Dublin 25-07-2009 BFA

Croke Park

Dublin, Ireland.

25 - July - 2009.

Attendance: 81.066 (sellout) - Support: Republic of Loose, Kaiser Chiefs

Total Running Time - 129:19

01. Kingdom (PA)

02. Breathe

03. No Line on the Horizon

04. Get On Your Boots

05. Magnificent

06. Beautiful Day / Here Comes the Sun

07. Mysterious Ways

08. - Bono's speech -

09. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Stand by Me

10. Angel of Harlem / Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

11. In a Little While

12. - Connection with the International Space Station -

13. Unknown Caller

14. The Unforgettable Fire

15. City of Blinding Lights

16. Vertigo

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

18. Sunday Bloody Sunday

19. Pride (In the Name of Love)

20. MLK

21. Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone

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

23. Where the Streets Have No Name

24. One

25. - encore break -

26. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)

27. With or Without You

28. Moment of Surrender

Recording Equipment - History

AT853c + CA9100 v3.2 + Edirol R09 (16bit/44.1KHz) > SD card > Audacity (track split, remove noise) > xAct (fix SBE) > FLAC

Taper: Ballerusk

Additional notes (by the taper): I gave this recording the title "BFA" because of 2 reasons. First: in the beginning of Mysterious Ways, Bono urges the crowd to get off their "big fat asses". And second: as a tribute to the screaming girl with a BFA I stood next to. I have never wanted to bitch slap someone so much before, but I didn't because a) she had just as much right to enjoy the concert as anyone else, and b) violence is never right.

In Audacity I removed some of the worst audience noise from one channel and patched it from the other channel so a few times the sound image will move from stereo to mono. I have also removed some hard clapping using the "repair"-function.

The band itself seemed in good shape and a lucky girl from Chile gets to dance with Bono during Mysterious Ways and Bono sings a line from Mothers of the Disappeared after the dance.

Comments

Night two at Croke Park in Dublin, with a slight rain from time to time. Very full sound in this recording with pretty good clarity. There is some crowd interference on occasion. To my ears, this one sounds great with a sharp output, although note that perhaps the first two or three songs don't sound as solid as the rest of the gig.

As the taper said, a girl from Chile came onstage to dance with Bono during Mysterious Ways, so he added a line from Mothers of the Disappeared at the end of the song.