I’d be surprised, but I love the hope twitter.com/aaronslarson/s…
johnnyo217 Here is my brief exchange with Bono about Heartland before Chicago 2. He said “That song is becoming more important… https://t.co/5spYuHhBRe
With the long gap before Montreal I’m thinking of writing up something personal about a certain song. Would anyone… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@RecruiterBruno Same. Great, great night.
U2 ‘A dream big enough to fix the whole world…’ Pride (In The Name of Love)
#U2 #U2eiTour #U2SongsOfExperience #MLK… https://t.co/ftoGm0q8S6
On I+E, our feed filled up daily with people wanting to hear Crystal Ballroom. I’m surprised that so far on E+I alm… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@corianderstem I KNOW RIGHT? I’m already losing my hair! These gosh darn young-un’s don’t know how good they got it… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
writergeek313 @cucurucha @u2gigs The entitlement among some fans seems especially bad this tour. It’s sad when we stop and realiz… https://t.co/QWJZhed9MT
u2songs The Evolution of an Intermission: u2songs.com/news/the_evolu… (Little tweaks have been made to the #U2eiTOUR intermissi… https://t.co/XZyd7AMgae
@EveryBrokenWave …if we want to? Haha.
BriannAtl35 @atu2 @u2gigs what a great show tonight. A real treat #u2atlanta https://t.co/WDeq3aD55Q
@rasavbet Ugh, yes, I keep typing Life for some reason.
@EveryBrokenWave Yep, and Zooropa in 2015.
@SpgttTartomp No joke, I’ve always thought Bass Trap, perhaps in abbreviated form, would sound cool as part of a la… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@EveryBrokenWave Oh christ, not a clue. I think they abandoned trying it electric by or during June 1997. It was st… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I hope you enjoyed the snippet facts tonight. Maybe I’ll think of something else cool for the Montreal shows…
Here is our write-up and the full setlist for the #U2eiTour concert in Atlanta: u2gigs.com/article1287.ht…
@mysteriousdays Probably not, but I live in hope. That giant American flag isn’t gonna go down too well I bet…
bethandbono Bono surrounded by the Lights of Home #U2eiTour https://t.co/HW99lG2nG4
Many many thanks to @JaneAyers20 for a great Mixlr feed tonight! Could not have covered the show without you. #U2eiTour
Still, with an 8 day gap until Montreal that means that either there will be some significant changes (largely beca… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
markpeterboro U2 Setlist chart after Atlanta / Duluth (13 gigs) #setlistgeek #U2eiTour #U2Atlanta #U2Duluth @u2gigs https://t.co/ZwmsjLRJSR
Well, that’s it for tonight. Next concert is in… 8 DAYS???? Oh right, that’s mine =P
BrianovichIV Every time I hear the guitar/bass solo in Gloria, I add “HEY THIS IS RED ROCKS” in my head.
They are now using Noel Gallagher’s What a Beautiful Life before the MRI sequence/Love Is All We Have Left…. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@Cloverground Actually the best U2 closer I’ve ever seen is One Tree Hill with the hill itself visible behind stage… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
24. 13 (There Is a Baker’s Dozen) #U2eiTour
I’m sure the wags out there will suggest this song is a Song for Someo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Bono: “I still feel 11… I’m working on myself, I now feel 13”. #U2eiTour
@Naomi_U2Sydney I believe in A Celebration, I believe U2 can setlist it for me.
The sign is also a hint as to what song should close U2 gigs from here to eternity. twitter.com/PBear1979/stat…
23. Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way #U2eiTour
Two snippets to date in this song, both during its live debu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Invisible snippet in One. It has been snippeted almost as much as it has been played: 81 full performances to 52 snippets. #U2eiTour
Bono: “what more do I want to say?”
Larry should’ve just come in then and cut him off. #U2eiTour
Bono during his One speech is reminiscing about visiting Atlanta, about approaching Coca-Cola and getting them to c… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
22. One opens encore w/ Bono’s intro speech #U2eiTour
Like Beautiful Day & Vertigo earlier tonight, this song is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
City of Blinding Lights’ outro has the usual string of thank-yous. Time for the encore break with the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@dontgoslideaway The lyrics diverge, and Bono sang the American Soul version of one line rather than XXX. Probably… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
For Matkin and our other latecomers: mixlr.com/tarheeljane/ #U2eiTour twitter.com/u2gigs/status/…
Yep, sang “fifty years ago” as the lead in to the April 4 line tonight too after the little speech, should’ve made… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
21. City of Blinding Lights #U2eiTour
Snippets are not too common in this song, but they show up now and again—15… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
bethandbono It’s a beautiful day, even from far away. #U2eiTour https://t.co/n4YX1efB23
mysteriousdays oh my stars ???? #AdamClayton #U2 U2eiTour #Chicago https://t.co/BqNsqsFT9o
20. American Soul #U2eiTour
There has never been a snippet in this song. It has, however, once been a snippet: u2gigs.com/show2138.html
In comes the taped section by Kendrick Lamar. Bono shouts thanks to him, “Kendrick Lamar, a great American!” #U2eiTour
I remember the first time! twitter.com/Rodrivox/statu…
Got a stream?
Oh good, the backend is all yours so that I can finish getting this snippet info that I should’ve done before the s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Heeeeeeere’s Matkin!
*drops Ax*
19. Get Out of Your Own Way #U2eiTour
The first ever live performance of this song had a snippet over the intro, a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Bono pays tribute to Martin Luther King Jr: “fifty years ago… gave up his life so that we might wake up in this d… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Bono during Pride: “this is a time to meditate on the American dream. A dream big enough to fit the whole world! A… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@Rodrivox The few times they actually nailed that full band version are its best ever live performances. Shame it fell apart so often!
18. Pride #U2eiTour
This is the U2 song for which we have the most performances logged in our database, but it has… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Bono: “sometime in the 90s we released an album called Pop [big cheers], but nothing about it was Pop! But we thoug… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
17. Staring at the Sun #U2eiTour
There have been five snippets in SATS, each done just once. Take, for example, Su… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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bethandbono Don’t let the bastards grind you down, y’all. #U2eiTour https://t.co/7vitPuMHbo
Bono tonight in his Best Thing intro says that “it’s raining here but it’s beautiful, it’s summer rain”. He then ta… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
16. Best Thing #U2eiTour
This song has already got three snippets to its name, all sung over the transition into t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@MarkCDarwin I bloody hate that I was only 2 years old when Lovetown came through Wellington! My uncle went to all… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
15. Acrobat #U2eiTour
No songs have yet been snippeted within this song so new to the live stage, but Bono in his… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@MarkCDarwin Mofo, Streets, 11 O’clock Tick Tock, and Hawkmoon are my contenders. Hard to rank them! But the ethere… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@U2start Bono badly needs to snippet it again! Other songs have sounded very very cool there, but none have been as at home as SFB.
@stevovertigo So glad I got to hear it live in Boston 2005
@MarkCDarwin I might even vote it U2’s best live opener ever.
Here is the footage of Desire from that Sydney show on 18 November 1989. Edge in top form. God this is so good. And… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
14. Desire #U2eiTour
39 different songs snippeted in Desire. No doubt in my mind as to the best: So You Want to Be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Vertigo ends with a snippet of REM’s It’s the End of the World As We Know It. Bono has snippeted this song four tim… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
13. Vertigo #U2eiTour
This is another one of those U2 songs that has had heaps of snippets over the years: we log… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Bono: “are you ready to be elevated? Are you ready to be celebrated?”
PLAY A CELEBRATION YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO. SHAKE, SHAKE! #U2eiTour
MarkCDarwin @u2gigs @U2 I actually saw the live video on late at nite on cable tv in a hotel room in Galveseton, TX in ’83. Whe… https://t.co/P54sGRL2cs
12. Elevation opens the second set with the Influx Mix intro #U2eiTour
It has had its share of snippets over the y… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
It’s intermission time, and here is our mainpage article with the setlist in progress from #U2eiTour Atlanta: u2gigs.com/article1287.ht…
I am absolutely LOVING Bono’s snippetry of William Blake poems, just for the record. #U2eiTour
More William Blake snippetry in UTEOTW. It’s Introduction—“hear the voice of the bard” #U2eiTour
Brief nod to Love Reign O’er Me in Until the End of the World #U2eiTour
@MarkCDarwin @U2 My stepdad gave me his video of Under a Blood Red Sky and 11 O’clock Tick Tock on there… let’s j… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
11. Until the End of the World #U2eiTour
The Garden of Love by William Blake is the snippet at the start. Bono sni… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@stevovertigo I’ll have a check later!
When Johnny Comes Marching Home snippeted in Sunday Bloody Sunday, the 44th time this has happened. #U2eiTour
10. Sunday Bloody Sunday #U2eiTour
We record 19 different snippets in this song, including one that was truly evil: u2gigs.com/article666.html
I should do our mainpage article, shouldn’t I? Been so busy collecting these snippet facts after the band came on s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
9. Cedarwood Road #U2eiTour
Only one snippet ever in this one, Stairway to Heaven at the start of this show: u2gigs.com/show1938.html
11 O’clock Tick Tock belongs everywhere and every time. Throw at me your most ridiculous scenario. It will fit. twitter.com/MarkCDarwin/st…
Re: Mike Mills getting the Beautiful Day shout-out today, I visited Athens, GA last year and had great fun visiting… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
bethandbono Mike Mills getting the Beautiful Day shout out tonight. Obvi. #U2eiTour
@marcuzzo27 Well, actually, all shows have been late starts! They’ve normally been scheduled to start at 8pm and ha… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
EBTTReal_KS @u2gigs My favourite has to be the In God’s Country snippet from 360. I always sing that verse when I listen to Beautiful Day.
GnoccoFritto @u2gigs I don’t live too far from The Roxy and it kills me to have missed this (I had been able to see Oasis and Ra… https://t.co/nSpwX2fgjC
8. Iris #U2eiTour
Also 2 snippets to its name. One of them is Mofo, which I think they should’ve used more than ju… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
7. The Ocean #U2eiTour
2 snippets to its name. The snippet of Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep in 2015 was extens… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Bono in BDay: “raining down in Georgia! Summer rain!” Don’t think he was going for the U2 song Summer Rain though…. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
6. Beautiful Day #U2eiTour
This song is a true snippet-fest, with 113 different songs logged in our database. An e… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Gloria ends with a snippet of the song Van Morrison penned with the same name. #U2eiTour
@maxtsukino Thanks!
@atu2comSherry Cheers!
Also, ironic i should be tweeting some snippet facts tonight when my browser crashes during I Will Follow. Did the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
5. Gloria #U2eiTour
Its only 2 recorded snippets are other songs called Gloria. Van Morrison’s is by far more common than Patti Smith’s.
4. I Will Follow #U2eiTour
First song tonight to have had other songs snippeted in it before; 15 recorded in our d… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@atu2 Most 360 shows in 2009 started with four songs from the current release.
3. Shouldn’t be here because I should be eating bread. Lights of Home #U2eiTour
2. The Blackout #U2eiTour
I am co-signing this so hard on behalf of Wellington. #U2eiTour twitter.com/stubby70/statu…
mysteriousdays New Zealand fans want some U2 shows in New Zealand! #U2eiTour twitter.com/stubby70/statu…
u2br Periscope ao vivo: #U2eiTour
periscope.tv/w/1jMJgqBgYgOKL
I was busy making tea, thinking I was more likely to drink the entire pot before the band start than that they woul… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Huh, we are go already in Atlanta. They’re actually starting closer to 8 than to 9! The opener is, of course, Love… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
rossgperry Had an oopsie there… correct link:
Here are the Mixlr’s (so far) for @U2 in Duluth
@JaneAyers20… https://t.co/aVd5GeuvG8
I (Matkin) will miss at least the first half of the concert tonight. Hopefully Ax remembers it is an earlier timezone! #U2eiTour
Tonight’s concert is the first in Georgia since October 2009. Just 7 of the 22 songs done 9 years ago are likely to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
mich40u2 Merchandise out by the GA entrance. Atlanta Specific shirt. #u2eitour https://t.co/ud2OOCgiAf
@RedheadKnitster Apparently. That happens quite often thanks to my autism. Apologies for misunderstanding.
guinsters92 @i_am_wordstruck @u2gigs My next door neighbour’s 8 year old was singing along to Volcano the other day! Made me dead happy haha
I was still getting back catalogue after HTDAAB came out. Zooropa or October may have been the last I got to “catch… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Not chronologically. Along with the Best Ofs I received U2 Go Home at Xmas. My birthday in April saw presents of AT… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
NoThemOnlyUs Potential mixlr for @u2 in Atlanta @U2start @u2songs @u2gigs @U2Partygirl5
mixlr.com/tarheeljane/
U2Community ‘MY NAME IS NOT MICHAEL CAINE…’
It is in fact Joe O’Herlihy and this is the first in a new #U2eiTour series for… https://t.co/uBJXoqY1PL
Helene_Dunbar Happiness is….@U2 @u2gigs https://t.co/FSGXPTLodZ
It was elevation-tour.com and still exist :-) @EveryBrokenWave
That link no longer works but the successor, u2-vertigo-tour.com, still does.
It’s shocking when I realize that this website (in it’s original u2-elevation-tour.com form) has existed longer t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@lucas_venencia Ahh, so it was Bullet the Blue Sky! Thanks, I hadn’t seen the full clip before.
cucurucha @u2gigs As someone who has loved U2 since War came out when I was a small child, I’m appalled by the sense of entit… https://t.co/gORD2ptY1D
I remember reading this somewhere, forget where: the one thing you never end a request for “love and peace” with is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Back on the Vertigo Tour, during some performances of Love and Peace outdoors he would set off a flare. Blindfolded… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
U2pictures @u2gigs And I believe that U2 would agree with you on that. Especially since 1 of there message they want to spread… https://t.co/Ywycw1crXG
I distinctly recall posting online to ask what was at the end of Best Of 80-90. It was (together with Best of 90-00… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I became a fan after Christmas 2002; not a big fan until Christmas 2003. I was 13. Am I a “clown”?
-Matkin twitter.com/GnoccoFritto/s…
FamousRamos_ @bethandbono @u2songs @atu2 @u2gigs @U2start The Edge at Third Man Records tonight! https://t.co/YDio4oKBL3
U2tour A new way of buying, selling or trading #U2 tickets at face value. Follow @u2tickets and find the details in three… https://t.co/JM1wh7OFf5
@Richard_hammond Yes, the Noel Gallagher song is the last one over the PA before U2 take the stage.
@DavidDark @nickbarre Second song u2gigs.com/show954.html
smzke U2のe+iツアーで演奏されている「Staring At The Sun」はポップマート・ツアーと同じアコースティックで披露され、この曲に続く「Pride(In The Name Of Love）」もポップマート・ツアーと同じくハ… https://t.co/XLzkUHasD7
daniDpVox #Bono & #TheEdge on stage during #StaringAtTheSun at the #BridgestoneArena in #Nashville tonight
Photo @wegotit.at… https://t.co/ftIwcPCaSX
That’s a surprise radio song! twitter.com/KALXNow/status…
brooksbratten Song of the Day: “Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way” - @U2
HuDost The awesome Nashville @ONECampaign crew at the @U2 show last night advocating for those who don’t have a voice!… https://t.co/uceFGSlJaK
abulous How come when Ashley Judd goes to multiple U2 shows on the same tour, she gets a shout-out at each one, but when I… https://t.co/pymueQKnoe
U2 ‘I must be an Acrobat…’ #U2 #nashville #U2eiTour #Acrobat #achtungbaby https://t.co/LHBRMnhVxL
AlisonDeWolfe Edge’s Acrobat solo. Unbelievable. #U2eitour #u2 #Nashville https://t.co/x24IwWHTKt
@themikelaszlo Yahweh?!
shono360 @u2gigs @guyoseary Yes yes yes! Van Diemen’s Land in Van Diemen’s Land ????✔️???????? #U2VDLinVDL
@shono360 They need to make up for neglecting Tassie by going to every city and town to play #U2VDLinVDL (and some… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Only one song has appeared at all three U2 Nashville concerts (1981, 2011, and 2017): I Will Follow. Eight were rep… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Or if you prefer accidental time travelling like what I tweeted in error after the last #U2eiTour show, try this *w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Here is our write-up and the full setlist for U2’s gig tonight in Nashville on the #U2eiTour: u2gigs.com/article1286.ht…
@SilRigote They’d have to cram 100 songs into a 150 minute set!
I played it for my Dad and he wasn’t impressed; thought it was U2 trying too hard to sound like U2, if you get the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@atu2comSherry That too; could be a preview of any Euro changes they are considering, especially with the GOOYOW-American Soul sequence.
@Schiefer4 @MarkCDarwin Yeah, I would take the alternate version of NLOTH too. Both rock.
@SilRigote Or how about putting it after Acrobat… Then take a first encore from Best Thing to COBL, and then seco… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Well, I’m off to bed. Gonna expect pretty much the same for Duluth. If anything changes on this leg, it will come a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
That’s the end, folks. Many thanks to all the people who attempted to stream tonight! There was a lot of buffering… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
markpeterboro U2 Setlist chart after Nashville (12 gigs) #setlistgeek #U2eiTour #U2Nashville @u2gigs https://t.co/vreIMqt3Yq
@SilRigote I actually had a thought about ending with Book…
24. A baker’s dozen to close out the night. #U2eiTour
Yep, even with the dependence on the backing tracks to an unusual degree of prominence, Love Is Bigger is still pro… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@MarkCDarwin They rehearsed a stripped down version of NLOTH in 2015, but it didn’t make it out of soundcheck. I’d… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@MarkCDarwin I’m just baffled by starting an encore with a speech, total buzzkill compared to some previous encore intros.
23. Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way. #U2eiTour
Invisible snippet at the end of One. #U2eiTour
@MarkCDarwin If Interference is any guide, I’m one of the few who rates the studio version as one of the better son… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Forestmoss @u2gigs ‘I remember’ as a teen ‘the hype’ around U2 was their seismic energy live, the way they brought the house d… https://t.co/Jcs9FxL5jB
@GnoccoFritto And I’ve enjoyed our discussions over many shows! I agree with you often, and our mentions are the be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
22. Encore opens with One, and One in turn opens with Bono’s speech. #U2eiTour
@GnoccoFritto The fact people dig what the band is doing now surely doesn’t mean they’re uncritical, it means this… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@GnoccoFritto You know I’d love more diversity and more deep cuts too. But it feels like that ship has sailed, and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@GnoccoFritto This is silly. Lots of people love COBL and rate it one of the band’s finest live songs of the past t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@MarkCDarwin What! That was a jam. Highlight of 360.
lucas_venencia @u2gigs Vertigo in 2005/2006 was unreal. Specially as a closer in Europe
@DallasTheBear I can’t quite get into Elevation live as much. Until about 2009 I was with you. But lately it hasn’t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
DallasTheBear @u2gigs Elevation to that list. I pretty strongly dislike the studio version. But live it’s another one of their… https://t.co/2Crjl8Y29j
@GnoccoFritto My problem, pretty much, is not with the opinion (since, as I said, I agree to a fair extent), but wi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
U2 ‘Pleased to meet you…’#Nashville
#U2eiTour #U2 #U2SongsOfExperience #MacPhisto https://t.co/jHAfhjiefQ
@GnoccoFritto This isn’t calling things “honestly”, that’s an opinion. It’s one I’m inclined to agree with, but giv… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
21. City of Blinding Lights. Bono does a shout-out over the intro: “Oprah Winfrey in the house!” #U2eiTour
I bet some of you are surprised to see me list Vertigo. In studio, I much prefer Native Son; every time I listen to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
gilson_jr_ @u2gigs I’m gonna tell you, this song sounds pretty darn good live, more than I expected it to
@gilson_jr_ Unless Bono rewrites the lyrics, I (Ax) will always hate it. I enjoy it instrumentally both studio and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@GnoccoFritto This is Ax. It’s no secret I hold opinions strongly, and have sometimes insinuated that I think some… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
20. American Soul
Top five live songs from albums released since 2000, according to Ax (not ranked):
Cedarwood Road
Crazy Tonight re… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
19. Get Out of Your Own Way #U2eiTour
A few times in our mentions lately, people have accused others of being lesser fans, of being ignorant, and of bein… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
18. Pride. Not often U2 have performed in the same state as the events described in the lyrics. #U2eiTour
@GnoccoFritto @CBarcaQC No need to be insulting, yeah?
[Pause for effect] twitter.com/u2gigs/status/…
Bono continues talking about Staring at the Sun: “it’s a playful little ditty and I think it’s something to do with… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
17. Staring at the Sun. “Sometime in the nineties we recorded an album called Pop”, an announcement the audience ch… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Bono at the end of Best Thing: “What a rhythm section, come on!” #U2eiTour
Somebody’s gotta tell Bono to stop doing those faux-conversations before Best Thing. #U2eiTour
16. The Best Thing. Bono, wrapping up his intro: “I hope I didn’t freak them out with the Macphisto thing here in N… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Bono’s doing the letter/Facetime/whatever thing, tells his wife he will see her in three days. Talks about Nashvill… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@CBarcaQC Yep, that’s right.
Macphisto slips in the “pleased to meet you” reference to Sympathy for the Devil; “sometimes I dress up as Mick Jagger”. #U2eiTour
@teddyD66 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
15. Acrobat, with Bono transforming into Macphisto. #U2eiTour