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  1. I've already predicted Boy for Part 1 of my Tour Predictions and now it's time for October to get it's fair share

    October

    1. Gloria - 75%. - Although it could not happen, I'm giving this a 75% chance. Why because it was a big hit back in the 1980's being the opener from The October Tour through The Unforgettable Fire Tour until it rotated from the encore, and then it suddenly disappeared in the 1990's until it was resurrected in the Vertigo Tour, it made it through three legs but never appeared in the fourth and fifth leg, and it's been 9 years since this song was played, so it could have a good chance of being in the tour, maybe say we could have an "acoustic bluegrass version of Gloria". Keep dreaming, but I'd rather have an electric Gloria rather than an Acoustic Gloria. In one of these four tours, it's a likable chance that Gloria could make a return to the set.

    2. I Fall Down - 25%. Don't let that Piano Intro fool you, it's the chords to I Fall Down. A Song that has never been played since April 1985 and it's a 25% chance that it will not happen. unless it makes a surprise return in one of the 4 shows as an acoustic number with Edge still on Piano, but it's an unlikable chance of it not being in this set.

    3. I Threw A Brick Through A Window - 20%. I Threw A Brick is possibly one of the 1980's Punk Rock songs ever with the hard hitting drumming as an example of "Sunday Bloody Sunday", But like A Day Without Me and I Fall Down it hasn't been played since April of 1985. And it looks like it's staying out of the set again. It's unlikely that we will never see I Threw A Brick in the set as well.

    4. Rejoice - 35%. Rejoice is the only time ever to be played on a single tour if I'm right, it hasn't been performed since August 1982 and people were hoping it would be in the War Tour as well. think about it. Sunday Bloody Sunday followed by Rejoice would be a recipe for a good set on the War Tour, we will never know what it would like. But all I know is that it's not going to be on the set in this tour, I'm sorry. But there's no way it won't be in this tour.

    5. Fire - 10%. The first single from October. Fire has only made 3 tour appearances. Boy, October and War. But since the War Tour Debut in February of 1983. Fire hasn't been seen, it has been 31 years since Fire has not been in a setlist and it looks as if it could happen again, Fire could've been resurrected somewhat on The Joshua Tree Tour as an encore or possibly on the Vertigo Tour to end the Main Set. But it's a likable chance that it won't show up, so it looks like Fire is still going to be put out of the setlist.

    6. Tomorrow - 50%. The reason I've given this a 50% chance is because this song is about Bono's mother. The song [Iris Hold Me Close] is about Bono's mother as well, kind of like Tomorrow II as well. It never made the first, second nor third leg of the October Tour until it's live performance in March, October and Tomorrow pretty much sequed very well together in this tour and it followed this way on the War Tour. But it's been 31 years since we haven't seen this song, but an acoustic performance of this song was done of a CD with Bono and Adam Clayton re-releasing it in 1995 or 1996. So I think we most likely could see an acoustic version of Tomorrow in one of the intimate shows, but I really don't think Tomorrow might not make it in the set.

    7. October - 30%. The haunting piano version of this song, most darkly and intimate intro in the shows throughout the 1980's was October. It pretty much never missed a tour since it's debut in the 1980's. And the fans pretty much loved the October/New Year's Day seque from 1983 through 1989. Whose to say it could happen again cause there were plans of White As Snow/October/New Year's Day seque in 2009 but that never happened but one of the songs did make it to the 360 tour and that was New Year's Day leaving October to it's 20-year drought, we're nearing 2015, and it looks like the 26-year drought may continue for October.

    8. With A Shout - 15%. You gotta give this a 15% because it's not going to make it in the set. Like Rejoice, it's the second song to be played in a single tour, and since it's TV performance on May 1982. It never showed up in any kind of capacity, and it looks like it's going to not be there in this tour.

    9. Stranger In A Strange Land - 10%. This is possibly the only song that hasn't been on a tour although it was snippeted in the Electric Co. once on The Unforgettable Fire Tour but that was it, and as far as it goes, it looks as if we may never see a debut of this song for the first time.

    10. Scarlet - 45%. On the 360 tour. Scarlet made a first-time ever tour resurrection replacing MLK cause of Aung San Sui Kyi being free. Scarlet was played for the only time and then it never made an appearance throughout almost every single tour from 1981 through 2005 until it's appearance on the Fourth Leg of the U2 360 Tour in New Zealand on November 2010 ending the 29-year drought. But with the chances of Scarlet being in this tour, I don't think we may see this song in this tour but anything can happen, it's Innocence and Experience after all.

    I will not give Is That All a rating because this song is similar to The Cry with The Edge's Guitar Riff. So that's all for this October Prediction. War will be next shortly.
  2. I just finished editing this and then I realized there's 2 songs from The October CD that needed to be rated so here's what I call extras.

    11. Party Girl - 90%. I am giving this a 90% chance because through tours like these, it always sneaks in the setlist besides Popmart Tour. It debuted in 1983 and it has never stopped surprising us somehow, I do see Party Girl being played still as an "acoustic version". Party Girl did have it's day in the sun in 2 360 tour Appearances, but that was it. So I'm very much confident in one of these concerts Party Girl is most likely to be in the setlist.

    12. A Celebration - 40%. A Celebration is possibly a good song U2 has ever done, it's debut was in 1982 and it even was done as a single. A Celebration was played in the October Tour and somewhat in the War Tour as well, it missed half of the legs until it's resurrection at the end of The War Tour in Japan. It's final appearance was in November 1983 meaning it's been 31 years since A Celebration hasn't been played until rumours circulated that they were rehearsing the song in 2005 in Tijuana but we found out that the rumours were untrue, a fan however at the Final Lovetown Tour Show gave Bono a banner saying U2: A Celebration and Bono said "you can call it that allright", it was the possibility that it could've came back, but 40 closed the show anyhow giving no chance of A Celebration to make it in the setlist. Although it would've worked well on The Joshua Tree or in the Lovetown Tour. But I don't think it's going to be in this tour.