Originally posted by Angel_or_DevilThe last concert should be televised and broadcasted on all the major radio networks across the world. Tickets will be so expensive. Rrrr I wanna go to it, perhaps Asso (the edge) will come out the closet and tell us his true identity and offer u2start members tickets
Originally posted by drewhigginsMaybe they'll be like the Rolling Stones - still going at 60. Wouldn't that be a sight to behold. And I agree, the Globe Arena is an ugly thing as are most buildings.
Originally posted by easports43[..]
Hey Drew! How are you? I haven't talked to you in a while. Hope you're doing OK.
One more post! Congratulations!
Originally posted by drewhiggins[..]
I'm doing bloody great. Should we set it off with 1000? Of course, so here goes.
Originally posted by drewhigginsThat's too cool, 1000 posts. Finally!
One place I'd like to see would be in the courtyard of the Mount Temple Comprehensive School. It's where they started and met.
Originally posted by drewhigginsAnd this will be the setlist...
1. Auld Lang Syne / Where The Streets Have No Name / Psalm 116 / MLK / All You Need Is Love
2. Vertigo / Pump It Up / The Boys Are Back In Town / She Loves You / Stories For Boys / Hello
3. City of Blinding Lights / Barcelona / Port of Amsterdam
4. Until The End of The World / Two Tribes / Break On Through / Instant Karma! / Mystery Train
5. The Cry / The Electric Co. I Can See For Miles / People I Don't Know Are Trying To Kill Me/ An Cat Dubh / Into The Heart
6. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Could You Be Loved / Dirty Old Town / Está Chegando A Hora / Exodus / Happy Birthday / In A Little While / Loch Lomond / Many Rivers To Cross / Molly Malone / Neon Lights / Rain / Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting / Shosholoza / Stand By Me / The Boys Are Back In Town / The Midnight Special / The Promised Land / Three Little Birds / Waltzing Matilda
7. Out of Control / Blaze of Glory / Port of Amsterdam / The Cutter / Three Little Birds / Twilight / Deep In The Heart / Get Up Stand Up / Into The Heart / I Wanna Be Sedated
8. I Will Follow / Christmas Is Coming / Silver and Gold / Don't Let Me Down / Reward / Into The Heart
9. When Will I See You Again / Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of / In My Life / The Only Way Is Up / Wake Up Dead Man / When I Get Home
10. Bad / All I Want Is You / Fool To Cry / Ruby Tuesday / Yahweh / Dirty Old Town / I'm On Fire / Waiting For The Man / Rain / So Cruel / Zooropa / Old Man / Satellite of Love / Love Is Blindness / The Drugs Don't Work / The Lion Sleeps Tonight / Time Is On Our Side / Walk To The Water / Higher Love / Set Them Free
11. Beautiful Day / Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / Blackbird / Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
12. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own / La Vie En Rose / Torna A Surriento / In A Little While
13. Sunday Bloody Sunday...with a hundred Irish kids shouting 'no more!' - plus time to go through every single kid's name for their generation / Exodus / Dancing In The Street / Johnny Was / Please / San Fransisco / Living In America / Rock The Casbah
14. Bullet The Blue Sky / I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing / Riders on the Storm / America / We Will Rock You / When Johnny Comes Marching Home / The Hands That Built America / Running To Standstill / Hallelujah / Amazing Grace / The Unforgettable Fire
15. Pride (In The Name of Love) New York New York / The Promised Land / Could You Be Loved / In The Name Of The Father / Bells of Freedom
16. Miss Sarajevo (with Luciano Pavarotti and Brian Eno)
Each member then talks about one of their favorite U2 moments - for a minute each. And then they say that u2start.com is the best site ever - and they have registered accounts here, and that u2.com is really poor.
Now, get ready for hours of encore-madness!!!!!!
Encore 1
17. With or Without You / Shine Like Stars / All I Want Is You / Never Tear Us Apart / A Celebration
18. One / Can't Help Falling In Love / Unchained Melody / When Will I See You Again / My Sweet Lord
19. Mysterious Ways / Rock With You / Young Americans
20. Miami / My Mammy / Happiness Is A Warm Gun / Cuba
21. Mothers of The Disappeared (bringing the mothers on stage from POPmart) / El Pueblo Vencera / Isiah 40 / If You Wear That Velvet Dress / Staring At The Sun (accoustic) / Gone / Please
Encore 2
22. Zoo Station / Singing In The Rain
23. The Fly / (Can't Get No) Satisfaction / Lust For Life / Jean Genie / Birthday / Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
24. Singing In The Rain / The Fly / (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (with Keith Richards and Mick Jagger)
25. Desire / Light My Fire / So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star / You Make Me Feel So Young
26. "40" / Do They Know It's Christmas / Tears Are Not Enough / Give Peace A Chance
27. The Ocean / Behind Blue Eyes / Touch / Boy-Girl / A Day Without Me / I Fall Down / Fire / Carry Me Home
Encore 3 (this is pure madness but hey, why not? Let's have some fun!)
28. Desire / You Make Me Feel So Young / Gloria / Hawkmoon 269 / I Didn't Know I Loved You ('Til I Saw You Rock 'n' Roll) / Jump Around / Psalm 51 / Running To Stand Still / Show Me The Way To Go Home
29. Window In The Skies (with Adam Clayton finally singing something!)
30. Crumbs From Your Table (accoustic)
31. Love Is Blindness / All Along The Watchtower / He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven / September 1913
Encore 4 (should we have another encore? Of course, this is going to be the most maddest setlist out there).
32. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (acoustic - the band actually ride in on horses - instead of a lemon)
33. Angel of Harlem / I Should Be So Lucky / Mull Of Kintyre / Suspicious Minds / Sweet Dreams / Wedding March / Dear Prudence / Dirty Old Town / Girls Just Want To Have Fun / Happy Birthday
34. Party Girl / Fight For Your Right (To Party) / Get Up Stand Up / Molly Malone
35. House of The Rising Sun / When The Saints Come Marching In / The Saints Are Coming (with Billie Joe from Green Day)
36. All I Want Is You / Love Rescue Me / Sexual Healing / Stand By Me / Never Tear Us Apart / If You Wear That Velvet Dress / Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay / Bad / Love Is In The Air / In A Little While / Acrobat / A Sort of Homecoming / One / Billie Jean
Encore 5 (this is really crazy, but this is the concert of the fucking 21st century!)
37. Miracle Drug / Can't Help Falling In Love (with UB40) / Happy Birthday
38. Original of The Species with full Milan Icecream Strings Orchestra
39. Yahweh / Seven Seconds / My Hometown / Slow Dancing / Everlasting Love
40. Stay (Faraway So Close) / Zooropa / Satellite of Love
41. Staring At The Sun / Spanish Eyes / The Wanderer
42. Walk On / Kite / When I Look At The World / Unchained Melody / Hallelujah
43. Tower of Song (with Leonard Cohen) / All Along The Watchtower / Heartland
Encore 6 (this is too much fun, it'd need to be spread over the different nights I think so)
45. Red Hill Mining Town / Acrobat / People Get Ready
46. Gloria / Exit / Don't Take Your Love To Town / Because The Night
47. Acrobat / Stateless / Numb / Smile
Encore 7 (more, the better I say!)
48. When Love Comes To Town / In The Midnight Hour / My Way
49. Van Diemen's Land / God Part II / Help
50. Hawkmoon 269 / Heartland
51. One Tree Hill
52. Sweetest Thing / Into The Mystic
53. Gone / Never Tear Us Apart
Encore 8 (even better!)
54. Stories For Boys / Hello
55. I Threw A Brick Through A Window
55. In A Little While / Crazy Love
56. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
57. Twilight / The Cutter / Too Shy
58. Peace On Earth
59. Please / Broken English
Ending (there's an ending????): After five and a half hours they explode into another last encore - encore 9 - (so you think anyway) with Vertigo for just over ten minutes - like this:
Vertigo / Pump It Up / She Loves You / Walk This Way / Beds are Burning / Ca Plane Pour Moi / Take Me To The River / It's The End of The World As We Know It / Never Say Never / We Will Rock You / Radar Love / Rock 'n Roll Nigger / Jailbreak / O Come All Ye Faithful / Live Forever / Highway To Hell / In The Garden / Hello / Hello, Goodbye / The Boys Are Back In Town / All I Want Is You / "40"
Encore 10 (MacPhisto makes a reappearance, explaining he's been on extended service leave and is getting old, but doesn't mind. The Trabants (little cars in One video) are also on stage).
60. Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car (with explosions like Sydney ZooTV DVD)
61. Dirty Day / Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World / Lemon
62. Ultra Violet / All Kinds Of Everything / Hanging On The Telephone / Help / I Just Called To Say I Love You / My Way / You Make Me Feel So Young / You'll Never Walk Alone
Encore 11
63. Mercy / Acrobat / So Cruel
64. Walk On / Can't Help Falling In Love / Please / Always / All Along The Watchtower / London Calling
65. The Fly / Big Girls Are Best / When Love Comes To Town / 40
66. The Ground Beneath Her Feet / Art Fuck / Come On Eileen
67. Redemption Song / You Never Give Me Your Money / Carry That Weight / Get Up Stand Up / Mensch
68. 40 / You'll Never Walk Alone / With or Without You
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It has to be like that.