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Listen to Opening Night of U2’s 360 Tour from Camp Nou
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(This is an uncut/unedited clip)
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.
Audio courtesy of MacPhisto
U2 open world tour with a bang
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 »
Opening Night U2 360 tour, images, and videos
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! 
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19. One – MESSED UP>> restart *
(Short break)
20. Ultraviolet
21. With or Without You
22. Moment of Surrender
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Sneak Peek Video of the 360 World Tour
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!
Beautiful day in Barcelona as U2’s magnificent stage gets final touches
THE sun is shining at Barcelona’s Nou Camp stadium — and U2’s futuristic new stage, above and right, is taking shape.
The band kick off their ‘360′ tour in the Spanish city on Tuesday and will take in 14 European cities over the summer.
The spectacular stage will allow Bono and the boys to perform in the middle of the stadium, so that fans will surround the band on all sides.
Four days before U2 play their first date, technicians were still putting the final touches to the canopied structure that hovers over the stage.
Lights and lasers are expected to play an important role in the show, and rumours abound that the circular stage may revolve, giving every fan a bird’s eye view of the proceedings.
Costing more than €100m to stage and running for the next 18 months, the band has already sold some 2.5 million tickets for its dates throughout Europe and North America as they showcase their latest album, ‘No Line on the Horizon’.
Meanwhile, glimpses of the plans for the Croke Park concert dates show that the stage will be set up near the Canal End with no backstage area.
U2 will play in Croke Park, Dublin, on July 24, 25 and 27, with around 80,000 fans expected to attend each night.
