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Experience and Innocence tour
 Legs (3): Promo tour, Leg 1: North America, Leg 2: Europe
Shows: 75
  1. Hmmmm....With the order they rehearsed those songs today it seems that they may be moving some sets around.

    “All Because of You”
    “I Will Follow” (Partial)
    “Gloria” (with Bono)
    “Desire”
    “Desire” (Partial, the beginning and other bits)
    “Desire” (Bono is shouting something as he starts these versions of “Desire”)
    Bono then starts a long speech, after the band take a short break.

    “Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way”
    “Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way”
    “13 (There is a Light)” (Partial)

    Maybe this is a "back to innocence" portion of the set?
  2. Originally posted by Coso:Hmmmm....With the order they rehearsed those songs today it seems that they may be moving some sets around.

    “All Because of You”
    “I Will Follow” (Partial)
    “Gloria” (with Bono)
    “Desire”
    “Desire” (Partial, the beginning and other bits)
    “Desire” (Bono is shouting something as he starts these versions of “Desire”)
    Bono then starts a long speech, after the band take a short break.

    “Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way”
    “Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way”
    “13 (There is a Light)” (Partial)

    Maybe this is a "back to innocence" portion of the set?
    good catch, definitely interesting.
  3. Is it possible that Acrobat, Wild Horses, Gloria, ABOY are "ferris wheel" songs?
  4. Originally posted by CMIPalaeo: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).

    Thanks, good stuff! I'll copy to the opening post if you're OK

  5. This ABOY is one of my least favourite U2 songs but it's good to see something new.
  6. Pretty underwhelming looking setlist, in particular the end of the main set and the encore.

    Love is Bigger and 13 are both pretty empty attempts at 'anthems' in my eyes. No Streets is criminal and One to end the main set is standard U2-by-numbers.
  7. I think I’m probably one of the only people that thinks this Wheel of Fortune thing has no relevance to the concert. They’d have wasted so much time already rehearsing the possibilities and spent little or no time on the other songs had it meant anything.
  8. Originally posted by DMMacdonald:[..]
    I think I’m probably one of the only people that thinks this Wheel of Fortune thing has no relevance to the concert. They’d have wasted so much time already rehearsing the possibilities and spent little or no time on the other songs had it meant anything.
    I recks most people think it’s got nothing to do with the concert, are we basing this on that picture when it was in the background? Surely if they were going to go down that route (which they won’t) it would be some massive spectacle on the big screen not some small little thing that looked like it was made by a child.
  9. I have a soft spot for ABOY, it would definitely be a highlight if they play it Good to see Acrobat was rehearsed again and they haven't forgotten about it.

    I wonder if the rehearsals in Tulsa will be documented as thoroughly as the Quebec ones!
  10. Gloria and ABOY

    I still find it baffling they played Little Things on the TJT tour, but it hasn't been rehearsed on the actual album tour.
  11. Gloria fantastic 2015 in Amsterdam. Would be great again. It will rotate maybe with Desire or ABOY. And also Acrobat on one of the Ams shows. It suits fine with me. No JT songs that's for sure. I'll accept it. But no Streets is painful.
  12. ABOY is probably my least favourite track on HTDAAB but I would probably still go along with some previous comments that it’s just good to see something different, I guess it depends on whether it’s an additional song or if it’s a rotational and what it rotates with. I’d be very happy to see Gloria back, that’s a cracking tune and does a great job live.
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