1997-09-20 - Reggio Emilia, Italy - Festival Site
Info
Popmart 2nd leg: Europe
150,000+ fans attend this concert. It currently holds the world record for the largest paying crowd to a single act without support.
Next show was Sarajevo (!)
Rated 3.5/5 stars (Audience) on this site.
Available from Rapidshare
Setlist
Mofo
I Will Follow
Gone
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Last Night On Earth
Until The End Of The World
New Year's Day
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
All I Want Is You
Staring At The Sun
Volare (Edge Karaoke)
Miami / My Mammy (snippet) / Cuba (snippet)
Bullet The Blue Sky
Please
Where The Streets Have No Name
encore(s):
Discothèque / Love To Love You Baby (snippet) / Black Betty (snippet) / Take Your Partner By The Hand (snippet)
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
With Or Without You
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Into The Groove (snippet) / Mysterious Ways
One
MLK
Reviewed by Jeremy, Remy, Dan, Patrick, Sergio, Nate
A late review was also submitted by Reclinerman but does not contribute to the overall summary presented here.
Sound
Originally posted by DanRight, first and foremost let me make a recommendation. Do not, repeat do not listen to this show through a cassette adapter in your car from your iPod. I did this and could barely listen; sucked, a lot.
So I gave it another go whilst walking the dogs with my Sennheisers - bloody fantastic by comparison.
This wasn't a 5 star recording as it was originally listed by any means, and was changed to 3.5 after all the reviews were in. No bass, poor drums and fuzzy occasionally. It was very difficult to perceive the crowd also, probably due to the size of the arena, but it was a shame not to be able to hear 150000 screaming Italians very much
Performance
This was a popular show with reviewers. Everyone found something to enjoy, and it is a solid concert performance all round. Certainly shows the Popmart naysayers how wrong they are.
Highlights:-
EBTTRT - "Ciao Reggio. Viva Italia...., viva Popmart, ... viva..... Bono!" B-Man on top form
Mofo - very good:-
Originally posted by JeremyLet me start by saying that the intros at the Popmart shows are, in my opinion, the best beginning to a show the band has ever done. I get chills every time I hear "Pop Muzik" on a bootleg, especially that part where the vocals drop out and it's just the drum loop playing that high-hat heavy dance beat. When the crowd realizes for the first time that the band is walking to the stage from the back of the stadium and let out that primal shrill, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. This is what going to a Popmart show was about. Absolutely my favorite part of every Popmart bootleg.
"Mofo" sounded exceptional on this bootleg. I don't know if it's my new Sennheiser CX300s or what, but this particular mix blew me away. I heard every single detail of the looped drumbeat like I've never heard before, especially at the part right when Edge holds those high notes (2:25 into the song). Amazing.
"Discotheque", "WOWY", "HMTMKMKM" - excellent performances; great encore really, especially:-
"One" - very good performance. None of the extended guitar from early ZooTV, but everything else. And a special 'A Capella' bit where all but Bono and the huge crowd drop away. Fantastic
"Please/Streets" - as normal this was amazing.
Rare Popmart outing for "MLK"
Bono's voice was generally very good, especially compared to the next show (Sarajevo)
Poor bits:-
LNOE dragged and generally didn't meet with favour.
I didn't like the karoake, but others seemed to think it was a bit of fun.
Otherwise, nothing.
Overall
Good listen. Just listen to it in the right circumstances - decent headphones preferably.
There are better (Leeds, Santiago, Mexico, Sarajevo), but this is a solid, recommended 3.5 star listen
