U2
Gocheok Sky Dome
Seoul, Republic of Korea
2019-12-08 (8 December 2019)
01 - intro -
02 Sunday Bloody Sunday
03 I Will Follow
04 New Year's Day
05 Pride
06 Where The Streets Have No Name
07 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
08 With Or Without You
09 Bullet The Blue Sky
10 Running To Stand Still
11 Red Hill Mining Town
12 In God's Country
13 Trip Through Your Wires
14 One Tree Hill
15 Exit
16 Mothers Of The Disappeared
17 Desire
18 - encore break -
19 Elevation
20 Vertigo
21 Even Better Than The Real Thing
22 Every Breaking Wave
23 Beautiful Day
24 Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
25 Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way
26 One
(Apparently, Bad was on the setlist before Pride, but unfortunately it wasn't performed. Probably due to time constraints as the band took the stage a good 15 minutes past the announced show time.)
Lineage: Zoom iQ7 > iPhone XR > HandyRec (wav) > MacBook Pro > Audacity (click removal, gentle bass boost, normalize, track splitting) > xACT (flac) > you
Recorded smack in the middle of the GA floor, just a tad in front of the tree stage (looking at Larry's back side). Our position posed a bit of an issue during the first couple of songs (and later during Desire), as we had an echo from hearing Larry's live drum kit and the sound from the PA a fraction later. It's less annoying on the recording than it was in real life. Sound in general wasn't too good: a bit shrill, lacking in low end and with LOTS of echo in the cavernous hall.
The show starts off with a few minutes of awkward silence (did I mention Korean audiences are absolutely silent before a show?) while someone attempts to get the Whole Of The Moon to play. The attempts turn out to be futile, so Larry walks out in silence and Bono does an impromptu announcement as the rest of the band walk out to the tree stage.
Lucky me found myself standing in front of the only Korean guy with a loud voice and no pitch who clearly learned English by shouting along to U2 songs. It's only really bad during Every Breaking Wave (sorry...), and merely annoying during Elevation.
I've included a few pictures my wife took with her phone. The final shot against the Korean flag backdrop can be your iTunes cover. You're welcome...
To quote SKOTF: "It ain't perfect, but it ain't bad."
Enjoy,
frankvink