Rehearsals in Laval, Quebec. (source: http://www.u2songs.com/)
9 April: The Fly (riffs), Until the End of the World, Acrobat, Lights of Home
10 April: Acrobat, Acrobat (2x), Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, Acrobat, Until the End of the World, Acrobat, Possibly “The Fly” (Riffs only), Possibly “Desire”, Possibly “The Showman (Little More Better)”, Possibly “Vertigo” (Riff only), Lights of Home
Cedarwood Road, Song for Someone, Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, Acrobat, Until The End of The World
11 April: Pride (In the Name of Love) (x2), Get Out of Your Own Way, American Soul, City of Blinding Lights (musical transition into this song from American Soul)
14 April: Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me, Elevation, The Showman (Little More Better), Desire, Vertigo, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me, Elevation (Influx Mix), Elevation (Influx Mix), The Showman (Little More Better), Desire, Vertigo, Acrobat, Until the End of the World (x2), The Blackout
And later a full set:
An unidentified non-U2 song, likely taped, as intro music
Love Is All We Have Left, possibly taped
The Blackout
Lights of Home
Beautiful Day
The Ocean
Cedarwood Road
Song for Someone
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Acrobat
Until the End of the World / Sympathy for the Devil (snippet)
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Elevation
Desire
Vertigo
The Showman (Little More Better)
You're the Best Thing About Me
Staring at the Sun, acoustic
Pride
Get Out of Your Own Way
American Soul
City of Blinding Lights
One
Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way
13 (There Is a Light)
Song for Someone
15 April: Until the End of the World, Elevation, Desire, Vertigo, Staring at the Sun, Acrobat, Pride (In the Name of Love), Vertigo (Two additional times), You’re The Best Thing About Me
16 April: The Showman (Little More Better), Until The End Of The World, Sunday Bloody Sunday (1st time rehearsed) and Raised by Wolves (1st time rehearsed)
17 April: Iris (4x), The Ocean / Iris (2x), Song for Someone, Sunday Bloody Sunday (ie Tour Version), Raised By Wolves (ie Tour Version), Until The End Of The World (partial), The Ocean, Iris (via U2tour.de)
18 April: Desire, The Showman, The Ocean, iris, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Raised By Wolves, The Blackout, Lights of Home
And later a full set:
Unknown Pre-Recorded song (Possibly vocals by Bono)
Love is All We Have Left (Pre-Recorded)
The Blackout
Lights of Home
Beautiful Day
I Will Follow
The Ocean
Iris
Cedarwood Road
Song for Someone
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Raised by Wolves
Until the End of the World
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Elevation
Staring at the Sun
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Get Out of Your Own Way
American Soul
City of Blinding Lights
One
Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way
13 (There is a Light)
20 April:
Unknown Pre-Recorded Song (Possibly with Bono vocals)
Pre-Recorded Version of Love is All We Have Left
The Blackout
Lights of Home
Beautiful Day
I Will Follow
The Ocean
Iris
Cedarwood Road
Song for Someone
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Raised by Wolves
Until the End of the World
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Elevation
Desire
Vertigo
The Showman (Little More Better)
You’re the Best Thing About Me
Staring at the Sun
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Get Out of Your Own Way
American Soul
City of Blinding Lights
One
Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way
13 (There is a Light)
21 April: Gloria, All Because Of You, I Will Follow, Desire (with Bono shouting something as he starts these versions), Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way, 13 (There Is A Light)
Rehearsals in Tulsa
28 April:
Love Is All We Have (Pre-recorded Intro)
The Blackout
Lights of Home
Beautiful Day
All Because of You
I Will Follow
The Ocean
Iris (Hold Me Close)
Cedarwood Road
Song for Someone
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Raised by Wolves
Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Macphisto Voice Intro
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (PA)
Elevation
Vertigo
Desire
You’re the Best Thing About Me
Staring at the Sun
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Get Out of Your Own Way
American Soul
City of Blinding Lights
One
Love is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way
13 (There Is A Light)
29 April:
Afternoon Rehearsals:
Raised By Wolves
Wild Horses
American Soul
City of Blinding Lights
American Soul
City of Blinding Lights
The Blackout
Lights of Home
Beautiful Day
All Because of You
Later afternoon:
All Because of You
Raised By Wolves
Wild Horses
Raised By Wolves
Raised By Wolves
Raised By Wolves
Wild Horses
Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way
Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way
Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way
All Because of You
Raised By Wolves
Wild Horses
Desire
Desire
Desire
Acrobat
Evening Rehearsals:
Love Is All We Have Left
Staring at the Sun
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Get Out of Your Own Way
American Soul
City of Blinding Lights
One
Love is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way
13 (There Is A Light)
30 April: (final dress rehearsal, expected to be the final one and the setlist for opening night)
Love Is All We Have Left (over PA, with Bono singing live to his own voice during the first part)
The Blackout
Lights of Home
Beautiful Day / Many Rivers To Cross (snippet)
All Because Of You
I Will Follow
The Ocean
Iris
Cedarwood Road
Song For Someone
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Raised By Wolves / Songs of Experience: Introduction poem from William Blake (snippet)
Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Intermission: Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (Remix over PA, presumably by Gavin Friday)
Elevation (with Influx Remix intro)
Vertigo / Sympathy For The Devil (snippet)
Desire (Hollywood Remix version)
(Speech by mr. MacPhisto)
Acrobat
You’re The Best Thing About Me (acoustic)
Staring At The Sun (acoustic)
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Get Out Of Your Own Way
American Soul
City Of Blinding Lights
Encore, preceded by the song Women Of The World Take Over by Jim O’Rourke:
One
Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way
13 (There Is A Light)
1 May:
Afternoon Rehearsals - Edge and Crew (mostly snippets and partial practice):
Iris (Hold Me Close)
Song for Someone
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Raised by Wolves
Wild Horses
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (Gavin Friday)
Elevation
Desire
You’re the Best Thing About Me
The Blackout
Lights of Home
Beautiful Day
Iris (Hold Me Close)
Raised by Wolves (x2)
Vertigo
Acrobat
You’re the Best Thing About Me
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Get Out of Your Own Way
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Get Out of Your Own Way
American Soul (x2)
City of Blinding Lights
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Get Out of Your Own Way
American Soul
City of Blinding Lights
Lights of Home (x2)
Desire
City of Blinding Lights
Evening Rehearsals - Bono, Edge, and Adam:
Lights of Home (x2)
Raised by Wolves - partial
Until the End of the World - partial
Raised by Wolves
Until the End of the World
Desire
Acrobat
Women of the World (Jim O’Rourke)
Wild Horses
One
Write-up of the rehearsals in Laval, with some notable stats and remarks by CMIPalaeo
Just made a little writeup with some stats for something else; thought I'd share here too:
Notable (re)appearances:
- The Ocean: 9 December 2005 (12 years, 4 months ago), with one-off performance at Roxy show 28 May 2015 (2 years, 11 months ago)
- Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses: 9 December 2006 (11 years, 4 months ago)
- The Fly: 30 July 2011 (6 years, 9 months ago)
- Acrobat: famously, never performed
- Hold Me, Thrill Me: 30 July 2011 (6 years, 9 months ago)
- Staring At the Sun: 24 October 2001 (16 years, 6 months ago), with one-off Bono-and-Edge-only performance at Clinton show 15 October 2011 (6 years, 6 months ago)
- All Because of You: 20 February 2006 (12 years, 2 months ago)
Notable absences:
- Nothing from The Joshua Tree is known to have been rehearsed, including Where the Streets Have No Name. In an interview around the release of Songs of Experience, Edge mentioned the possibility of dropping most or all The Joshua Tree songs following the 2017 anniversary tour. If this happens at even one show, it will be the first time The Joshua Tree has gone unrepresented at a tour show since its release, and the first time Where the Streets Have No Name has missed a tour show since 18 November 1989 (28 years, 5 months ago).
- Nothing from Zooropa is known to have been rehearsed; the last time something from Zooropa was performed was the title track, a regular on the European leg of the i+e Tour, 7 December 2015 (2 years, 4 months ago).
- Perhaps unsurprisingly, nothing from No Line On the Horizon is known to have been rehearsed. The last performances from that album were Get On Your Boots, I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight, and Moment of Surrender on 30 July 2011 (6 years, 9 months ago), with a one-off performance of Magnificent on 13 September 2015 (2 years, 7 months ago).
- From Songs of Experience, Summer of Love, Red Flag Day, The Little Things That Give You Away, and Landlady are not known to have been rehearsed. Of these, only The Little Things has been performed before, on the earlier parts of The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, last on 25 July 2017 (9 months ago).
Other notes:
- If Staring At the Sun appears, this will make the e+i Tour the first U2 tour since the Vertigo Tour on which a Pop song was played; the last time was Discothèque on 20 September 2005 (12 years, 7 months ago), and even then, Discothèque was performed only twice on the Vertigo Tour.
- Acrobat and The Showman are the only songs known to have been rehearsed so far which have not yet been performed live. If Acrobat is played on opening night, it will have been 26 years, 5 months between its release (18 November 1991) and its debut. This would make it the second-longest gap between release and debut of any U2 song, following Red Hill Mining Town which debuted 12 May 2017 (30 years, 2 months since release).
Recordings
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Rehearsals in Berlin. (source: http://u2tour.de)
29 August:
The Blackout
Lights Of Home
I Will Follow
Red Flag Day
Beautiful Day
The Ocean
Iris
Cedarwood Road
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Until The End Of The World
Hold Me Thrill Me
Elevation
Vertigo
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Acrobat
You’re the Best Thing About Me
Summer Of Love
Pride
Get Out of Your Own Way
New Year’s Day
City Of Blinding Lights
Break....
Summer Of Love (x2)
30 August:
The Blackout
Lights Of Home
Red Flag Day
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Elevation
Vertigo
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Acrobat
You’re the Best Thing About Me
Summer Of Love
Pride
Get Out of Your Own Way
New Year’s Day
City Of Blinding Lights
Break....