PopMart Lisbon

Estadio Jose Alvalade

Lisbon, Portugal.

11 - September - 1997.

Attendance: 62.114 (sellout) - Support: Placebo

Total Running Time - 92:41

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

11. All I Want is You

12. Desire

13. Staring at the Sun

14. - Sugar, Sugar  (karaoke) -

15. Miami

16. Bullet the Blue Sky

17. Please

18. Where the Streets Have No Name

19. - Lemon Intermission (PA) - / Discothèque / Black Betty

Recording Equipment - History

Sony walkman > Analog Master > WAV > Cool Edit (normalize & track split) > FLAC

Taper: BTT

Additional notes (by Ziggy): This recording is not perfect because it is not complete. It misses the second part of the show. All I Want is You is cut due to tape change. The sound is quite listenable for the conditions it was recorded. Nevertheless it is the first source to see the light of day.
And this transfer was taken from the Master Tape. It was a great show with a fired up band. I want to thank 'BTT' and 'Dark Circle Room' for recording and providing this to our listening pleasure.

Comments

Incomplete recording that documents the only date of the PopMart Tour in Portugal. 'Ziggy' said it all: this is the first and only circulating source of this show, and considering the gear used to tape it in the large venue, it is very clear and enjoyable. It is slightly saturated on occasion and there's a bit of crowd noise too, but sound is sharp and upfront. There's an edit at 1:21 in All I Want is You due to a tape flip, as explained above by 'Ziggy'. This song contains a beautiful snippet of Bad.

Discothèque fades out, and the tape is missing the next songs: If You Wear That Velvet Dress / With or Without You / Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me / Mysterious Ways / One / Wake Up Dead Man.

Note that Desire made its début that night, with Bono and The Edge playing an impromptu rendition of it. Quoting book U2-Live (by Pimm Jal de la Parra and Caroline Van Oosten de Boer, published by Omnibus Press in 2003): "The band play Desire for the first time on the tour, it's a shaky performance as Bono doesn't remember the lyrics very well, but then this truly is impromptu and not a premeditated addition to the setlist. Some fans around the B-stage are singing the song and Bono joins in. The Edge joins in about halfway through."