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November 18, 2006 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Telstra Dome

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Opening Act(s): Kanye West

Setlist:

City Of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, Elevation, I Will Follow, New Year’s Day, Beautiful Day-Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band-Here Comes The Sun, Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of, Angel Of Harlem, Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own, Love And Peace Or Else, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Bullet The Blue Sky, Miss Sarajevo, Pride (In The Name Of Love), Where The Streets Have No Name, One. Encore(s): The Fly, Mysterious Ways, With Or Without You-Love Will Tear Us Apart, The Saints Are Coming, Desire, Kite.

Remarks:

Before the show, U2 are heard rehearsing ‘One Tree Hill’, but the song isn’t played tonight. It’s likely to be played during the upcoming shows in New Zealand. With several extra video cameras in action, its believed tonight’s show is being filmed. Bono brings a young boy on stage to sing during ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday,’ as he’s been doing at most recent shows. Nearly 200 fans are stranded outside the stadium because their tickets couldn’t be scanned for entry.

Media Review:

The Age

World’s greatest band explodes

by John Mangan

IN 1993 they gave us multimedia TV at the MCG, in 1998 it was a cosmic lemon at Glen Waverley. Last night at Telstra Dome, U2, the biggest band in the world, dazzled Melbourne with a passionate, pulsating set and surely the biggest, brightest venetian blinds the world has ever seen.

“Victoria, Garden State … let’s go to St Kilda tonight,” said Bono from the stadium’s Coventry End, and 60,000 cheered their agreement.

Then it was down to love, justice, God and all those other vivid yet frustratingly evanescent subjects that U2 insist on singing about.

Tributes abounded, to Michael Hutchence, the Clash’s Joe Strummer, and Australian film-maker Richard Lowenstein.

Bono dedicated Sunday, Bloody Sunday to the victims of the Bali bombing, saying: “You don’t have to become a monster in order to defeat a monster.” A young boy named Aidan was lifted from the crowd and sang along with the Time magazine Man of the Year.

Bono emerged wrapped in an Australian flag bringing the crowd to its feet with City of Blinding Lights. The singer began a long night covering every inch of the broad stage, The Edge made his guitar wail, and Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen jnr kept the rhythm rock solid. It was the first of a clutch of songs from the recent album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.

Pride (In the Name of Love) shook the Docklands, while in Miss Sarajevo he displayed his vocal versatility, singing the part originally performed by Luciano Pavarotti. With the help of show designer Willie Williams, the band demonstrated its own brand of shock and awe with a spectacular translucent video wall.

Aboriginal dot painting, a bandana featuring a crescent, a cross and a Star of David and a sea of mobile phones completed the picture.

Soaring emotions are the name of U2’s game, despite the sunglasses that Bono keeps as a barrier between himself and us.

Yet even they came off for Sometimes You Can’t Make it on Your Own, a searing song dedicated to the singer’s late father, Bob.

Kanye West, a huge contemporary act in his own right, had earlier impressively entertained with tracks including Gold Digger, but the crowd was only ever concerned about the main act.

Just another night in the office for the Dublin foursome?

Maybe, but exposing yourself emotionally in front of 60,000 punters, even friendly ones, still deserves a round of applause.

(c) The Age, 2006.

Images:

All photos by the Herald Sun

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