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review by ayr861

15 years ago

Performance

A cold Thursday night, thirteen years to the last show. First, we get told to Wake Up and then we're into City of Blinding Lights in the City of Churches. Bono certainly makes sure everyone knows that they're in South Australia and Adelaide at the end of the song.

Vertigo is just Vertigo with some Irish speaking, but then you get to Elevation. It's such a fun little number here, with the Spinning Around snippet (one of several Kylie Minogue references throughout the show), with Bono trying not to laugh and the crowd having a laugh at it. The countdown from that song starts and then "Aaaahhhhhhh!!!" and being strung out-like-a-gee-tar.

We then get a hit from the Boy album with I Will Follow - love ya as Bono says if you listen carefully, and then introductions to the band in New Year's Day. A fantastic rendition of Beautiful Day follows next with several prominent Adelaide references. Not an overly long "touch me" note - there was another Australian show with a longer note, it may have been a Sydney show or the 19th Melbourne show.

Stuck In A Moment from the previous album is thrown out to the Adelaide 60 000+ strong crowd next, dedicated to the late Michael Hutchence, and the "good-humored" Angel of Harlem with the second Minogue reference of the night is up next, with several clever changes to the lyrics. We get a thanks from Bono to the crowd before Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own kicks off (how nice) and says that U2 have learnt something from this certain song, with the "reason I sing" note held tightly; I'd say he's holding that like his memories of his dad when he passed away on the last tour.

As with most shows, next is Love and Peace, followed by Sunday Bloody Sunday dedicated to the victims of the Bali bombings, with a funny moment between the young boy, Emerson, and being called fearless after asking whether he's afraid of Edge, Larry, Bono or Adam. Bullet The Blue Sky is next, followed by Miss Sarajevo, which if you listen to the operatic part, is a stunning note. Hard to believe that kind of note can be held, and at the end of the song asking "is this the time".

Another Pride follows, which holds the tradition of "another Pride", seguing into Streets, which the crowd goes ballistic for. For the first time on this entire tour, you get the feeling that the band actually enjoy playing the song, no matter if it's been on every tour since it was released.

One is next. There were several innaccuracies here; first was that we can "turn Telstra into a Christmas tree". This is AAMI Stadium, not Telstra Dome or Telstra Stadium. And that "it's Christmas". Clearly if Bono had bought a calculator and a calendar to Australia, he would have realised that there was over a month at the time to go. No matter; the performance was pretty slow and sounded like a rehearsal, with the out-of-tune audience singing along.

Time for an encore! Zoo Station rocked the house and so did The Fly, with Bono's old-time snippet of Singin' In The Rain, but it's dragged down again by With or Without You - if it had a Shine Like Stars snippet, it might have been something good, but alas, it was out the back having a smoke, or got lost on the plane. Three songs to end the night; The Saints Are Coming didn't disappoint the crowd. A fun, rockin' electric rendition of Rattle and Hum's Desire is next, with Bono telling the crowd that 30 years ago, U2 played its first gig!

And right on target, we have a fantastic Australian-style version of the epic Kite with Tim Morriaty on didgeridoo; it adds a real element to this song, and hopefully is played in future shows, no matter where. The band did Kite justice after six years.

"Thankyou Adelaide, don't forget about us".

Sound

The sound is on target for a decent audience recording. All instruments are audible and I didn't notice the fuzzy sound for some reason - I'm sure it's the same source. Anyway, it's a nice recording and you get to hear how big that crowd was. I think it was one of the biggest crowds in Adelaide for a long time.
Recording: Audience microphone - 3 stars

Audience

Looks like the Adelaideans loved the show. They cheer for the popular songs and even at the ones not so well-known like Miss Sarajevo and The Saints Are Coming, which had only been played a handful of times since November. Plus I even got to hear some conversations.

Overall

A nice show if you're looking for a more laid-back 2006 Vertigo show.

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