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City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo / We Will Rock You (snippet)
Can’t Stand The Rain (snippet) / Elevation
I Will Follow
New Year’s Day
Beautiful Day / Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (snippet) / Here Comes The Sun (snippet)
One Tree Hill
Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own / One Tree Hill (snippet)
Love And Peace Or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday / Rock The Casbah (snippet)
Bullet The Blue Sky / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet) / The Hands That Built America (snippet)
Miss Sarajevo
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Where The Streets Have No Name
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
One

Encore(s):
The Fly
Mysterious Ways
With Or Without You
The Saints Are Coming
Angel Of Harlem
Kite

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First time since January 9, 1990 that One Tree Hill has been played live in it entirety

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Today saw the launch of a new product from the U2 stable.

Riding on the success of their special edition i-pod, they have branched out again in to the world of high tech gadgets by releasing their very own Sat-Nav system.

Detailed spec’s and prices of these units are still to be confirmed but we did manage to get this picture of the device.

Bono impersonator keeps the fans happy in central Auckland

Bono - or someone very like him - has been drawing crowds in central Auckland.

TV news cameras, a reporter and piles of fans have been following a Bono impersonator around Queen Street.

He looks just like the rock star, is wearing a cowboy hat and sunnies and has the trademark Bono swagger.

The impersonator is posing for photos, but when one fan asked for an autograph a security guard stepped in and made it clear he was not the real thing.

He travels with the band and is the "official Bono impersonator".

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The stage is set at Mount Smart Stadium for Irish rockers U2, who play two concerts in Auckland on Friday and Saturday night.

700 tonnes of equipment and the band themselves are in the country ready to rock the socks off 40,000 U2 fans this weekend after two weeks in Australia, 400,000 tickets and an extra $50M in the bank.

U2 tours are money making hits, and while their two Auckland concerts will not take anywhere near that much, there is plenty of excitement in the air.

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1. Play a secret gig

There are strong rumours that U2 are planning a secret gig at a pub in the city because they’re sick and tired of playing impersonal stadiums. The only clue we’ve been given as to the location is simply: Where the streets have no name.

2. Political talks

Forget Al Gore, when it comes to political pull Bono is the "celeb with the cred". Well, he likes to think so anyway. We’d like to see Bono sit down with Helen Clark and discuss things like War, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb and why the world moves in such Mysterious Ways. And besides, it would be a great photo for your wall, Helen.

3. Stadium talks

U2 are the current kings of stadium rock so they know a thing or two about what makes a state of the art venue. So, since tomorrow is the deadline for Auckland councillors to get back to the Government about the waterfront stadium proposal, let’s get the U2 lads in as guest consultants for one last brainstorming session.

4. Plant a tree on One Tree Hill

It’s the name of the U2 song on 1987’s Joshua Tree album about New Zealander Greg Carroll, a U2 roadie who died in a car crash in 1986. Not only will a tree help restore the hill back to its former glory (and the song for that matter), but it’s a memorial for U2’s mate.

5. Launch iTunes

The rumoured date for the launch of iTunes is November 28. But with U2 - the biggest band in the world, don’t you know - in town, then what better weekend to go live in New Zealand with the world’s largest online music store?