1997-07-19 - Rotterdam, Netherlands

Mofo
I Will Follow
Gone
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Last Night On Earth
Until The End Of The World
New Year's Day
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Neon Lights (snippet) / I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Stand By Me (snippet)
Staring At The Sun
Radar Love (Edge Karaoke)
Miami / My Mammy (snippet) / Happiness Is A Warm Gun (snippet)
Bullet The Blue Sky / The Sash (snippet)
Please
Where The Streets Have No Name / Playboy Mansion (snippet)

encore(s):
Discothèque / Love To Love You Baby (snippet) / Barbara Ann (snippet) / Discothèque Howie B Hairy B Mix (snippet) / Whole Lotta Love (snippet)
If You Wear That Velvet Dress
With Or Without You / Love Will Tear Us Apart (snippet)
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Mysterious Ways
One
Unchained Melody

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members at this show: 31

CElevate (Germany)
Janus02 (Netherlands)
JeroenAFCA (Netherlands)
PiM1975 (Netherlands)
RobertZijlstra (Netherlands)
U2C (Netherlands)
U2_Edge (Netherlands)
WenA (Netherlands)
edbale69 (Netherlands)
emiel (Netherlands)
grietu2 (Netherlands)
harold28 (Netherlands)
hkle77 (Netherlands)
mhooft (Netherlands)
mofoganda (Netherlands)
mrbullet (United Kingdom)
petterson (Netherlands)
robbertvadv (Netherlands)
sean1977 (Netherlands)
skidevil (Netherlands)
stevenu2 (Netherlands)
sturoopa (United Kingdom)
tacoisahotburito (Netherlands)
teaparty (Netherlands)
tk627 (Netherlands)
u2joost (Netherlands)
vanHalen (Netherlands)
ver2go (Netherlands)
vertigo05suug (Netherlands)
wegotit (Austria)
woninck (Netherlands)

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Netherlands (27)
United Kingdom (2)
Austria (1)
Germany (1)

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last review

Reviewed by: shriveraz
Reviewed 1 year ago

Performance:

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Audience:

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Sound:

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Overall:

took off 1/2 a star only because when recording to a CD several songs have encoding errors and won't burn

all reviews

author	performance	audience	sound	overall
gavinfriday
Performance: I was at this concert on THE rock stadium of Holland: Feyenoord Stadium in Rotterdam, a.k.a. De Kuip. In retrospective, I can say that the band at the Popmart were really passionate, at their most 'U2-ish' innovative, rebeling, mind tickling and hard rocking. The tours since Popmart, Elevation and Vertigo, they seemed really going through the motions, programmed and the 'holy fire' seemed to be disappeared. However, Rotterdam 1997 were the first gigs on European ground and the band really nailed these both shows. As can be seen on the dvd of July 18th (first Rotterdam show). The new Pop songs have never sounded better. At that time I was mostly impressed by Mofo, Please and Velvet Dress, but now listening to the bootleg I'm really struck by Miami, what a blast of a song, IMO the most defining Popmart-song. And the show was astonishing and over the top, loved it. The entrance of the band through the crowd, the football-kick move of Bono when the crowd sings the Dutch traditional ole, ole. Improvising Whole Lotta Love (complete song!), the great great great triple of Bullet The Blue Sky-Please-Where The Streets Have No Name, magnificent Audience: The crowd was unbelievable, the band was really lifted by the people, who had been waiting four years for the overruling step of ZooTV and that was wthat they got from the band. The at Popmart traditional karaoke part featured Dutch proud Golden Earring's Radar Love. Clearly, Edge didn't know the song properly and was completely overwhelmed by the loudness the crowd yelled the lyrics to the song, it was great and can be perfectly heard on the bootleg. Hilarious is also the moment when the drumsol in Radar Love comes in, Edge: "Hold on, no drum solo's at U2 shows" and the band kicks immediately in 'Miami'. Neat. Sound: The sound is very good, hard bass, I like that. It almost sounds like a proffesional recording. Overall: high: the last show/tour where U2 were really U2 low: the last show/tour where U2 were really U2
MirrorballBoy
Performance: It surprises me that I'm only the second person to review this jewel.. Well,where to start. After an unlucky lift-off of the tour in the USA, the band came to Europe and opened with two memorable gigs in Rotterdam. So sad there isn't a proper recording of night one, but for that we got the PopHeart EP and the known video. From start to finish a standout PopMart performance. Some mistakes here and there (particularly from Bono but we got used to that). Still the man gives a solid performance. Of course you can hear that he had problems with his voice back then, but I just have to say he did very well this night. Rest of the band are their usual selves and making fun of it. This show contains my favourite of Edge's karaoke intermissions, 'Radar Love' from the Golden Earring, the greatest Dutch rock band of all time. A real crowd-pleaser. It's followed by the most powerful version of Miami I've ever heard. Please- Streets contained again a beautiful segue. Discotheque was another highlight, followed surprisingly by a full version of Whole Lotta Love. Talking about surprises. Later on Bono snippeted Love Will Tear Us Apart during With Or Without You which was a true highlight. Pop songs were played very well, for some reason I really like If You Wear A Velvet Dress and Staring At The Sun. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me proved again that this song is so underrated. Then they finished it all off with solid versions of Mysterious Ways and One, with that oh so beautiful Unchained Melody as a closer. Audience: Dutch crowd at De Kuip. I think that says enough. You can barely hear Edge singing the karaoke part. Listening to this boot I realised that this crowd finally accepted the PopMart Tour. They clap, chant, shout all show long. A shame that it hasn't been filmed. Sound: Decent rercording which captures the show fairly well. Some stretches here and there, and sometimes Bono's voice seems to be drowned out by the band's sounding. A high bass is always nice. Overall: A standout performance, accompanied by a crazy Dutch crowd makes this one a real must-have for the ones who adore the PopMart era. It was the best European lift-off they could ever have wished for. Finally they seemed to get used to the tour, and finally the crowd was accepting it. Highlights to me were Last Night On Earth, Even Better Than The Real Thing, 'Radar Love', Miami, Discotheque + Whole Lotta Love, Please - Streets, Unchained Melody. But it's the crowd who makes this one so great.
paulhewson11
Performance: First I want to say: both nights were amazing and outstanding. The atmosphere you could taste all over. An amazing dutch crowd: loud, happy, singing - one word:awesome! And the band felt that. All songs performed nearly perfect and the crowd was singing the whole time. I really love the so called snippets in U2 songs i.e. "stand by me" at the end of I still haven´t found... This night you can hear a lot of snippets during the concert - listen carefully. I loved it when I was there in Holland in 1997. Audience: Outstanding !!! Incredible !!! Unique !!! I am a german boy, but I love my neighbours :-) Sound: Very very good audience recording. Clear sound at all time, a good deep base. Both shows are fantastic. A must have !!! Overall: I wish I could have a soundboard record (like the New Years Show in Dublin 1989). But this one makes me really happy too.
KieranU2
Performance: I WAS orginally going to give this bootleg 4 stars but decided in the end to change it to a 4.5 star. Great gig in the Netherlands. Mofo and Discotheque are two songs which were diamonds in this show. There was any big problem to report. There was an odd mistake, maybe from Bono but it was pretty fine. Audience: I don't know why the rest are shouting out 5 star. There is NO way that the audience were 5 star. Listen to Santiago or Leeds for 5 star audiences, not here. 4 star maximum. Sound: Really good sound. Was thinking of giving it a 4.5 star but decided against it. Overall: Overall, a great show. Two shows in Rotterdam was a great way to start the European leg. Obviously an idea taken from ZooTV. As said earlier, Mofo and Discotheque were the highlights. No lowlights at all.
patou2
Performance: This part is only rated, not commented on. Audience: This part is only rated, not commented on. Sound: This part is only rated, not commented on. Overall: Good show . Bono was really lost during One. Highlights: Mofo, Gone, Last night on earth, Staring at the sun and Discoteque

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Mofo

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Please

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Where The Streets Have No Name

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Discotheque live from Rotterdam

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If You Wear That Velvet Dress

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Popmart in Rotterdam
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