Anyway, this is Ax, signing off for now. Can’t believe we’ve just one European gig to go. See you on Friday for the Rome show!
Unfortunately we have no video from Coimbra 2 since Matt couldn’t attend. He’ll be in Rome; let’s hope U2 do Boy Falls From The Sky again!
Full setlist and info for Coimbra 2 here: http://u2.gs/gt
Wow, so Bono does all three of his usual rain snippets without repeating ANY of them!
Baaahahaha, there’s the Singing In The Rain snippet after MOS! Just snippeting, snippeting in the rain…
And here’s Moment Of Surrender, 24th and presumably last song of the night.
Bono’s now speechifying, thanking the crowd for an “unforgettable night”.
@SeattleB Was hoping Bad would appear, especially given that they want to do something special for Coimbra, but lost hope now.
23rd is With Or Without You.
Yep, 22nd is indeed Ultra Violet.
2nd encore break. Now the guessing game, HMTM or UV? Presumably UV, since HMTM was done last night.
Amazing Grace snip leads into 21st song, Streets.
One doesn’t have Hear Us Coming tonight.
@alljokesmustgo Haha, so they did! That hadn’t occurred to me.
Of course, I’d have no problem if Bono followed Aussie Rules and snippeted See The Bombers Fly Up. We can pretend Essendon won the flag?
20th song, first of encore, is One.
Over to Bishop Tutu now.
Snip of You’ll Never Walk Alone. Thank god Bono doesn’t follow Aussie Rules and we haven’t copped Good Old Collingwood Forever!
19th is Walk On.
Vain hope indeed. 18th is MLK as usual.
It’s a vain hope, but I’m hoping all the same that MOTD will return to the 18th slot in the setlist…
17th is Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Relax snippet again at the end of Crazy. No Two Tribes tonight.
Good, I wasn’t hearing things. Relax snip at the start of Crazy. Thanks @U2log!
@Galeongirl Damn, those supposed cheap airfares aren’t cheap enough!
Did he sneak a line of Relax into Crazy’s intro or was I hearing things?
16th is Crazy Tonight.
She Loves You snippet at the end of Vertigo.
@Galeongirl *checks wallet* … reckon $25.20 is enough?
15th is Vertigo.
@ZooPony Here’s hoping! This is, I think, only the 3rd song on tour he hasn’t heard, after YBR and She’s The One.
@atu2comSherry Camera tech improvements mean next year you may be able to set a new higher standard! Next tour could be amazing…
14th is City Of Blinding Lights.
@U2log Blasted tall people, eh? Maybe I should coax one of my tall friends into doing some recording in Melbourne…
13th is Miss Sarajevo.
@atu2comSherry I just hope they have Matt’s good camera and stable hands! ;) (I know I don’t!)
Back down to earth now, folks. 12th is just In A Little While.
Well, I reckon this sounds pretty sweet. Wish Matt was in Coimbra to record this. :(
@alljokesmustgo I can’t believe you’re right and that they’re actually doing something TOTALLY new! Wow, nice.
This is that Spiderman musical song.
So eleventh is LIVE DEBUT of BOY FALLS FROM THE SKY.
Woah, in honour of the welcome Coimbra has given U2, they’re playing a song they’ve never done before!
Now crowd’s chanting Pride’s “oh oh oh oh” bit.
Pride has only been done in this setlist spot before in Moscow, Athens, & Istanbul. Guess they aren’t doing the SBS/Pride swap for night 2.
Oh hello, tenth is Pride!
@U2log I Still Haven’t Found The Best Night I’m Looking For.
@Galeongirl Don’t really think it was a snip, wasn’t the melody of Singing In The Rain, nor is “won’t you come back again?” a lyric in it.
Shorter speech than last night. Ninth is I Still Haven’t Found.
It’s Bono speech time now…
@SeattleB It’s been far too long since he’s snippeted that!
Woah, Bono doesn’t bring UTEOTW to a halt before the “drowning my sorrows” verse. Thank god.
@SeattleB Bad, AOH or Desire, UV, Pride in SBS’s spot. And Cartoon World instead of Walk On. ;)
Eighth is Until The End Of The World.
Goddamnit, I was briefly not paying attention - was that another rain-themed snip in Elevation, or just improv lyrics?
Seventh is Elevation.
Can’t Stand The Rain snippet in MW.
Sixth is Mysterious Ways.
Fifth song is Magnificent. No “where are we going?” tonight.
@U2log Haha, if it were, I can’t wait for the next song, Magnifitastic.
Bono’s changing up the lyrics to Boots’ verses tonight…
Live feed drops out, returns, just in time for fourth, Get On Your Boots.
@SeattleB Hehe, or how about NYD / October (snippet)? At this stage, it’d be better than nothing…
@wxander Even spottier than yesterday! Sounds like the communication network is really overloaded…
Third is New Year’s Day, back after a night off yesterday.
Snippet of The Beatles’ Rain at the end of BDay. There we go, the Snippeting In The Rain begins!
@SeattleB “NYD into October”, you say? Now that’d be funny. ;)
Here is our mainpage article where I will be posting the full set live: http://u2.gs/gt
Second song is Beautiful Day. Crowd is again in very good voice.
Live stream today courtesy of @U2tour is here: http://u2.gs/f9
Opener is, naturally, Stingray Guitar.
Space Oddity now playing in Coimbra… almost showtime!
@xalira Hah, awesome! I’ve been to all 6 of their Australian shows; best gig I’ve ever seen was their Melbourne gig earlier this year.
@SeattleB You may want to reconsider that opinion; have you heard October into Tomorrow from the War Tour, 1st leg?
@SeattleB I’m sure there’s some truth if there’s money behind it. ;) God I’d love a song from October, even just the title track before NYD.
It was raining in Coimbra earlier… wonder if we’ll get some Snippeting In The Rain and other torrential classics tonight!
U2 should begin in about 35-40 minutes. Soundcheck was Pride, Desire, Bad, but may have been just by the crew, not U2.
Hi folks, Ax here for Coimbra 2. Like yesterday, neither of us are there, but let’s not let that stop us from doing gig coverage!
@xalira Top 5 bands? Hmm… Porcupine Tree, Crowded House, Agalloch, Pure Reason Revolution, The Chills.
@u2wanderer Bono’s afraid I’d make him snippet 50 obscure Kiwi bands in Bad.
Looking forward to seeing what the band do for Coimbra 2. For now, this is Ax, signing off. See you folks tomorrow!
@ZooPony Hahah, good call!
Sorry, we won’t have videos today (or tomorrow), since Matt isn’t in Coimbra. But don’t despair: he will be in Rome! :)
Full live set and info for Coimbra 1 here: http://u2.gs/gs
Thanks very much to @U2tour for the live feed today!
That’s the end of the gig today, folks.
@ZooPony I wish Bono would at least try to sing it properly rather than speaking the verses.
@Drea104 I have to get in at least one per show. ;)
A time traveller from 1983 would be so confused by how little this sounds like a moment of Surrender.
24th and presumably last is Moment Of Surrender.
@ZooPony No kidding. Remember how great it sounded in 1987-89? I miss that.
@ClaytonsKitten Here’s hoping the surprise of HMTM two nights in a row happens in Melbourne. ;)
23rd is With Or Without You.
@ClaytonsKitten I’d say UV is pretty much guaranteed tomorrow now!
22nd is… Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me!
2nd encore break… HMTM or UV? My bet’s on HMTM, since UV was done at the last gig.
@AnaVitti I think you’ve found a solution! And bribe Edge with a brand new beanie…
Amazing Grace snip leads into 21st song, Streets.
@AnaVitti I hate to think how huge that bribe would have to be…!
20th song, first of encore, is One.
Here’s Desmond Tutu’s speech…
There’s the You’ll Never Walk Alone snip, right on cue.
@AnaVitti If they ever play Wild Irish Rose or bring back Zooropa or Dirty Day… that’d be perfect. Perfect.
@U2log @U2wanderer How about a filter so that only OUR tweets and other approved accounts get through!
@AnaVitti Yes! But only fans who own October, to get rid of the people who own just a Best Of and request hits we’ve heard heaps before. ;)
18th is MLK; 19th is Walk On.
@AnaVitti As for early songs, like all your suggestions, would add Electric Co, The Fool, Brick, and Another Time Another Place.
@AnaVitti How about a 2nd gig, of 1984-89 songs? I want to hear One Tree Hill/Exit/Mothers close a set. It’d rule.
When I turned on my radio the other night, I heard Gloria on a hyper-commercial station. As if it was an obscurity in the ’05 sets.
17th is Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Here I was, thinking all our tweets appeared on Bono’s teleprompter…!
Two Tribes snippet. What, Bono didn’t read my last tweet? Shocked, I tell you, shocked! ;)
Hey Bono, Discotheque > Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Just so you know, for your snippetry reference.
@ClaytonsKitten I can’t believe how quickly that disappeared. Given up on it returning… :(
@AnaVitti Me too! 1978-1984 U2 is my favourite (along with Lovetown U2). Would love to hear 11OTT, Rejoice, Twilight, songs like that.
Relax snip before 1st verse of Crazy.
16th is Crazy Tonight. Still waiting for Bono to snippet the Chicken Tonight ad jingle in this.
Vertigo has a snippet of Teenage Kicks.
@AnaVitti Yes! To make up for neglecting them in recent setlists, U2 can’t play anything recorded after 1982.
15th is Vertigoo. That was a typo, but I like it so it’s staying.
Can we move U2’s Melbourne gigs to a tiny club? Nothing scheduled at the East Brunsy yet…
14th is City Of Blinding Lights.
@ClaytonsKitten I can get behind that. Anything to get rid of IALW.
Just struck me how weird it is that I saw a tiny club gig in Melbourne last night, now setlisting a huge stadium gig on other side of world.
13th is Miss Sarajevo.
Glasto last done 21/08, EBW last done 11/09. NS/Mercy combo done at 5 out of 7 gigs since 12/09.
Interesting how North Star/Mercy has settled as the unreleased song duo. I, for one, miss Glasto.
12th is In A Little While.
Well, if I don’t spot a snip, you people are good at picking it. ISHFWILF’s snip was One Love by Bob Marley. Thanks, all!
@AnaVitti Oh woops! My excuse is that I’ve had four hours of sleep, heh.
11th is Mercy. Wonder which unreleased song will be first to have a snippet, heh.
Oh yeah, I was way too distracted by the Aussie Rules grand final yesterday and forgot to check the snip in Vertigo in Seville.
There was a snippet at the end of ISHFWILF but I have no idea what it was. Didn’t sound like a usual ISHFWILF snip.
@ZooPony Haha!
Tenth is North Star.
@AnaVitti Hehe, it was meant to be “aw yeah bro, now Bono’s giving a speech”.
@U2log Soooo spuchufying. Very nearly announced this song as “I Stull Huvint Fund”.
As usual, the speech leads into I Still Haven’t Found.
@U2log Aw yih bru! Now Buno’s spuchufying, eh!
Bono, as usual, is speechifying at this point.
I keep accidentally typing “snuppet”… guess I’m just typing with my Kiwi accent?
UTEOTW has a snippet of Anthem.
Eighth is Until The End Of The World.
Seventh is Elevation.
Let It Be snippet at the end of MW.
Sixth is Mysterious Ways.
Fifth is Magnificent.
Fourth is Get On Your Boots.
Third is I Will Follow, back in the set after missing the Seville gig.
I’ll be posting the full set live in this article: http://u2.gs/gs
Crowd’s in good voice. Second is Beautiful Day.
U2 are go with Return Of The Stingray Guitar.
The good people at @U2tour have a live stream from Coimbra: http://u2.gs/f9
Space Oddity now playing in Coimbra.
Hi all, Ax here. Again, neither of us can be in Coimbra, but I’ll bring you coverage of the gig as usual. U2 should begin in about 30 mins.
@CoachRocks If they expected it to sell on the same level as HTDAAB, they’re out of touch with album sales levels nowadays.
@U2log Seconded! Lillywhite has no bloody idea. Never mind that NLOTH’s sales were damn good when you consider overall global album sales.
@_seanmcgee Just compare any 1989 WOWY to any 360 Tour WOWY and get back to me on that.
Also, way to go U2.com: accidentally announce Baltimore, and Mexico City 2 presale is TOMORROW! Still springing presales on us, I see.
U2 to play Glasto and Baltimore in 2011? http://u2.gs/gr
Second show in Mexico added for May 15th http://u2.gs/gq
@alexbluses No one of us was there.
Anyway, this is Ax, signing off. It’s been fun. PS I may be an Essendon man, but I can’t resist a “CARN THE SAINTS!” for tomorrow.
Honestly, a little disappointed Spanish Eyes wasn’t done again today. Seems that like ZooTV and Elevation, it came back for just one gig.
@Peaches66 Know what you mean. They honestly haven’t been my favourite band for a good few years now. Still top 10, but not top 5.
@zoostationsf I love, love the performances with both Shine Like Stars and LWTUA. Those are truly epic.
Sorry, won’t be any videos today, since Matt wasn’t there. Next week, look out for some from the final show of the leg in Rome. :)
Full Seville setlist and info: http://u2.gs/gp
That’s the end of MOS, and the end of the show for another night. Big thanks to @U2tour for their live stream!
@zoostationsf You are so on! I’ve been through SF airport, and wish I’d had a chance to actually see the city. Big regret that I couldn’t.
24th and presumably last is Moment Of Surrender.
@U2log Haha, good call!
Man, if crowds keep chanting WOWY like this, they’re never going to drop/improve it, no matter how weak it sounds nowadays.
No, we won’t shine like stars in the Seville night tonight. Ah well…
23rd is With Or Without You. Fingers crossed for Shine Like Stars.
@fuzzyness Can’t wait for hundreds of people in 2020 to believe it actually happened. ;)
@srj68 Hehe. He totally should one day when they play HMTMKMKM.
@ClaytonsKitten Haha I’m sure! The responses I’ve got have cracked me up.
@mduchek I’m constantly amused by Aussie Rules football team songs. Most are horrendous!
@Almond87 I just love the last name of the bloke you’ve got in place of Leon! Goldsack, haha.
22nd is Ultra Violet, back after missing the last 2 shows.
@U2log I’d make up something for you, but someone’ll believe it and in ten years, there’ll be stories of “ZOMG Edge wore Batman suit!”
Brief snip of All You Need Is Love in Streets.
@JoeFahey93 Carn the mighty Bombers- oh wait. :(
@Almond87 How’s the nerves? Getting pumped for tomorrow? I can’t wait.
Amazing Grace snip leads into 21st song, Streets.
Hey, One has the Hear Us Coming verse today. Cool.
@mduchek Agreed! So glad that at least Stuck In A Moment hasn’t been done this year.
At the 1st Coimbra gig, Bono better replace You’ll Never Walk Alone with When The Saints Go Marching In. Australians know what I mean.
20th song, first of encore, is One.
@mduchek In A Little While, One, and… only three? Guess WOWY sounds worse than ISHFWILF nowadays, so it can go.
@llootsteen39 Probably in U2’s minds, NYD rather than IWF and NS rather than SE is a drastic change… :|
@Almond87 “I want to run, I want to hide from good old Collingwood forever”? ;)
Walk On ends with a snippet of Oops I Did It Agai- uh, actually, You’ll Never Walk Alone.
@alljokesmustgo Not sure, don’t think so. Possibly early on the UF Tour? Been ages since I listened to 1984 bootlegs.
Yep, there’s Walk On. And here’s my usual joke of “can’t believe it’s not One Minute Warning!”
18th is MLK. Might as well call Walk On at 19th now too.
@u2tourZargor That looks pretty plausible, thanks!
17th is Sunday Bloody Sunday.
The Life During Wartime snip the other day during Crazy’s outro was cool… would love that to be done again.