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Experience and Innocence tour
 Legs (3): Promo tour, Leg 1: North America, Leg 2: Europe
Shows: 75
  1. With the songs so far rehearsed, they could really make an amazing setlist if they want to.
  2. bomb could use some more representation. tired of COBL and vertigo always being it. (still wish for pop)
  3. Nice!!
  4. ABOY to replace Elevation!
  5. Not a fan of ABOY but I’ll take absolutely anything fresh at this point. And Gloria is always welcome
  6. all because of you in place of sunday bloody sunday or pride, sounds good to me
  7. love and peace should come back
  8. Wow, I'm really excited by All Because of You. It was a strong live number, and I've always been bothered by how little of Atomic Bomb made it into subsequent shows - those were some pretty great songs in live settings. Seems weird that it hasn't been heard at all in twelve years. Atomic Bomb should not be as long ago as that!!

    Now... use it in place of Elevation, pretty pretty please?
  10. Ok, i forgive them. Gloria and ABOY are 2 songs I want to hear.
  11. Acrobat and Wild Horses will be awesome! Next stop Tulsa
  12. Just made a little writeup with some stats for something else; thought I'd share here too:

    Notable (re)appearances:

    - The Ocean: 9 December 2005 (12 years, 4 months ago), with one-off performance at Roxy show 28 May 2015 (2 years, 11 months ago)

    - Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses: 9 December 2006 (11 years, 4 months ago)

    - The Fly: 30 July 2011 (6 years, 9 months ago)

    - Acrobat: famously, never performed

    - Hold Me, Thrill Me: 30 July 2011 (6 years, 9 months ago)

    - Staring At the Sun: 24 October 2001 (16 years, 6 months ago), with one-off Bono-and-Edge-only performance at Clinton show 15 October 2011 (6 years, 6 months ago)

    - All Because of You: 20 February 2006 (12 years, 2 months ago)

    Notable absences:

    - Nothing from The Joshua Tree is known to have been rehearsed, including Where the Streets Have No Name. In an interview around the release of Songs of Experience, Edge mentioned the possibility of dropping most or all The Joshua Tree songs following the 2017 anniversary tour. If this happens at even one show, it will be the first time The Joshua Tree has gone unrepresented at a tour show since its release, and the first time Where the Streets Have No Name has missed a tour show since 18 November 1989 (28 years, 5 months ago).

    - Nothing from Zooropa is known to have been rehearsed; the last time something from Zooropa was performed was the title track, a regular on the European leg of the i+e Tour, 7 December 2015 (2 years, 4 months ago).

    - Perhaps unsurprisingly, nothing from No Line On the Horizon is known to have been rehearsed. The last performances from that album were Get On Your Boots, I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight, and Moment of Surrender on 30 July 2011 (6 years, 9 months ago), with a one-off performance of Magnificent on 13 September 2015 (2 years, 7 months ago).

    - From Songs of Experience, Summer of Love, Red Flag Day, The Little Things That Give You Away, and Landlady are not known to have been rehearsed. Of these, only The Little Things has been performed before, on the earlier parts of The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, last on 25 July 2017 (9 months ago).

    Other notes:

    - If Staring At the Sun appears, this will make the e+i Tour the first U2 tour since the Vertigo Tour on which a Pop song was played; the last time was Discothèque on 20 September 2005 (12 years, 7 months ago), and even then, Discothèque was performed only twice on the Vertigo Tour.

    - Acrobat and The Showman are the only songs known to have been rehearsed so far which have not yet been performed live. If Acrobat is played on opening night, it will have been 26 years, 5 months between its release (18 November 1991) and its debut. This would make it the second-longest gap between release and debut of any U2 song, following Red Hill Mining Town which debuted 12 May 2017 (30 years, 2 months since release).
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