U2360 Stadio Olimpico – Rome, Italy

Alas, the European leg of U2360 2010 comes to and end. All roads lead to Rome, they say, even for The Claw. The band treat the Italian crowd to Bad with bits of All I Want is You. Fun detail of the day: early in the show, Bono’s leather pants rip and he ties a sweater around himself to cover up the hole. Meanwhile, the audience put on a spectacle of their own – check out the video above for their colourful choreography!

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U2360 – Estádio Cidade de Coimbra – Coimbra, Portugal (II)

U2 play their second night in Coimbra, Portugal. In celebration of the reception the Portuguese audience gave U2 the first night, the band treat the crowd to the live premiere of “Boy Falls From the Sky”, the song written by Bono and The Edge for the Spider-man musical. Some fans at the show reported that they thought Bono experienced problems during the first half of the show (GOYB and Magnificent), couldn’t sing for a bit and seemed to be in pain. The missing vocals and improvised lyrics were obvious from the show’s live audio feed (as provided by fans), but the rest of the show continued without apparent problems, although Bono didn’t swing on the wheelie microphone at all during Ultra Violet. “Bad” was on the setlist (after Streets), but wasn’t played. With or Without You was dedicated to ‘the Ryan family’, by which we presume Bono meant the relatives of Irish broadcaster Gerry Ryan who died in April this year.

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U2360 – Estádio Cidade de Coimbra – Coimbra, Portugal

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Return of the Stingray guitar
Beautiful Day
I will follow
Get on your boots
Magnificent
Mysterious Ways
Elevation
Until the end of the world
I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
North star
Mercy
In a little while
Miss Sarajevo
City of blinding lights
Vertigo
I’ll go crazy if I don’t go crazy tonight
Sunday Bloody Sunday
MLK
Walk on
One
Where the streets have no name
Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me
WOWY
Moment of Surrender

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U2360 – Estadio Olímpico de Sevilla – Seville, Spain

The Seville crowd was pretty loud and Bono asked them to sing Happy Birthday for his ‘big brother’ Norman, just before In A Little While. The band introductions were all football related: ‘Iker Casillas’ on bass, ‘Our Own ‘EL Niño-the boy Torres’ on drums and ‘Xavi Hernadez’ on guitar.

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Return of the Stingray guitar
Beautiful Day
New Year’s Day
Get on your boots
Magnificent
Mysterious Ways
Elevation
Until the end of the world
I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
North Star
Mercy
In a little while
Miss Sarajevo
City of blinding lights
Vertigo
I’ll go crazy if I don’t go crazy tonight
Sunday bloody Sunday
MLK
Walk On
One
Where the streets have no name
Ultra Violet
With or without you
Moment of Surrender

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U2360 – Estadio Anoeta – San Sebastian, Spain

As the pitch in Estadio Anoeta appears to be sloping somewhat, the ramps around the 360 stage are a lot higher than usual. (See this picture from U2gigs.com) “Spanish Eyes” is the surprise entry on tonight’s setlist.

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U2360 – Stade de France – Paris, France

In the afternoon the band soundchecks Pride, Streets, All I Want is You, Mercy and Desire. The concert is sold out and there are a lot of people around the stadium still looking for tickets. The weather is good… a dry show for a change. As per usual in Paris, entry to the stadium is chaotic. Gates fail to open simultaneously and according to some reports some people get hurt. Inside the stadium it’s not much better – the GA area is too full.

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U2360 Munich – Olympiastadion – Munich, Germany

German audience surprises Bono at the end of Northstar.

U2 returns to the city where their singer’s back was Vorsprunged durch Technik. The doctors and nurses get plenty thanks, especially ‘beautiful, beguiling’ nurse Imke. During “Until the End of the World”, presumably responding to the chiming noise The Edge’s guitar was making, Bono quotes from Leonard Cohen’s beautiful “Anthem”: “Ring the bells that still can ring, forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” Then it’s from high brow to low brow as Bono sings “Moment of Surrender” wearing an FC Bayern Munich shirt.

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Where Europe meets Asia – U2360 Istanbul

First show in Turkey ever for U2 tonight. The band have been checking out the city for a couple of days. They’re really showing it their love and for what we’ve heard Turkish fans and media have replied in style.

Reports from the stadium are promising as rehearsals contained multiple run-throughs of both Mothers of the disappeared and Mercy.

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The first show in Turkey also marks the last show on this tour for support act Snow Patrol and during their song Chasing Cars, as the screens show “U2 crew love Snow Patrol”, all of the U2 crew take the stage and stage manager Rocco even gets to sing a verse, reportedly grabbing the microphone of Gary Lightbody.

-more to come as this might prove to be a very special show-

U2360 – Olympic Stadium – Athens, Greece

Bono talks about the similarities between the Greek and the Irish… both broke and capable of ‘godlike genius’ and in an impassioned speech tells the Greek, “we are not defined by financial targets.” He introduces the band as Greek gods and heroes: The Edge is Odysseus, Larry is Apollo, Adam’s Zeus and Bono is Alexander the ‘motherfucking’ Great. Stingray is the only new song played in this country that’s been starved of U2 live since PopMart Thessaloniki, 13 years ago. It’s a great gig with probably one of the loudest, most enthusiastic audiences on the tour so far.

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U2360 – Ernst Happel Stadion – Vienna, Austria

U2′s thank you card to support act One Republic (via their tweet)

Afternoon soundcheck (crew only): City of blinding lights, Vertigo, Moment of Surrender, New Year’s Day, Miss Sarajevo, Walk On, Desire.

Bono is in a talkative mood, but he has to be as there are some technical issues that leave space between songs. At one point he resorts to discussing Adam’s farting. Meanwhile, The Edge bears the brunt of the problems. First he doesn’t get his guitar in time for ‘In a little while’, then his guitar fails during ‘Mysterious Ways’, then has to change guitars during COBL and finally it doesn’t seem to be turned up loud enough on ‘Walk On’. ‘Glastonbury’ was listed on the setlist, but not played. The German news site oe24.at claims Bono was given an injection before the show to make him fit to play (“Und dabei musste er heute für das Wien-Konzert extra fitgespritzt werden!”). U2start.com commented: “Great show [...] Bono just didn’t look good at the end.” He was however, in good spirits. Enough to slip in a ‘Rock me Amadeus‘ snippet during Vertigo.

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