Saturday, July 22, 2017

U2 2017-07-22 Croke Park, Dublin

Sat, July 22, 2017 in Dublin, Ireland @ Croke Park

I went to Dublin and Paris to see 3 amazing shows by U2 (Saturday on Dublin and then Tuesday and Wednesday in Paris) from the "The Joshua Tree Tour 2017".

Celebrating 30 Years of "The Joshua Tree".

"The Joshua Tree transformed U2 into superstars. U2 is celebrating the album’s thirtieth anniversary with a world tour. The original album tackled weighty real-world topics. Bono and company want to connect the music to right now — to global anxieties about, immigration, human rights, and governmental regimes."

"But The Joshua Tree transformed U2 into superstars, with hit singles “With or Without You,” “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” and “Where the Streets Have No Name”. It was their first album to hit No. 1 on the U.S. album chart. U2 found themselves on the cover of Time magazine. A Grammy was awarded to the music video for “Streets,” shot on top of a Los Angeles liquor store. And when it was all said and done, The Joshua Tree sold more than 25,000,000 copies worldwide, was awarded the Grammy for Album of the Year, and contributed to U2 entering the discussion for greatest rock band ever. When Rolling Stone Magazine compiled its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, five U2 albums were listed, with The Joshua Tree ranked No. 27 (U2’s highest presence on the list)."

"In 2017, U2 is celebrating the album’s thirtieth anniversary with a world tour that spans 33 shows for an estimated 1.7 million fans. But these Dubliners have no desire to present The Joshua Tree tour as a museum piece. Bono and company want to connect the music to right now — to global anxieties about labor, immigration, human rights, governmental regimes, and the environment."

Thanks to Jonathan Hetterly, LPC for the text above. More on this link: - > http://www.shrinktank.com/30yearsofu2-joshuatree-tour/

Saw them 10 times before in other places, my Country and even other Countries.

Before "U2", played "Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds", they played 54 minutes.
Noel the member of the band "Oasis" (1991–2009).

U2, played for 129 minutes. Played 22 songs.

They were awesome live doing this stadium show. Amazing sound.

1st show I was Pitch 1 on the right corner of the VIP area just on front row.
2nd show I was 1st row corner of the B Stage (Tree Stage) with Larry Mullen drums just ahead of me.
3rd show I was on the stands with a Gold Hot Ticket from VIP Nation.

Here it is the setlist with intro from u2.gigs (http://www.u2gigs.com/article1204.html):

Tonight was U2's only hometown jaunt of The Joshua Tree 2017 Tour. The last time they played Dublin just once on a tour was all the way back on 29 June 1985, during the sixth leg of The Unforgettable Fire Tour, subtitled the European Summer Festivals leg. That concert also took place at Croke Park. Discounting those festivals, the last time they played Dublin only once was 26 January 1982 on the third leg of the October Tour, a night that saw the live debut of Tomorrow. U2 have never before played Ireland just once on a tour.

Bad was dedicated to Guckpants Delaney, the Lypton Village name for Andy Rowan. At the end of the song Bono snippeted Simon & Garfunkel's America for the first time this leg. During Streets there was a quadruple flyover by fighter jets, the contrails of each mixing to create the Irish tricolour as they passed over the stadium. Mothers of the Disappeared was played in Ireland for the first time ever, although it made a brief appearance in the past when it was snippeted on 25 July 2009. Amazingly, tonight's performance of Miss Sarajevo (the 183 for the song) was also the first in Ireland. Although a mainstay on both the Vertigo and 360 tours, it joined the set after the Irish concerts on both occasions. This is the longest gap (in both number of performances and time) for a song between debuting live and appearing in Dublin, though if Scarlet is ever performed there it will shatter that record for time.

01. Sunday Bloody Sunday
02. New Year's Day
03. Bad / America (Snippet)
04. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
05. Where The Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (Snippet)
06. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
07. With Or Without You
08. Bullet The Blue Sky / Black Dog (Snippet) + America (Snippet)
09. Running To Stand Still
10. Red Hill Mining Town
11. In God's Country
12. Trip Through Your Wires
13. One Tree Hill
14. Exit / Wise Blood (Snippet) + Eeny Meeny Miny Moe (Snippet)
15. Mothers Of The Disappeared

Encore(s):
16. Miss Sarajevo
17. Beautiful Day / Starman (Snippet)
18. Elevation
19. Vertigo / Rebel Rebel (Snippet)
20. Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
21. One / Hear Us Coming (Snippet)
Happy Birthday
22. The Little Things That Give You Away

In bold are the videos I made.

Videos of U2 (6 videos):

U2-New Year's Day, Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland, 2017-07-22 HD
https://youtu.be/r9B38mMfrKM
And the video:


U2-Bad + America (Snippet), Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland, 2017-07-22 HD
https://youtu.be/mGqQ3Xf1ows
And the video:


U2-I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland, 2017-07-22 HD
https://youtu.be/O5Q54hlZx0U
And the video:


U2-Red Hill Mining Town, Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland, 2017-07-22 HD
https://youtu.be/5fCM3dVQCEw
And the video:


U2-Beautiful Day + Starman (Snippet), Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland, 2017-07-22 HD
https://youtu.be/W_g3WRUAEHg
And the video:


U2-The Little Things That Give You Away, Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland, 2017-07-22 HD
https://youtu.be/foMLkSjP2AM
And the video:

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