Browsing articles from "July, 2009"
Willie Williams: “A Wall of Audience”
Willie Williams explains the structure of U2′s Claw stage at the Amsterdam Arena.
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Gavin Friday on the tension of playing Dublin
Gavin Friday talks to U2.com just before the Dublin shows. Can you feel the tension?
U2 360 intro tape songs playlist
- TV On the radio – Lover’s Day
- TV On the radio – DLZ
- TV On the radio – Golden Age
- The Horrors – I can’t control myself
- M83 – Up
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
- M83 – Highway of Endless Dreams
- M83 – Midnight Souls Still Remain
- MGMT – Time to pretend
- Doves – Winter Hill
- M83 – Graveyard Girl
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
- Empire of the Sun – Walking on a dream
- Hot Chip – Ready for the floor
- M83 – You, appearing
- Bat for Lashes – Daniel
- Interpol – The Heinrich Maneuver
- TV On the Radio – Family Tree
- The Fratellis – Chelsea Dagger
- The Airborne Toxic Event – Sometime around midnight
- Kings of Leon – Slow Night, So Long
- Moderat – Les Grandes Marches
- Muse – Starlight
- The Killers – Spaceman
- La Roux – In For The Kill (Skream remix)
- The Gossip – Standing in the way of control
- Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling Into Place
- LCD Soundsystem – Time To Get Away
- The Pixies – This monkey’s gone to heaven
- Santogold – Lights Out
- White Lies – Death (Chase & Status Remix)
- David Bowie – Space Oddity
- U2 – Kingdom (excerpt)
We’ve collected as many of the songs that are played before the 360 concerts as we could and made a YouTube playlist of them for you. Missing some? Let us know. (For many of them the record companies have disabled embedding. Watch the full playlist here.) And here’s a (collaborative )Spotify playlist.
Thanks to @u2wanderer, @scatterolight, @rrafmn and @wendelasmit
New on the USA-leg:
Cage the Elephant – Judas
TV on the Radio – Red Dress
M83 – We Own the Sky
Official live video: I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
U2′s new ‘live’ video “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight” was filmed in Barcelona where the band played ‘Crazy’ twice, first the remix version, and later in the show the album track specifically for this video.
Daily Digest for July 29th
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Slideshow: U2 at Croke Park, July 27, 2009
Our photoset from U2′s gig at Croke Park in Dublin on July 27th, 2009
U2 360 Dublin, July 27, 2009
Setlist
- Breathe
- No Line on the Horizon
- Get on Your Boots
- Magnificent
- Beautiful Day
- New Year’s Day [ Video ]
- I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Snippet: Movin’ on Up)
- Stay [ Video ]
- Unknown Caller
- The Unforgettable Fire
- City of Blinding Lights
- Vertigo
- I’ll Go Crazy Remix (Snippets: Relax, Two Tribes)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday (Snippet: Rock the Casbah) [ Video ]
- Pride
- MLK
- Walk On (Snippet: You’ll Never Walk Alone)
- Where the Streets Have No Name (Snippet: All You Need Is Love) [ Streets ]
- One
- Bad (Snippets: 40, Fool to Cry) [ Video ]
- Ultraviolet [ Video ]
- With or Without You (with Shine Like Stars verse)
- Moment of Surrender
Daily Digest for July 27th
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Shared Clawsome!
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Shared U2 Croke Park slideshow
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