U2 to film Milan San Siro concerts
In case you hadn’t heard it through the grapevine yet, Willie Williams confirms the rumour that U2 are to film their Milan concerts in the San Siro stadium in his 8/7 diary entry:
‘Myself, Ned the Producer, Hamish the director, Allen the TV lighting consultant and Jake the production manager flew to Milan. The Big Video Shoot is two weeks from now at San Siro stadium, so we thought it best to go and have a look. We flew into Milan’s Malpensa Airport (which surely must be Latin for ‘bad thinking’?) where we were met by some of the Italian promoter’s team who took us to the stadium.
San Siro is a great venue and will work really well for the shoot. We are playing across the pitch in order to face into the three sides of the stadium that have three levels of seats rather than two. However, the field is practically square so this isn’t as much of a drag as it might otherwise be. The upside though is the height of the grandstands. The pitch is quite small but the building is extremely tall, so it will be like playing a show inside a cauldron of Italian enthusiasm.
Congratulations, Milan. The horrible sound you hear is the Dutch fan contingent gnashing their teeth in jealousy.
Amsterdam III: what more can you want?
(Terry Lawless playing Original of the Species with U2)
Setlist and comments:
Vertigo
I Will Follow
Electric Co.
Elevation (extended version, Bono leads crowd in stands in arm waving)
New Year’s Day (Bono thinks Edge has changed the solo for first time in twenty years, Edge admits it was an accident.)
Beautiful Day (Bono picks strong man from front row to carry him while singing)
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
City Of Blinding Lights (Bono releases Mickey Mouse balloon found in audience: ‘Bye Mickey. Bye Pluto!‘
Miracle Drug (Bono reads out Irish banner: ‘Cead mile failte. Aon, do, tri, ceathair déag. This is Dutch? Oh no. Irish. Gaelic. It means a million welcomes. A million. Thousand million. There are a lot of Irish people in this country. ‘Cause we love it here.’
Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own (dedicated to Robert Paschal Hanvey, Gavin Friday’s father who passed away on July 13th. Bono ends song with a few of Mr Hanvey’s choice phrases.)
Love And Peace Or Else (Partly sung with Elvis-voice / moves)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo (Full song, full band. Dedicated to Theo van Gogh and Pim Fortuyn and London)
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Where The Streets Have No Name (snippet of All You Need Is Love )
One-Unchained Melody (Bono thanks various people, especially Rabbi Soetendorp)
Zoo Station
The Fly
With Or Without You (girl on catwalk)
All Because Of You
Original Of The Species (Full band, with Terry Lawless on keyboard. Dedicated to Xandra Brood and Herman Brood.)
Yahweh
’40′ Larry ends with a brief bit of Radar Love
Hamish Hamilton and crew were on scene and filming bits and pieces, possibly a dry run for a shoot later this tour.
Review to follow. We’re still speechless. Here’s where we’ll be uploading some photos. And, um, here’s some of Miss Sarajevo (.wmv).
Is there a time?
For Miss Sarajevo? In Amsterdam there is. U2 just played a spine tingling full band version at their third and final show at the ArenA.
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