Paris 11-07-2009  ECM719

Stade de France

Paris, France.

11 - July - 2009.

Attendance: 93.272 (sellout) - Support: Kaiser Chiefs

Total Running Time - 128:34

01. Kingdom (PA)

02. Breathe

03. No Line on the Horizon

04. Get On Your Boots

05. Magnificent

06. Beautiful Day / Blackbird

07. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Movin' On Up

08. Desire / Billie Jean / Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

09. In a Little While

10. - Connection with the International Space Station -

11. Unknown Caller

12. The Unforgettable Fire

13. City of Blinding Lights

14. Vertigo

15. I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight  (remix)

16. Sunday Bloody Sunday

17. Pride (In the Name of Love)

18. MLK

19. Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone

20. - Desmond Tutu's 'One Campaign' speech -

21. Where the Streets Have No Name

22. - Bono's 'One Campaign' speech -

23. One

24. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)

25. With or Without You

26. Moment of Surrender

Recording Equipment - History

Sony ECM-719 stereo mic > M-Audio MicroTrack II (@ 24bit/48kHz)

Taper: M!les

Location: Inner pitch between main stage and catwalk, 10 rows from front, on Edge's side

Transfer: MicroTrack II > USB > WAV > WaveLab (16bit/44.1kHz) > CDWave > FLAC

Additional notes (by the taper): Just back from this great show! The band were in an excellent mood and delivered a tight, energetic performance
(except from a small glitch in 'Vertigo'). This is the 5th show from the current 360º Tour and it's a bit more well-oiled. Bono's voice sounded beautiful, he talked a lot to the audience, great interaction with the crowd. Short but very emotional speech to introduce "The Unforgettable Fire" (the gem of this tour IMHO, at long last they play it again!). I know that usually tapers hate screamers but I don't care. This was a rock'n'roll concert, it's about the music, I was with many friends and everyone wanted to have fun, it's all that matters.

Comments

Very nice source of the first night in Paris. Sound quality is pretty good, with a clear and strong capture of music and vocals. The output sounds quite full and solid but it suffers a bit of stadium syndrome, with a slightly echoed sound. The real major here is the amount of crowd noise with hard clapping and individual voices near the taper here and there, although mostly placed between songs (explained by the taper above), so some may downgrade this source a little bit. However, I prefer this source over "bedoc's master" (SP-CMC-4 + SP-SPSB-1 Battery Box @160HZ + Olympus LS-10) in terms of overall clarity of the output.