1989-10-16 - Melbourne, Australia - National Tennis Centre

setlist

  1. Hawkmoon 269
  2. Desire / Not Fade Away (snippet)
  3. All Along The Watchtower / Like A Hurricane (snippet)
  4. Bullet The Blue Sky / Neighbours Theme Song (snippet)
  5. Running To Stand Still
  6. Heartland (snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name
  7. I Will Follow
  8. Gloria
  9. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Exodus (snippet)
  10. All I Want Is You / Sexual Healing (snippet)
  11. People Get Ready
  12. Angel Of Harlem
  13. When Love Comes To Town / In The Midnight Hour (snippet)
  14. Love Rescue Me
  15. With Or Without You / Shine Like Stars (snippet)
  16. God Part II / I Feel Love (snippet)
  17. New Year's Day
  18. Pride (In The Name Of Love)

  19. encore(s):
  20. Party Girl
  21. 40
Performance notes: A small group of fans are invited into the venue for the soundcheck and they witness performances of Dancing Barefoot (a Patti Smith cover U2 recorded for the When Love Comes To Town single but never played in concert) and She's A Mystery To Me (which didn't make its concert debut for another 2.5 months). In draft itineraries, an eighth Melbourne show at the same venue was listed for the next night, 1989-10-17. This show was never put on sale.
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songs per album

  1. Rattle and Hum (8)
  2. The Joshua Tree (5)
  3. War (2)
  4. Boy (1)
  5. October (1)
  6. The Unforgettable Fire (1)

best song performances

  1. Running To Stand Still (5 votes)

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review by germcevoy

15 years ago

Performance

Ups

- LoveTown was U2 at their peak. They wern't as serious as they were on the JT tour, theres less ego in these shows. It's just a band playing music for the sake of playing music and it's reflected in this show.
- Setlist is excellent.
- Hawkmoon is a great opener but it still doesn't beat the album version for me.
- Like A Hurricane was nice at the end of WatchTower.
- Bullet was very well executed. Loved the blend of humour intwined with the underlying serious issue of the song.
- Running To Stand Still. WOW. Absolute highlight of this show and definitely challenging for the best version of this song I have ever heard. How can Bono play 7 nights in the same venue and still pour that emotion into that song. Fantastic.
- In The Midnight Hour was another great choice of snippet.
- WOWY had the 'with or withOUT YOU!!!' which gives it a mighty thumbs up from me. Not as good as the version at the first Point show but I love to hear Bono really try.
- God Part ll as great as ever
- New Year's Day - 'and maybe the time is right'. Wow he sang that as late as 89? I though that was an 82 thing. Nice
- 10/10

Downs

- Negatives? must be having a laugh. Only negative is that they didn't play Dancing Barefoot which they had soundchecked that very same day.
- Shows like this make me feel dissapointed with the U2 of the present era.


Sound

- 3 stars absolute max
- Almost brilliant. It suffers from either the taper being too close to the stage as his mic can't deal with volume. You can hear that static inteference throughout. Or else this is just an old gen tape and age hasn't been nice.
- I wished I got this in lossless. Lots of bumps and skips and fast forward. No fault of the tapers though.
- Edge's guitar comes and goes in places.
- Overall a pretty decent recording

Recording: "Melbourne Memoirs Vol 6 (boyacrobat)" - 3 stars

Audience

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Overall

Fucking awesome show and definitely the best we've listened to yet. It's LoveTown so it was always going to be great but what a gem. It's all about Running To Stand Still for me. I've been suffering from a tiny bit of U2 burnout these past few weeks but that one song just relit my fire. It was that good. Definitely a keeper.

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