2006-11-16 - Adelaide, Australia - AAMI Stadium


setlist

  1. City Of Blinding Lights
  2. Vertigo
  3. Elevation
  4. I Will Follow
  5. New Year's Day
  6. Beautiful Day / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (snippet) / Here Comes The Sun (snippet)
  7. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
  8. Angel Of Harlem / I Should Be So Lucky (snippet)
  9. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
  10. Love And Peace Or Else
  11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
  12. Bullet The Blue Sky / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet) / The Hands That Built America (snippet)
  13. Miss Sarajevo
  14. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
  15. Where The Streets Have No Name
  16. One

  17. encore(s):
  18. Zoo Station
  19. Singin' In The Rain (snippet) / The Fly / (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (snippet)
  20. With Or Without You
  21. The Saints Are Coming
  22. Desire / Not Fade Away (snippet)
  23. Kite
Performance notes: Originally scheduled for 28 March 2006. The last time U2 performed in South Australia was thirteen years previously to the day. Last performance of Zoo Station until 24 September 2015.
Setlist and comment provided by U2gigs.com.

songs per album

  1. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (4)
  2. All That You Can't Leave Behind (4)
  3. The Joshua Tree (3)
  4. Achtung Baby (3)
  5. War (2)
  6. Rattle and Hum (2)
  7. Boy (1)
  8. Passengers (1)
  9. The Unforgettable Fire (1)

best song performances

  1. Kite (3 votes)

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review by WojBhoy

15 years ago

Performance

As with the other Vertigo 5th leg gigs, the show is full of fun and the band sound like they're enjoying themselves. I wouldn't say stunning, but way more than satisfactory. I can't be buggered to draw up a summary of everything I wrote, so I'm just gonna copy and paste my song-by-song notes;

Main set -

COBL - good opening, not a pinnacle performance (although probably detracted by the quality of the sound more than anything)
Vertigo - couldn't really hear Edge's guitar, but a solid effort.
Elevation - no long drawn-out intro., hallelujah!
IWF - never quite the same when Bono 'says' "I will follow" in the intro. as oppposed to a gutsy shout, but a lively performance, everyone clearly lapping it up. *
NYD - just doesn't work for me without a big buildup, i.e. UTEOTW or something. Bit flat. Gets going when Edge's guitar kicks in, but still a bit...missing something. The solo always sends a shiver down my spine though - that's how to make a Les Paul sing.
Beautiful Day - meh. Interesting when Bono moves up an octave during the opening verse. Still prefer Elevation versions, felt a lot more fresh. Also feel that with Elevation versions, they felt like the complete sum of their parts, whereas with Vertigo I get the feeling that it's like a lot of parts trying to complete a sum but not quite clicking. Am also not one of those who hold much stock with the idea that the additional snippets make the song tick in a live setting.
Stuck In A Moment... - full electric, can't go wrong. A lack of crooning from Bono in the intro. also helped.*
Angel of Harlem - jaunty, fun, again prefer the Elevation versions simply because Edge's guitar had a bit more oomph, but Bono certainly seems to thrive on an old classic.
SYCMIOYO - has never struck a chord with me live, never will - same old moan from me I'm afraid. One of those songs that will never outdo the original studio version bar a really impressive reworking in the future. Please don't keep this as a staple of the live set guys.
LAPOE - the sound doesn't lend itself to the performance. Crowd seem to get louder, the band quieter, and the drums sounded slightly off-kilter...
SBS - for once, actually seemed to lift the place. Great to hear the crowd go nuts when the intro. kicks in. Raucous guitar work from Edge, Larry's drums really carrying the song, Bono seeming to audibly take off. Still not a patch on previous tours, but certainly a decent effort - suffers from the Vertigo condition of dragging on far too long though.*
Miss Sarajevo - great song, great performance, need there be any more said?*
Pride - pretty upbeat performance, great vocals from Bono (for once), wish you could hear the whole crowd "ooh-oooooh-oh" a bit more though in the outro.
Streets - uplifting performance, fairly run-of-the-mill though.
One - lowkey, but builds-up as it always does to a rousing finish. Not standout, but a nice close to the set nonetheless.

Encore

Zoo Station - epic.*
The Fly - not bad, but a bit run-of-the-mill until the solo. And after.
WOWY - nice performance, Bono doesn't mince the vocals as with some other Vertigo performances, really opens up now and then. Even though I do mourn the loss of the ZooTV solo, you can't deny there's something intimate and yet equally epic about the PopMart+ versions.*
TSAC - decent performance. Not a massive fan, and things seemed to get a bit pearshaped near the end but it was certainly not the crowning turd in the waterpipe.
Desire - oh yes!*
Kite - lowkey ending, but magnificent for it. The only thing that makes Elevation performances better is Bono's rhythm guitar part, just adds a bit more to the song.*

Basically, anything with a * after it was notable in my opinion!


Sound

Probably the biggest letdown - there's very little in the way of depth, and although it's not a case of the quality of sound being crap, e.g. the band being distorted, gremlins in the speakers etc., they sound very distant and it [the recording] doesn't do them justice by bringing the different parts together as a unified ensemble. Larry is probably the most prominent, whilst Edge is least (which, for me at least, is a bit disappointing) - Bono and Adam are distinct without taking over.
Recording: Audience microphone - 3 stars

Audience

hoot the lot of them lol (or at least, the ones near the taper). For me, there's a fine line between a bearable crowd and an unbearable crowd, and in this case they fell on the wrong side - this is sheer pickiness on my part but no one was singing in tune lol, but on the other hand I would like to think that their enthusiasm was representative of the rest of the crowd, i.e. having a damn good time Adelaide-style!

Overall

Decent gig, a 7/10 - not amazing, but exemplary of the 5th leg of the Vertigo tour. This is already on my mp3 player anyway, and there it shall certainly stay.

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