War In London - Hammersmith Palais

Hammersmith Palais

London, U.K.

29 - March - 1983.

Attendance: 2.000 (sellout) - Support: Big Country

Disc 1 (42:52)

01. Gloria

02. I Threw A Brick Through A Window

03. A Day Without Me

04. Seconds

05. Surrender

06. New Year's Day

07. Sunday Bloody Sunday

08. Cry / The Electric Co.

09. I Fall Down

10. October

11. Tomorrow

Disc 2 (41:08)

01. Tomorrow

02. Two Hearts Beat As One

03. Twilight

04. Out of Control

05. Party Girl

06. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

07. I Will Follow

08. Knockin' on Heaven's Door

09. "40"

Comments

This recording offers a very solid and loud sound, and pretty good clarity. Music and vocals come through powerful and well upfront. This version has an inconvenience: a strange feedback occurs in the transitions between most of the tracks (for example, between Surrender and New Year's Day). It is as if the transitions have been edited in some way, trying to make fewer the running time. Another blemish is that Tomorrow has been splitted on both discs, probably due to a tape flip, so the song closes CD1 (03:10) and begin the CD2 with the rest of the song.

The performance is strong, energetic. Bono seems to be "into it", adding snippets here and there: Billie Jean to Surrender, Let's Twist Again to Two Hearts Beat As One, or Yankee Doodle Dandy to The Electric Co. Mike Peters from the band The Alarm, and Stuart Adamson from support band Big Country join U2 onstage to do a nice version of Knockin' on Heaven's Door.