1989-10-16 - Melbourne, Australia - National Tennis Centre

setlist

  1. Hawkmoon 269
  2. Desire / Not Fade Away (snippet)
  3. All Along The Watchtower / Like A Hurricane (snippet)
  4. Bullet The Blue Sky / Neighbours Theme Song (snippet)
  5. Running To Stand Still
  6. Heartland (snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name
  7. I Will Follow
  8. Gloria
  9. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Exodus (snippet)
  10. All I Want Is You / Sexual Healing (snippet)
  11. People Get Ready
  12. Angel Of Harlem
  13. When Love Comes To Town / In The Midnight Hour (snippet)
  14. Love Rescue Me
  15. With Or Without You / Shine Like Stars (snippet)
  16. God Part II / I Feel Love (snippet)
  17. New Year's Day
  18. Pride (In The Name Of Love)

  19. encore(s):
  20. Party Girl
  21. 40
Performance notes: A small group of fans are invited into the venue for the soundcheck and they witness performances of Dancing Barefoot (a Patti Smith cover U2 recorded for the When Love Comes To Town single but never played in concert) and She's A Mystery To Me (which didn't make its concert debut for another 2.5 months). In draft itineraries, an eighth Melbourne show at the same venue was listed for the next night, 1989-10-17. This show was never put on sale.
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songs per album

  1. Rattle and Hum (8)
  2. The Joshua Tree (5)
  3. War (2)
  4. Boy (1)
  5. October (1)
  6. The Unforgettable Fire (1)

best song performances

  1. Running To Stand Still (5 votes)

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review by Ali709

15 years ago

Performance

Note: I was unable to listen to WOWY and the rest of the show (i.e. till the end of 40). This review is based on the pre-WOWY part. Unless something huge happens in that part, I think the overall review would be quite the same >>
Ow yea, it’s a great show despite the quality. Actually, the recording made me very sad, this show deserves a much better recording. After my ears got used to the quality, I really enjoyed the show itself!

>> Positive…
* It’s the Lovetown tour, it was an amazing tour after all! Bono is very much in form and does a great performance in my opinion…the voice is there, and the man himself is very much there!
Some highlights (all the songs are done wonderfully and memorable, but these still stand out):
*All Along A Watchtower, very good performance, it’s also got the Like A Hurricane snippet which goes great with it.
* Bullet The Blue Sky, Bono says some stuff about the American president talking to him, it does get a bit cheesy, but makes it cool, specially the ending “and I look at the Edge, he looks into my eyes and he says: ”Bono, I can see them fighter planes!”
* Running To Stand Still has got this guitar in the ending, I believe it’s Bono playing, very nice, the audience are amazing during this song, also near the ending suddenly Larry starts hitting the drums, very cool!
* The audience is still amazing during ISHFWILF, what’s with the doctor backstage and the fever… is he serious? ‘Cuase that would make this a cool moment. Also, “You’ve got a great country, great city, don’t fuck it up, alright?” …and then…Exodus
* Angel of Harlem with the B.B. King orchestra…long time since I had listened to this version The audience is again very well heard during When Love Comes To Town :”that was the day before love came to town!!” (note, BB’s guitar becomes annoying during this song, again, quality issues!)

>> Negative:
If we’re really talking about the show, I didn’t come across anything wrong with it…you could say that some of Bono’s comments sound cheesy and out of place…but not really, surely they matched the situation!


Sound

>> Positive…
* With all the quality issues, still the audience can be heard very well, especially at the parts where they have to be heard, when they make the songs special!
* The drums are quite loud and clear which makes it all sound very cool!

>> Negative…
* Everyone’s said it through the week…the quality isn’t good, though it’s not 2.5 either in my opinion…I would give it 3 myself. There are many parts where it just goes out of your hands, you’re hearing all this noise and wondering what’s going on!
* Edge’s guitar sometimes gets even annoying, during Streets, you almost can’t hear the guitar intro and then in the middle parts of the song, the guitar just becomes annoying! The Heartland snippet in the beginning is hardly noticeable because of the quality, if I didn’t know it was Heartland I would’ve thought that it’s just Bono talking nonsense!
* Small point, but All I Want Is You isn’t recorded right, in the beginning:”…your story to remain untold” and then suddenly a small *bam* and “…you’ll give me, a highway…”

Recording: "Melbourne Memoirs Vol 6 (boyacrobat)" - 3 stars

Audience

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Overall

This is an amazing show, a blow-away, they are well in form, people follow them perfectly and everything seems to go as planned.
But the recording clearly fails the show here, It’s a 3 star recording for a 5+ star show.
If you’re used to bootlegs and are as die-hard a fan as we are here, I think you will enjoy it despite the whole recording quality issues.
The show won’t stay on my iPod (only because of the recording), but it’s not leaving my collection


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