96,000 French Fans Love U2

U2 in concert is always a great show, but yesterday the group reached the summit. At the Stade de France, with 96,000 persons, the public has experienced a great moment in rock tour 360 ° Tour of way for the third time in two years in Paris.

The group has not disappointed and Bono who had back problems showed that he was in great shape.

Previously, Bono had gone alone to the Elysee Palace to meet with Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni. They discussed the summit “Millennium” which takes place this weekend in New York. Bono also discussed efforts against AIDS with the first lady of France. And he specifically requested help more African populations affected by this scourge.

Interpol opened the show and played for about an hour. Fans screaming BONO, BONO it was pretty clear that that Paris was ready to be rocked.  The setlist was pretty much the standard as the boys have settled into their show. Starting at 21:30 the intro pulls the fans from their seats that the crowd begins to swell as the Bono and the boys entered the stadium. The sound of the crowd was deafening, the walk in was pretty much a non event.  Beautiful day starts off the 2 hour show. Bono is in great shape, the boys Adam Larry and The Edge all ready to take the French down a musical road of bliss.


“I Will Follow”, Get on Your Boots and Magnificent have the audience ecstatic and yet you can sense that the boys may be playing for something they have yet to find. North Star and Mercy should be considered as testing songs. We have heard that we can expect a release 2010 (Late)

The band followed with a moment of atmosphere. Militant first with the classic Sunday Bloody Sunday when Bono and his band were introduced a few words of Get Up Stand Up by Bob Marley. And the public has not hesitated to use these words to heart, the little Irish recalling that France was the country of Human Rights and should not be forgotten. Then came the moment when the stadium became the largest nightclub in the world. Chaining City Of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, and a remix of I’ll Go Crazy If I Do not Go Crazy Tonight.

The screens came down full length and it surprised many, as they chained some of their classics; One, Where The Streets Have No Names and With or Without You.

Before leaving, Bono asks the Stade de France to make a vow that by 2015 no child in the world are born with the AIDS virus, especially in poor countries…

We will always have Paris – As the Boys move forward in during this massive tour



Paris Show Starts

The shift began in the early 1990s with the Zoo TV tour Tour: the group that had previously built his career on stage benefits minimalist emphasis on wireless communication device with the audience began to give his shows in pride of place to latest technology. U2 became one company very big shows where the music was just one element among others.

In this genre, no one is more massive than themselves and their scene today to 360 degrees - the very one who baited the beginning of the break between Johnny and Jean-Claude Camus, Johnny accepting someone evil make greater than he - is, in itself a good reason to come see them tonight. Obviously, there’s always music, but it involves so many mixers and sound engineers that it is difficult to distinguish between what is actually live, which is remixed and what has been preregistered. This would have shocked the past, present, it is accepted without problem by a public that understands that the Irish group makes the junction between the classic rock of yesteryear and the technological, the twenty-first century.

Remember Paris ?

Driving home last night I was listening to the Paris concert again. It’s cold all over the east coast of North America is under a deep freeze yet I had the windows open and I was just enjoying the concert all over again. Have you ever had a chance to re-listen to the concert or watch the video over again it’s as if you are attending the show for the first time?  So I thought I would dig up the review, some selected photos and of course our favorite videos from the show.  Paris had two shows, we have videos from both shows and the setlist as well as photos. We have a large selection of Paris videos and on our facebook fan page we will be posting a specail link for something very cool for our U2 fans. So if you have not joined our FB page now is your chance.

Paris Review July 11, 2009

That theme was further augmented during the band’s latest stop at Paris’s enormous, 90,000- capacity Stade de France, returning almost four years to the day of their last visits here – on July 9th and 10th, 2005 – for the Vertigo tour.

‘Thank you for coming out and thank you for giving us a great life,’ Bono crowed to the packed audience. ‘Thank you for giving us the chance to build this madness, this space station.’

That theme was further augmented during the band’s latest stop at Paris’s enormous, 90,000- capacity Stade de France, returning almost four years to the day of their last visits here – on July 9th and 10th, 2005 – for the Vertigo tour.

On Saturday night, the inhabitants of the International Space Station made a repeat appearance on The Claw’s circular screens, engaging in prerecorded banter with the band.  Guy Laliberte – billionaire founder of Cirque de Soleil, and soon-to-be resident of the Station – also received a shout-out during “In A Little While”.

“We have somebody with us tonight who is about to be the first clown in space,” Bono joked, referring to former stilt-walker and fire-eater Laliberte.

While the much-maligned “masks” made an appearance once again, those looking for a bit of levity from Bono’s politics received it during the Sunday night encore, when the singer engaged in a brief E.T. impersonation before show finale “Moment of Surrender”.

He was also in a joking mood during a brief interview for French television the day before; after Larry Mullen, Jr. cordially complimented the Stade de France as “an incredible place,” Bono quickly added, “Of all stadiums to get to trash, this is the most beautiful.”

The direction of the Paris gigs indicated that the nightly setlist is solidifying into something fairly consistent, at least for this leg of the tour; the opening four songs of new material have not changed, and neither has the three-song encore, expanded only once so far to include “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight” during the second night in Barcelona.  “In A Little While” and “Stuck in a Moment” – from All That You Can’t Leave Behind – continue to be interchanged, with the former being performed Saturday, and the latter making an appearance on Sunday.

Sunday night’s show also featured some surprises, with the tour debut of a solo-free “Mysterious Ways”, and an electric version of “Angel of Harlem”.  The ever-expanding “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight” was preceded by brief renditions of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” – the first time the band has performed it in any form – and K.C. and the Sunshine Band’s “That’s the Way (I Like It), making its first appearance since 1997’s Popmart Tour.

Crowds were energetic and enthusiastic both nights, the floor a rolling wave of activity during songs both new (”Get On Your Boots”) and old (”I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”).  The crowd briefly took over singing duties on the latter from Bono during Sunday night’s show, with both band and singer dropping out during the first verse to let the audience build the song’s momentum

We will always have Paris on that summer night in July 2009. If you think of another show that was better let us know. For now kick back and enjoy. Sign up on Youtube to be a part of 2010 Subscriber list. Don’t miss a minute of the show.