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1989-11-18 - Sydney, Australia - Entertainment Centre

setlist

  1. Hawkmoon 269
  2. Desire / So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star (snippet)
  3. All Along The Watchtower
  4. All I Want Is You / Sexual Healing (snippet)
  5. God Part II / I Feel Love (snippet)
  6. Bullet The Blue Sky / Neighbours Theme Song (snippet)
  7. Running To Stand Still
  8. Gloria
  9. I Will Follow
  10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
  11. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
  12. Bad
  13. Van Diemen's Land
  14. New Year's Day
  15. Pride (In The Name Of Love)

    16. encore(s):
  16. Angel Of Harlem
  17. When Love Comes To Town / In The Midnight Hour (snippet)
  18. Love Rescue Me
  19. 40 / Give Peace A Chance (snippet)
Performance notes: Before the show, the venue was evacuated due to a bomb threat. Thankfully, no bomb was found and the band were able to play a full concert. During the show, Bono made multiple jokes about the incident. This is the only full tour concert since 1987 to not feature Where The Streets Have No Name in the setlist.
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songs per album

  1. Rattle and Hum (9)
  2. The Joshua Tree (3)
  3. The Unforgettable Fire (2)
  4. War (2)
  5. October (1)
  6. Boy (1)

best song performances

  1. Hawkmoon 269 (8 votes)
  2. Knockin' On Heaven's Door (5 votes)

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Australia
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review by cesar_garza01

9 years ago

Performance

The evening didn't start with the right foot. There was a bomb threat and it could have been a disaster, but eventually they let the people in and the band more than made it up to them. They gave their best and then more, specially Bono.

Sound

Very enjoyable sound with headphones.
Recording: Audience microphone - 3 stars

Audience

We can hear them cheering and singing their lungs out.

Overall

A very special show for multiple reasons: they had to evacuate the venue due to a bomb threat (sounds familiar?), but eventually they let the people in and we had one hell of a show. You can hear the announcement in the bootleg, to add more drama.
But when the band kicked in everything was forgotten. This is one of a few shows with Hawkmoon 269 as the opener and it was great. No time to rest because then we have one of the greatest performances of Desire ever. Very similar to Rotterdam 4 with Edge indulging in a long solo and So You Want To Be A Rock N' Roll Star. Brilliant. This is segued into AATW and it was awesome as always.
During the whole show Bono made jokes about the bomb threat: "Bomb scare? Don't Care!" "Everyone goes out of here alive!" These were also the days of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and there are plenty of references here. Knockin' on Heaven's Door was played because of the special days, and Bono improvised a whole verse about this event. Genius.
Can you imagine a U2 show post 1987 without Streets? This is the only show where Streets was dropped, and still it was great!
During NYD Bono sang the "maybe the time is right" line and it made my day. In the encore, BB King's band was brilliant as usual. Love the Midnight Hour snippet in WLCTT.
The show ended with 40 and a great snippet of Give Peace A Chance, very fitting to the times. If you are in the mood for a Lovetown show (and you should), try this one.

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