Uma Viagem Cosmica pelo Universo U2

Assim pareceu o concerto deste sábado passado em Coimbra.
Momentos antes de se iniciar o espectáculo ouvia-se pelos speakers o som de David Bowie com "Major Tom to Ground Control" e dá-se a entrada dos elementos dos U2, Bono, Edge, Larry e Adam sobem as escadas em direcção ao palco e logo se inicia um concerto que não deixa ninguem indeferente. Com um alinhamento baseado como era de se esperar no seu ultimo trabalho "No Line On The Horizon" com fortes visitas ao album de 1987 "Joshua Tree" com 2 ou 3 musicas novas e os sempre bem vindos classicos como o "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "One", "Hold me, Trill me, Kiss me, Kill me" e "Until the End Of The World". foram mais de 2 horas que passaram a voar.
Como sempre um concerto deles é alem do maior concerto Rock do mundo, é tambem uma chamada de atenção às realidades politicas mundiais, como a campanha One, o fim da divida dos paises mais pobres, a libertação da lider da Burma e os apelos ao apoio da aministia internacional. A mensagem do bispo Tutu da Africa do Sul é simplesmente inspiradora o que nos leva a pensar que ainda podemos fazer algo para mudar o mundo.

Aqui deixo o alinhamento dos dois comcertos em coimbra.

Coimbra Set List 02 Outubro 2010


Return of the Stingray Guitar
Beautiful Day
I Will Follow
Get On Your Boots
Magnificent
Mysterious Ways
Elevation
Until The End Of The World
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
North Star (An Acoustic Version)
Mercy
In A Little While
Miss Sarajevo
City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (Remix)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
MLK
Walk On

Encore
One
Where The Streets Have No Name

Encore 2
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
With Or Without You
Moment Of Surrender

North Star and Mercy among the highlights for first of two shows in Coimbra tonight. I Will Follow was another surprise early on, while Hold Me Thrill Me returned in the final encore.

Fifty four thousand packed into the Estadio Cidade tonight and what a noise they made.'Briosa, Briosa' called Bono as the show opened, the chant of the local Academica football team, and everyone here sang it back to him with interest.
'Where are we going? Lisboa.. Porto... Braga...Coimbra!' What an ovation that received, welcoming the band for their first ever show in Portugal's main university town.
'If you'd gone to the University of Coimbra, what might you have been?' Bono asked Edge. 'I don't know if I would have lasted,' came the reply. 'But I would have fallen back on my original career plan - a male model.'
When Larry grows up, he revealed, 'I fancy myself as a professional musician.'
Adam, asked Bono, you've had time to think about this. 'I'd like to try my hand at chemical engineering.'
As for the singer? 'Me? I am what I would have been... a travelling salesman. I sell songs with this group, my three best friends.'
Another special night on the long and winding road that is the 360 Tour and now just two nights to go in Europe.
'Thank you so much. Obrigado. This is Moment of Surrender...'

Coimbra  Set List 03 Outubro 2010


Return of the Stingray Guitar
Beautiful Day
New Year's Day
Get On Your Boots
Magnificent
Mysterious Ways
Elevation
Until The End Of The World
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Boy Falls From the Sky
In A Little While
Miss Sarajevo
City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (Remix)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
MLK
Walk On
One

Encore
Where The Streets Have No Name

Encore 2
Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
With Or Without You
Moment Of Surrender


Introducing a new song from the stage in Portugal tonight, Bono said, 'In honour of last night and tonight... and the incredible welcome you have given us... we want to try something we have never played before. This could be interesting! This is Boy Falls From The Sky.'

This is indeed the song Reeve Carney performed on Good Morning America last week for the launch of Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark. The sixth new and unreleased track that the band have performed on this European leg, the reception from the 55,000 capacity audience was huge. But then maybe nothing would surprise us on a tour like this one. After a day of heavy rain, the skies had finally cleared in time for the band to take the stage for the second show here and although we'd all got soaked earlier, the receptionwas overwhelming.
'Thank you for making us feel at home, this Irish weather is perfect,' reflected Bono. 'There’s been some bad weather in the economy for both our countries but it is not going to stop us being who we are and tonight is going to be one of the best nights of our lives.'
And so it turned out, all the way from a blistering version of The Return of the Stringray Guitar - what an inspired choice of opener that's become - to the final benediction of Moment of Surrender.
Can't stop without mentioning Bono leading everyone in the football chant ( Eferreá, Eferrié, Eferri-í, Eferrió, Eferriú) after Pride which was pretty special and the moving segue into Walk On: 'A message of love from Portugal, Coimbra all the way to Burma. Do not give up, one day freedom will be won. Until that day we'll stand by you...'
Were you at this last-but-one show in Europe tonight ? What are the images you can never forget, the songs still ringing around your head, the moments you'll never surrender.

fonte textos em Inglês e das setlists: http://www.u2.com/
 
Ficam os meus votos para duas coisas que os U2 poderiam fazer...
1º Um dvd com uma mistura dos dois concertos.
2º Na próxima Tour que venham mais a norte e realizem 2 concertos no estádio do Dragão.
 
Jimi a.k.a Adriano

Queima das Fitas 2010

Ontem à noite tive a oportunidade de assistir na Queima das Fitas do Porto ao concerto dos Franz Ferdinand. foi um bom concerto numa noite bastante fresca num recinto repleto.

Muito Bom

Os meus próximos concertos são:

4 de Maio - quim barreiros (dia do cortejo, não podia faltar)

6 de Maio - Xutos & pontapés (uma tradição)

8 de Maio - GNR e Legendary Tiger Man

13 de Maio - Emir Kusturica (queima das fitas de braga)

10 de Junho - Oeiras Alive - Pearl Jam

Junho / Julho - Maia Act

Jimi a.k.a. Adriano