Malta Fantastica

Estadio Cidade de Coimbra

Coimbra, Portugal.

03 - October - 2010.

Attendance: 54.993 (sellout) - Support: Interpol

Total Running Time - 128:34

01. Space Oddity (PA)

02. Return of the Stingray Guitar

03. Beautiful Day / Rain

04. New Year's Day

05. Get On Your Boots

06. Magnificent

07. Mysterious Ways / Can't Stand the Rain

08. Elevation

09. Until the End of the World

10. - Bono's speech -

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

12. Pride (In the Name of Love)

13. - crowd singing -

14. Boy Falls From the Sky

15. In a Little While

16. Miss Sarajevo

17. City of Blinding Lights

18. Vertigo / She Loves You

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

20. Sunday Bloody Sunday

21. - Bono's speech -

22. MLK

23. Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone

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

25. One

26. Amazing Grace

27. Where the Streets Have No Name

28. - encore break -

29. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)

30. With or Without You

31. - Bono's speech -

32. Moment of Surrender

33. Singing in the Rain

Recording Equipment - History

Sennheiser Stereo Scanner + Edirol R-09HR > Cool Edit > WAV > FLAC

Tapers: Nunomoreira1 and Kaycee

Additional notes (by the tapers): This feed was from Bono's IEM. We arrived for this concert later in the afternoon than we usually do, but because it was pouring rain we still ended up near the front of the line. After the gates opened at 5 in the afternoon, we ran to get inside the circle and ended up right in front of Bono again (3 meters away). It was a great concert in spite of the rain, and Bono sings several "rain" snippets during the concert. The crowd was great, and we were lucky to hear "Boy Falls From the Sky" for the first time ever!.

Comments

Another stereo IEM recording from Bono's that documents the second night in Coimbra. It sounds powerful with a clear capture of music and vocals. But on the other hand, the recording is plagued by static dropouts and interferences, although the worst part is located in the first third of the show. Return of the Stingray Guitar and Beautiful Day are almost ruined by huge clipping, that lasts until 2:55 into Beautiful Day. However, even with these scratches and interferences, the tape offers very nice sound quality.

Boy Falls From The Sky had its live début that night, and it was the sixth unreleased song to that date which was played on the third leg of the tour. Quoting the website www.u2gigs.com :

Live debut of Boy Falls From the Sky, performed as a special surprise in honour of Coimbra's very enthusiastic reception of U2. The song, written by U2, features in the Broadway stage production 'Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark'.