Barcelona 08-08-2001

Palau St. Jordi

Barcelona, Spain.

08 - August - 2001.

Attendance: 18.000 (sellout) - Support: Stereophonics

Disc 1 (72:35)

01. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (PA)

02. Elevation Influx Intro (PA)

03. Elevation

04. Beautiful Day

05. Until the End of the World

06. New Year's Day

07. - Bono's speech -

08. Kite

09. New York

10. I Will Follow

11. Spanish Eyes

12. Sunday Bloody Sunday

13. Wake Up Dead Man

14. Stuck in a Moment

15. In a Little While

16. - Happy Birthday to Edge -

17. Party Girl

18. Desire

19. Stay (Faraway, so Close!)

Disc 2 (56:31)

01. Bad / Alison / "40"

02. Where the Streets Have No Name

03. Mysterious Ways

04. Pride (In the Name of Love)

05. - intermission -

06. - Bullet the Blue Sky Intro -

07. Bullet the Blue Sky

08. With or Without You

09. - intermission -

10. One

11. Walk On

12. - crowd noise -

13. Grace (PA outro)

Recording Equipment - History

OKM IIr > A3 > PCM-M1 

Taper: J.D.

Comments

This is the best of three audience recordings I've heard of this show. It is the cleanest for sure, and it brings less audience noise than the others. It's a pretty solid recording with all instruments very well audible and it offers good clarity, but sounds slightly distant and lacks overall strength. Crowd noise and individual voices are also audible here and there, generally between songs, and soft clapping as well (most noticeable during the first bunch of songs). However, when crowd calm down, this recording gets brighter, bordering with excellent sound quality.

A few surprises appeared on the setlist to celebrate Edge's birthday. An extended but odd rendition of Spanish Eyes, for the crowd's delight, and a funny and impromptu Party Girl. A nice snippet of Elvis Costello's Alison is also included in Bad. During Mysterious Ways, the screens are risen and show some pictures of The Edge through the pass of the years, with seven girls holding birthday cakes for his birthday, seated on the top of the screens. The guitar player didn't notice it until the end of the song. In a Little While wasn't printed on the original setlist, but finally it was played. On the contrary, it's said The Fly was printed, so it might be dropped out, and In a Little While took its place. Bono forgot some lyrics during One, and he re-sang them after the song, as a little snippet.