Sunday, 26 November 2006

U2 - Vertigo 2006

What can I say? After all the waiting and anticipation - it's over. I've seen U2! The show was quite simply magical and emotional and amazing... Surprisingly, we got to the front of the second GA area and had a great view. At many points during the show, The Edge and Bono were only 15 metres away. The only thing I regret about the concert is not having Eric there to enjoy it too. Please, please U2, come back again!


The set was slightly rearranged from the previous night's concert, here's what they played...

City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation
Until The End of the World
Still Haven’t Found What I'm Looking For
Beautiful Day
Angel of Harlem
Walk On
Sometimes
Bad
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride (in the Name of Love)
Where the Streets have no Name
One
The Fly
Mysterious Ways
With or Without You
The Saints are Coming
Desire
One Tree Hill

Bono also knows how to make the Milky Way out of a stadium of cellphone owners. I even got a txt back from him... as part of the Make Poverty History campaign. The man truly is a legend.


Bono came out dressed in an All Black Rugby shirt with the NZ captain's number 7 (yay for Richie) on it in Auckland tonight. At the end of The Saints Are Coming he pointed at his All Black shirt and asked the crowd "Do you know who this is?". The crowd roared as Bono proceeded to change his All Black jersey, revealing a green Irish rugby jersey sporting the number 13.

"Do you know who this is?". A show of Irish solidarity with Brian O'Driscoll, the Irish number 13 who had his collar bone broken against New Zealand in 2005, in a tackle with then captain Tana Umaga.

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