1987-07-08 - Brussels, Belgium - Vorst National

setlist

Performance notes: Bad is dedicated to Greg Carroll, who had been buried exactly a year ago. At this stage, U2 had not yet played One Tree Hill live.
Setlist and comment provided by U2gigs.com.

songs per album

  1. The Joshua Tree (7)
  2. The Unforgettable Fire (4)
  3. War (3)
  4. Boy (2)
  5. October (1)

best song performances

  1. With Or Without You (4 votes)
  2. Where The Streets Have No Name (3 votes)
  3. Help! (3 votes)
  4. The Unforgettable Fire (3 votes)

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1 from United Kingdom: jamesed68

review by WojBhoy

15 years ago

Performance

Terrific performance. It's not often I throw 5 stars at a show, but this merits every one. The show starts off in dramatic fashion (nicely counterpointed by Bono's understated "hello" in the intro.) with a superb version of WTSHNN and continues as such. I remember once saying during another BRT (I think it was Casper's TUF show from the Barrowlands) about how the band "drives through the main set with a kind of reckless abandon combined with verve and panáche", and those sentiments were buzzing through my mind throughout listening to this show. There's nothing bad to be said about the band on this show in a Joshua Tree context - they loved every second and the crowd were more than fair game. I won't lie, I prefer later versions of most of the songs on the setlist BUT that doesn't detract from this being an amazing show, i.e. the whole greater than the sum of its parts, I think would be apt to describe how I view it. A couple of highlights have to be Edge's string breaking in IWF (you can hear at the end that he's only playing one string to the main riff but continues regardless); during Electric Co. ("all I see is fucking red!"); NYD and Pride rocked (not something we seem to say much nowadays) and there's a surefire reason why WOWY here is considered one of the best ever - there's nothig else to say but call it sheer brilliance. True, it still doesn't knock Paris '92 off my personal pedestal as far as performances go but it made one beastly fist of it.

Sound

As good as you're likely to get with audience recordings save for something slightly superior such as Stockholm (11-06-1992) - great listening with little to really pick out.
Recording: Audience microphone - 4 stars

Audience

Nothing much to say other than praise one of the best audiences ever heard on a U2 bootleg. End of.

Overall

I was very tempted to try and be an awkward sod and pick out whatever faults I could in the show purely because Gerard et al have praised this to high heaven for what seems like eternity, but the thing is they have good reason to praise it like they do - IT'S THAT GOOD. As a Joshua Tree show, this has got to be one of the best, and indeed one of the great U2 shows. True, there are one or two that I would personally put above this but that's personal preference on my part. If you like U2, you'll love this, so make it your mission to download this boot ASAP.

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