1981-06-08 - Geleen, Netherlands - Sportpark


setlist

Performance notes: 'Pinkpop Festival' - Other bands include New Adventures, Fischer Z, Madness, Michael Shenker Group, The Pretenders, Ian Dury & The Blockheads
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  1. Boy (10)
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review by 2UToo

7 months ago

Performance

Since this is a show very well into the Boy Tour (actually the penultimate show) the band are very much a finely reformed machine and play their 46 minute set with precision and lots of energy to their biggest audience yet.

Bono's voice is quite shot for the entire performance and sounds weak in almost every attempted high note / belt. Interestingly enough, this doesn't seem to affect his falsetto too much as it's stable for most of the time. The Edge hits a bum note at the end of 'Another Time, Another Place'. More sloppiness follows in an otherwise energetic 'The Electric Co.'.


Sound

Apart from some easily ignorable hiss absolutely terrific quality for such an early show!
Recording: FM Aerial Broadcast - 4.5 stars

Audience

Since this is radio broadcast seems to be straight from the soundboard, the audience are basically inaudible. Bono also mentions them all sitting down early into the show and since this was a festival appearance, the audience seem rather dead and not too involved with the performance unfortunately. From 'Another Time, Another Place', Bono manages to get the crowd on their feet a little.

Overall

It's actually quite tough to find highlights for this show as the band are generally solid (apart from a few slight bum notes here and there) as they usually are around this time but Bono not only sounds weak in basically all songs, he also sounds like he has a hard time connecting with the 48,000 people in the audience which makes this a show you'll quickly forget about in my opinion.

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