White Flags in the Land of the Midnight Sun

Ullevi Stadion

Gothenburg, Sweden.

29 - July - 2005.

Attendance: 58.478 (sellout) - Support: Razorlight, The Soundtrack of Our Lives

Disc 1 (76:38)

01. Wake Up (PA)

02. Vertigo

03. I Will Follow

04. The Electric Co.

05. Elevation

06. New Year's Day

07. Beautiful Day

08. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

09. All I Want is You

10. City of Blinding Lights

11. - Bono's speech -

12. Miracle Drug

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

14. Love and Peace or Else

15. Sunday Bloody Sunday

16. Bullet the Blue Sky

Disc 2 (59:58)

01. - intro to 'Miss Sarajevo' -

02. Miss Sarajevo

03. - Declaration of Human Rights -

04. Pride (In the Name of Love)

05. Where the Streets Have No Name

06. - 'One Campaign' speech -

07. One

08. Rain

09. - intermission -

10. - Zooropa Jackpot -

11. Zoo Station

12. The Fly

13. With or Without You

14. - encore break -

15. All Because of You

16. Party Girl

17. Vertigo

18. - outro: crowd noise -

Recording Equipment - History

OKM IIr + Sony TCD-D7 > DAT Master

Taper: U2Seek

Transfer: DTC-59 ES (optical) > Steinberg (faded & normalized) > CDR-M > WAV > CDWave (tracks) > Flac FrontEnd > FLAC (level-8)

Additional notes (by the taper): This one was hard work and it cost me some nerves... I have never been so close to the Vertigo stage (far right side) which was great but there were lots of security people all around me, one right behind me (you can even hear him on the tape), especially during the first half of the show when it was not dark yet. I had to change my position a bit sometimes or even bend down in order not to be seen. 

Comments

An excellent recording with a very good overall punch. Sound quality is pretty good compared to other concerts of the second leg of the tour. Clarity and sharpness are both excellent. Not much audience noise near the taper, just some clapping and a few ocassional individual voices, so nothing too disturbing. So it sounds very solid and strong, to sum up. Sometimes there are stray volume changes, as mentioned by the taper, as he had to move or even hide the mics. Anyway, the final result is impressive in this great tape.

Usual snippets appeared here and there, with the band playing the standard setlist that would suffer minimal changes until the end of the European tour.