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Audience microphone

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: Fradoca (Remasterer), WN (Silver Manufacturer)
Equipment: Exact Audio Copy EAC (Sound Editor)
Lineage: Original WN double Cd -> Eac(Secure) -> Fradoca Remastering -> Flac6 -> Wav -> Mp3@192
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Bit rate: 192, bit depth: 16, sample rate: 44100, channels: 2

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"Faraway So Close"

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: Teddy Bear Records (Silver Manufacturer)

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review by EridescoFly

5 months ago

Performance

The shows at Wembley were the most interesting of the 1993 leg of ZOO TV as the band put in more new songs from the recently released Zooropa album.

We start with the usual ZOO TV fanfare with Zoo Station and The Fly both coming out strong even if by now the band knew these songs inside out, as well as EBTTRT and Mysterious Ways. One gets the crowd singing along and UTEOTW is powerful segueing almost like a seamless transition into New Year's Day.

Then a four-song performance from Zooropa, starting with Numb which by now in the tour was utilising video samples and showing ZOO TV's full potential. Next, the title track itself played in a shorter version which suggests the band hadn't figured out how to replicate the song's opening. Still, I love this version because it's far more stripped down and direct, even if you can sense from Bono that he feels bringing in this new material is a bit too soon and undercooked, even to the point of asking the crowd if they like the new songs including a shaky debut of Babyface (Larry comes in out of sync with the sequenced chime loop and Bono can't decide to sing in a low or high octave) it tries to replace the catwalk moment of TTTYAATW but has yet to improve and like Zooropa, will sadly be dropped.

Stay, probably the most confident of the new songs goes down well in it's acoustic form. The acoustic set here being shorter than normal however with just Satellite Of Love, before the hook up to speak with Sarajevo that comes before a strong rendition of Bad, which concludes with another Zooropa snippet of 'The First Time' before a charged BTBS. The tense rendition of RTST holds the crowd before the set wraps with the big anthems of Streets and Pride.

Macphisto's phone call reveals his protagonist is in the stadium, and it sounds it as if Salman Rushdie is close by and not coming through a telephone before walking out to face the devil with cheers from the crowd. Macphisto treats Desire and Ultra Violet with over the top drama before showing vulnerability in Love Is Blindness. WOWY being cut from the set is not too much a loss, and may have been down to the curfew.

Sound

Fantastic sounding bootleg, almost of broadcast quality.
Recording: Audience microphone - 4.5 stars

Audience

Although not too loud in the mix, they carry the band through the show with enthusiasm.

Overall

A great start to a string of shows trying to find a place for the Zooropa material to fit in, and with the album not long out the band probably felt some pressure to get these in as they sound unrehearsed but also exciting with a raw edge. And by now I'm sure newer material was welcome into a well choregraphed set to bring an element of surprise.

One of the best shows from ZOO TV without doubt.