2001-08-15 - Birmingham, England - NEC Arena

setlist

Performance notes: Before One, a fan yells out "Party Girl" and the band performs the request.
Setlist and comment provided by U2gigs.com.

songs per album

  1. All That You Can't Leave Behind (7)
  2. Achtung Baby (3)
  3. The Joshua Tree (3)
  4. Pop (2)
  5. Boy (1)
  6. War (1)
  7. Zooropa (1)
  8. Rattle and Hum (1)
  9. The Unforgettable Fire (1)

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show attendees: 31

nickbibby
United Kingdom
hondapop
United Kingdom
poomagoo
Canada
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1 from Australia: runningtostandstill
1 from United Arab Emirates: iambic
1 from Japan: nonewyork
1 from Alabama: nigthor
1 from Canada: poomagoo

review by MattG

13 years ago

Performance

Pretty great performance of most of the material..I'll list the highlights at the bottom. The setlist is top notch!

Sound

Here's where this one really suffers. It varies, but at its' highest it never really gets better than a 3. It's still a great listen if you can make it through, for some of the performances, but it's admittedly not the best sounding show.
Recording: Audience microphone - 2 stars

Audience

They're well represented in the bootleg, and not obtrusive enough to take away from the listening experience.

Overall

I enjoyed this listen, but the sound unfortunately knocks this one down to a 3.5 for me. Worth a listen for the highlights listed below- the rest is skippable if you'd rather.

Highlights:

-Everything between "Discotheque" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday" was absolutely incredible. My favorite part of the show was the sadness of "Kite" bleeding directly into the coolness of "New York" in this show. It was almost seamless.
-Edge's guitar work in "Staring at the Sun" (really just an extended snippet off of "Discotheque") was great...I love when he hits the resolving chord in the chorus
-All I Want is You (stellar)
-With or Without You (amazingly beautiful performance, accompanied by a "Love Will Tear Us Apart" snippet at the end!)

Lowlights-

-I was so excited to hear The Edge just dive right into "One", and I thought we were just gonna get a no-holds-barres, no messing around, nice little performance of the song...and then Bono started talking anyway.


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