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Audience microphone

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: Soledriver (Audio Taper)
Equipment: core sound binaurals (Microphone), Sony DAT D8 (Audio recording device)
Lineage: Core Sound mics > Sony D8 DAT > Tascam DA-20 Mk > HHb burnit > CDr > EAC > TLH > FLAC > foobar [+ fre:ac > mp3@256kb/s for mp3 files]
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U2
O2 Arena
London, U.K.
November 3, 2015

Recorded by Soledriver*

LINEAGE: Core Sound mics > Sony D8 DAT machine...
Tascam DA-20 Mk 2 DAT machine > HHb burnit CDr recorder...no EQ
CDr > EAC > Traders Little Helper > Flac8 sector aligned >
[moderation] > foobar (tags) > fre:ac > mp3@256kb/s

TRACK LISTING:

01-[PA intro: People Have The Power]
02-The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
03-Gloria
04-Vertigo
05-I Will Follow
06-Iris (Hold Me Close)
07-Cedarwood Road
08-Song For Someone
09-Sunday Bloody Sunday
10-Raised By Wolves
11-Until The End Of The World
12-[intermission: The Fly (remix)]
13-Invisible
14-Even Better Then The Real Thing
15-Mysterious Ways
16-Desire
17-Party Girl
18-Every Breaking Wave
19-October
20-Bullet The Blue Sky
21-Zooropa
22-Where The Streets Have No Name
23-Pride (In The Name Of Love)
24-With Or Without You
25-[encore break + Steven Hawking]
26-City Of Blinding Lights
27-Beautiful Day
28-Mother And Child Reunion [excerpt]
29-Bad
40-"40"

*ORIGINAL NOTES:
"[R]ecorded from the South section next to the East Stage about five
people back... see [recording spot] I was the white spot..."

"Now...I do love U2...BUT...
This is a fantastic visual show...when you can see what's going on.
Unfortunately, only half the audience can see it a lot of the time.
Bono arrives at one end of the stage (where I was standing) and moves
the length to the far end, which is a fair distance away (3/4 of the
length of the O2). I'm just touching 6 feet tall but for the next 25
minutes I could see nothing, as the stage is about a foot or two too
low and the flat floor precludes a decent view.
It might have occurred to someone in power that Bono is not a giant and
would be all but invisible from the standing area at the opposite end...
why don't the video screens show what is going on at this stage?
Bono then walks through the centre of the video screen and appears at
our end, which causes a panic as middle-aged men suddenly believe that
reaching out toward their hero will cure their impotence/baldness/
stupidity???
This is when I realise that a seat would have been a good idea...
A half-hour later there's an "intermission" while a drumkit is built
inside the video structure (Of course, this the perfect "let's get to
the bar and get another two pints each moment"...) and the band resume
with a couple of songs from there... ask someone who was there to explain
how this is supposed to work...I'm not sure myself.
I watched from an oblique angle and could see occasional glimpses of the
band through flashes of the screen, but I'd have hated to be at either
end of the arena...maybe it was better than my imagination allows, but if
so, I'm someone will put me right.
I know my view is coloured by being a taper, but from here on in the crowd
are so pissed up that there is no peace from talking and pushing etc...
people can't stand at a gig for more than half an hour without pushing in
and out getting more alcohol.
You're going to love the loved-up couple who were desperately trying to get
Bono to wish the girl a happy birthday while he was trying to get them to
"STFU"...and her birthday wasn't till the following day, if my ears are to
be believed...
The beginning of "October" is completely ruined by both the birthday couple
and the knobs who feel you can make up for the lack of a drummer by clapping
along...again Bono kept trying to stop the clappers but to no avail.
I know I'm being very hard on this show, but I was so looking forward to it,
and having been out of work for a while could only go the once, only to find
it a bit of an endurance test.
BTW...some of the recording is better than it has a right to be, although I
had hoped for a better result. And in the absence of an alternate capture...
here's mine...IT IS WHAT IT IS...

Band line-up:
Bono/Larry/Edge/Adam...you know who does what..."

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"CA-11 - Tascam DR-2D"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: one8ung (Audio Taper)
Equipment: Church Audio CA-11 (Microphone), Tascam DR-2D (Audio recording device), Church Audio CA-Ugly (Pre-amp)
Lineage: [digital master] > WaveLab 6 (iZotope Ozone 5) -> CDWave -> TLH
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Audience microphone

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: Chris Voynet (Audio Taper)
Equipment: Neumann KM 140 (Microphone), Zoom H6 (Audio recording device)
Lineage: Neumann KM140's > ZOOM H6 XLR STEREO > SANDISK ULTRA 30mb/s 32GB
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review by Anam

8 years ago

Performance

This was the end of a long shift for the band at a high profile venue and the mercy of the lupine British press. They were - as will each of the dates I have seen here - slick, joyful and completely engaging.

Sound

This part is only rated, not commented on

Audience

The audience tonight were a healthy mix of the weary London commuter and the weary international traveller. The atmosphere was brilliant, but more reverent than raucous.

Overall

Night #6 at the Big Top that is the Millennium Dome in North Greenwich was the last in a blistering sequence of gigs in London.

This was a late call and tickets were only secured on Monday - on a whim - lest another six year gap transpire.

The setlist included Gloria up front, Desire and Party Girl doing sterling work in the mid-set, while Bad and 40 closed out a ten-day residency for the band at the o2.

There were no Adele or Chris Martin cameos, despite the rumours, although Noel Gallagher was spotted stage left belting out 40 from the RedZone. Mercifully, Two Shots or Happy, One Shot of sad stayed in the sound check while 11 O Clock Tick Tock remains the Holy Grail.

A tattooed lady called Danielle from the south coast with electric blue hair and a Ramones tee found her way onto the eStage, whereupon she almost froze in terror. Bono even tried a Bull McCabe-style Strip the Willow, but no luck, even as we all thought the Edge was winding up to resurrect the guitar solo at the end of Mysterious Ways. At least she scored half a bottle of champagne! Fair play to her; it must be pretty terrifying.

The band too were in more reserved form than last Friday night, and Bono's stage patter was reflective rather than boisterous. He explored the origins of I Will Follow and Bad, as well the his childhood as the standard into to Iris. That's not to say that they lacked for energy; this remains a high octane show with only the Every Breaking Wave/ October/ Zooropa sequence providing respite.

And the Edge never sweats. I've been his side of the stage for three gigs in a week and not a drop. Makes you wonder if the real Edge isn't tied to a chair somewhere backstage while RoboEdge takes his place.

Let the record show that it was this reviewer who, having had plenty practice catching bits of Milton during Until the End of the World, single-handedly caught Bono's paper plane during Bullet the Blue Sky.

I have a sore temptation to sell all my worldly goods and take my entire family on the road following the wondrous circus that is The Innocence and Experience Tour. But tomorrow it is, for this fan at least, back to the real world, albeit proudly clutching my paper jet...