U2 360 Tour Pittsburgh

Twenty years after release the opening quartet of tracks from Achtung Baby lead us to the 1970′s (I Will Follow),  back to now (Get On Your Boots),  to 1987 (‘Still Haven’t Found’) and we’re in 1993 (Stay) before we’ve even noticed the trip.

The penultimate show of the tour, the last one in the US and at Heinz Field, on the site of the old Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh was up to the challenge. ‘Hot summer night in the burgh, come on now champions, where you gonna take us?’

Pittsburgh may have introduced Charles Bronson to the world ‘but we have our very own movie star, Larry Mullen Jnr.’ Pittsburgh may be associated with that ‘paragon of style and comfort Perry Como.. but I give you Adam Clayton!’ The world would not be the same without the great Andy Warhol ‘but could not the same be said of the man on my right… The Edge?’
As for the vocalist, he’ll take comparisons with that blue-eyed soul singer Christina Aguilera: ‘I’m in touch with my inner chick’.

Special guests tonight included a little boy who received a tour of the stage during City Of Blinding Lights and ‘Matt and Melissa’, serious about the band and about each other, who slow-danced their way through With Or Without You as if they were the only couple in the house. ‘I never thought of our band as a smoochin thing… ‘

We thought it was the beginning of the end when the lights went down, the cellphones came on and the milky way arrived ‘for all the people who are trying to hang on’ but Moment of Surrender from 2009 led into another song about surrender.
This one came from 1984 and it arrives in the show like a miracle on special occasions, tonight complete with some Van Morrison and Lou Reed and a final benediction in ’40′.

‘This is a special song for a special city. This is for a very special man who grew up on Cedarwood Road. We wrote this song about him, we play it for him tonight…’

‘If you twist and turn away.
It you tear yourself in two again.
If I could, yes I would
If I could, I would let it go.
Surrender, dislocate….’

Full U2.COM review here

Below, you can see the best videos we got so far and link to constantly updated photo albums, credit to the several U2 fans attending the show and press.

SETLIST

Opening Act(s): Interpol

Main Set: Even Better Than the Real Thing, The Fly, Mysterious Ways – Someone Somewhere in Summertime – Promised You a Miracle, Until the End of the World – Anthem, I Will Follow, Get On Your Boots, I Still Haven’t Found – The Promised Land, Stay, Beautiful Day – Space Oddity, Elevation, Pride, Miss Sarajevo, Zooropa, City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo – Two Hearts Beat As One, Miss You – I’ll Go Crazy (remix) – Discotheque – Psycho Killer – Life During Wartime – Please, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Scarlet, Walk On

Encore(s): One, Hallelujah – Where The Streets Have No Name, Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me, With Or Without You, Moment Of Surrender, Bad – In The Garden – Walk On The Wild Side – 40

VIDEOS

U2.com Official

Fan Videos

Compiled by U2News. Arrow for navigation to all videos.

PICTURES

Click in the link below to see all photos

Band Members Off-Show: Here
Show Photos: Here

U2 will take the stage at Heinz Field next July, 26 and the spaceship is getting ready for them. As we reported before, this is also the last time this structure in particular is assembled for the tour.

Interpol will be once again opening the night, getting the fans in the mood for one of the last nights of U2360º.

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