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@Rusty_Olson I got very lucky and saw both it and Gloria at my first concert in 05 (Buffalo). I was only 16 and it… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
A question for the masses! #U2eiTour twitter.com/eddiekenny/sta…
RealMacphisto @bethandbono @u2gigs i think it’s up their with their best tours , it’s definitely their most promising arena exper… https://t.co/BaLGbS0wc7
one other is not an argument against them being rarities/rarely played. It’s just you being cranky.
SATS hadn’t been played in concert for 17 years; a person born that day in 2001 could have a driving license today…. twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
If you were there since the early days then congratulations on being old? Anyone born after 1982 will barely have… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
bethandbono Overheard a woman on the flight from Omaha to Chicago who was at the #U2eiTour show last night: “I’m not a huge fan… https://t.co/JmtHMMIUm6
Gloria
All Because of You
The Ocean
Acrobat
Staring at the Sun twitter.com/fburns854/stat…
@Noodles105 That song is not about Iris Hewson.
onthetrainlmao U2 just put on the best show I’ve ever seen???????? https://t.co/6QL4OxilWU
Looking at the band’s past history, not really. ZooTV through Elevation rarely (if ever) hit 24, and it was in the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
@thebushidovevo @NoTruthButTruth *Sniffle*
@themadirishman3 They will just play one. Whether that’s one song or the song One, we’ll have to wait and see.
Here is our write-up and the full setlist for the #U2eiTour stop in Omaha: u2gigs.com/article1283.ht…
Many, many thanks to @mrsmullenjr for her Mixlr and to Jim L. for his Periscope feed tonight. Much appreciation to… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
@AntonioMbass @dontgoslideaway @SilRigote Ain’t that just the sweetest thing?
The shortest of the tour SO FAR you mean #U2eiTour twitter.com/u2gigs/status/…
So from an opening night high of 27 songs we have gradually worked down to 24. Oh dear.
That’s the end of the show. 24 songs, the shortest of the tour. #U2eiTour
@AntonioMbass @dontgoslideaway @SilRigote Ugh… these puns are getting so cruel. In a little while I’m gonna feel… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
24. 13, which Bono dedicates to the students at Santa Fe high school in Texas, the site of the latest school shooting tragedy. #U2eiTour
Bono: “as fans and friends” of the US “we’re just really confused about this gun stuff. You’ve got to look at this… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
Bono: “It’s very hard for people who grew up in Ireland to get every nuance of American life… but we see you in a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
@AntonioMbass @dontgoslideaway Bah, just 15 minutes to 12 O’Clock Tick Tock and then I can be in bed!
@AntonioMbass I thought it was J. Swallo..?
@AntonioMbass Just don’t throw it through J. Swallow’s window, he won’t like that.
(Had to get J. Swallow in here somehow.)
@Brady5008 No true fans leave early
@marcuzzo27 No-one knows yet. There is vague talk of an Australia and Asia leg in early 2019, but no good rumours.
@PhilSounds Bono did acknowledge Buffett’s wife during BDay, so good chance.
@AustenJo Probably on one of the Periscope feeds. I was using the Mixlr audio at that point though.
23. Setlist Is Shorter Than Anything in- er, Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way #U2eiTour
@AntonioMbass It would be even brighter than a fire.
Invisible snippet at the end of One. #U2eiTour
@AustenJo Seems the change was cutting Wolves to do that clumsy new SBS/UTEOTW transition…!
I fall down with a facepalm at both of your puns twitter.com/u2gigs/status/…
MarkCDarwin The only time I saw @U2 on the ZooTV tour. This local tv report focuses on the condoms sold. I bought some that nit… https://t.co/Tr5wRYnMVN
@AntonioMbass We can say it with a shout if you like.
On the one hand, I hope U2 add an extra song to the encore so that Omaha doesn’t get the shortest show of tour so f… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
Also, Gloria passed October tonight to become the most-played song from October. #U2eiTour
@MickTheQuick90 I didn’t look at the tweet I was replying to and assumed it was for the COBL stat. Oops!
22. Speech / One (snippet) #U2eiTour
@MickTheQuick90 Not sure what either of you are talking about! Every show has been at least 25. This one will be 24… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
Did I catch Bono singing Women of the World again as I switched streams or was it my imagination?
@MickTheQuick90 Tied with Inglewood 1
It’s encore break time now. If it’s the usual 3-song encore, this will be the shortest show of the tour. #U2eiTour
Thank you, me! #U2eiTour twitter.com/EveryBrokenWav…
bethandbono I’m close to The Edge. #U2eiTour https://t.co/gkv6IYuTmE
21. City of Blinding Lights. #U2eiTour
I swear more effects are added to the beginning of COBL every night. #U2eiTour
Bono leading the crowd in the “la la la la” bit in the middle of American Soul. #U2eiTour
@Forestmoss Yeah I’m sure hoping that there’s an extra song in the encore, or this is going to be the shortest set of the tour so far.
20. American Soul. It’s megaphone time again. Bono shouts thanks to the crowd through it at the end of GOO Your Own Way. #U2eiTour
19. Get Out of Your Own Way #U2eiTour
I (Ax) was not here on #U2eiTour first night when this intro was first called as a snippet of This Is Not America…. twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
18. Pride. Bono is bellowing through the megaphone as usual. #U2eiTour
@SephLiam He seemed to be apologising for not being home for his son’s graduation, and adding some stuff about havi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
@johnlaurenti “U2 do” meant “U2 do want a storyline”, not that they vary it up.
They’re not that sort of band and never have been.
bethandbono Fuckin’ Acrobat, man. I’m not over it. #U2eiTour https://t.co/twVfZblG0z
17. Staring at the Sun #U2eiTour
@NoTruthButTruth @Forestmoss The quote being referred to is from the band introduction in Desire, before Bono transforms into Macphisto.
16. The Best Thing. Over the intro, Bono seems to be reciting a kind of message to his wife back home. #U2eiTour
15. Acrobat, with Macphisto inserting a Sympathy for the Devil reference in his speech. #U2eiTour
You can really hear the Hollywood Mix backing vocals tonight. Hey Ax, should we subtitle it as Hollywood Mix, a la… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
Bono describes Edge as “an intensity of white light so bright that Kim Jong-un thinks of him as a WMD… a weapon o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
@AntonioMbass You’re meant to be studying for your mid-tour test. ;)
Did Larry mess up the opening drums of Desire, or was that a glitch in the Mixlr feed? #U2eiTour
14. Desire, preceded with the usual speech asking “what’s the point of innocence when experience is so much more fun?” #U2eiTour
Totally random: I had NO IDEA that MLK was once snippeted in Staring at the Sun #U2eiTour
I know this feeling, especially when Bono sings a new snippet that I don’t recognise straight away. twitter.com/atu2/status/99…
The end of Vertigo has a snippet of Jean Genie. #U2eiTour
Clearly the below was not Ax. twitter.com/u2gigs/status/…
@atu2 @cqleonardo Thanks for clearing it up, my music knowledge is limited outside of U2! :-)
Bono: “anyone in the crowd speak some Spanish? Because there sure as hell isn’t anyone in the band! Uno, dos, tres, catorce!” #U2eiTour
13. Vertigo #U2eiTour
@atu2 Is this a song with two names thing? For what it is worth, the I+E Paris release credits it as “Words”
Right or wrong depending on whether we’re considering lyrics or music. ;)
Though I guess in the Bono-doing-a-snipp… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
Whaa??? Ax is WRONG???
Sorry Ax, the original song was written by Bertolt Brecht (in German), and translated to En… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
12. Elevation opens the second set. #U2eiTour
So, at the intermission, we are one and possibly two songs down on how many are normally played at this point. Coul… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
@Lila_64 The Doors’ version is actually a cover of Kurt Weill.
@atu2 I thought it was Bee Gees’ song Words, not Staying Alive.
Think I heard a “Words” snippet there, memories of 2015! #U2eiTour
@JereVenencia13 No it wasn’t.
@nobody_home2 Weeeelll… I (Ax) have long since grown cynical enough to expect the latter!
@lucas_venencia St Louis also didn’t get Wolves.
maxtsukino @atu2 another option: mixlr.com/miryclayu2
Bono is ad-libbing about rain—at least, it’s not striking me as a snippet of anything. Asks Edge to “let it rain”…. twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
Yes that was a great Periscope. The Mixlr was buffering like hell earlier; hope it’s more stable now. twitter.com/atu2/status/99…
I think it actually worked a lot better than the last time they skipped Wolves. Though the Wolves intro bit remaini… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
11. Um… after the usual Raised By Wolves intro, Larry kept doing the SBS drumming, then in came the Until the End… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
MarkCDarwin @u2gigs The more snippets the better! This tour has not really seen that many. In the 80’s I had never heard Ruby T… https://t.co/cCZvJul4MQ
SBS has its usual snippet of Johnny Comes Marching Home. #U2eiTour
@johnlaurenti U2 do
@Forestmoss @U2_australia @guyoseary @U2 Yeah, if they actually bother to bring this tour down here it’s going to b… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
10. Sunday Bloody Sunday #U2eiTour
It is a novelty to be said to have too high a standard for snippets, since I (Ax) am more used to being told that I… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
No, it just needs to be a reference. Singing random words of Bongolese, two of which happen to be the title of anot… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
@KCaverzagie @NUBD344 Hi!
Ax has a higher standard for snippets than I do ;-)
9. Cedarwood Road, “come with me down my street…” #U2eiTour
From Ax’s FAQ “A snippet is when a reference to a song is included in the performance of another. These may also be… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
@U2Community Any clear reference to another song. That one did not sound like a clear reference to the specific son… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
8. Iris (Hold Me Close) #U2eiTour
U2_australia @guyoseary When will @U2 next tour Australia?
#U2eiTour #SameTweetEveryDay #wemissyou
Help us spread the message, U… https://t.co/05XeQ9liGd
Booo
7. The Ocean. Bono sang “summer rain” a couple of times at the end of Beautiful Day, but not in the melody (or with… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
Acrobat twitter.com/Turner2Art/sta…
Bono in Beautiful Day: “home on the range, beautiful! Summer rains, beautiful!” #U2eiTour
6. Beautiful Day. And there was a snippet of Van’s Gloria to end U2’s Gloria. #U2eiTour
@GnoccoFritto Slot it in after Gloria/RFD, run Tomorrow-Ocean-Iris. Would work great.
The acoustic version they tried out before I+E was fantastic. Shame it never saw light in concert. twitter.com/corianderstem/…
And Sunday Bloody Sunday reigns supreme if you count snippets. twitter.com/u2gigs/status/…
@JeffReinhart77 I’m talking specifically thematically, that is the death of Iris. Streets categorically does not qualify.
5. Gloria! Back after missing one show. #U2eiTour
Only if Pride misses more. I (Ax) am irrationally bugged by Pride appearing above I Will Follow in our “songs playe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
When I eventually tabulate “Coming to Surrender”, that will be a snippet.
@InstantKarma510 She never actually told us was “all 52” were, so 8 year old me was flummoxed. I didn’t know of Pue… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
People have been saying they find the first set repetitive to I+E, citing Iris to UTEOTW. But instead of hearing I… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
4. “We’re a band from the north side of Dublin called U2. This is our new song: I Will Follow! Let’s see what Nebra… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
Sorry Ax, I don’t have the cover in front of me; and when I do it’s usually the iconic front rather than the forget… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
Ahh you’ve touched on another one for me: people who spell Van Diemen’s Land as “Dieman”. Amazing how many U2 fans… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
3. Lights of Home—Bono seemed to come in early there #U2eiTour
Technically by name, the US only has 46 states. The other four name themselves as commonwealths instead. This has n… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
That’s okay Ax, I still call the “G-L-O-R-I-A” snippet Van Dieman’s Gloria! twitter.com/u2gigs/status/…
…then again, perhaps this is forgivable because we had an American trainee teacher assisting in one of my primary… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
As a kid I (Ax) used to think Omaha and Nebraska were separate states. Omaha just *sounds* like it should be the na… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
2. The Blackout #U2eiTour
1. Love Is All We Have Left #U2eiTour
@MarkCDarwin It’s called a pun
@Rusty_Olson Seems like it!
Noel Gallagher is playing over the PA. Yep, it’s the intro music and U2 will be on stage shortly. #U2eiTour
@Irishjoeshelton @afgaetano This is Ax. I really don’t think such condescension, towards Matkin or anyone else, is… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
Mixlr feed from Omaha courtesy of @mrsmullenjr: mixlr.com/mrsmullenjr/ #U2eiTour
@marcuzzo27 Haven’t seen one as yet.
North and South of Nebraska? twitter.com/thombullock/st…
In Canada we get a couple more outside the album cycles: Pride, SBS, WOWY, ISHF, One, Mysterious Ways, and on rare… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
I guess Matkin isn’t much of a fan? twitter.com/Irishjoeshelto…
bethandbono Would like to clarify I interpreted this as additions/changes for the show and not new album content.
U2start Two more great recordings for the #U2eiTour. LA 1 by taper Chrisedge and LA 2 by taper ijwthstd. Thanks to both of… https://t.co/JDoSJlnVfi
bethandbono Bono drove in and waved. Murphy came out and said the band wasn’t going to come out (they’d planned to but were run… https://t.co/DJdyAgSXaJ
Hey, Ax here to bring you U2 in Omaha. It’s only their second ever concert in the state of Nebraska. That first sho… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…