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2018-09-20 - Madrid
 Tour: Experience and Innocence tour
Songs played: 25
Audio recordings: 2
Videos: 1
  1. Originally posted by LikeASong:What
    A
    Night,

    What
    A
    Show.

    Last Friday many different factors played their role; the sound was better than the night before; my company was superb, with loads of long term friends as well as my mum and my girl; the audience was SO into it; Spanish Eyes got its best performance since the end of the (original) Joshua Tree Tour; my spot on GA was about perfect, close to everything; the band was absolutely on fire.

    I stopped following this tour long ago, disappointed with the poor (and shrinking!) setlists of the US leg. That made me go spoiler-free to Madrid and I didn't know they had swapped Staring At The Sun for Summer Of Love, and American Soul for New Year's Day (thankfully), but also I didn't know they weren't playbacking Love Is All We Have Left either, nor the progression of the show. Therefore everything hit me like a truck on night1. And night2, with my lesson learnt, was absolutely mindblowing.

    Everything added up and now Madrid2 ranks as my #1 show ever, just surpassing San Sebastian 2010 which proudly held that title against brilliant shows like Amsterdam4 2015 and Barcelona '09 on the premiere of the biggest tour ever. And now Madrid2, the show I was anticipating the LEAST in my life, has swept everything and left me speechless. I'm truly lost for words.

    Here's my video. You can feel the excitement when I recognise the chord Edge was fingering (Dm, I shout "re menor! re menor!! vamos!!" because I totally knew Spanish Eyes was coming). That was the icing of the cake on an already great night. And Love Is Bigger with the final chant going on and on and on (something that didn't happen the night before) was just too much.

    [YouTube Video]

    [YouTube Video]


    I still stand behind this post - which is very rare after one year. What a gig, what a weekend that was. And the end of night2 I gathered much of my U2 friends, my girl, my mum for one of my fav photos ever. There's such a big part of my life within these megapixels:

  2. And I stand behind this as well, no matter how much I moan and criticize them

  3. Definitely one of the most beautiful days in my life. Having the crazy idea to make the near impossible happening - no TJT until then - and to request one of my all-time favourite U2 songs ever. Having the luck and the chance to talk with Bono and Edge about my request. Having had great support from Marco and the great guys from Italy, who supported me during our „meet & greet“ at the hotel. Grazie infinite a Voi e anche a Jana, Astrid (thanx for the fotos), Reinhard, Michael, Florian and Matthias for tolerating the hours, I‘ve talked about all this. And having my favourite band, still after all these years, to make dreams reality. Thank you @ Bono, Edge, Adam and Larry!
  4. Originally posted by ZOOTVTOURist:[image]
    Definitely one of the most beautiful days in my life. Having the crazy idea to make the near impossible happening - no TJT until then - and to request one of my all-time favourite U2 songs ever. Having the luck and the chance to talk with Bono and Edge about my request. Having had great support from Marco and the great guys from Italy, who supported me during our „meet & greet“ at the hotel. Grazie infinite a Voi e anche a Jana, Astrid (thanx for the fotos), Reinhard, Michael, Florian and Matthias for tolerating the hours, I‘ve talked about all this. And having my favourite band, still after all these years, to make dreams reality. Thank you @ Bono, Edge, Adam and Larry!
    Thank you for trying and for making it happen
  5. You‘re welcome - and I do wish everybody a great time in autumn/winter👍
  6. I love it how Bono goes down on his back & Edge down on his knees at the same time at 8:02 because the screen malfunctions pretty cool
  7. 5 years of one of the best nights of my life

    @remy @coen