1987-06-17 - Cologne, Germany - Muengersdorfer Stadion

setlist

  1. Stand By Me
  2. C'mon Everybody
  3. I Will Follow
  4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Exodus (snippet)
  5. MLK
  6. The Unforgettable Fire
  7. Sunday Bloody Sunday
  8. Exit / Riders On The Storm (snippet) / Van Morrison's Gloria (snippet)
  9. In God's Country
  10. The Electric Co. / Light My Fire (snippet) / Break On Through (snippet)
  11. Help!
  12. Bad / Ruby Tuesday (snippet) / Sympathy For The Devil (snippet)
  13. New Year's Day
  14. Pride (In The Name Of Love)

  15. encore(s):
  16. Bullet The Blue Sky
  17. Running To Stand Still
  18. With Or Without You / Shine Like Stars (snippet) / Love Will Tear Us Apart (snippet)
  19. Party Girl
  20. 40
Performance notes: A second concert at this venue was scheduled for the next day but does not take place. Due to overly bureaucratic procedures by the promoter, tension develops over tickets and thousands are stuck in rain-drenched queues outside even as the support acts play. They are ultimately let in but the atmosphere is poor when U2 take the stage.
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songs per album

  1. The Joshua Tree (6)
  2. The Unforgettable Fire (4)
  3. War (3)
  4. Boy (2)

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review by Laufi

10 months ago

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Recording: "AIWA walkman + external mic (master)" - 3.5 stars

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Overall

I can confirm lots, if not most of bodoheils review. The place was obviously overcrowded, they must have let in thousands more in the inner space than allowed (those were the times not many people cared about these things) and it really was a fight overall, even if I wasn't involved in 'real' fights. This was the event of the year, U2 were the hot shit and everyone wanted to be front of stage (those were the days where you simply had to be early to be in pole position - early at the location, not early at Ticketmaster, I mean!).

I was still 16 years old (one month before my 17th birthday) and was allowed to go by my mom, because my uncle took me with him (he was seated in the lower tier, as old people do, though (he is six years older than me *lol).

It was the (then) german national holiday, "day of german unity". The show was, of course, sold out and the city was plastered with tour posters with a sign "thank you!". The whole city was clearly in a fever and lots of people came from outside, also lots of american G.I.s, that -sadly- very often drunk much to much at concerts in these times.

It wasn't very cold, but there had been (slight) rain the whole day, which meant the audience was wet to their bones. I was in the stadium very early, saving a position in the middle in front of the stage - it meant everything to me, to see the band and Bono from very close. It was crowded and nobody cared about the support acts (Big Audio Dynamite, The Pretenders, Lou Reed), although I don't remember that they really have been booed. They have been ignored, I'd say. It was literally so crowded that you couldn't fall, incredible! Before U2s gig started, the real pushing began. The crowd was really in motion, sometimes I was 2 meters from the stage, sometimes 40 meters. I'm really tall, so I always had a good view, though.

It stopped raining, which seemed to be good, but in the end, as it was warm in the crowded inner space, the water started to evaporate, which lead to clouds over the audience! You can see this in some of the pictures that were taken for newspapers - I'll upload a paper review (with me visible in the audience, too) later.

When U2 hit the stage, everyone went nuts. There was no chance to 'enjoy' the concert. People fainted, cause they couldn't breath, there was not much oxygene in the humid clouds over the audience. Around me there were dozens, if not more than 100 people taken out of the audience. There were small girls near me (6ft7 tall) that fainted, which I only noticed as their heads were lying on my shoulder. I tried my best to show the security guys that they must help, but they were really amateurish. Luckily there were enough people in the audience helping taking people out.

I'd never say that this concert was a desaster in any sense, this was my live "defloration" and I'll never forget this day and I'm proud that I attended like I was proud then that I got a ticket, which seemed to be impossible - even no one in my school got one. Actually, there's an original concert poster hanging on my wall, together with a faksimile ticket stub, as they didn't tear them off, but collected them at the entrance.



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