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  2. http://www.u2gigs.com/show1389.html

    New Gold Dream / Light My Fire (snippet) / Take Me To The River (snippet)
    Comments: Bono joins Simple Minds onstage for one song.

    Great, thanks Pablo for the addition, appreciated


    PS. I edited the title, and added the show to our database. Thanks!!
  3. 1985!!!!?!!
    How time flies! We just bought a
    1985 Volvo and it runs like an ABBA
    Dancing Queen    !

    THANX for posting this.
  4. I remember that, legendary Big Country was also on the program that day.... historical line up
  5. I remember my sister being at that gig! She left just before the encore as her frind was ill and had to leave!!!
  6. Bono duetted twice at those Simple Minds gigs in January 1985.

    Once on the 4th January 1985, and then again the night after, pretty much same thing. The recording from the 4th January was heavily bootlegged and eventually ended up even getting an official release in a Simple Minds box set 'Silver Box' a few years ago.

    The second duet on the 5th January, Simple Minds final run of three shows there, was also recorded. There is an audience recording and a nice Mixing Desk version out there (full show of second night below, New Gold Dream starts at 1:24:50 ish)...



    Bono also duetted with Simple Minds when they played Croke Park, Dublin on the 28th June 1986, audio recording...

  7. I was there on the 5th January 1985

    It was phenomenal... Bono blew the roof off what was already an incredible gig. Unbeatable atmosphere.
  8. Thanks for the upload!
  9. Isn't this released officially on Simple Minds' Silver Box Collection? There's a version on that, but they did 4 or 5 nights I'm sure with Bono so this might be different to the version on Silver Box?
  10. Originally posted by CraigFairlie:Isn't this released officially on Simple Minds' Silver Box Collection? There's a version on that, but they did 4 or 5 nights I'm sure with Bono so this might be different to the version on Silver Box?
    SM did 3 nights there in that run (3rd, 4th and 5th January), Bono joined them for the last 2 nights only on the New Gold Dream medley, and yes you are correct, the performance from 4th January is the one that features on the bands officially released 'Silver Box'.

    The second of the three nights (4th January) was very heavily bootlegged down the years on numerous vinyl / silver releases prior to the release of Silver Box in 2004, where eventually the bands own mixing desk version from that night got an official release. Other songs from the whole three nights there got polished up, mixed and fixed and have found their way onto b-sides (the superb version of Glittering Prize they played, as well as Up On The Catwalk and Celebrate).

    The band had all three nights professionally recorded with a mobile recording studio setup with the intent of releasing their first live album in the months that followed, but ultimately it wasn't to be, with the band instead electing to release their first live album a couple of years later in May 1987 primarily featuring material from their two shows at Le Zenith, Paris on the 12th & 13th August 1986 on the Once Upon A Time tour on the multi record breaking 'Live.In The City Of Light' album.

    So yeah, the version released on Silver Box a few years ago is from the 4th January 1985, and is the bands own mixing desk version.

    The heavily bootlegged audience recording from the 4th January featured on pressings such as the various releases of 'Summertime In Glasgow' and 'Scotland 1985'. If I recall correctly I met the taper of this show whose recording was used for all these bootleg pressings after a SM show in Glasgow about 15 years ago. He recorded many SM shows in their first 5 or 10 years, in Scotland at least, and I seem to recall him saying his batteries were running low during the recording so the bootleg versions are noticeably just a tad slower than they should be, but still sound pretty good.

    There is also a Mixing Desk version of the performance from the final night (5th January 1985), which found its way 'out there'. I've embedded a Youtube video of the audio of this recording in my previous post.
  11. That 5th January 1985 (3rd night) was epic when Bono came on... he took the roof off !
  12. ... repeating myself but I do need to find the ticket stub !
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