PopMart Helsinki

Olympic Stadium

Helsinki, Finland.

09 - August - 1997.

Attendance: 50.943 (sellout) - Support: Audioweb

Disc 1 (68:26)

01. Pop Muzik (PA)

02. Mofo

03. I Will Follow

04. Gone

05. Even Better than the Real Thing

06. Last Night on Earth

07. Until the End of the World

08. New Year's Day

09. Pride (In the Name of Love)

10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / All I Want is You

11. Staring at the Sun

12. - Daydream Believer  (karaoke) -

13. Miami

14. Bullet the Blue Sky

Disc 2 (56:35)

01. Please

02. Where the Streets Have No Name

03. - Lemon Intermission (PA) -

04. Discothèque

05. If You Wear That Velvet Dress

06. With or Without You

07. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

08. Mysterious Ways

09. One / MLK

Recording Equipment - History

2nd gen cdr from the master tapes > EAC > WAV > FLAC > CDR     (unverified)

These were the comments that the concert brought in a txt file, made by punkiku:

The lineage is not certain. I got the cdrs a long time ago, and was ignorant enough not to write down the lineage at the time. However, I am about 85 % certain that my cdrs are a copy of cdrs made from the master tapes. I have no recollection of the taper, other than that it was Finnish guy.

Comments

Very good recording overall of a very standard European show. This item brings decent clarity and crispness, with some audience noise. However, music and vocals come through quite well, with a slight hiss in the quieter parts of the gig. This seems to be a very energetic show, as U2 didn't play in 15 years in Finland. Note that Morleigh Steinberg bellydanced for Edge as a surprise during Mysterious Ways.

The recording contains a few imperfections. There are dropouts at 05:48 in Last Night on Earth, 03:04 in New Year's Day, 4:39 CD1-track10 (first few seconds of All I Want is You), and 0:53 in Discothèque. A noticeable edit occurs at 08:00 in CD2-track2, that only affects to crowd noise before the Lemon Remix over the PA system.