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2011-04-09 - Sao Paulo
 Tour: U2 360° Tour
Songs played: 25
Audio recordings: 1
Videos: 1
  1. Originally posted by bobplaysthedrums:[..]

    The show is better with Zooropa, than without Zooropa (no pun intended). I'm not saying that it makes a particular show worse, just the whole tour in general.


    I still don't think that makes much sense..I agree that the tour would be better with it, as it would be with most U2 songs that aren't normally played. But I don't think it detracts from the show just because all of the sudden it was soundchecked and they didn't play it.

    I get what you're saying, but I think a better example would be something like Streets. If they started the tour without it. They've ALWAYS had it in their set, therefore leaving it out for a tour would make the set worse, just because it's become a staple. Zooropa has been played about 3 times.
  2. Hmm, that's not a very good setlist... but we have two more shows therr so there's still hope for some big surprises
  3. Man, what a hell of a show
    I just got back home from the stadium.
    btw Larry smiled a lot, Bono intruduced the band as "kinds of pizzas", he was the pepperoni one, Adam was the "Banana pizza", Edge was the "jaca pizza", lol he couldnt find a ingredient for Larry, so he was "no pizza, just Larry".
  6. Just arrived home....What a show guys!

    No setlist surprises, but a huge energy coming from the audience and the band!

  7. 'Trem das Onze', a samba composition by Adoniran Barbosa, was playing ahead of the band's arrival on stage tonight. It's one of the most famous of all Brazilian songs but when it gave way to 'Space Oddity' finally Brazil knew that U2 were heading to the stage and before we knew it we were all caught up in 'Even Better Than The Real Thing'.

    'Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo...' Bono sang, the whole stadium grateful that there was no rain coming down as the first of three shows here got underway. 'Even Better', already in contention for the best opening track of the tour to date, led into I Will Follow and then 'Boots, two tracks written thirty years apart but you'd never know it from the reaction of this super-passionate audience. Phenomenal sound from all around.

    We've had some mixed weather in Sao Paulo today but it was dry as the first of three shows in this city got underway, with spectacular shards of lightning in the sky illuminating a helicopter buzzing over the stadium.

    'Wow! Thank you. Obrigado.' said Bono. 'Tonight is Saturday in Sao Paulo...'

    Introductions to the band took a pizza twist with Bono describing himself as the pepperoni pizza, Adam as the banana pizza and Larry... 'No cheese, no tomato, no pastry, no pizza - we call him the good looking pizza. Larry Mullen on drums.'

    An acoustic version of Stuck In A Moment made its way back into the set tonight, dedicated to Julian Lennon to whom the band led a rendition of Happy Birthday.

    'We'd like to sing this song for a friend of ours, Julian Lennon... here's a song about friendship.'

    With a stadium of Brazilians singing along word for word, it was a little bit spine-tingling, as was the poetry read by a young woman who made her way into the spotlight before Beautiful Day.

    'We're so proud to be friends of Brazil,' said Bono, as, a beautiful night coming to a close, he paused to pay tribute to the people of this country and to President Dilma Rousseff. 'We salute you, we salute her.'

    And then an incredibly touching moment with Moment of Surrender going out to those who lost their lives in the shooting at Tasso da Silveira school in Rio di Janeiro on Thursday.
    ' This has been a difficult time for Brazil... and what happened in Tasso da Silveira.
    'We'd like to dedicate this to the children and the mothers and their families and the teachers and the people of Brazil.'

    And as Moment of Surrender offered its beautiful benediction, the names of the children who lost their lives illuminated the giant screens around the stage. Unforgettable.

    U2.com

    ^
    Just a little review till I get time to write mines


  8. Some people are so naive, expecting every fart soundchecked to be immediately promoted to the show.

    There are still 2 shows left in Brasil, so no need to swear


  10. You are seriously that angry that they didn't play a soundchecked song on night 1 of a 3 night run? Wise up.

    Even Better is still new and Zooropa needs a bit of work and still it might become this years Drowning Man.

    Wise up.
  11. You have Stuck as a replacement, stop bitchin' xD
  12. It's 4 A.M. here, so I have to sleep since tomorrow we have more...

    I have lots of things to tell you and lots of photos to show you. I think I'll get sometime to do it tomorrow...

    3 pics I took before I say goodbye...








    See you tomorrow guys!

    Greetings from Brazil
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