Birmingham 03-06-1987

National Exhibition Centre

Birmingham, U.K.

03 - June - 1987.

Attendance: 11.000 (sellout) - Support: Hurrah!

Disc 1 (69:25)

01. Where the Streets Have No Name

02. I Will Follow

03. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Exodus

04. MLK

05. The Unforgettable Fire

06. Bullet the Blue Sky

07. Running to Stand Still

08. Exit

09. In God's Country

10. Sunday Bloody Sunday

11. Maggie's Farm

12. People Get Ready

13. - Bono's speech / local band takes the stage -

14. Knockin' on Heaven's Door

15. Bad

Disc 2 (24:59)

01. October

02. New Year's Day

03. Pride (In the Name of Love)

04. With or Without You

05. "40"

Recording Equipment - History

Sony WM-D6 + Sony ECM mics

Taper: Doughty

Transfer: Analog Master > DAT Master (48 kHz) > Delta Dio 2496 (SPDIF-In Clock Sync) > L1 Ultramaximizer (resampling, maximizing, dithering..) > CDR-Master > EAC Secure DAE / WinOnCD > CDR-1 > EAC Secure DAE > WAV > CE2k Wave editing (see below) > MKW Audio Compression Tools 0.97 BETA 1 > WAV/SHN Conversion > SHN(M) w/ Shorten Seek Tables

Additional comments (by S.V.): This is a great sounding leg 2 JT show. I attenuated and blended out a number of jarring mic plug noises on Disc 2
using Cool Edit 2000 (Disc 1 did not have any of these defects). The plug noises were very distracting so I tried to remove and reduce them as much as possible. I successfully blended out about 50% (6 or 7) of them. However, there are still noticeable defects at the following locations on
disc 2:
* "With or Without You" (CD2 - track 4): 0:16-0:22; 3:00; 3:04; 4:52-4:55
* "40" (CD2 - track 5): 0:19-0:23

Comments

This is the first of three shows in Birmingham on the second leg of the Joshua Tree Tour. Sound is excellent with a powerful and upfront capture of both music and vocals. Crowd noise is placed between songs. This is a major upgrade as it comes straight off the master tape. The show is amazing with the band delivering a strong performance.

The band played three consecutive covers: Maggie's Farm, People Get Ready and Knockin' on Heaven's Door. As usual, a fan came onstage to play guitar on People Get Ready. After the song, Bono asked him if he was in a band and if they were at the gig, too. And as they were, the whole local band took the stage (track 13) and played with U2 onstage a brief rendition of Knockin' on Heaven's Door.