Beautiful Day in the Capital of Zooropa

Koning Boudewijn Stadion

Brussels, Belgium.

10 - June - 2005.

Attendance: 60.499 (sellout) - Support: The Thrills, Snow Patrol

Disc 1 (72:32)

01. Wake Up (PA) / Everyone (PA)

02. Vertigo

03. Until the End of the World

04. The Electric Co.

05. Elevation

06. New Year's Day

07. Beautiful Day

08. City of Blinding Lights

09. Miracle Drug

10. Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own

11. Love and Peace or Else

12. Sunday Bloody Sunday

13. Bullet the Blue Sky

14. Running to Stand Still

Disc 2 (51:53)

01. - Human Rights Declaration -

02. Pride (In the Name of Love)

03. Where the Streets Have No Name

04. - "Make Poverty History" speech -

05. One

06. - Zooropa Jackpot -

07. Zoo Station

08. The Fly

09. Mysterious Ways

10. All Because of You

11. Yahweh

12. Vertigo / Stories for Boys

Recording Equipment - History

OKMIIR > A3 > MZ-G750

Taper: Sousous

Location: Tribune B1 Rang 05

Comments

A pretty good recording for the European première of the Vertigo Tour. It is slightly distant and lacks more strength, but all instruments have been nicely captured and they are quite well audible. Crowd noise is also noticeable, with some stray conversations near the taper, and cheering and clapping as well, but nothing too detracting. Anyway, clarity is really good throughout the show, and sometimes, it is phenomenal (Running to Stand Still is a good example).

Nice live feeling overall, with the band putting on a good show. There are snippets here and there, with Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins) and I Can See for Miles (The Who) in The Electric Co, Here Comes the Sun (The Beatles) in Beautiful Day, No Regrets (Tom Rush) in Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own, or The Hands That Built America and Johnny Comes Marching Home during Bullet the Blue Sky. The band begin New Year's Day à-la-US Remix, with the piano sequence first, and later bass and drums kick in (as rehearsed the day before during the so-called 'Dress Rehearsal').

Note a small skip at 01:19 in Running to Stand Still due to a mic problem.