not that i don't like it or wish they never play it .. but when a song is played each and every night i love when they don't
(and seeing what it became in the next leg they'd better not to play anymore since then hehe)
Setlist
1. Gloria
2.I Threw A Brick Through A Window
3.A Day Without Me / Dear Prudence (snippet)
4.An Cat Dubh
5.Into The Heart
6.New Year's Day
7.Surrender
8.Two Hearts Beat As One / Let's Twist Again (snippet)
9.Sunday Bloody Sunday
10. The Cry
11.The Electric Co. / Send In The Clowns (snippet) / California, Here I Come (snippet)
encore(s):
12.I Will Follow
13.40 / Give Peace A Chance (snippet)
Setlist
1. Return Of The Stingray Guitar 9
2. Beautiful Day / Rain (snippet) 8.5
Bono was wrong here because he want to say : Argentina !! and he he was lost
3. I Will Follow 9
4. Get On Your Boots 9
5. Even Better Than The Real Thing 10
6. Mysterious Ways 9.5
7. Elevation 8.5
8. Until The End Of The World 9
9. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 8.5
10. Sólo Le Pido A Dios
11. Pride (In The Name Of Love) 8
12. Bad 9
13. In A Little While 7 Bono was lost
14. Miss Sarajevo 8
15. City Of Blinding Lights 9
16. Vertigo 9.5
17. Funky Town (snippet) / I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight / Two Tribes (snippet) 9
18. Sunday Bloody Sunday 8
19. Scarlet 8
20. Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone (snippet) 8
encore(s):
21. One 8.5
22. Mothers Of The Disappeared (snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name 9
23. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me / Don't Cry For Me Argentina (snippet) 9.5
24. With Or Without You 7
25. Moment of Surrender 9
Audience 5
I was there .. awesome !!
Sound 4
Pretty standard for this era
Overall 4.5 ( for me 5 )
Very solid show with some great moments ... the setlist is a kind of mix between the two nights before...
The moment of Leon Gieco was very special to us . He is our Bob Dylan ...and he is loved for everyone. Later he told the history how he sang that night. One day Bono met with him by Mercedes Sosa ( a very popular singer here that sang Gracias a la vida , song that were snippet sometime in Argentina) and Leon told Bono that he wrote that song . Bono couldnt believe that , but then he did it and invited Leon to the show.
When Leon was there Bono said :Leon you are great ! please can you sing with us on o the stage ? This conversation was just few minutes to start the show ....
So Leon sang and it was great for us
When i heard this history made me see how great and humble are u2, most of what I already knew....Bono telling Leon Gieco that he was great !!?? and please if he can sing with them ?? completely crazy !!!
I am going to sit down, right now, and review La Plata whilst I listen to it. Then, we'll all twist again (like we did last summer) for Devore. See you soon
Performance
Return of the Stingray Guitar is first up, for me it just serves as an introductory piece. I don't particularly like it and would rather to hear Breathe or another U2 song opening the show. Beautiful Day is second but I'll count this as the real opener. A few lyrical changes to reflect that it's raining (at least I assume it is) and on the whole, a good start to the show. The band move straight into I Will Follow which is as good as you'd expect after 30 years of performance. Bono sounds like he's having trouble keeping up with the pace though. Nonetheless, a hit with the crowd. Lead single from No Line On The Horizon now and it sounds a little awkward compared to the good start we've had. Not the best performance of the song on the tour. Even Better Than The Real Thing rocks in fourth on the setlist and the crowd are happy to hear it, assisting The Edge's guitar intro. "Woo woo". Fantastic effort all round I feel. A slight hiccup to the start of the second verse, but it doesn't ruin the performance. Absolutely love the "You take us higher..." part. The introduction to Mysterious Ways is hilarious, Bono requesting that the crowd make these horrific noises before The Edge kicks us off with that unmistakable riff. The tone of the guitar is amazing. Elvation follows and it's a solid effort. Excellent noise made by the crowd at the start too. Up next is Until The End of the World, taking Achtung Baby's representation to three from seven. Decent performance, my only issue is the band introductions midway through.
Bono then rambles on for a while about sport, Irishmen and the usual. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For offers us a welcome relieve from all of that. The crowd sound in good voice for the first verse and Bono sounds in good voice too. It must've warmed up a little since Beautiful Day. Leon Gieco takes to the stage to perform with Bono and the crowd love it. I don't understand what's being sung, but I quite like it. Pride is up now and the audience are probably at their loudest so far. It is overplayed, but they do nail it. Putting the little number with Gieco aside, we're on a good run of hits as Bad enters the arena. Mesmerising song. It's easy to get lost in the Edge's guitar, but that backing track is so perfect. Really good performance. Well, some would argue that In A Little While breaks that run of hits, but oh my, it's so good. Miss Sarajevo is beautiful. Bono does a superb job on Pavarotti's section. Now I'm getting really excited as I hear FEZ/Zooropa over the PA. Unfortunately I know that it's going to amount to nothing more than City of Blinding Lights. Oh well, the intro is one of my favourites. Solid effort throughout, segues straight into a Vertigo performance of equal solidity.
Now if there's a song to divide the crowd, it's this one. The Redanka/Dirty South mix of Crazy Tonight. Personally, I'm a big fan of it and hearing Bono sing "I know I'll go loco if I don't go loco tonight" definitely brought a smile to my face. Strong performance of Sunday Bloody Sunday, as you'd probably expect. Scarlet follows, providing the platform for a speech about Suu Kyi and a nice introduction for Walk On. Again, it lives up to the high standard we expect of the band, even if there's another slip-up from Bono during the transition to a new verse. Fantastic tone in The Edge's guitar again though. Of course, those who know me on the forums will understand why You'll Never Walk Alone doesn't sit well with me.
I love a bit of Desmond Tutu, what a character. He and One open up the encore. Nothing extraordinary, but at the same time, nothing really wrong with it. Just a standard performance. Mothers of the Disappeared makes an appearance and it segues perfectly into Where The Streets Have No Name. Yet again, it's delivered to the highest standard. Thoroughly enjoyable performance. A old favourite of mine now from the Popmart tour - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me. Love it! A rather (and surprisingly) enjoyable rendition of With Or Without You follows on, setting us up nicely for the final song of the night - Moment of Surrender. One of the best songs from No Line On The Horizon and one of my favourite closing songs during a U2 tour. Perfect close to the show.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Sound
It's pretty good. Vocals and guitar are both clear, but I think it lacks some bass. Adam doesn't really come through that well and Larry sounds a little...suppressed? There is occasionally some individuals who come over quite loud in the mix, usually with a high pitched "woo".
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Audience
Very good interaction throughout, but what do you expect from an Argentinian crowd? They don't always join in with every word, but they certainly know the chorus to many songs.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Overall
A solid performance from the band. No major mistakes, but I feel it's let down by a rather strange order at the beginning of the show which prevents it from flowing early on. The crowd are in good voice throughout which is a bonus.
Highlights:
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- In A Little While
- Miss Sarajevo
- FEZ!
- Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Lowlights:
- Return of the Stingray Guitar
- Get On Your Boots
It was a shame that they didn t play a full version of Mothers....
I remenber a funny moment. I went to this show with my wife and my brother in law . He is not a big U2 fun , but he like the good music ....
I was telling him every name s songs and a little review of them ...and when Scarlet started i telll him that : this is a song from 1981 that theyn started playing just for this tour .... and when Scarlet finished he told : Is that all ? and i say : no , that was Scarlet
yesterday evening i took down the US Festival 83 dvd and watch both The Clash and U2
it was a kind of watershed for my personal musical history .. first the last great perfomance of an almost disbanding band ("the only band that matters") and after the great performance of a band that was jumping on the Olympus
however i will review from the bootleg not the dvd
a silly question .. how do you usually rate when you don't hear the audience in the relative section? ... blank?
awesome !! 
