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U2 will take the stage in a few hours at the Brandenburg Gate to perform a short setlist. In readiness, they have soundchecked a number of songs today. The songs soundchecked were Stay, Desire, One, Magnificent, Sunday Bloody Sunday, and Moment Of Surrender. Jay-Z joined the band during Sun...

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Vertigo / Rock 'n' Roll High School (snippet)MagnificentBecause The Night (with Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith)Because The Night (repeated in full due to missed cues)I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (with Bruce Springsteen)Mysterious WaysWhere Is The Love? / One (snip...

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Today, U2 are performing in Vancouver. This show wraps up the second leg of the 360° Tour, and it is U2's last full tour concert for 2009. However, the band aren't totally done for the year, as their appearances at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame's 25th anniversary gig and at the Brandenburg Gate...

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The shows in Oakland, Edmonton, and Toronto will go on sale on Monday 2 November and Denver will go on sale on Friday 6 November. The other shows will follow later in November. There will be presales for U2.com members; those for Oakland, Edmonton, and Toronto begin on Tuesday 27 October.

5. Beautiful Day / In God's Country (snippet) / God Only Knows (snippet) / The Maker (snippet) 7. Stuck In A Moment 8. No Line On The Horizon 9. Elevation 10. In A Little While 11. Unknown Caller 13. The Unforgettable Fire 15. Vertigo / It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) (snippet)

Today, U2 performed in Las Vegas, returning to Sam Boyd Stadium for the first time since they infamously began Popmart there on 25 April 1997. This time around, not a single Pop song showed up in the setlist. The setlist was identical to that played in Norman and Phoenix; consequently, this i...

The public ticket sale time is given as 9 November 2009, starting at 10am. This is to be preceded by two presales, for U2.com and Miami Dolphins members. The same time period is given for both of these presales: 10am Tuesday 3 November to 5pm Thursday 5 November.

5. Beautiful Day / Blackbird (snippet) 7. Stuck In A Moment 8. No Line On The Horizon 9. Elevation 10. In A Little While 11. Unknown Caller 12. Until The End Of The World 13. The Unforgettable Fire 14. City Of Blinding Lights / Mofo (snippet) 15. Vertigo 17. Sunday Bloody Sunday / Rock The Casbah (snippet)

The setlist contained two surprises. Firstly, In A Little While was played, alluding to how the band have not been to Oklahoma for "a little while". It has only been played one other time on the second leg, on 3 October 2009 in Raleigh. Secondly, Unknown Caller returned after a 25 day absence. It...

Today, U2 are performing in the Dallas area, at the New Cowboys Stadium in nearby Arlington. It is the first of their two Texas shows for 2009. A soundcheck earlier included City Of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, Beautiful Day, Until The End Of The World, and Where The Streets Have No Name, though...

Today, U2 are performing in Tampa, their sole Florida concert for 2009. During the show, the Space Chat segment returned after not being done since late July, as the band participated in One Drop's event Moving Stars and Earth for Water. The event is the idea of Guy Laliberté of Cirque du Sole...

Interestingly, the page on Live Nation's site also says the concert will go on sale at 9am on 17 October 2009, just about a week from today. Presumably, a fanclub presale next week will precede this. Yet there is currently no announcement on U2.com, despite Live Nation's confirmation.

The members of U2 then left the stage. After a song was performed, Paul McGuinness, U2's manager, appeared on stage to give a speech about Gavin and when the Virgin Prunes opened for U2. After this speech and an introduction by Courtney Love, the Virgin Prunes played together for the first ti...

Today's setlist was identical to that played two days ago in Charlottesville, except In A Little While took the place of Your Blue Room. This is the first time In A Little While has been played on the second leg; it has had an absence of 68 days since its last performance in Dublin on 25 July 2009....

This is the first time U2 have ever played two stadium gigs in Denmark on a single tour. Denmark normally only gets one concert per tour; the only other time U2 have played there twice was on Elevation, when two arena gigs were held at the Forum in Copenhagen on 6 and 7 July 2001.

3. Mysterious Ways 4. Beautiful Day / The Hands That Built America (snippet) 5. No Line On The Horizon 6. Magnificent 7. Elevation 8. Your Blue Room 9. New Year's Day 10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 11. Stuck In A Moment 12. The Unforgettable Fire 13. City Of Blinding Lights 14. Vertigo

Bad news for Hungarian fans: U2 will not perform in Hungary in 2010. Rumours had been circulating that U2 would play a concert in Budapest on 8 September 2010. However, a couple of days ago, we posted on the U2gigs Twitter account that a new rumour indicated negotiations may have collapsed be...

Today, U2 appeared on Saturday Night Live. This is U2's third appearance on the show; they appeared first on 9 December 2000 to promote All That You Can't Leave Behind, and again on 20 November 2004 in support of How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.

Magnificent's position of sixth is the latest it has been in a setlist, but the rest of the set was pretty standard. After missing yesterday's show, Unknown Caller was restored to its usual place. Until The End Of The World and Stay were rotated into the set before The Unforgettable Fire. Bono...

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U2 today performed their second show in the Boston area, at Gillette Stadium in nearby Foxboro. In the afternoon, they performed a soundcheck. After the intro music was checked, the band played Magnificent, Your Blue Room, and Beautiful Day. Bono was heard to remark that he liked the transi...

Before I begin, I feel it would be quite remiss of me if I did not issue the standard disclaimers. Take this article with a grain of salt. My information is based on a mixture of media reports, band/crew interviews and conversations, and individual sources (some of whom we know personally and...

For years, U2 fans have believed this concert took place on 24 August 1981. Pimm Jal de la Parra's U2 Live: A Concert Documentary gives this date, and it has been replicated by online tour databases - including this one. Only one problem with this: the Greenbelt festival did not even begin unt...

In a considerable surprise, U2 changed the opening quintuplet of songs - the first four were unchanged, but Mysterious Ways was introduced at fifth, bumping the usual fifth song, Beautiful Day, to sixth. This is the first time Mysterious Ways has been played on the second leg (its last per...

Today, U2 played their first of two concerts in Toronto, and first of three Canadian concerts for 2009. Earlier in the day, a soundcheck was conducted. It included Your Blue Room (instrumental), Crazy Tonight, some of Walk On, Moment Of Surrender's intro, more of Your Blue Room, and finall...

Stay (Faraway, So Close!) (Bono and Edge only)Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad (Bono and Costello's rhythm section)Alison (Bono, Edge, and Elvis Costello and his band)Stuck In A Moment (Bono, Edge, and Elvis Costello and his band)Pump It Up / Get On Your Boots (Bono, Edge, and Elvis Cos...

It's day two of leg two and the band are performing in Chicago again. Earlier in the day, they were heard rehearsing Your Blue Room. If it debuts tonight, it will be only the second Passengers song that U2 have ever played live. Snow Patrol have already warmed up the crowd and the band should be on...

And shiznicks74? Thanks for the shout-out as well as for posting footage! Truly wish I could have been there. If I can editorialise for a minute, this song is gorgeous, I'm delighted and surprised the band have dug it out, and it deserves to stay in the set. It will surely only go from stregth to...

After about three weeks of rest, U2 are back on the road today. Their North American leg begins with two concerts at Soldier Field. Over the previous two nights, the band have rehearsed there, and the most notable inclusion in the rehearsals is Your Blue Room. This song from the 1995 Passenger...

After their two concerts and Saturday Night Live appearance in New York in September, the band will be coming back to New York in October. On 4 October 2009, the night after the band's first ever concert in Raleigh, all four members will appear at An Evening With Gavin Friday And Friends. See t...

The dust is now starting to settle on the first leg. It has been a historic leg in many ways. It is the first time U2 have begun a tour outside the USA since Lovetown began in Australia in 1989 - and of tours that actually visited the USA, it is the first not to begin there since the Unforgettable Fir...

After almost two months of touring, U2 today performed their last European concert for 2009. The venue for the occasion was the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. Mysterious Ways returned to an early spot in the setlist, displacing Elevation. Edge, whose family is from Wales, said hell...

Today's performance of Beautiful Day was its 300th; it is the first U2 song from the 2000s to reach this milestone. Elevation was dedicated to Joe O'Herlihy and his family. Happy Birthday was sung for Willie Williams by Bono, Edge, and the crowd after I Still Haven't Found. A very brief snippe...

Today, U2 played their second of two concerts in London. The soundcheck featured two songs that have traditionally been paired together in U2's setlists, Until The End Of The World and New Year's Day. At some point on all four of the last tours, the former has come to immediately precede the l...

Today, U2 are playing their sole concert in Gelsenkirchen - their second of two shows in Germany for 2009. Earlier in the day, the band held an extensive soundcheck. Both their techs and Snow Patrol's did some soundchecking before U2 ran through a good number of songs. They were Magnificent,...

After playing three shows in Dublin, U2 have now moved on to Gothenburg, Sweden for two concerts, the first of which is today. Earlier, the band did a soundcheck. It included Until The End Of The World, No Line On The Horizon twice, and Breathe.

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Today, U2 reverted to the more standard setlist after shaking it up a bit at the last couple of shows. Mysterious Ways, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, and Unknown Caller returned, while Bad and Until The End Of The World were absent. During the middle of the main set, it began raini...

U2 have just played their first of three homecoming concerts in Dublin. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and Unknown Caller are out of the setlist again, but The Unforgettable Fire returned and Bad remained. Pride and MLK were naturally also in the set, and this means that today's s...

On the 11th and 12th of July, I was in attendance at U2's two concerts in Paris; seats the first night and standing the second. Unlike U2gigs webmaster Macphisto, I can't offer any videos or photos, but like during the fifth leg of the Vertigo Tour, I can provide a bit of a review. It can be hard de...

Right after the North American leg of the current tour concludes on 28 October 2009 in Vancouver, U2 will make an appearance at Madison Square Garden, New York on on 30 October 2009 as part of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame's 25th anniversary celebration. Rolling Stone reports that the celeb...

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For the second show in Amsterdam, U2 shook up the setlist. The show featured the tour debuts of Elevation, Until The End Of The World, and Bad. It was the first show of the tour not to feature I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, The Unforgettable Fire, and Unknown Caller. One was played in...

After opening the tour with two concerts in Barcelona, U2 have now moved onto Milan. Earlier today, the band soundchecked, including City Of Blinding Lights. In a bit of a surprise, the band did Party Girl again. It was for Bono's daughter Eve, who came on stage during the song. The full setlist...

5. Beautiful Day / Here Comes The Sun (snippet) 7. Desire / Billie Jean (snippet) / Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (snippet) 8. Party Girl 9. Electrical Storm 10. Unknown Caller 11. The Unforgettable Fire 12. City Of Blinding Lights 13. Vertigo

Yesterday, we had a look at the history of The Unforgettable Fire. Today, let's have a look at the live histories of two other rarities that U2 have been rehearsing. This time, the histories are a bit shorter, as the songs are Drowning Man and If God Will Send His Angels. The two songs at present h...

Tomorrow, U2 are set to play a dress rehearsal concert in Barcelona, and then on Tuesday the 30th, the 360° Tour begins. This evening, the band reportedly are taking a break, at least from rehearsing on the stage at Camp Nou. So, in the run-up to the dress rehearsal, let's summarise what U2 hav...

As we have been reporting over the last week or so, one song U2 have been rehearsing in Barcelona is The Unforgettable Fire. This song has not been played live in over 19 years, missing all four of the last tours. It is, however, an interesting live song, one of a few where Edge performs double du...

· Breathe · No Line On The Horizon · Get On Your Boots · Magnificent · Beautiful Day · I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For · Drowning Man · Angel Of Harlem · Mysterious Ways · In A Little While · Unknown Caller · The Unforgettable Fire · City Of Blinding Lights · Vertigo

· The Unforgettable Fire · Angel Of Harlem · Drowning Man · Drowning Man (second time) · Mysterious Ways · The Unforgettable Fire (second time) · City Of Blinding Lights · Vertigo · Edge plays portions of City Of Blinding Lights and Vertigo in different ways · Vertigo

By now, undoubtedly most of you will have heard that Michael Jackson has passed away after suffering cardiac arrest at the age of 50. As soon as his death was confirmed, online setlist discussion immediately turned to speculation about whether U2 would pay tribute to Jackson at their fort...

It has been reported on the U2Eastlink forums that U2 did do some rehearsals late in the evening of 24/06. At about 11:30pm, they rehearsed an incomplete Drowning Man, plus Stuck In A Moment on piano. This is the first time Stuck In A Moment has been rehearsed at Camp Nou and takes the total of re...

Note the setlist at top left. It is unfortunately cut off and difficult to read, but most of it is visible. It looks like the setlist for the 20/06 rehearsal (even if the timestamp on the monitor shows 2004! Somebody's forgotten to set the time?), beginning with In A Little While. The names of re...

Boy: 0 October: 0 The Unforgettable Fire: 4 (Pride, The Unforgettable Fire, Bad, MLK) Zooropa: 0 Pop: 0 All That You Can't Leave Behind: 4 (Beautiful Day, Elevation, Walk On, In A Little While) How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb: 2 (Vertigo, City Of Blinding Lights)

After Maal had performed his set, he returned to the stage to introduce U2's One, and as he began the song, all four members of U2 joined him on stage to play the song acoustically. After One, they launched into a short version of Bob Marley's One Love - a song Bono has performed before, back in 1...

Early in Boots, Bono called to the crew that there were "too many lights" and asked Willie Williams to turn them down. Before Magnificent, Bono said that Boston "is where it all started for us". Between Breathe and Magnificent, Bono introduced the band and remarked that "only one nation in t...

Today's review is unfortunately the last I will be writing for Vertigo's fifth leg, as the second concert in Auckland was my last Vertigo Tour concert. However, after the conclusion of the tour, I may offer reviews of the three concerts I saw in May 2005 in Boston as reflections upon the tour...

City Of Blinding Lights Vertigo Elevation Until The End Of The World New Year's Day Beautiful Day / Blackbird (snippet) Angel Of Harlem The First Time Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own One Tree Hill Sunday Bloody Sunday / Rock The Casbah (snippet)