U2 play dress rehearsal in L.A.

Happy Easter! If you’d like to be spoiled for the opening night of U2’s Vertigo tour, check out @U2’s report from inside the LA Sports Arena, with setlist and notes on the look of the stage. A source working on the production tells us the boys have been working 18 hour days, “full on”.

Read on for the previous day’s (March 25) rehearsal set with comments from fans on the scene.


Setlist for March 25, rehearsal (18.30pm)

  1. City of blinding lights
  2. The Electric Co
  3. An Cat Dubh (segueing into:)
  4. Into the Heart
  5. Beatiful Day (new guitar)
  6. Miracle Drug (verry slow intro)
  7. Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own
  8. Love and Peace or Else
  9. Elevation (intro edge/bono, larry/adam kick in at 2nd refrain, new guitar)
  10. Stuck In A Moment (with piano)
  11. Yaweh (Edge/Bono only)
  12. Bullet the Blue Sky (Different guitar, lyrics in bridge)
  13. Running to Stand Still
  14. Zoo Station (new ending)
  15. The Fly (new intro `funky edgy remix`(seamless into unos dos tres / eins zwei drei / un deux trois)
  16. Vertigo (extended ending)
  17. Globe/satellite images/Africa ONE campaign sms spending

    Encore 1

  18. Where the Streets Have No Name (Starts with zootv type interference)
  19. Speech Bono about calling your president
  20. One
  21. Gloria

    Encore 2

  22. All Because Of You
  23. 40

At 23.35 there was another soundcheck with guitar tests, Pride played in C#, then the band played Pride/Streets/One for some time and Bono tried out his speeches, changed the words, etc. The soundcheck ended at 00.15.

(Via MS, mailing list)

11 thoughts on “U2 play dress rehearsal in L.A.

  1. O for crying out loud! not a single track from POP! thats bad! I’m excited about the new songs (obviously) and also look forward to hearing ‘an cat dubh’, ‘zoo station’, ‘gloria’ and ’40’. But please, we can do without ‘beautiful day’, ‘stuck in a moment’, ‘bullet the blue sky’! please?
    I would think ‘Love and Peace or Else’ is a great replacement for ‘Bullet’ as an anti-gun song.

  2. O for crying out loud! not a single track from POP! thats bad! I’m excited about the new songs (obviously) and also look forward to hearing ‘an cat dubh’, ‘zoo station’, ‘gloria’ and ’40’. But please, we can do without ‘beautiful day’, ‘stuck in a moment’, ‘bullet the blue sky’! please?
    I would think ‘Love and Peace or Else’ is a great replacement for ‘Bullet’ as an anti-gun song.

  3. I always had the feeling of the Vertigo tour being about leaving the stage for a longer time, giving the fans the last time what they want, i.e. lots of old tunes, fan classics and throw in enough “best of” songs to get the so-so-fan over the show happily.

    The whole setlist looks like we are going to see even more changes in there like compared to Elevation, as the band obviously kept space to throw alternate songs every evening. And we all know that songs like Still Haven’t found or With or Without You, Pride, NYD, Sunday could be included into the setlist within an hour of time, same should go for Mysterious Ways, Real Thing and Bad.

  4. I always had the feeling of the Vertigo tour being about leaving the stage for a longer time, giving the fans the last time what they want, i.e. lots of old tunes, fan classics and throw in enough “best of” songs to get the so-so-fan over the show happily.

    The whole setlist looks like we are going to see even more changes in there like compared to Elevation, as the band obviously kept space to throw alternate songs every evening. And we all know that songs like Still Haven’t found or With or Without You, Pride, NYD, Sunday could be included into the setlist within an hour of time, same should go for Mysterious Ways, Real Thing and Bad.

  5. U2 Played Reheasal in L.A.!

    みたびリハーサルのセット・リスト。
    今回はU2log.comからです。
    [https://www.u2log.com/]

    3月25日、LA Sports Arenaです。ラジオ番組の抽選でファンが招かれた模様。ネタ元にはファンの感想

  6. U2 Played Reheasal in L.A.!

    みたびリハーサルのセット・リスト。
    今回はU2log.comからです。
    [https://www.u2log.com/]

    3月25日、LA Sports Arenaです。ラジオ番組の抽選でファンが招かれた模様。ネタ元にはファンの感想

  7. U2 Played Reheasal in L.A.!

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    [https://www.u2log.com/]

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  8. No Discotheque, No Lemon, No Stay, No HMTMKMKM, No EBTTRT, No MW, No UTEOTW, No OOTS.

    Please: play either Stuck or Sometimes, not both – these are sister songs (prefer Sometimes).

    Streets not red,ok, but please do NOT kill the lights! Love to hear Bad and TUF. Show closer: Love is Blindness, not 40.

    Bono, just give me what I want, and no-one gets hurt 😉 Ah well, I’ll love it anyway!

  9. No Discotheque, No Lemon, No Stay, No HMTMKMKM, No EBTTRT, No MW, No UTEOTW, No OOTS.

    Please: play either Stuck or Sometimes, not both – these are sister songs (prefer Sometimes).

    Streets not red,ok, but please do NOT kill the lights! Love to hear Bad and TUF. Show closer: Love is Blindness, not 40.

    Bono, just give me what I want, and no-one gets hurt 😉 Ah well, I’ll love it anyway!

  10. I’m sure it will be fantastic and I really can’t wait, but I’m underwhelmed by that setlist.

  11. I’m sure it will be fantastic and I really can’t wait, but I’m underwhelmed by that setlist.

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