Gelsenkirchen 03-08-2009 - CSSC

Veltins Arena

Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

03 - August - 2009.

Attendance: 73.704 (sellout) - Support: Snow Patrol

Total Running Time - 134:18

01. Space Oddity (PA) / 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. Elevation

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

09. Stuck in a Moment

10. Unknown Caller

11. The Unforgettable Fire

12. City of Blinding Lights

13. Vertigo

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

15. Sunday Bloody Sunday

16. Pride (In the Name of Love)

17. MLK

18. Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone

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

20. Where the Streets Have No Name

21. One

22. - encore break -

23. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)

24. With or Without You

25. Moment of Surrender / - Rocket Man (PA outro) -

Recording Equipment - History

Core Sound Stealthy Cardioids + Sony TCD-D7 > DAT Master (@ 32kHz) > Terratec EWX 2496 > Soundforge 9.0 > CDWave Editor > FLAC

Taper: Stadtfelder

Location: first row behind the left red zone

Additional notes (by the taper): There is only very little disturbing audience noise. The sound in the covered football stadium was not and will never be good. The band was sometimes sloppy in their playing, e. g. Bono mis-singing on Beautiful Day or Edge mis-playing very often (e. g. Magnificient, Stuck in a Moment, Unknown Caller and more). Vertigo was stopped after one minute due to a blown up amplifier but restarted immediately with new equipment. I didn't split the song into two tracks because the first version would be too short. Bono snippeted the song "Mensch" by German singer Herbert Grönemeyer twice: in the beginning of Beautiful Day (1:06 - 1:25) and after One (6:23 - 6:40)

Comments

First and in my opinion best source so far in terms of sound quality of the concert in Gelsenkirchen. It sounds clear and quite crisp, and offers a powerful output with music and vocals well upfront. Like my second source of this show (the so-called 'Auf Schalke 2009'), this recording just suffers a bit of reverb due to the stadium acoustics and roof. I'd say both sound pretty similar, but probably the 'Auf Schalke 2009' tape is more boomy than this one, and less solid, too. Sound quality is brilliant if we consider it was taped in the Veltins Arena.

After Elevation, Bono and the crowd sing again the chorus of the song. The Edge experienced problems with his guitar during Vertigo, so the band had to start it anew.