWILF. #U2360MIN
Okay, I (Matkin) don’t think this is a snippet. Long enough for a full performance I think. #U2360MIN
Hmm… is this long enough to be a separate song? Ax? #U2360MIN
Wait, who is Bono introducing/praising? I can’t hear over the cheering #U2360MIN
To add to the tragedy in the world, a high speed train crash in China has killed at least 33. If ever One Tree Hill needed to be in set…
Stand By Me snippet
Oh Ax, you were never on your game to begin with. We both know that you brought me on solely because they change the set around me! :P
So much for my (Ax) bet re: Magnif. I’ve got a bit rusty at setlist prediction while on holiday, evidently! #U2360MIN
It’s ISHFWILF #U2360MIN
Heheh, let’s ask @wxander. RT @ceeceehalpert: Umm…is Adam Clayton wet and/or shirtless yet?? #U2360MIN
Bono introducing the band. Probably ISHF next then. Unless we are surprised with AIWIY #U2360MIN
Bono says that the crowd expected this to be the last show. Thanks the crowd and says this is the place to throw a party #U2360MIN
Following @u2gigs when Ax and Matkin duet is like watching a schizophrenic arguing with himself #U2360MIN
Matkin and I clearly thinking along the same lines, judging by the fact those last two tweets went through within 7 secs of each other!
Heh; great minds think alike, Ax ;)
So, will Magnif follow Boots like in East Rutherford, or is it back out of the set? Or elsewhere in it? Ax bet: after Boots. #U2360MIN
Will we get Magnificent next again tonight? Or will it be tucked away again? #U2360MIN
Sixth up is Wellies #U2360MIN
popartist61 @u2gigs Maybe referring to what happened in Norway? A lot of people of Scandinavian descent in Minnesota…
@atu2 Give him a soapbox to stand on while delivering his speeches ;-)
I Will Follow is fifth #U2360MIN
@funnyguy84 I was there too; awful, wasn’t it?
Rather long speech by Bono in the middle of UTEOTW. #U2360MIN
Anthem snippet
Looking for a stream? @u2radiocom is carrying the one by @u2br: http://u2radio.com/live/
Fitting that they should snippet Rain; I (Ax) have been on a huge kick with Chapterhouse’s cover of that song. #U2360MIN
And that leads into Until the End of the World #U2360MIN
Rain snippet in Mysterious Ways #U2360MIN
And it sounds as if the rain has started. #U2360MIN
Here is our mainpage article where we will be posting the full setlist as it happens: http://u2.gs/MN #U2360MIN
Mysterious Ways is third. Connections are spotty tonight it seems #U2360MIN
The Fly clocks in at number two on the night #U2360MIN
Hi folks, Ax here - back home in Melbourne after a great time in New Zealand. Both Matkin and I will be with you for #U2360MIN today.
Looks like we have a stream, couresy of @U2baja! http://www.ustream.tv/ch…
Sounds as if the show is almost here. Trying to nail down a stream. #U2360MIN
Remember all, due to a massive influx of spam the hashtag being used for tonight is now #U2360MIN, NOT #U2360MSP
RT @U2Nurse: Techs have left the stage. Awaiting Major Tom.
blasisaguirres @malcolm42 @u2gigs Rehab snippet in Bad probably, that’s the right song to do it, i mean because of the meaning.
I hate the fly. Not the U2 song, I mean the insect that won’t stop buzzing around me and landing on my head. Go away you little bug!
RT @u2radiocom: @u2radiocom is back up and streaming. We will also be relaying the @U2BR of the #U2360MIN show.
iambradk @u2gigs That’s weird, I read that as MS = Moment of Surrender. Guess great minds think alike.
@u2radiocom Awesome :)
@iambradk I said that, just abbreviated it :P
@U2radiocom Will you be carrying the @u2br feed again tonight?
Okay, I’m going to make some unofficial predictions for tonight. SBS or MS dedicated to Norway, Bad in the set for Amy Winehouse #U2360MIN