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1981-10-19 - Birmingham, England - Locarno

setlist

Performance notes: Technical problems after "Into the Heart" delay the opening of "I Threw a Brick".
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songs per album

  1. Boy (9)
  2. October (6)

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review by 2UToo

9 months ago

Performance

While the band are quite solid at this show with inspired and energetic musicianship throughout, Bono starts weakening a lot after the initial 35 minutes. After one nasty crack during 'I Will Follow', Bono delivers one of the worst versions ever of 'Twilight' and especially struggles with his falsetto from there onwards, sounding almost laughably bad during the encore in that regard.

Sound

The recording sounds pretty listenable at best and really muffled at worst, even showing signs that the taper had used it for other audio previously.
Recording: Audience microphone - 2 stars

Audience

Pretty good crowd for an early show with lots of cheering, especially before and after 'Boy' songs and actually passionate chanting during the encore break. Some audience members can even be heard guessing songs and singing along here and there.

Overall

There really aren't any songs that I would call a highlight in particular. Honestly, this just isn't a show anyone would need to listen to other than to complete some sort of live pilgrimage.

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