I&E Tour - General tour/all shows discussions (w/spoilers)

Originally posted by germcevoy:I'd kill a puppy fr NLOTH.

Originally posted by bartajax:Mehhh why does anything need to be acoustic? That's so shit.
Also the closing trio is not my thing, OL does nothing for me.

I'm excited to hear/see U2 live again but the rehearsal news isn't really giving me high hopes. Might be to negative but that's just how I feel about all this news.

Originally posted by Remy:[..]
Yeah me too, it's the same stuff all over again. Loads of acoustic songs that don't add anything and revival of poor live songs such as Playboy Mansion, Miracle Drug (really?!) and The Hands That Built America.

Originally posted by bartajax:[..]
Indeed, especially a song like NLOTH. That is one of the few songs they made in the last 20 years which really rock. Why the hell would you play it in a acoustic way.

Originally posted by Remy:NICE! New rehearsals: (thanks to U2FanPeter)

-Trying to Throw Your Arms Around The World
-Hand That Built America (mostly B&E acoustic, sounding like an early run through)
-Sweetest Thing (Edge acoustic chord strums, band in the middle, some piano accents that could only be from Bono near the end)
-NLOTH was acoustic and maybe B&E only (Tuesday only known airing so far)

Joey Ramone seems to be the concert opener and Invisible the set 2 opener. There are front end "clumps" of songs but some have swapped between Set 1/Set 2. Cedarwood is in the middle of the set despite the premature NYT quote. Still guessing on the giant light bulb.

After the recorded voice intro to Miracle Drug there is theStreets opening drone it features what appeared to be Edge singing a verse/chorus of Sting's Fields of Gold. I heard this same snippet/song grouping last week week but couldn't pick out the words/melody that were low in the mix. Similar to Bono doing the bible verse during the Streets intro a couple tours ago, but over a minute long.

E-Better is the recent mild remix heard in dance sets by Deadmaus/Skrillex(2X4 mixtape?). More a subtle flavor twist than full makeover.

Blinding Lights & Streets are both about 5 BPM faster than previous tours. I only noticed on the 3rd day I heard it.

The Sunday Bloody Sunday remake has now been heard at least once in 3 different weeks, which is a musically a strong commitment than the 2009 acoustic version.

Another transition that I heard tonight as well as last week was the acoustic Every Breaking Wave ending in a long note held by Bono going directly into Bullet. A very jarring transition that was similarly used early on ZooTv with Bad/AIWIY/Bullet.

There seems to be a 5 minute ZOOTV-esque intermission video(like flicking through the tv channels every few seconds). Could only heard political stuff(Obama/Condi Rice name checking) mixed in with some tiny Sex Pistols Anarchy in the UK sound bites. I still don't know if the "intermission" is like the 5 minute Popmart Lemon video or they throw up the houselights for 20 minutes.

One/WOWY/Ordinary grouping seems to be a strong candidate to close out the evening.

Originally posted by DutchU2Fan:Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World