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From U2Tours.com:

Main Set: Breathe, No Line On The Horizon, Get On Your Boots, Magnificent, Beautiful Day, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, Angel of Harlem, In A Little While, Unknown Caller, The Unforgettable Fire, City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Pride, MLK, Walk On

Encore(s): Where the Streets Have No Name, One, Ultraviolet, With Or Without You, Moment of Surrender

Comments: U2 opens the U2360 Tour. Bono calls Barcelona ‘the capital of surrealism.’ He dedicates ‘Angel’ to Michael Jackson, and sings bits of ‘Man In The Mirror’ and ‘Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough.’ After ‘Little While,’ U2 does a lengthy linkup with the Intl. Space Station. People walked around the catwalk with Aung San Suu Kyi masks during ‘Walk On.’ A Desmond Tutu video about the ONE Campaign plays before the encore. ‘One’ is a mess, and the band has to restart the song.

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U2 kicked off their first tour in three years, rocking a raucous Barcelona crowd of around 90,000 and reaching for the stars with a live link-up to the International Space Station.

Featuring one of the biggest concert stages ever built, the U2 360 Tour will visit 31 cities across Europe and North America and entertain an estimated three million people. More dates are expected to be announced in 2010.

Fans surrounded the circular platform inside Barcelona’s Nou Camp stadium, allowing for a bigger audience and lower average ticket prices during the global recession.

“All around Spain, all around the world, things are difficult. Thank you for coming back to us again and again,” Bono said during the high octane show.

The quartet, one of the world’s most successful acts, opened with Breathe from their acclaimed new album No Line on the Horizon, and the crowd came to life with the anthem-style Magnificent on a hot summer’s night. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are some sights and sounds from opening night of the 360 Tour in Barcelona, Spain.

Setlist:

1. Breathe
2. No Line On The Horizon
3. Get On Your Boots
4. Magnificent
5. Beautiful Day
6. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
7. Angel Of Harlem / Man In The Mirror (snippet) / Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough (snippet)
8. In A Little While
9. Unknown Caller
10. The Unforgettable Fire
11. City Of Blinding Lights
12. Vertigo
13. Crazy Tonight
14. Sunday Bloody Sunday
15. Pride
16. MLK
17. Walk On
(Encore – Desmund Tutu speech plays leading into Streets)
18. Where The Streets Have No Name (With the red lights again! )
19. One – MESSED UP>> restart *
(Short break)
20. Ultraviolet
21. With or Without You
22. Moment of Surrender

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Take a sneak peak at U2’s upcoming 360 World Tour! Featuring stage construction, soundbites from band manager Paul McGuinness and tour producer Arthur Fogel. Stay tuned for the opening night piece which MHP will be posting tomorrow night!

As a practice, I don’t usually quote rock drummers on the subject of wealth and economic fairness.

But U2’s Larry Mullen had some choice words recently about the rich and the recent surge in populist resentment.

“Love them or loathe them,” the spiky-headed drummer said, “all those rich wives, all those rich guys with all those balls, all those women that you see organizing this and organizing that, without them we’d be in a very, very different state than we are now. A lot of people who are well off in this country make huge contributions with their time and with their money.”

Mr. Mullen was speaking specifically of Ireland, which has given some of its rich–including billionaire financier Dermot Desmond–a hard time. His thoughts were echoed by bandmates Adam Clayton and Bono, who cautioned against Irish people becoming “sour.”

“Melancholy and bile are not our greatest traits,” said the singer, who clearly knows a thing or two about bile and melancholy.

The U.S. isn’t Ireland, of course. But populism is clearly rising on both sides of the Atlantic. And when left-leaning super-groups start defending billionaires, you know maybe things have gone too far.

Perhaps U2 will even write a song about the disenfranchised rich. “Angel of the Upper East Side”? Or “Even Better Than A Millionaire”?

- Wall Street Journal