Dublin  27-08-1993

Royal Dublin Society Showgrounds

Dublin, Ireland.

27 - August - 1993.

Attendance: 36.000 (sellout) - Support: Marxman,  The Golden Horde

Disc 1 (63:39)

01. Drumming Boys (PA)

02. Zoo Station

03. The Fly

04. Even Better than the Real Thing

05. Mysterious Ways

06. One

07. Unchained Melody

08. Until the End of the World

09. New Year's Day

10. Numb

11. Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World

12. Angel of Harlem / Dirty Old Town

13. I Will Follow

14. Stay (Faraway, so Close!)

Disc 2 (59:17)

01. Satellite of Love

02. Bad / The First Time

03. Bullet the Blue Sky

04. Running to Stand Still

05. Where the Streets Have No Name

06. Pride (In the Name of Love)

07. - Intermission -

08. Desire

09. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)

10. With or Without You

11. Love is Blindness

12. Can't Help Falling in Love

Recording Equipment - History

Aiwa capsules + TCD-D3 > DAT clone (from master) > wt2496 > CEPRO > WAV > CD-master > EAC > FLAC

Taper: Malcolm Beaton

Transfer from DAT-clone: Scott Zumsteg

Comments

First of two soldout shows in Dublin to close the European leg of the Zooropa'93 tour. It's a pretty good show, maybe not as strong as the next night concert, but a nice one with lots of references to the band's hometown. After several months of touring, Bono points it out during Zoo Station "sleeping on my own bed tonight". A short rendition of Dirty Old Town appears after Angel of Harlem for the crowd's delight. This time, MacPhisto's speech after Desire talks about home, and he phones to his house. He gets a funny response from his answering machine. Quoting book U2-Live by Pimm Jal de la Parra (published by Omnibus Press):

- "What a night", MacPhisto shouts. "Home with the people who love us more than anybody else in the whole world. Home with the people who see through all the trappings and the hype. Home with the people who know the real me. Home with the people who don't see me as a glamorous pop star". [...] "Home with the people who call me Dad. I'm going to sleep on my own bed tonight. Perhaps I should warn them; I know they're excited to see me, after so long. I'm so tired hassling people", he says, dialing his own home number. On the answering machine is the voice of his four-year old daughter Jordan: "Hellooo, we're on holidaaay. Daddy, if that's you: we're not coming home until you take your horns off! Byeee!". -

This tape was transferred by Scott Zumsteg from a DAT clone off the DAT master. I prefer this source over the 'Sleeping on my Own Bed Tonight' version (taped with D7 + OKM IIr). Both bring excellent sound quality, but I'd say this one sounds more balanced and clean, less harsh, and a little more polished. Moreover, I think this one from Aiwa capsules present less crowd noise. Volume level is lower in the Aiwa version, but the sound is so clean that you can turn it up without any distortions in the levels.