Sunday, September 19, 2010

North Star in Paris

Tthe only U2 concert in France in 2010 took place last evening. Opening with The Return of the Stingray Guitar and featuring  North Star and Mercy, the show included three of the five new tracks the band have premiered on the current 360 European leg.
MLK was also back, in place of Mothers of the Disappeared, and Hold Me Thrill Me, in place of Ultraviolet. The white balloons blanketed the Stade de France tonight and we had a record-breaking concert audience here of ninety six thousand. Bono introduced the band in French much  to the delight of that ninety six thousand who contributed a record-breaking volume all night long.

Plenty of well-known names here too from fashion and the arts -  Fabien Verschaere, David Guettta, Helena Christensen and Marion Cotillard, Petra Nemcova - to politics, including French  Minister for Culture  Jack Lang and Minister for Finance, Christine Lagarde as well as Irish Ambassador Patrick Kavanagh.

Setlist

1. Return Of The Stingray Guitar
2. Beautiful Day
3. I Will Follow
4. Get On Your Boots
5. Magnificent
6. Mysterious Ways
7. Elevation
8. Until The End Of The World
9. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
10. North Star
11. Mercy
12. In A Little While
13. Miss Sarajevo
14. City Of Blinding Lights
15. Vertigo
16. Crazy Tonight / Two Tribes / Relax
17. Sunday Bloody Sunday
18. MLK
19. Walk On
20. One
21. Amazing Grace / Where The Streets Have No Name
22. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
23. With or Without you
24. Moment of Surrender


www.u2.com/www.u2.gigs (video)

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