ZOO-TV Outside Broadcast
Sep. 15th, 1992 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevins_concertsOne of the two greatest shows I have ever seen. U2 at the World Music Theater, Illinois.
U2 was playing in Madison, but neither Phil nor I could attend. He had already promised to pick up tickets for whomever wanted to go, and I was going to see the show at the World, several nights later, so we both went down to the MECCA box office to buy tickets. Phil did well in the lottery, and got great seats - among the best he'd ever gotten. Steve and some other friends of Phil sat adjacent to the b-stage at Camp Randall. Phil still laments that he missed it. My seats were decent too.
I had gotten home from work, eaten supper, and was sitting around thinking there was something I was supposed to be doing. Out of the blue, it hit me - U2! I don't know how I remembered that, but there it was. I swore a lot. I ran around the house trying to get ready, and find my tickets, and try to figure out where the World was, and how to get there (I can only imagine what my mom and sister were thinking). I found it in my road atlas (fortunately, it was a big enough attraction that it was actually listed!), and jumped in the car. I flew. I made it to the freeway exit in exactly two hours. Eight o'clock. Show started at 7:00. It took me another half hour - or was it a whole hour - to get off the off-ramp, across the bridge, down the road, into the parking lot, park and get in there.
There were two opening acts. I was barely into Illinois when The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy went on. I liked their song "Television, the Drug of the Nation" (which was why they were hired for this tour), and would have liked to hear more, but I wasn't too disappointed to miss them. I felt similarly about the second band, Big Audio Dynamite II. Maybe even more ambivalent. They were ending their set as I walked across the parking lot. I made it to my seat well before U2 came on. My seat was to the right, not too far from the stage, the b-stage was to my left.
All the excitement of the previous show, taken from the small indoor stage to the big outdoor stage. Twice as many video screens. Trabants on crane arms, Bono trying to call president Bush, mesmerizing belly dancer, a message, audiovisual overload. It was just huge.
Setlist from http://www.u2setlists.com/zootv-outsidebroadcast.shtml (ordering on songs 2 thru 6 differs from my notes)
Zoo Station
The Fly
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Mysterious Ways
One
Until The End Of The World
New Year's Day
Wild Rover (sung by Larry)
Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World
Angel Of Harlem
When Love Comes To Town
Satellite Of Love
So Cruel
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Running To Stand Still
Where The Streets Have No Name
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Stand By Me
encores:
Desire
Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
With Or Without You
Love Is Blindness
Can't Help Falling In Love
comment: Last performance of So Cruel ever. It is performed solely by Bono.
U2 was playing in Madison, but neither Phil nor I could attend. He had already promised to pick up tickets for whomever wanted to go, and I was going to see the show at the World, several nights later, so we both went down to the MECCA box office to buy tickets. Phil did well in the lottery, and got great seats - among the best he'd ever gotten. Steve and some other friends of Phil sat adjacent to the b-stage at Camp Randall. Phil still laments that he missed it. My seats were decent too.
I had gotten home from work, eaten supper, and was sitting around thinking there was something I was supposed to be doing. Out of the blue, it hit me - U2! I don't know how I remembered that, but there it was. I swore a lot. I ran around the house trying to get ready, and find my tickets, and try to figure out where the World was, and how to get there (I can only imagine what my mom and sister were thinking). I found it in my road atlas (fortunately, it was a big enough attraction that it was actually listed!), and jumped in the car. I flew. I made it to the freeway exit in exactly two hours. Eight o'clock. Show started at 7:00. It took me another half hour - or was it a whole hour - to get off the off-ramp, across the bridge, down the road, into the parking lot, park and get in there.
There were two opening acts. I was barely into Illinois when The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy went on. I liked their song "Television, the Drug of the Nation" (which was why they were hired for this tour), and would have liked to hear more, but I wasn't too disappointed to miss them. I felt similarly about the second band, Big Audio Dynamite II. Maybe even more ambivalent. They were ending their set as I walked across the parking lot. I made it to my seat well before U2 came on. My seat was to the right, not too far from the stage, the b-stage was to my left.
All the excitement of the previous show, taken from the small indoor stage to the big outdoor stage. Twice as many video screens. Trabants on crane arms, Bono trying to call president Bush, mesmerizing belly dancer, a message, audiovisual overload. It was just huge.
Setlist from http://www.u2setlists.com/zootv-outsidebroadcast.shtml (ordering on songs 2 thru 6 differs from my notes)
Zoo Station
The Fly
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Mysterious Ways
One
Until The End Of The World
New Year's Day
Wild Rover (sung by Larry)
Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World
Angel Of Harlem
When Love Comes To Town
Satellite Of Love
So Cruel
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Running To Stand Still
Where The Streets Have No Name
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Stand By Me
encores:
Desire
Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
With Or Without You
Love Is Blindness
Can't Help Falling In Love
comment: Last performance of So Cruel ever. It is performed solely by Bono.